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Maps for the people and planet.

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Latin America leading the way. #MareaRosa #OndaRosa #Lula
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What do we want?.Public housing for all. Where do we want it?.Walkable neighborhoods with accessible amenities and services. Map: Emily Talen & Julia Koschinsky (2014) The Neighborhood Quality of Subsidized Housing.
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"Settlers always think they're defending themselves. It's why they build forts on other peoples' land" - Fred Moten
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Columbus was rejected by most scholars of the time not because they thought the Earth was flat, but because he was bad at math and had vastly underestimated the distance to Asia. Had he not accidentally landed in Taíno territory, he would've starved before reaching Asia.
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No nostalgia for empire. #QueenElizabeth
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Now in season: Turtle Island's largest native fruit.
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Makxoche Washte, the Beautiful Country: a geography of the Ocheti Shakowin by Dakota Wind. The map details a Dakhóta-Lakȟóta perspective using place names meticulously gathered from winter counts, oral tradition, interviews, maps, and books. Download at:.
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Earth has a magnificent variety of plants, animals, cultures & languages. But the converging losses of bio- and cultural diversity will forever change our world unless we act now.
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A while ago, we asked the "Wild Green Memes for Ecological Fiends" FB group to tell us what they love about Nature around them. Here's what they shared.
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Business people will tell us there's no alternative to investor-owned corporations, while 85% of people worldwide don't feel engaged in their jobs, and this business model is literally killing the planet, and worker cooperatives are already a proven alternative.
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White supremacists are still wrapping their racism in pseudoscience.
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In 1994, the Zapatista uprising deprivatized large swaths of Chiapas, putting the land back under Indigenous stewardship. For 26 years, Zapatista communities have been growing the infrastructure of self-governance and coorperative economies. Another world is possible. #EZLN
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As leader of the party that's ruled Japan almost continuously since 1955, Shinzo Abe's campaign slogan was Kono Michi Shikanai “There Is No Other Way.” Abe's only genuine opposition in government came from the Japanese Communist Party. There is another way. Map: 2019 election
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