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Fighting for all our tomorrows: a view from Kenya
Peter Kitelo Chongeywo is a leader of the Ogiek Indigenous Forest Peoples of Mount Elgon, Kenya. The Elgon Ogiek are struggling to stop being evicted from their ancestral community lands by government and international 'conservation' agencies. These agencies are intent on securing carbon finance and profit through claiming to protect (while exploiting) Ogiek forestlands, rather than supporting the Ogiek to sustain and be sustained...
The Cuchubal and the Commons
Sharing Circles, Food Sovereignty and Organising BioregionallyGlobalised industrial food systems are unsustainable – huge carbon emissions, soil degradation, unsafe and unethical intensive livestock farming, and brittle supply chains and distribution leading to empty shelves being just some of the problems. So what can future-proof food systems look like, and what lessons can Scotland learn from traditional ecological knowledge from elsewhere? Catriona Spaven-Donn and Diana...
Unlearning Empire – Remembering Earth
Vishwam Heckert explores how we move beyond empire and imperialism, abstraction and disconnection: “...if we wish to transform our world, we cannot do so without unlearning the embodied and psychic habit of separating ‘us’ and ‘them’ or ‘me’ from the ‘world’.”You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert repenting.You only have...
The COP and Community Struggles in South Africa
LESS editor Svenja Meyerricks spoke to environmental justice activist and community organiser Nomalizo Xhoma in Johannesburg, South Africa, about her work and advocacy for solutions that centre the needs of vulnerable communities where the impact of climate change is acutely felt.When I first met Nomalizo in a German ecovillage we both were visiting, she taught a group of permaculture students to sing ‘Shosholoza’, a...
Free States: Contested Territories, New Imaginaries
Territorial struggle and prefigurative politics were evident at the Pollok Free State in the 1990s, opening up new possibilities beyond protest. To mark the occasion of COP26 taking place in Glasgow, Pablo Routledge, Gehan Macleod and David Lees write how a new Govan Declaration of Independence – a Govan Free State at GalGael – is creating a space for gathering and pose critical questions...
Dismantling Scotland’s petro-industrial complex: Lessons from Mossmorran
Decarbonise, democratise, decolonise, decommodify. This is the mantra we must adopt in the year of COP26, argues Benjamin Brown. Nowhere is this more true than for Mossmorran, a scar on Scotland’s environmental conscience.“Tae conclude ma tale I’m gey sick o their lees,The truth is they juist dae whitever they please,When it disnae blaw up we’re tae faa on our knees,Tae gie thanks tae the...