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10 Years After Berta Cáceres’s Murder, Why Is Honduras Still So Dangerous for Environmentalists?

This week marks the 10-year anniversary of the hired hit that took Berta Cáceres’s life and robbed both the Honduran and global environmental movements of a uniquely effective leader. Cáceres was targeted by a dam company, with an assist from the police, military, government officials and international banks because of her effective organizing on behalf of her people, the Lenca. Nina Lakhani literally wrote the book on Cáceres’s killing, and in this episode she walks us through what happened then, what’s happening now, the role the U.S. played in all of it, and what Americans can learn from the way Honduran activists continue to show up in the face of violent repression. Read Nina’s story [https://drilled.media/news/berta]  Read Nina’s book [https://www.versobooks.com/products/790-who-killed-berta-caceres?srsltid=AfmBOorpFiSw1Fs5YU0TZy70o_w6SYPMlKfbReDbyQpDTWSGZ_0CZhTU] Check out Berta’s organization, Copinh [https://copinh.org/en/] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

From Question Everything: Why did ICE Lock Up this Pro-Trump Reporter? (Part One)

Last June, journalist Mario Guevara was arrested while covering an anti-ICE protest in Georgia, transferred to ICE detention, and locked up by the federal government for more than 100 days. But Mario is not the kind of ICE-criticizing reporter you might be picturing. He was a Trump-supporting, Republican-identifying, law-and-order-sympathizing immigration hawk, who knew ICE well and had covered them favorably for years. Why did the Trump administration still go after him? In this special two-part series from Question Everything, Brian Reed looks into. Mario Guevara. This is part one. Find part two, and more from Question Everything [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/question-everything/id1765799296], wherever you get podcasts. See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Just Because the U.S. Says It's Legal Doesn't Make It So: Companies Trading in Illegally Seized Venezuelan Oil Face Legal Risk

Fernanda Hopenhaym, member of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights  [https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/wg-business/members#:~:text=Ms.%20Fernanda%20Hopenhaym%20is%20Co%2DExecutive,America%20dedicated%20to%20corporate%20accountability.]walks Drilled senior global climate justice reporter Nina Lakhani through the many legal pitfalls companies getting involved in the United States seizure of the Venezuelan oil industry might be facing. Check out the longer story on our website. [https://drilled.media/news/hopenhaym]   See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

How Climate Protest Backlash Led to Present-Day Repression

It's easy to feel like climate "doesn't matter" as the United States descends into fascism, as if climate and democracy are somehow separate issues. Researcher Oscar Berglund [https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Oscar-Berglund-2742b53a-dfd3-416a-af8d-13655e3f1a6b/] and Amy Westervelt connect the dots between the global backlash to climate protest and the broader repression we're seeing in supposedly democratic countries around the world.   See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

A "Green Transition"? If Only It Were That Simple

In More and More and More [https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/464145/more-and-more-and-more-by-fressoz-jean-baptiste/9781802067316], Jean-Baptiste Fressoz shows that the human history of energy is one of accumulation, not substitution. Here, he talks to reporter Adam Lowenstein [https://www.adaml.blog/] about how the "energy transition" frame got so entrenched, why clean-energy innovation is not the same thing as decarbonization, how the fossil fuel industry helped launder pipe dreams of dysfunctional technologies into mainstream climate “solutions”, and much more (and more and more).   See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.