Tanzania wants to evict Maasai for wildlife – but they’re fighting back
Community members are on a campaign to get international donors to defund their government and stop rights violations.
By John Cannon
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The Oakland Institute's research generates millions of media impressions annually, bringing fresh perspective and voice to reframe the debate on key issues.
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Facing pressure from rights groups, World Bank suspends funding for Tanzania tourism project
The World Bank has suspended funding for a tourism project in Tanzania that caused the suffering of tens of thousands of villagers, according to a U.S.-based rights group that has long urged the global lender to take such action.
Harmful mining continues in Nicaragua despite U.S. sanctions, new investigation shows
U.S. sanctions imposed in 2022 against Nicaragua’s mining industry were supposed to help combat a bloody wave of human rights abuses against local communities. But several years later, some aspects of the sanctions still aren’t being enforced, allowing mining companies to continue operations and even expand into new parts of the country.
Carbon Offsets: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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John Oliver explains what carbon offsets are, what they claim to do, how they might be making climate change even worse, and, of course, how Oscar Isaac is getting hotter.
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The update from the Oakland Institute, a U.S.-based environmental think tank, found that the government forcefully confiscated some 5,880 cattle and 767 goats and sheep from the Maasai in November and December last year and is demanding that owners pay heavy fines.
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Farm Forum
Alan Guebert
Many policy choices are made on politics alone while other key decision-making elements like cost, science, and even common sense play a lesser or no role at all.
In the old days, this political math resulted in — literally and figuratively — “bridges to nowhere” that cost millions and did little other than raise the...
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The American Conservative
Global market liberalization and the war machine are happy bedfellows, as usual.
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Transition
Solidarity-based research like that of the Oakland Institute map the material, fiscal, and power dynamics of water grabs and support movement efforts to hold governments and public institutions to account for the abuses of multinational corporations, including mining companies, big agriculture, and big beverage companies.
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Lincoln Journal Star
As highlighted here last week and according to a November report published by the Oakland Institute, a California-based think tank, Summit’s payroll includes General Counsel Jess Vilsack, the son of U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack.
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