In Brazil, the climate crisis is already turning working people into climate refugees
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“Southern Brazil is facing its worst climate tragedy ever," Latin-America-based journalist Mike Fox wrote from Brazil for the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) in early May. "Unprecedented floods...
show moreIn this episode, we talk with Mike about his reporting trip to Southern Brazil, the devastation he witnessed firsthand, and the conversations he had with poor and working-class people who have borne the worst impacts of the floods and who continue to bear the greatest costs of man-made climate chaos.
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- Michael Fox, The Real News Network/NACLA, Under the Shadow (podcast series)
- Michael Fox Patreon page
- Michael Fox, NACLA, "“They’re making it up as they go”: Inside the response to Brazil’s deadly floods"
- Michael Fox, Al Jazeera, "‘The future is dark’: Brazilian businesses shattered by floods"
- Michael Fox, Truthout, "Climate refugees are occupying abandoned buildings in Southern Brazil"
- Bianca Graulau, The Real News Network, "The Puerto Ricans illegally occupying land to resist displacement"
- Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, "‘CSX has got to go!’ Industrially polluted South Baltimore residents want rail giant out of their community"
- Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, "South Baltimore residents on the toxic reality of living in a ‘sacrifice zone’"
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- In These Times website, Facebook page, and Twitter page
- The Real News Network website, YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter page
- Jules Taylor, "Working People" Theme Song
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