Sugar company demolishes worker housing after reports reveal squalor
The Central Romana Corporation destroyed a workers' encampment in the Dominican Republic in November, two months after damning reports on conditions for Haitian cane cutters were published by Homelands' Sandy Tolan. Residents say the destruction of houses and their forced removal were unannounced, according to an update by Tolan that appeared in Mother Jones in December.
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Sponsored doc to premiere at Sundance
"The Territory," a documentary feature film that provides an up-close look at threats to the Brazilian Amazon, has been accepted in competition at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. It premieres on January 22. Homelands has served as the project's nonprofit fiscal sponsor.
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Real men drive electric trucks
In a reported essay for The Atlantic, Ruxandra Guidi explores the often-ignored relationship between American notions of masculinity and attitudes toward environmental responsibility. Is it too much to hope that men can learn to care about the climate?
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