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A blueprint for effective activism 10 years after defeating a dam in Borneo (analysis)

In October 2015, Indigenous activists from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Cambodia, Brazil, the United States, and Honduras, together with delegates from longhouse communities throughout the Malaysian state of Sarawak, gathered at Tanjung Tepalit, an Indigenous Kenyah village on the Baram River on the island of Borneo. They called the gathering WISER: the World Indigenous Summit on Environment and Rivers. Tanjung Tepalit hosted the gathering because the village, along with more than two dozen others along the river, was scheduled to be drowned. The Baram Dam, a 1,200-megawatt hydroelectric mega project backed by the Sarawak state government and aligned with a regional industrial development scheme called the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy (SCORE), would have flooded an area of more than 400 square kilometers (more than 150 square miles) and displaced an estimated 20,000 Kenyah, Kayan, and Penan people. Muslims, Catholics, Evangelicals, Buddhists, agnostics, and people who followed traditional Indigenous religions were among the attendees. As we gathered, Peter Kallang, the Kenyah founder and chair of the local advocacy group SAVE Rivers, addressed the assembly: “We are people of many faiths,” he said, “but we are united in one mission. To protect our forest homes and our ways of life.” In one sense the WISER gathering was a strategy meeting to coordinate an international coalition against a state-corporate project. In another, and perhaps deeper sense, WISER was rooted in something older. It was an assertion that the values that hold communities to their land across generations — the sanctity of the…This article was originally published on Mongabay

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Keir Starmer aides ‘war-gaming’ leadership contest with Andy Burnham

Prime minister is ‘hellbent’ on fighting any contest, even if his future may be out of his hands, sources say

Keir Starmer’s closest aides are “war-gaming” how to win a leadership contest ahead of Andy Burnham’s much-anticipated return to Westminster if he wins the Makerfield byelection, the Guardian understands.

Downing Street sources said the prime minister had taken the last fortnight to think seriously about his future but was now “hellbent” on fighting any contest. His team is working through various scenarios, including sacking ministers who publicly support Burnham.

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© Photograph: House of Commons/PA

© Photograph: House of Commons/PA

© Photograph: House of Commons/PA

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Estádio e complexo desportivo do Boavista com proposta (máxima) de 25,7 milhões em leilão

Ao todo, foram apresentadas 27 licitações por investidores ligados ao desporto e ao imobiliário, a mais alta foi de 25,7 milhões de euros. Mas há também uma oferta separada, de 6,5 milhões de euros, apenas pelo complexo desportivo, que inclui um terreno com capacidade para construir cerca de 130 apartamentos.

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A força de Mourinho e de Mussolini

Opinião do professor Rui Correia. Temos assistido ao regresso da palavra ‘forte’ à espuma dos dias políticos que atravessamos. Precisamos - dizem-no-lo todos os dias - de um governo forte, de uma maioria forte, de um regime forte, de uma democracia forte, de um sistema forte, de um euro forte, de uma oposição forte, de um presidente forte, de um Estado forte, de uma liderança forte e por aí afora.

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