In Part 2 of our special broadcast, we look at a recent victory for Indigenous communities in Ecuador, where people overwhelmingly voted to approve a ...

Nemonte Nenquimo is an Indigenous leader from the Waorani Nation in the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador. In 2023, she helped win passage of a referendum in Ecuador to block oil drilling in the Amazon ...

Julia Eccles is the national coordinator of Save Our Sacred Lands, a grassroots campaign protecting sacred Indigenous land in South Africa.

Mohammad Abu Hawash is a Senior Research Assistant in the governance and development program at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs. Previously, he was a research and communications officer at ...

Lakota historian Nick Estes talks about the violent origins of Thanksgiving and his book Our History Is the Future. “This history … is a continuing ...

We’re joined by Israeli journalist Gideon Levy as we continue our conversation on the Israeli-Lebanon ceasefire. We take a ...

Yes, Europe is a garden. We have built a garden. Everything works… Most of the rest of the world is a jungle, and the jungle could invade the ...

Megan McGee is a freelance solutions journalist and activist based in New York City, focusing on mutual aid, the cooperative movement, and community-based mental health. Her writing has been included ...

Ted Siefer is a journalist and audio producer who has contributed to the New York Times, the Center for Public Integrity, CommonWealth Magazine, and 99% Invisible, among other outlets. He’s covered ...

The latest VA podcast episode dives into the recent Congress on Communal Democracy, exploring its history, participants, and its mission to build ...