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There are always more good ideas than we can afford to take on

Details: Published on Tuesday, 29 June 2021 15:11; Written by editor

With just 30 hours left before tomorrow’s fundraising deadline, we wanted to make sure you didn’t miss this message from our membership director. Can you chip in to help reach our goal?

You don’t usually hear from me, but my name is Michael Sherrard, and as membership director, my job is to build the base of grassroots donors that sustains The Intercept’s groundbreaking investigative journalism.

Every time I join an editorial meeting, I hear about exciting new ideas for stories. Tips about potential corporate wrongdoing. Leads that need tracking down. New sources with inside info to confirm.

There...

We're calling out the Trespass Prevention Program

Details: Published on Tuesday, 29 June 2021 12:19; Written by editor

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Dear Friend,

Earlier this year, a coalition of legal and community-based groups sounded the alarm about a new Vancouver Police Department program that intrudes on the rights and liberties of people who rely on public space.

The VPD’s Trespass Prevention Program (TPP) gives police officers the power to remove people without a call for 911 service if they’ve allegedly violated the provincial Trespass Act.

The TPP enables the VPD to enter into a series of agreements with private property business owners. These agreements then serve as the basis for the displacement of people who rely on public space.

Here’s the thing – this policing program is blatantly undemocratic, discriminatory, and undercuts all efforts to end street checks. It’s a discriminatory practice that disproportionately impacts Indigenous and racialized people who navigate systemic poverty.

It must end immediately. That’s why, working with 8 groups, we’ve filed a formal Service and Policy complaint calling for its immediate cancellation.

The TPP enables VPD officers to...

Act today for uncontacted tribes!

Details: Published on Tuesday, 29 June 2021 12:15; Written by editor

Your support is vital to stop the tribes and their rainforest being decimated.

Exposed: Bolsonaro government's secret plot to wipe out uncontacted tribes - watch now. Dear PAOV,

Several uncontacted tribes are being targeted by an alliance of powerful politicians, loggers and ranchers. Your support is vital to stop the tribes and their rainforest being decimated.

The tribal territories, deep in the Brazilian Amazon, are shielded by emergency “Land Protection Orders” which are about to expire.

These orders make it illegal for loggers, miners and other invaders to enter the tribes’ lands. Without this protection, the forests would be completely destroyed – and the tribes who look after them and depend on them to survive could be wiped out.

One of the territories is home to the uncontacted Piripkura – survivors of decades of land theft and brutal massacres at the hands of the invaders.

Now, anti-indigenous politicians and land-grabbers – boosted by President Bolsonaro’s genocidal attacks on Brazil’s indigenous peoples – are trying to extinguish the orders so they can steal these lands for ranching, logging, mining, and more. If this happens the tribes could be wiped out.

Please urge the Brazilian government to renew these Land Protection Orders, evict all invaders, fully protect these territories, and #StopBrazilsGenocide.

An update on our financial situation from our editor-in-chief

Details: Published on Tuesday, 29 June 2021 10:05; Written by editor

As the editor-in-chief of The Intercept, I want to give you a personal update on our financial situation.

The unapologetic, adversarial journalism you find at The Intercept is a rare breed — and becoming scarcer by the day. Between layoffs of experienced reporters, advertising declines, and intense pressure to maximize clicks, we’re living through the quiet suffocation of the kind of journalism our democracy requires.

The Intercept been able to survive because we started with a strong base of financial support, and we’ve grown by asking our readers to sustain our work — and so many of you have responded with a deep commitment to journalism’s future, a deep commitment to exposing the truth about those in power who subvert our democracy.

Right now we’re in the midst of...

We set an ambitious goal because no one in our newsroom believes that journalism should be less ambitious under a Biden presidency

Details: Published on Monday, 28 June 2021 16:32; Written by editor

I know we’ve been sending you a lot of emails this month, so I wanted to take a few moments to explain why The Intercept’s membership campaign matters to me.

Throughout my life, I’ve reported from war and conflict zones around the world and on the front lines of social justice struggles in the United States. And I’ve usually done it with very scant resources. As a young reporter, I slept on my share of floors in war zones and begged well-funded journalists to use their phones and internet connections to file my reports from the field.

But at The Intercept, we’ve always been fortunate to have the means to do truly ambitious journalism. And not journalism that meets some bullshit standard of “objectivity,” but journalism that genuinely afflicts...

Council Catch-Up

Details: Published on Monday, 28 June 2021 13:59; Written by editor

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This should be a week of mourning

Details: Published on Monday, 28 June 2021 11:27; Written by editor

If you or anyone you know is Indigenous and needs support, the Indian Residential Schools Crisis Line is available 24/7 at 1-866-925-4419.

