Welcome back! This week's article in focus is brought to us by Samara Almonte, and describes her experience of empowerment through reconnecting to the women in her family.

Samara Almonte is part of the Michoacan diaspora, raised between the lakes and tierra caliente regions of Michoacan and occupied Coast Salish territory or the Pacific Northwest Coast. Samara identifies as a P’urhepecha descendant reconnecting with her ancestors, which has greatly influenced her work as storyteller and urban planner. She grounds her work in a decolonial framework that uplifts Indigenous self-determination. Samara holds a B.A in Urban Planning and Sustainability Development, with a specialization in Environmental Justice and Education, from Western Washington University. Outside of her professional life, Samara is the creator and host of the podcast Raíces Verdes (Green Roots), a platform dedicated to validating, archiving and sharing the experiences of racialized peoples reconnecting with their “green roots”. Green roots are defined as our ancestral connection to the earth that embodies our relationships with all living and spiritual beings. To learn more about the podcast visit nuestrasraicesverdes.com

What can you do?

• The Sogorea Te’ Land Trust has a powerful and accessible Rematriation Resource Guide on their website for those wanting to learn more.
• There are several organisations, at least in the United States, that you can support to sustain these efforts. Indigenous Women Rising, Indigenous Women Hike, The Sunlight Media Collective and Native Women’s Wilderness (NWW), are a few that I follow closely.
• An intersecting movement that supports the sovereignty of Indigenous women is the Missing Murder Indigenous Women (MMIW) movement across so-called North America, but really it’s a movement across the world.
• NWW published an article about MMIW on their website as a resource for those living in the United States. You can find a local group by searching “MMIW + [city or state you live in]” to find actions taking place near you.

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Welcome back! Today's article in focus is brought to us by Simmone Ahiaku and tells A reality of love, loss and gentrification in Brixton.

Simmone is a climate justice campaigner, writer and educator who has contributed to environmental, social and cultural work in Bristol, London and across the UK. Simmone has worked on air pollution, divestment and direct action campaigns. She currently uses facilitated workshops to explore climate colonialism and examples of climate resistance and movements from the past and present day. Simmone is an astrology enthusiast - she's an aries sun, moon and Scorpio rising. Simmone loves music, hates capitalism and likes looking at the bright side of things!

What can you do?

Simmone has curated an amazing list of resources here so please head over to the online article, and scroll down to the What can you do? section to check that out. It includes articles, films, documentaries, places to visit, songs to listen to, and even her most recommended restaurants in Brixton, for you to save to your maps and take your friends or loved ones to.

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Welcome back! Today's article in focus is brought to us by Tara Michaela and is a guide on how Inclusive sex ed empowers our communities, and keeps people safe.

Tara Michaela is a Black, queer sex educator based in Philadelphia and New York. She is the founder of The Youth Sexpert Program, a non-profit training program that aims to provide comprehensive sex education for high school aged youth, so they can become their community's sex expert. Her work focuses primarily on how injustice manifests in sexual interactions. She uses her social media platforms and written pieces to connect with her community on these issues.

What can you do?

Stay up to date with YSP:

• The YSP 💛 (@theyouths3xpertprogram) • Instagram photos and videos
• The Youth Sexpert Program (@theyouths3xpertprogram) | TikTok
• The Youth Sexpert Program

Sex Ed x Abolition Readings:

• The Right to Sex, Amia Srinivasan
• Pleasure Activism, adrienne maree brown
• Good Sex Illustrated, Tony Duvert
• The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
• We Do This Til We Free Us, Mariame Kaba
• You’re 16. You’re a Pedophile. You Don’t Want to Hurt Anyone. What Do You Do Now? | by Luke Malone

Related orgs:

• Restorative Justice Coalition Request a Healing Circle
• Zepp Wellness

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Welcome back! Today's article in focus is brought to us by Andrew Sage and is an introduction to Solarpunk: Everything you need to know about Solarpunk, how it connects to climate justice and how to get involved with the movement.

Andrew is a writer, artist, organiser, and YouTuber born and raised in Trinidad & Tobago. As an ardent anarchist and firm believer in power to the people, Andrew aims to invigorate imaginations and encourage people to create a better world in the shell of the old.

What can you do?

• Andrewism is a YouTube channel that focuses on the intersections between anarchism, anthropology, history, ecology, economy, Blackness, and more, with a particular emphasis on real world solutions and the practical potential of solarpunk.
• Our Changing Climate is a YouTube channel that investigates humanity’s relationship to the natural world and all that entails.
• Think That Through is a YouTube channel that explores various aspects of climate change, the capitalocene, greenwashing, and more.
• Andrew Millison is a YouTube channel that provides excellent resources on ecosystem restoration, permaculture, and ongoing projects in the field.
• Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach is an excellent utopia novel written in 1975 that explores one potential, though flawed, manifestation of solarpunk principles in an alternative Cascadia. The author has noted that, “It is so hard to imagine anything fundamentally different from what we have now. But without these alternate visions, we get stuck on dead center. And we’d better get ready. We need to know where we’d like to go.”

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Welcome back! This weeks article in focus is brought to us by Kavian Kulasabanathan, written in conversation with Prentis Hemphill, author of ‘What it Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World’.

Kavian is an Eela-Tamil physician focused on state violence as a determinant of poor health. From this starting point, he is interested in uses of the collective imagination, community-led and -owned models of care and place-making in journeying toward abolitionist, collectively liberated futures. He organises with Race & Health and the People's Health Movement.

What can you do?

• Listen: Becoming the People - Prentis Hemphill (all the episodes are brilliant, including from the previous series Finding Our Way!)
• Listen: For the Wild - NKEM NDEFO on the Body as Compass
• Watch: Societal Healing and Belonging
• Watch: The Power of Somatics for Collective Transformation - Healing Justice London
• Short read: What is politicised somatics? and Why Somatics for Social Justice and a Transformative Movement?
• Long Read: The Politics of Trauma - Staci K Haines
• Follow: @ generative somatics
• Follow: @Lumos Transformed
• Follow: @Healing Justice London
• Follow: @The Embodiment Institute
• Read: What is Health Justice?

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Welcome to our first ever episode of shado in focus. Today's article in focus is brought to us by Energy Embargo for Palestine, an anti-imperialist climate group based in Britain, who break down the role of BP and the British state in fuelling the Zionist genocide.

What can you do?

• Join Energy Embargo for Palestine by filling in this form.
• Follow Energy Embargo for Palestine on Instagram and X and attend their protests
• Energy Embargo for Palestine is a coalition member in the Palestinian Youth Movement’s Mask off Maersk campaign, disrupting the weapons trade facilitated by logistics companies. Support the PYM and their campaign on Maersk here
• Become a monthly donor of Energy Embargo for Palestine and support our work
• Join an anti-imperialist organising group in your locale!

Reading suggestions:

Palestine

• Misreading Palestine, Max Ajl
• Two Logics of War: Liberation against Genocide, Bikrum Gil
• Zionist Colonialism in Palestine, Fayez Sayegh
• Framing Palestine, Adam Hanieh

Climate politics and a Just Transition

• A People’s Green New Deal, Max Ajl
• Climate Leninism and Revolutionary Transition, Jodi Dean and Kai Heron
• OCI Data Desk report
• As They Laid Down Their Cables, Laleh Khalili

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