Press Releases

---FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--- January 26, 2021 Media Contact:Anuradha Mittal [email protected] +1 510-530-5126 Oakland, CA — Since taking power in 2016, President Rodrigo Duterte has waged a brutal war on farmers — there have been 311 documented killings of peasants, farmworkers, and fisherfolk related to land dispute cases and agrarian reform advocacy. These are not random or isolated killings, but targeted assassinations carried out against peasant farmers struggling for a better future.

---FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--- December 3, 2020 Media Contact:Anuradha Mittal [email protected] +1 510-530-5126 Oakland, CA — After northeastern Nicaragua took direct hits from two massive hurricanes in November, the full consequences for the Indigenous Miskitu and Mayangna communities are only now coming into view. Hurricanes Eta and Iota slammed into the area surrounding the regional capital of Bilwi on November 3 and 16, respectively, demolishing several coastal Miskitu communities and having devastating effects for many other communities throughout the region.

---FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--- October 29, 2020 Media Contact:Anuradha Mittal [email protected] +1 510-469-5228 The government of Nicaragua has made millions of hectares available for mining, logging, and cattle ranching — attracting transnational corporations and driving thousands of colonos to autonomous regions at the expense of Indigenous lives and livelihoods. A handful of transnational corporations have taken control over the country’s vast mining concessions — key among them being Canada’s B2Gold and Calibre Mining and the UK’s Condor Gold.

---FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--- October 5th, 2020; 13:00 PT / 20:00 UTC Contacts: Eddie Tanago, ACT NOW! (Papua New Guinea) / [email protected] / +675-7119-3498 Dr Luke Fletcher, Jubilee Australia / [email protected] / +61 (0) 435-901-086 Frederic Mousseau, The Oakland Institute (USA) / [email protected] / +1-510-512-5458 Oakland/Port Moresby/Sidney — With the release of a new report today, ACT NOW!, Jubilee Australia, and the Oakland Institute, call for an urgent change of course from political leaders in Papua New Guinea.

On August 27, the World Bank announced it will "pause" the Doing Business Report (DBR) after a number of "irregularities" were found regarding data used in the 2018 and 2020 reports. This suspension, which could spell the end to nearly twenty years of the DBR, is good news for the people, the climate, and the planet.

A partial listing of the media coverage generated by Driving Dispossession in the first 10 days since its publication. The PDF download includes full links to articles.

Today the Oakland Institute releases Nicaragua: Una Revolución Fallida: La Lucha Indígena Por El Saneamiento, a Spanish translation of the report Nicaragua’s Failed Revolution, which was released in April 2020, generating worldwide attention to the issue

Hoy el Oakland Institute publica Nicaragua: Una revolución fallida: La lucha indígena por el saneamiento”, una traducción al español del informe Nicaragua’s Failed Revolution, cuyo lanzamiento en abril de 2020 generó atención mundial frente al tema.

---FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--- July 14, 2020 Contact:Anuradha Mittal [email protected] +1-510-530-5126 Oakland, CA — Amidst a worsening climate crisis, the Oakland Institute’s new report, Driving Dispossession: The Global Push to “Unlock the Economic Potential of Land,” sounds the alarm on the unprecedented wave of privatization of natural resources that is underway around the world.

This is how long former police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd's neck as he died begging for air on May 25, 2020. The other three officers at the scene — Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane, aided and abetted this murder of a black man, as they watched and prevented the crowd from stopping this murder. Their act of murdering a black man was driven by the confidence of impunity that has allowed violence against communities of color in the United States of America for centuries.