Paov,

We’re pausing our planned campaigning this week to instead lift up Indigenous voices and amplify the growing call to make this a week of mourning, reflection and action.

As you probably know, a month ago the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation reported the discovery of a mass grave with the remains of 215 Indigenous children at a former residential school in Kamloops, BC. Last week, Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan identified 751 unmarked graves at the site of the former Marieval Indian Residential School. Combined with discoveries in Brandon, Regina, Lestock, and Carlisle, this brings the total number to 1,323.

That number alone is horrifying, but those kids were just a small portion of the thousands forcibly separated from their families, abused, and murdered by Canada’s residential school system. Indigenous communities have and continue to experience this painful...

This is an unusual email

Details: Published on Sunday, 27 June 2021 12:15; Written by editor

Every time I join an editorial meeting, I hear about exciting new ideas for stories. Tips about potential corporate wrongdoing. Leads that need tracking down. New sources with inside info to confirm.

There are always more good ideas than we can afford to take on, and I leave each meeting with a new sense of urgency about raising the money to allow my colleagues on the editorial team to greenlight as many investigations as possible.

But here’s the challenge: After four years of President Donald Trump’s chaos, capped off by the pandemic, a...

Catholic Church Must Apologize for Residential Schools & the Murdered Children in Canada

Details: Published on Saturday, 26 June 2021 14:35; Written by editor

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PAOV – this petition is taking off on Change.org, and we think you might be interested in adding your name. Sign now to help:

Catholic Church Must Apologize for Residential Schools & the Murdered Children in Canada

Edy Haddad started this petition to Vatican- Catholic Church - Anglican Church and it now has 13,148 signatures

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The last 800 orangutans

Details: Published on Saturday, 26 June 2021 02:21; Written by editor

The rarest orangutans are about to get wiped out by a gold mine.

Less than 800 Tapanuli orangutans are still alive and we don’t have much time to save them.

Sign the petition

The last known 800 Tapanuli orangutans on Earth face having their Indonesian forest home ripped from beneath them -- by a British company’s thirst for gold.

Jardine Matheson and its gold mining company want to destroy this precious ecosystem in Batang Toru, Northern Sumatra out of pure greed -- driving the rarest great ape to extinction.

Just in the past month, satellite images revealed a new expansion of the Martable Mine into the heart of orangutan territory. But if we act fast with a massive public campaign exposing Jardine Matheson, we can stop the mine’s expansion and protect the orangutans and their habitat before it’s too late.

Tell Jardine Matheson to STOP expanding its mine into orangutan territory NOW.

The Tapanuli orangutan, which is...

Old growth update

Details: Published on Friday, 25 June 2021 11:51; Written by editor

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If a tree falls in a forest, and no one’s there to hear it, does it make a sound?

In the case of the movement to save some of the last, big old growth trees in British Columbia, it turns out that sound is more like a siren-call.

With powerful Indigenous-led blockades, a groundswell of public support, and unprecedented media coverage – we’re at a critical tipping point in this campaign. But the B.C. government is still stalling on its promise to protect at-risk old growth forests across the province.

That’s why we joined forces with Indigenous leaders, scientists, and celebrities like Mark Ruffalo and David Suzuki to produce an urgent plea that will be impossible for B.C. Premier John Horgan to ignore. The video has already gone viral, and now we have a plan to launch a massive TV ad campaign to get this video in millions of living rooms across the country. But TV ads are expensive, and we need your help to pull it off.

If we raise $32,450 by Sunday, we’ll run this powerful video nationally on Global News and locally on Chek News, where it’ll be seen by Premier Horgan, his staff, key MLAs, as well as millions of people across Canada. Will you donate now?

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VIDEO: ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF CLEARCUTTING

Details: Published on Friday, 25 June 2021 09:28; Written by editor

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Fire risk. Clearcutting. Global heating. In 2015, a huge fire destroyed 30 homes in Rock Creek, BC. Who else has a watershed that is at risk?Let's demand that the BC government stop clearcutting now. Intentions papers and trifling actions will not save us

We got some very bad news

Details: Published on Friday, 25 June 2021 08:01; Written by editor

Earlier this year, news broke that I had been bracing against for years: 47 journalists at HuffPost — many of them former colleagues of mine at a news organization where I’d spent the better part of my professional life — were being laid off.

And as bad as that news was, perhaps the most terrifying part was that when the news landed, many of us were relieved that it wasn’t worse.

