Paul Paz y Miño
@paulpaz.bsky.social
he/him Dp Dir @amazonwatch.org #Humanrights & EJ advocate w/focus on Latin America. Sued CIA w/IPS & won! @oilgasaction.bsky.social board. ❤️ #StarTrek #StarWars #Phillies. Oakland resident since 97. #DefendFreeSpeech “I ride tandem with the random.” IYKYK
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Paul Paz y Miño
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· Sep 23
Paul Paz y Miño and Steven Donziger from Rainforests to Courtrooms
Podcast Episode · Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin · 09/23/2025 · 45m
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Huge thank you to Alec Baldwin for having me on his podcast to discuss Chevron’s crimes in the Amazon and their #fossilfuelmoblawyers at Gibson Dunn’s efforts to make the Indigenous peoples there invisible and block their access to justice. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...
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✨NEW: @governor.ca.gov is right to emphasize affordability as a pillar of climate progress, but it’s puzzling when he vetoes cost-effective clean energy solutions. Read more from @elliecohen.bsky.social: https://loom.ly/KOCjhcY
November 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
✨NEW: @governor.ca.gov is right to emphasize affordability as a pillar of climate progress, but it’s puzzling when he vetoes cost-effective clean energy solutions. Read more from @elliecohen.bsky.social: https://loom.ly/KOCjhcY
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A federal judge has ruled that President Donald Trump’s deployment of more than 2,000 National Guard troops to police Washington, DC, is illegal and must come to an end.
Judge Orders Trump Administration to Halt Illegal DC National Guard Deployment
The ruling comes amid legal battles over Trump’s moves to deploy the National Guard in other US cities.
truthout.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
A federal judge has ruled that President Donald Trump’s deployment of more than 2,000 National Guard troops to police Washington, DC, is illegal and must come to an end.
“By treating forests as financial assets within debt markets, the model risks repeating the very dynamics that have fueled deforestation: inequitable power relations, external control and dependence on private capital.” @ran.org
www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/if-c...
www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/if-c...
If COP30 Fails, It Won’t Be North vs. South, but Power vs People
Ginger Cassady is Executive Director, Rainforest Action Network
www.ipsnews.net
November 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
“By treating forests as financial assets within debt markets, the model risks repeating the very dynamics that have fueled deforestation: inequitable power relations, external control and dependence on private capital.” @ran.org
www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/if-c...
www.ipsnews.net/2025/11/if-c...
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“We Need to Be Heard”: Indigenous Amazon Defender Alessandra Korap Munduruku on #COP30 Protest.
#IndigenousLandRightsNOW
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#IndigenousLandRightsNOW
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“We Need to Be Heard”: Indigenous Amazon Defender Alessandra Korap Munduruku on COP30
Thousands of Amazonian land defenders, both Indigenous peoples and their allies, have traveled to the COP30 U.N. climate conference in Belém, Brazil. On Friday night, an Indigenous-led march arrived a...
www.democracynow.org
November 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
“We Need to Be Heard”: Indigenous Amazon Defender Alessandra Korap Munduruku on #COP30 Protest.
#IndigenousLandRightsNOW
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#IndigenousLandRightsNOW
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It’s almost always a “clown show” controlled by fossil fuel lobbyists (the greatest threat to human life) but will this COP be different?
COP30 host urges unity as summit heads for final showdown over fossil fuels - www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
COP30 host urges unity as summit heads for final showdown over fossil fuels - www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
It’s almost always a “clown show” controlled by fossil fuel lobbyists (the greatest threat to human life) but will this COP be different?
COP30 host urges unity as summit heads for final showdown over fossil fuels - www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
COP30 host urges unity as summit heads for final showdown over fossil fuels - www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
But those Dems and their violent rhetoric…
November 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
But those Dems and their violent rhetoric…
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Completely normal and totally hinged thing for a president to post.
November 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Completely normal and totally hinged thing for a president to post.
There’s no “question” the Ferrograo WILL drastically increase deforestation and it’s an existential threat to Indigenous Peoples, the Amazon, and thus our global climate. #NoFerrograo
apnews.com/article/rail...
apnews.com/article/rail...
Railway project in the Amazon raises questions over Brazil's efforts to stop deforestation
As Brazil’s government seeks to boost its environmental credentials by hosting the United Nations’ climate summit, a proposal to build a railway through the Amazon has threatened to tarnish that image...
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
There’s no “question” the Ferrograo WILL drastically increase deforestation and it’s an existential threat to Indigenous Peoples, the Amazon, and thus our global climate. #NoFerrograo
apnews.com/article/rail...
apnews.com/article/rail...
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“Elon Musk's xAl is constructing one of the world's largest Al supercenters in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. This mirrors a long history of environmental racism where polluting industries and hazardous developments are placed in communities with the least
political and financial power.” 🧵
political and financial power.” 🧵
August 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
“Elon Musk's xAl is constructing one of the world's largest Al supercenters in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. This mirrors a long history of environmental racism where polluting industries and hazardous developments are placed in communities with the least
political and financial power.” 🧵
political and financial power.” 🧵
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"Experts have called the possibility of losing elimination status for measles 'deeply embarrassing' for a wealthy country with the medical resources of the United States..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/h...
C.D.C. Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for the First Time
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
"Experts have called the possibility of losing elimination status for measles 'deeply embarrassing' for a wealthy country with the medical resources of the United States..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/h...
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The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre monitors the core human rights policies & commitments of 54 US-headquartered companies in the technology, apparel, extractives, automotive & agrifood sectors to identify any changes made since Jan. 2025. www.business-humanrights.org/en/from-us/u...
