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Cartoon sketch courtesy of  People and Nature . Racism; blindness to capitalism in science communities allows continued exposure and risk disparities A FAILURE TO CONFRONT RACISM and CAPITALIST CONTROL OF SCIENCE UNDERMINES TIES TO OTHER MOVEMENTS The quest for gold brought to light many useful inventions and advanced society in innumerable ways. -Sir Francis Bacon I consider myself an “ethno-scientist.” The methods and practices I follow in the fields of agroecology, ethnoecology, and related areas reflect my grounding in millennia of indigenous knowledge and study of ecological processes in the human-nature interrelationship. The two cultures divide that C. P. Snow lamented because it separates the humanities from the natural sciences remains a central concern for me as a practitioner of community-based collaborative and interdisciplinary research. Yet, I am not marching today. And it is not because I am anti-science. I am against continued widespread reductionism of and in scien...

…and why Latinx voters should join this political revolution Moderator’s Note:   It is my privilege to present this endorsement statement by a respected and diverse group of environmental activists formed a few months ago, Environmentalists for Bernie . I wish to use this statement as an opening for me to make the case for Latinx endorsement of Senator Sanders as our candidate for the Democratic Party nomination. It is especially important that Latinx youth and young adults, the so-called Millennials, lead the way in turning out to vote for Sanders in the forthcoming California, Oregon, and Washington state primaries. California Latinx youth have an especially significant opportunity to play a decisive role to make sure that the nomination does not go to Hillary Clinton, who is a neoliberal not a progressive and is certainly no where near to understanding and respecting the democratic socialist ideals that our young people are rapidly embracing in widening social movements against ...

Moderator’s Note: Returning from our farm in Colorado, loaded with our heritage crop produce and churro lamb, I am able to comment now on some very significant developments related to the global social movements for “climate justice” – a term that has become almost as ubiquitous as “universal human rights”. From an indigenous vantage point, the climate justice movement requires withdrawing from the position of human ecological dominance involving control over all other organisms and “natural” processes; this includes “environmental managerialism”. This is the first in a series of documents and sources related to the intensifying climate justice movement. We start with a few introductory comments and a re-post of a press release from the Climate Justice Alliance (CJA). Sometimes the movement discourse does little to clarify the meaning of concepts like climate justice. The public needs to understand the meaning and I believe that it demands at least two formative understandings about ...