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Glad to see this on the A1 - Latest story for The New York Times, with Norimitsu Onishi - Cambridge Bay, Nunavut - edited by Craig Allen. Canadian soldiers transported M777 howitzers to the High Arctic to show their ability to fight in an increasingly contested part of the world. It did not go as planned.Canada’s military ambitions in the Arctic hinged on a frozen door that wouldn’t open.
Hundreds of troops landing on an island in the High Arctic last month were confronted with wind chill temperatures of minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit, frigid even by the area’s standards. The cold kept the locals in the Victoria Island hamlet of Cambridge Bay indoors, suffused the air with tiny ice crystals called diamond dust, and sealed a 30-foot-tall door at an airport hangar.
“It’s frozen,” said an air force detachment commander, “frozen shut.”

These few wonderful days spent in Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, with Norimitsu Onishi, on the front page of the New York Times today.

My latest collaboration with Norimitsu Onishi for The New York Times. Edited by Craig Allen.

«In a Warming Arctic, a Fight Brews Over the Fabled Northwest Passage
The Inuit of the far north helped solve the mystery of a doomed 19th-century expedition. Now Canada needs them to strengthen its claim to this newly contested region.

A Northwest Passage navigable several months a year is one of the warming Arctic’s biggest prizes — and potential sources of conflict. The United States and several other nations reject Canada’s claim of sovereignty over the Northwest Passage and consider it an international waterway, even though it traverses Nunavut, a vast Canadian territory home to Gjoa Haven and two dozen other sparsely populated Inuit hamlets.

As global warming makes the Arctic — and its immense natural resources — more accessible, it is fueling a superpower rivalry not seen since the Cold War. Russia is beefing up its military positions in the region, sometimes in cooperation with China, a self-described “near-Arctic state” that is also expanding commercial and scientific activities.

President Trump is threatening to annex Canada and force a sale of Greenland. He wants to build a $175 billion “Golden Dome” defense shield to intercept intercontinental ballistic missiles flying over the Arctic.

C’est aujourd’hui que ces histoires, ces moments, ces images qui nous ont été confiés par les peuples Guarani Kaiowá et Avá Guarani commencent à être diffusés à travers les Amériques. Ce livre est le fruit d’années de travail, de partenariat et de collaboration ! Il est lancé aujourd’hui chez à Québec et nous le distribuerons bientôt dans les 25 communautés/retomadas qui nous ont accueillis avec tant de générosité et d’amitié. 🏹
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For the past few weeks, I’ve been documenting a peaceful struggle alongside the Guardians of the Land. A struggle that reminds me, in a different context, of the one led by the Guarani Indigenous people in Brazil. At both ends of the Americas, the observation is the same: colonization does not belong to the past.

Here, it’s a fight against the overwhelming power of industry over natural resources, against the proposed reform of the forestry sector—Bill 97; a struggle led by a coalition of the peoples who inhabit this land, the MAMO First Nations. MAMO means TOGETHER. Innu, Atikamekw, Abenaki, together.

There, the Guarani are fighting to reclaim the lands stolen from them, plundered and ravaged by intensive agriculture that has replaced, in just a few generations, the lush forests their ancestors once knew.

The suffering of Indigenous peoples echoes the suffering of the Earth.

In the vast forests of Quebec, two worldviews clash. That of a greedy system that exploits the land’s resources with ever-larger, ever more efficient, ever more destructive machines—all in the name of profit and productivity; and that of a universal consciousness that does not place humans above nature, that advocates for land management on a human scale, for the long term, where capital comes after the preservation of the Earth.

These words from Paulina Martines, an Ava-Guarani leader in Brazil, come back to me:

“We are protectors,
guardians of the forest,
guardians of living beings,
guardians of the seeds.
Our goal is to reforest
our minds,
the soul of society,
Mother Earth.
Every day, she calls for help,
but greed drowns out her voice.”
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Depuis quelques semaines, je documente une lutte pacifique aux côtés des Gardiens du Territoire Association des Gardiens du territoire Nehirowisiw Aski. Une lutte qui me rappelle, dans un autre contexte, celle que mènent les autochtones Guarani au Brésil. Aux deux extrémités des Amériques, le constat est le même : la colonisation n’appartient pas au passé.

Ici, c’est une lutte contre la toute-puissance de l’industrie sur les ressources naturelles, contre le projet de réforme de l’industrie forestière — le projet de Loi 97 ; une lutte menée par une coalition des peuples qui habitent le territoire, ça veut dire ENSEMBLE. Innu, Atikamekw, Abénaquis, ensemble.

Là-bas, les Guarani luttent pour récupérer les terres qui leur ont été volées, pillées, saccagées par une agriculture intensive qui a remplacé, en quelques générations, les luxuriantes forêts qu’ont connues leurs ancêtres.

La souffrance des peuples autochtones fait écho à la souffrance de la Terre.

Dans les vastes forêts québécoises s’opposent deux visions du monde. Celle d’un système cupide qui exploite les ressources du territoire avec des machines toujours plus grosses, toujours plus efficaces, toujours plus destructrices, au nom de la rentabilité et du profit ; et celle d’une conscience universelle qui ne place pas l’humain au-dessus de la nature, qui propose une gestion du territoire à échelle humaine, sur le long terme, où le capital passe après la préservation de la terre.

Ces mots de Paulina Martines, leader Ava-Guarani au Brésil, me reviennent:

« Nous sommes des protecteurs,
gardiens de la forêt,
gardiens des êtres vivants,
gardiens des semences.
Notre objectif est de reboiser�nos esprits,
l'âme de la société,
la Terre nourricière.
Chaque jour, elle appelle à l'aide,
mais la cupidité étouffe sa voix. »

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