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Keston K. Perry

@radicalcarib.bsky.social
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Black Studies scholar + political economist. I write about Caribbean worlds, resistance & repair. Island Rebels (Columbia UP) | Black Queer Beach: queer space & belonging | Unmaking Paradise: decolonizing Caribbean life & sovereignty.

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Keston K. Perry @radicalcarib.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
To Caribbean communities who teach, organize, remember, repair, and fight for life amid ecological violence: *Island Rebels* is in solidarity with you. Shaped by your stories, knowledge, and struggles, it carries those lessons outward. Our struggles are connected. Our futures are, too. ✊🏾🫶🏾🏝️🪢
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Keston K. Perry @radicalcarib.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
My forthcoming book, Island Rebels, asks what happens when we read Caribbean radicalism at its edges—through Black, Indigenous & ecological thought. Taking a cue from Gilroy and Moten: read the endnotes. “Plantationocene” makes old Caribbean and Black theory look brand new.
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Keston K. Perry @radicalcarib.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To Caribbean communities who teach, organize, remember, repair, and fight for collective life amid ecological violence: Island Rebels is in solidarity with you. Shaped by your stories, knowledge, and struggles, it carries those lessons outward. Our struggles are connected. Our futures are, too. ✊🏾🫶🏾🏝️🪢
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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 06/10/2026
The initiative seeks to bring together more Indigenous-language speakers to collectively highlight the linguistic diversity present in Latin America, and the many ways communities are using and adapting technology to strengthen their languages. 
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Indigenous digital activists share one TikTok account to bring their languages into digital spaces
@ActLenguas is a rotating TikTok account that seeks to collectively showcase the linguistic diversity found across Latin America, and the many ways Indigenous communities are using and adapting technology to strengthen their languages.
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Keston K. Perry @radicalcarib.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
When you have no materialist analysis, you say things like "culture war" issues don't affect economic outcomes and class relations. How did we get to this type of detached analysis?
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Keston K. Perry @radicalcarib.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The oil can be cleaned from the water. But what happens when knowledge from people who live with the water is extracted too? In Tobago, Unmaking Paradise asks what changes when communities refuse to be treated as data sources and claim the power to govern, protect, and circulate their own knowledge.
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Keston K. Perry @radicalcarib.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tobago's fisherfolk and coastal communities are still reeling from the 2024 Gulfstream barge Oil Spill that leaked up to 50,000 barrels of heavy fuel along 15km of its coastline, wrecking livelihoods and irreparably damaging its ecosystem. Here's what we plan to do about it.✊🏾🏝️👌🏾
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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 30/09/2026
Dedicating his life to calypso shaped The Mighty Sparrow into a master of the genre and a consummate Caribbean man.
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Bye-bye, Birdie: The Calypso King of the World dies at 91
“What does it mean to be King in a country of reverence sometimes to nothing and other times to everything? It means you dare to be yourself.”
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Keston K. Perry @radicalcarib.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I keep thinking about what the beach holds for Black queer life in Sint Maarten: desire, friendship, freedom, memory, community. I’m considering a community-centered memoir, not just my story but to document shared histories & how people create belonging. What are your favorite Black queer memoirs?
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Mighty Sparrow, Trinidadian Titan of Calypso, Is Dead at 91 He was sometimes described as the last of the true calypso singers. But in fact he simultaneously preserved calypso tradition and invented it anew. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/a...
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The Mighty Sparrow, Trinidadian Titan of Calypso, Is Dead at 91 (Gift Article)
He was sometimes described as the last of the true calypso singers. But in fact he simultaneously preserved calypso tradition and invented it anew.
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Keston K. Perry @radicalcarib.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A part of my ongoing research agenda. Stay tuned.🖤👌🏾🏝️✊🏾🌈 Photo taken at Orient Bay, Saint Martin (May 2025).
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Keston K. Perry @radicalcarib.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Stay tuned.✊🏾🏝️
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 21/09/2026
U.S. Military Attacks Alleged Drug Boat in the Caribbean, Killing Four
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U.S. Military Attacks Alleged Drug Boat in the Caribbean, Killing Four
The U.S. military attacked a boat allegedly carrying drugs in the Caribbean Sea on Saturday, killing four people. The military did not provide evidence that the vessel was transporting drugs. Since Se...
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Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Gov. Newsom on Sunday vetoed a bill that would have opened paid campus jobs to undocumented students at public colleges, his second rejection of the proposal in 2 years: www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Campus jobs for undocumented students blocked by Newsom veto
Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed AB 713, the Opportunity for All Act, blocking a measure that would have opened paid campus employment to undocumented students at UC, CSU and community colleges.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The U.S. "War on Terror" death toll is at least 4,500,000
Costs of War research examines the human toll of U.S. military operations and spending, for U.S. service members, veterans, military contractors, and allies; and for civilians killed and displaced.
An estimated over 940,000 people were killed by direct post-9/11 war violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan between 2001-2023. Of these, more than 432,000 were civilians. The number of people wounded or ill as a result of the conflicts is far higher, as is the number of civilians who died "indirectly," as a result of wars' destruction of economies, healthcare systems, infrastructure and the environment. An estimated 3.6-3.8 million people died indirectly in post-9/11 war zones, bringing the total death toll to at least 4.5-4.7 million and counting.
