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As we broadcast from the United Nations climate summit in Belém, we look at Brazil's contradictory climate policies. The Lula government has reduced deforestation in the Amazon while also approving oil drilling near the Amazon. "Many parts of the Amazon are now reaching a tipping point, so a point of no return," says Ilan Zugman, Brazilian climate activist and 350.org's regional head for Latin America and the Caribbean. "Lula is still pushing for new oil and gas areas in the country, including in the Amazon."
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Immigrant rights and labor icon Dolores Huerta, now 95 years old, is continuing her lifelong activism as immigration raids intensify across the country. She addressed the No Kings rally in Watsonville, California, this weekend to speak out against the Trump administration's mass deportation agenda. "This is ethnic cleansing," Huerta tells Democracy Now! "We have never seen such horrific, horrific attacks on our people."
Huerta is president and founder of the Dolores Huerta Foundation; she co-founded the United Farm Workers of America with Cesar Chavez in the 1960s. Amid intensifying immigration raids, she describes how she has joined with People for the American Way and the Dolores Huerta Foundation to release a short dramatized film that shows neighbors joining together in nonviolent civil disobedience to protect an immigrant elder from being disappeared by ICE.
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