On March 5th, 2021, the Anishinaabe Agriculture Institute sponsored the 4th Annual Indigenous Hemp Conference. The theme of the conference was Giigikendamowin Bagami-ayaa Wiinibwaakaawin, “Let the Knowledge of Our Past Become the Wisdom of Our Future.” This article is the first of a series of transcriptions composed by Branch Out of the videos of the […]
Civil rights lawyer Steven Donziger was released back to house arrest in October 2021 to serve the rest of his 6 month misdemeanor sentence from home. The decision to release him under a COVID-19 early release policy came after a large public pressure campaign that included celebrities, Nobel laureates, climate activists, politicians and independent media […]
Nondescript warehouses have begun to dot the rural Texas landscape in a silent gold rush. Passersby might mistake them for agricultural units or manufacturing plants. But instead of manufacturing tangible products, these featureless facilities make digital money—mostly bitcoin—through cryptocurrency mining, the large-scale computing operation that validates certain digital currencies through a decentralized ledger known as […]
