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Green Capitalism in the Americas: False Solutions, Real Threats

October 3, 2025 By Independent Media Institute

In this special issue of the NACLA Report, we critically examine the rise of green capitalism in the region in the lead-up to COP30 in Belém, Brazil in November.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: Green Capitalism

Trapped in a Tank: The Hidden Cruelty of the Tropical Fish Trade

September 22, 2025 By Independent Media Institute

Wilde the oscar fish spent 12 agonizing years in a tiny, toxic tank at a car dealership—a cruel fate shared by countless tropical fish sold as “decorations.”

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: Animal Rights, book, environment, Science

Why Every Student Needs Human Ecology Education Now

June 8, 2025 By Independent Media Institute

From resilience to resourcefulness, human ecology education offers the life skills our schools forgot—equipping the next generation to navigate adulthood, climate challenges, and complex social systems with confidence, care, and collective strength.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: education

How to Win the Nation’s Highest Minimum Wage

June 8, 2025 By Independent Media Institute

How to Win the Nation’s Highest Minimum Wage

It took more than two years of hard work and relentless campaigning for LA’s tourism workers to win $30 an hour. Here’s how they did it.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: economy, Labor, news, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Politics, Social Benefits, social justice, Time-Sensitive

How Charter Schools Promote ‘Development Off the Backs of Children’

May 31, 2025 By Independent Media Institute

When charter schools are used as “a tool for economic development,” kids and communities suffer.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: activism, charter schools, education, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Time-Sensitive

As a Growing Social Movement and Self-Care Practice, Death Literacy Is Fostering Positive Conversations About the End

May 31, 2025 By Independent Media Institute

The new self-care movement teaches death literacy as a life-enhancing practice.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: activism, North America/United States of America, Oceania/Australia, Opinion, Science

How the Rights of Nature Movement Is Reshaping Law and Culture

May 31, 2025 By Independent Media Institute

From the sacred peaks of Aotearoa to the rivers of Colombia and the contested waters of Lake Erie, a global movement is emerging to grant the natural world legal personhood, driven by Indigenous worldviews and a growing call for environmental justice.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: Animal Rights, book, Climate Change, economy, environment, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Science

Alongside China’s, Which Social Credit Systems Are Developing?

May 31, 2025 By Independent Media Institute

China’s state-run social credit system has drawn global attention for years, but other versions are actively spreading. These systems increasingly shape the behavior and outcomes of citizens’ lives, often without their knowledge.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: Asia, Asia/China, Asia/Japan, Asia/South Korea, economy, europe, Europe/Italy, Europe/United Kingdom, North America/Canada, North America/United States of America, Oceania/Australia, Oceania/New Zealand, Opinion, Politics, social justice, Tech

The Forgotten 10 Billion Lives: A Tale of Suffering, Survival, and the Fight to See Farmed Animals

May 24, 2025 By Independent Media Institute

Photographs, storytelling, poetry, and well-documented research unveil the immense suffering, ecological devastation, worker exploitation, and economic injustice caused by the animal agricultural industry.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: Animal Rights, books, Ecofeminism, Environmentalism, Photography, social justice

Why the Right Really Hates the Postal Service

May 24, 2025 By Independent Media Institute

It’s not about USPS’s efficiency or viability. It’s about equity and collective good, values that are anathema to predatory capitalism.

Filed Under: Columnists Tagged With: economy, Health care, news, North America/United States of America, Opinion, Politics, social justice, Time-Sensitive, Trump, voting rights

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