US corporate human rights index - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Check out this page via the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
www.business-humanrights.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre monitors the core human rights policies & commitments of 54 US-headquartered companies in the technology, apparel, extractives, automotive & agrifood sectors to identify any changes made since Jan. 2025. www.business-humanrights.org/en/from-us/u...
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Kevin Koenig, Amazon Watch: “We really try to have a united front on the need to get off fossil fuels, whether that’s the Amazon or California.” [We're] pushing lawmakers to turn the resolution into a formal task force on Amazon-related extraction & CA’s role in it. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
The Belém-to-Bakersfield pipeline
California is primed for a debate over how much oil it should source from the Amazon.
www.politico.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Kevin Koenig, Amazon Watch: “We really try to have a united front on the need to get off fossil fuels, whether that’s the Amazon or California.” [We're] pushing lawmakers to turn the resolution into a formal task force on Amazon-related extraction & CA’s role in it. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Indigenous peoples are putting their lives on the line to protect the forests and keep YOUR climate healthier. We must protect them. #DefendEarthDefenders www.democracynow.org/2025/11/18/e...
Indigenous Leaders Demand Greater Role at U.N. Climate Talks
We speak with one of the Indigenous leaders at the U.N. climate summit in Belém for the climate negotiations, in greater numbers than ever before, taking center stage at COP30. They are calling “to en...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Indigenous peoples are putting their lives on the line to protect the forests and keep YOUR climate healthier. We must protect them. #DefendEarthDefenders www.democracynow.org/2025/11/18/e...
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Thx ppl of Ecuador! By defeating Noboa's plans they protected the Rights of Nature & Indigenous self-determination in their constitution. Huge win for enviro justice & Indigenous Rights & major blow to Noboa’s plans to drill for more oil in the Amazon! insideclimatenews.org/news/1711202...
Ecuador’s Voters Protect Rights of Nature, Reject Proposal to Rewrite Constitution - Inside Climate News
Ecuadorians handed their Trump-allied president a resounding defeat, choosing to maintain their “ecological constitution” and rejecting an attempt to allow foreign military bases in the country.
insideclimatenews.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Thx ppl of Ecuador! By defeating Noboa's plans they protected the Rights of Nature & Indigenous self-determination in their constitution. Huge win for enviro justice & Indigenous Rights & major blow to Noboa’s plans to drill for more oil in the Amazon! insideclimatenews.org/news/1711202...
CONGRATULATIONS ECUADOR! By defeating Noboa's plans they also protected the Rights of Nature and Indigenous right to Free, Prior, and Informed Consultation in their constitution. This is a HUGE WIN FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE! #Ecuador www.npr.org/2025/11/17/n...
Ecuador rejects U.S. military bases in major defeat for President Noboa
Ecuadorians have decisively rejected a series of referendum measures, including plans for U.S. military bases and constitutional changes, handing President Daniel Noboa a major political setback amid ...
www.npr.org
November 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
CONGRATULATIONS ECUADOR! By defeating Noboa's plans they also protected the Rights of Nature and Indigenous right to Free, Prior, and Informed Consultation in their constitution. This is a HUGE WIN FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE! #Ecuador www.npr.org/2025/11/17/n...
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Indigenous communities in the Amazon are demanding protection of their rights at the U.N. Climate Change Conference.
Protect the Amazon, Tax the Polluters: Climate Activists Demand Action at COP30 in Belém, Brazilq
Democracy Now! is broadcasting from the U.N. climate summit in the Brazilian rainforest city of Belém, near the mouth of the Amazon River, where the COP30 summit has entered its second week of negotia...
www.democracynow.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Indigenous communities in the Amazon are demanding protection of their rights at the U.N. Climate Change Conference.
Amazon Watch Executive Director Leila Salazar-Lopez at #COP30 in Belem Brazil - to address the urgency of climate change we must support the Inocall for an Amazon free from extraction www.democracynow.org/2025/11/17/c...
Protect the Amazon, Tax the Polluters: Climate Activists Demand Action at COP30 in Belém, Brazilq
Democracy Now! is broadcasting from the U.N. climate summit in the Brazilian rainforest city of Belém, near the mouth of the Amazon River, where the COP30 summit has entered its second week of negotia...
www.democracynow.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Amazon Watch Executive Director Leila Salazar-Lopez at #COP30 in Belem Brazil - to address the urgency of climate change we must support the Inocall for an Amazon free from extraction www.democracynow.org/2025/11/17/c...
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Newly released Epstein estate documents mention Trump more than 1,000 times. Congress reopened the government after the Senate reached a funding deal. And Adelita Grijalva was finally sworn in, giving the House enough signatures to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files.
House Dems release Epstein e-mails. Government re-opens. Adelita Grijalva sworn in.
House Oversight Committee Releases Epstein Documents
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Newly released Epstein estate documents mention Trump more than 1,000 times. Congress reopened the government after the Senate reached a funding deal. And Adelita Grijalva was finally sworn in, giving the House enough signatures to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files.
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Count the ways they’re corrupting DOJ: Presidents don’t direct AG’s to open criminal cases, especially ones designating only Dems for investigation when POTUS himself is involved. DOJ doesn’t publicize criminal investigations & the AG definitely doesn’t assign them on Twitter.
November 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Count the ways they’re corrupting DOJ: Presidents don’t direct AG’s to open criminal cases, especially ones designating only Dems for investigation when POTUS himself is involved. DOJ doesn’t publicize criminal investigations & the AG definitely doesn’t assign them on Twitter.