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Keston K. Perry @radicalcarib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"The price of food is going up And as if all that shit wasn't enough A rat done bit my sister Nell With whitey on the moon Her face and arm began to swell And whitey's on the moon Was all that money I made last year For whitey on the moon? How come I ain't got no money here? Whitey's on the moon!"
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Keston K. Perry @radicalcarib.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What does Caribbean climate justice have to do with colonialism, reparations, and Pan-Africanism? This keynote explores reparations beyond compensation —centering communal sovereignty, ecological repair, and Caribbean communities shaping their futures. 🎥 Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-XD...
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Day 3 | New Perspectives on Climate Challenges in the (Dutch) Caribbean | End Conference
YouTube video by Islanders at the Helm
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Keston K. Perry @radicalcarib.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
There is currently no legit Haitian government. Stop this.
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Keston K. Perry @radicalcarib.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"When public services are treated as liabilities to be contained rather than obligations to be fulfilled, disaster becomes routine." www.bostonreview.net/articles/car... by @yarimarita.bsky.social
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Carrying Water
As enormous sums flow to creditors and investors in Puerto Rico, the state continues to recede.
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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 07/08/2026
Whose conservation, whose development? The Maasai struggle over land in northern Tanzania ift.tt/Tl9PHVE
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Whose conservation, whose development? The Maasai struggle over land in northern Tanzania
Conservation has become a tool for “green grabbing”: The taking of community land in the name of environmental protection while opening space for tourism, hunting, and investment interests.
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Keston K. Perry @radicalcarib.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Jamaican beach access campaigners go to court to fight privatisation of coast www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...
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Jamaican beach access campaigners go to court to fight privatisation of coast
Activists are challenging colonial-era law and demanding ‘free, legal, unfettered, forever rights’ to use beaches
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Keston K. Perry @radicalcarib.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Every day it’s more barriers’: how the US is shutting out climate refugees
While the US is shutting the doors to most refugees, those already in the country fear for their future in a rapidly heating world
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Keston K. Perry @radicalcarib.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump targeting immigrants from countries hit most by climate shocks
A Guardian analysis reveals how most of 39 countries facing US entry restrictions are most vulnerable environmentally
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Keston K. Perry @radicalcarib.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Cuba stands firm — www.redpepper.org.uk/global-polit...
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Cuba stands firm - Red Pepper
Cuba continues to show the world an alternative mode of development even in the face of US regime change, argues Helen Yaffe
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Keston K. Perry @radicalcarib.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I certainly needed this push today from a mentor.
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Keston K. Perry @radicalcarib.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Book Blurb.
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Keston K. Perry @radicalcarib.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Island Rebels is being born. ✊🏾💫🇭🇹🇦🇬🇹🇹🇩🇲
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Keston K. Perry @radicalcarib.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
For a significant period of time of the last 500 years, some were considered nonhuman/subhuman.
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org
Screenshot of the Luddite Lab website. The word Luddite Lab is in the top left corner. The tables in the top read: Case Studies, Primers, Resource Library, Contact Us, and About. The text below reads: “The Luddite Lab Resource Hub provides resources for unions, labor organizations, and worker-organizers fighting AI and automation at work. The lab provides strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of new technology through case studies, primers, and a resource library.” Below, there are five cards: Case Studies (Stories from worker organizers resisting AI), Primers (Applied research insights into AI, automation, and the future of work), Resource Library (Additional resources from partners), Contact Us (Ways to connect with the Luddite Lab team), and About (About the Luddite Lab project and team)
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Keston K. Perry @radicalcarib.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I'm writing my book chapter on Financial Power where I discuss the intersections of financial imperialism and Haiti's struggle for energy sovereignty. I created this timelime to depict some of the more critical details and events that have shaped Haiti's energy history to the present.
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Keston K. Perry @radicalcarib.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
www.powershiftafrica.org/publications...
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PIPE DREAMS: How Oil and Gas Fail to Deliver Economic Development in Africa — Power Shift Africa
This report details why Africa is in a fossil fuel crisis. Global energy prices have surged in the wake of the American-Israeli war on Iran, leaving many African governments struggling to keep energ...
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Annie the Book @anniethebook.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I admire the hell out of these Texas Tech students, who held a funeral for academic freedom: pen.org/texas-tech-a...
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Texas Tech Students Hold ‘Funeral’ for Academic Freedom
A horse drawn carriage carrying an urn, books, photographs and other markers of academic life led the students' "funeral" procession.
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 09/05/2026
This helpful explainer from @carbonbrief.org digs into the key outcomes from the First Conference on Transitioning Away From Fossil Fuels, which wrapped in Santa Marta, Colombia last week. buff.ly/LB87txl
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Santa Marta: Key outcomes from first summit on ‘transitioning away’ from fossil fuels - Carbon Brief
Countries left with plans to develop national roadmaps away...
