You can use the protest map on no kings.org to find a local protest happening near you: https://www.nokings.org/ (or use this site to use your zip code if the map isn’t working for you).
Undaunted, the activists in Santarém took on one of the US powerhouses of world trade. Cargill generates revenues of more than $160bn (£119bn) a year, employs 155,000 people and accounts for more than 70% of the soy and maize shipped through Santarém.
Santarém, Pará, Brazil – On Monday, February 23, Brazil’s government announced the revocation of Decree 12,600/2025, which opened the door to the privatizing the Tapajós, Madeira, and Tocantins rivers for industrial waterways in the Amazon. The government confirmed the decision following a meeting in Brasília between Indigenous leaders Sônia Guajajara, Brazil’s Minister of Indigenous Peoples, and Guilherme Boulos, Minister of the Presidency’s General Secretariat. The announcement came amid an Indigenous occupation of Cargill’s port in Santarém, Pará State, and in the wake of growing national and international solidarity and extensive news coverage of the mobilization.
The decree authorized the government to assess the concession of waterways to private operators, including the responsibility for maintenance, dredging and vessel‑traffic management
We rented out space for the evening, got the county council out for a Q&A session, and put out sign-up sheets for a dozen different activism opportunities we’re planning. One of the activities is the sign brigade, which had samples on display.
Idealist is primarily a job/volunteer list but they have been working to find ways to encourage people to organize and get out and do meaningful in-person work together on days like 1/1, 2/2, 3/3, etc.
“This river is our road. It is our source of food, the home of our fish, and essential to the balance of the forest and the climate. How can this richness be turned into a corridor for soy? And worse, without listening to the peoples who live in and from it? That is why we are here — because we want Brazil to respect ILO Convention 169 and consult us before decisions are made. This decree was signed first, and now they want to discuss how to consult us? That is not consultation; it is an attempt to legitimize what has already been decided. And decided by whom? For whom? To benefit a handful of foreign companies, like Cargill, that profit from human rights and environmental violations in the Amazon,” said Auricélia Arapiuns, a leader from the Lower Tapajós region.
In my previous post we had a small discussion on the community log. I have used one of the proposed logos and would like to know if you have any feedback.
Brazil has suspended a decree on dredging and privatizing the Tapajós River, a major tributary of the Amazon, after protests shut down a grain terminal — but Indigenous groups are pressing for its full revocation.
“What is happening on the Tapajós is not an isolated episode: it is the direct consequence of decisions that treat rivers as export corridors and push projects forward without real listening and without rights safeguards. During COP30, more than 500 Indigenous people warned the world about the risks of projects tied to the Ferrogrão export corridor and the dredging of the Tapajós – and still, their demands remain without an effective response. The international community, buyers, and financiers cannot keep normalizing a ‘progress’ that fuels conflict and threatens living territories,” said Vivi Borari, an Indigenous leader and activist in the Tapajós Vivo Movement, a member organization of the Enough Soy Alliance.
“We have been occupying the U.S. company Cargill for 14 days, and now we have blocked access to Santarém’s airport, where many people come to take photos and swim in the river without knowing about the problems we are facing. The president signed a decree that privatizes three rivers – the Tapajós, Tocantins, and Madeira – and advanced a measure that opens the way for dredging the Tapajós. Our river is at risk. The government can no longer tell Europe and the United States that it preserves the environment while destroying it here,” said Goldman Prize winner Alessandra Korap Munduruku, a leader from the Middle Tapajós region.
Hundreds of Indigenous people have been protesting for almost a week at a Cargill facility in Santarem in northern Brazil against a decree signed in August by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva allowing the federal government to consider private concessions for waterways, shifting responsibility for maintenance, dredging and vessel traffic management to operators.
Participants in the rapid response networks in the Twin Cities describe their experiences and reflect on how these neworks could contribute to revolutionary social change.
We haven’t found evidence of Stingrays being used at protests in the US yet, but if you’re going to a No Kings protest this weekend, why not bring Rayhunter to be sure? Don’t forget to charge and update it, then let us know what you find!
A grassroots protest movement that began on social media is gathering steam with its rallying cry to "Block everything" ("Bloquons tout”) in France on September 10. Organisers hope to bring the country to a standstill to protest against Prime Minister François Bayrou’s national budget plan
This is a long and rather personal text about why I feel depressed and how I am slowly coming to terms with my depression. Why did I post it here? I believe there's quite a few more people out there who are depressed because they feel alone in a world that is fucking depressing and who need to know their feelings are valid, and that whatever imperfect way they can find to express them is valid as well. I believe we should start talking about what makes us sad and angry, we should go public with our despair. This entire mess is connected and we are not mentally ill for feeling bad about it. I publish this relatively long, unfiltered and unpolished rant because it's better than silence. Hope to see you out there one of these days, in all your glorious rage and grief!
I joined the Kansas City Food Not Bombs eight years ago and it has been life changing. They do great work, of course, but it has also connected me to so much other activism in the area and helped me build a community. I was so hopeless and atomized before joining FNB and learning about mutual aid.
As I seem to encounter quite a few anarchists who just love to produce word salad, here's some grandmotherly words of advice. When you want to create a better world and you do so by writing, learn how to write in a way that is accessible. The people you are trying to reach might not have time to work through pages of word salad. The language you write in might not be their native language. They might not have any academic education. They might be dyslexic or have a short attention span.
Inpatient rights don’t seem to be on anyone’s radar. The only organization I know of is MindFreedom, which organizes letter writing and phone campaigns to try to protect people from forced medications and electric shock.
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