The fear had been that many more would be on the chopping block. Still, veteran reporters with decades — maybe centuries — of combined experience were suddenly taken off their beats.

The Intercept isn’t immune to the financial pressures affecting the entire industry. The same trends driving down revenue at for-profit newsrooms are causing a decline in the donations that nonprofits...

Charest, Schwarzenegger, De Souza

Details: Published on Thursday, 24 June 2021 17:19; Written by editor

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Ben & Jerry's deadly silence

Details: Published on Thursday, 24 June 2021 14:33; Written by editor

While Israel murders and brutalizes Palestinians daily, Ben & Jerry’s, one of the most progressive international companies, continues to operate on stolen Palestinian land.

Call on Ben & Jerry’s to stop supporting apartheid in Palestine.

Sign the petition

Last month, during the eleven-day assault by Israeli military on the Gaza Strip, 256 Palestinians, including 66 children, died. And last week, thousands of right-wing nationalists paraded around Jerusalem shouting ‘death to Arabs’.

The only way to stop the never-ending cycle of settlement expansion and violence is to make the economic cost of this illegal occupation too high to bear.

Ben & Jerry’s has been one of the world’s most progressive companies since its inception, but they continue to sell and operate on stolen Palestinian land.

And if we can get them to stop supporting the apartheid regime, other global companies like Puma and Motorola will be forced to follow suit.

Tell Ben & Jerry’s: stop supporting the brutal occupation of...

Today is the start of World #UncontactedTribesWeek

Details: Published on Thursday, 24 June 2021 11:48; Written by editor

There are more than 100 such tribes around the world, from the Amazon to Indonesia, and they’re the most vulnerable peoples on the planet.

Dear PAOV,

Today is the start of World #UncontactedTribesWeek – a week dedicated to fighting for uncontacted tribes’ rights and raising awareness about them.

There are more than 100 such tribes around the world, from the Amazon to Indonesia, and they’re the most vulnerable peoples on the planet.

If they’re left in peace they thrive, but everywhere their lands are being destroyed – illegally invaded by loggers, miners and cattle ranchers. Many have been massacred – and incredibly, these atrocities continue today.

Since 1969, Survival has led the global campaign for the protection of uncontacted tribes’ lands. This #UncontactedTribesWeek we’re focusing on three critical cases:

- in Brazil, we’ve revealed a secret plot to wipe out several uncontacted tribes.
- in Peru, five uncontacted tribal territories are still unprotected, after 27 years of government delay.
- in Paraguay, the last uncontacted tribe in South America outside the Amazon live on the run, fleeing the bulldozers that are razing their last refuge.

Hi my name is Luisa, the new Executive Director!

Details: Published on Thursday, 24 June 2021 09:01; Written by editor

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Dear Paov,

I’m thrilled to introduce myself as Iron & Earth’s new Executive Director! It’s exciting to be part of the team at Iron & Earth, amongst such a talented and dedicated group of people. Entering this position, I’m greatly encouraged by the team’s strength, the vibrancy of the organizational culture, and the incredible level of innovation and acceleration within each initiative underway.

I’d like to take you on a personal journey that started in the Alberta oilsands, led me around the globe, and brought me back to the heart of the Canadian energy discussion.

(Working in the doghouse, holding bitumen)

I began my career in the Alberta oilsands as a young geologist. In the frozen landscape of the Alberta winter, on frozen peat bogs, several drilling teams I worked with explored the subsurface for the Steam Assisted...

Joe Manchin Bucks GOP, Votes to Break Voting Rights Filibuster

Details: Published on Thursday, 24 June 2021 05:18; Written by editor

BREAKING: Parliament just passed Bill C-12

Details: Published on Wednesday, 23 June 2021 13:23; Written by editor

Paov,

Late last night, the House of Commons finally passed Bill C-12.1 This is a big win for people power. Without public pressure, Canada’s new climate accountability law would have been a shell of what was passed yesterday. If you’re one of the thousands who took action to give C-12 real teeth, thank you.

The bill still needs to get through the Senate but, if it does become law, C-12 still won’t be enough to ensure Canada truly tackles the climate emergency. To do that, we need Justin Trudeau to follow through on his 2019 promise to pass a Just Transition Act, ensuring that no one is left behind as we transition quickly off of fossil fuels.

Can you take a moment to call Natural Resources Minister O’Regan and tell him to get moving on the Just Transition Act?

The fact is, without tackling our largest source of emissions, the fossil fuel industry, climate accountability legislation like...

FLOC-IUF Tobacco Workers International Event, June 24

Details: Published on Wednesday, 23 June 2021 11:41; Written by editor

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