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Keston K. Perry @radicalcarib.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
A most contradictory and short-sighted piece I've read in a while. Hubert, author of Climate Change as Class War misses the mark on how power is built for structural change beyond short term electoral cycles. He seems to think electoralism trumps principled politics. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/o...
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Opinion | Democrats Don’t Have to Campaign on Climate Change Anymore
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Keston K. Perry @radicalcarib.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I am writing a thoroughgoing critique of the CARICOM Reparations program in one of the chapters of my book. I wanted to share this excerpt.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 08/05/2026
Nigel Farage's populist party Reform UK has made early gains in local elections with wins in Labour heartlands.
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UK's Labour set for heavy losses in elections as Reform makes early gains
Nigel Farage's populist party Reform UK has made early gains in local elections with wins in Labour heartlands.
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Keston K. Perry @radicalcarib.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
When public goods like data become a casualty, you know they trying to hide truth and reality and make people less informed. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The Trump administration is deleting government data. From infant deaths to hunger, here are five ways it’s hurting Americans
This information was used to understand the problems Americans face. The consequences of its erasure, experts warn, could affect generations to come
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Keston K. Perry @radicalcarib.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
There is a clear link between anti-Palestinian hate, and anti-blackness. www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
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Global Voices @globalvoices.org · 01/05/2026
In May we are looking at the actions people are taking to fight the climate crisis for our second #GVSpotlight. 🌿 Support our work: globalvoices.org/2026/04/16/s...
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Keston K. Perry @radicalcarib.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
"Unless there are more donations, the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage could give out all its money by the end of 2027." www.climatechangenews.com/2026/04/24/n...
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Loss and damage fund could run out of money next year
Unless there are more donations, the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage could give out all its money by the end of 2027
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Keston K. Perry @radicalcarib.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Matthew Chin's Fractal Repair is truly intense reading from beginning to end. Eff yuh nuh ave di heart tuh confront imperialism, homophobia and today's state violence against "queer fractals", nuh read. Chin challenges the global narrative of Jamaica "as the most homophobic nation on earth" head on.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/04/2026
Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.
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USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew
Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.
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Pambazuka News @pambazukanews.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
🔥Beyond the Algorithm: Defending the Cuban Revolution’s Record Against Ahistorical Attacks, by 𝗦𝗮𝗺 𝗘. 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻 ✍️A critical analysis of social media warfare on #Cuba and global African response to a revolution under criminal siege 👉 www.pambazuka.org/Defending-Cu... @ambermurrey.bsky.social
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Nordhaus' "modelling assumes that catastrophic risks do not exist and that climate impacts rise linearly with temperature. There is no climate model that proposes such a trend. Instead, climate science forecasts nonlinear impacts and greatly escalating risk." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A catastrophic climate event is upon us. Here is why you’ve heard so little about it | George Monbiot
Scientists say a crucial Atlantic system is set to collapse. But the billionaire death cult that steers humanity’s destiny just doesn’t do existential crises, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Keston K. Perry @radicalcarib.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
What do Pan-Africanism and Afro-Indigenous solidarity have to do with climate justice and reparations in the Caribbean? Stay tuned. Be right back while I write this chapter.... 🤓📖
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Janine Mendes-Franco @francomenz.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
‘[They] remind us of how interconnected we are across the region’ globalvoices.org/2026/04/22/t... @petchary.bsky.social @globalvoices.org
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This Earth Day, meet some of the Caribbean’s national birds
“Birds are among the most visible symbols of our natural heritage, inspiring national pride and reminding us that our islands are home to extraordinary biodiversity found nowhere else on earth.”
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
So uhhhh Reuters quietly shitcanned its climate team right around the same time WaPo did. Except maybe even more cowardly because they kept it under wraps. Not a great look given the abundance of oil money they take in between sponsored content and events. drilled.media/news/drilled...
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Reuters, New York Times Top List of Fossil Fuel Industry’s Favorite Media Partners
Taking a hard look at the media industry’s relationship with the fossil fuel industry.
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Keston K. Perry @radicalcarib.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The ties between Harvard University and the Caribbean are myriad and consist of densely layered networks of wealthy families, trade, political power and violence. Dozens of university presidents, overseers, donors and staff grew their wealth off of enslaved labor. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired?
The school’s $100m project to examine its slave ownership in Antigua is mired in controversy as academics allege obstruction
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
"I am arguing here for a law school dedicated to crafting legal knowledges that turn back on death-making—legal knowledges that oversee a social order that invites, allows, and equips us to live flourishing lives in relation and not possession... to live in harmonious relation with...the earth."
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Keston K. Perry @radicalcarib.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
"This landmark day is not merely a call for humanitarian assistance but a formal demand for climate reparations... the Global North owes a "legitimate climate debt" to African communities for decades of ecological destruction and resource exploitation." www.myjoyonline.com/our-lands-ou...
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'Our lands, our voices' – African women launch historic continental uprising for climate reparations - MyJoyOnline
A new chapter in global environmental activism begins this Wednesday, 15th April 2026, as hundreds of women environmental defenders, community leaders, and ecofeminist allies across Africa unite for t...
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