Doug Hertzler
@doug-hertzler.bsky.social
Senior Policy Analyst, ActionAid USA, Land Rights, Food Sov, Impact of Big Ag on Climate & Rt2Food. Views here ≠ ActionAid's.
ActionAid International moves its money to let HSBC know that we can’t backslide on climate. www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
Leading charity pulls accounts from HSBC over ‘climate damage worth more than £100bn’
‘Moving our money is not just symbolic; it’s a vital first step in challenging destructive financial systems,’ says ActionAid UK
www.independent.co.uk
July 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
ActionAid International moves its money to let HSBC know that we can’t backslide on climate. www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
A message for foundations and philanthropists based on ActionAid’s experience resisting authoritarianism ncrp.org/resources/re...
Act now before it’s too late - NCRP
ActionAid International’s Secretary General Arthur Larok and ActionAid USA’s Executive Director Niranjali Amerasinghe showcase examples of global resistance, from Uganda to Bangladesh to Haiti back to...
ncrp.org
June 17, 2025 at 6:32 PM
A message for foundations and philanthropists based on ActionAid’s experience resisting authoritarianism ncrp.org/resources/re...
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Civil society is under attack in many places, not least in Peru with some of the all too common mechanisms (and worse) well described here
afsee.atlanticfellows.lse.ac.uk/en-gb/blogs/...
#democracy #civilsociety #civicspace #calltoaction
afsee.atlanticfellows.lse.ac.uk/en-gb/blogs/...
#democracy #civilsociety #civicspace #calltoaction
Peruvian Civil Society is Under Attack
The ability to protect human rights, civil liberties, gender equality, and environmental justice has been disproportionately affected by Peruvian lawmakers' new regulatory push against civil society o...
afsee.atlanticfellows.lse.ac.uk
June 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Civil society is under attack in many places, not least in Peru with some of the all too common mechanisms (and worse) well described here
afsee.atlanticfellows.lse.ac.uk/en-gb/blogs/...
#democracy #civilsociety #civicspace #calltoaction
afsee.atlanticfellows.lse.ac.uk/en-gb/blogs/...
#democracy #civilsociety #civicspace #calltoaction
As employees of ActionAid USA, we are proud members of SEIU Local 500. We demand that the DOJ drop the false conspiracy charges against David Huerta right now! We demand respect for the First Amendment and the Constitution!
June 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
As employees of ActionAid USA, we are proud members of SEIU Local 500. We demand that the DOJ drop the false conspiracy charges against David Huerta right now! We demand respect for the First Amendment and the Constitution!
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NEW: Over a thousand people are rallied in Downtown LA in support of SEIU, after SEIU President Pres. David Huerte was arrested days ago after an ICE raid (ABC7)
Won't be able to be as active with the updates today, but I'll do my best to provide some
Won't be able to be as active with the updates today, but I'll do my best to provide some
June 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
NEW: Over a thousand people are rallied in Downtown LA in support of SEIU, after SEIU President Pres. David Huerte was arrested days ago after an ICE raid (ABC7)
Won't be able to be as active with the updates today, but I'll do my best to provide some
Won't be able to be as active with the updates today, but I'll do my best to provide some
Proud to be an SEIU member. Free our brother David Huerta now!
I'm outraged by DHS' violent arrest of SEIU-USWW President David Huerta at the Roybal Federal Building in Los Angeles.
Full statement:
Full statement:
June 8, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Proud to be an SEIU member. Free our brother David Huerta now!
Join us in taking action in Congress on the starvation of Gaza.
🚨 JUST IN: @jayapal.house.gov introduced a resolution calling on the U.S. to pressure Israel to #EndTheBlockade of food and #HumanitarianAid into Gaza.
Congress must act❗
📣 Email your Representative now 👉 act.actionaidusa.org/a/immediate-...
Congress must act❗
📣 Email your Representative now 👉 act.actionaidusa.org/a/immediate-...
June 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Join us in taking action in Congress on the starvation of Gaza.
Congratulations to FIAN and @focussouth.bsky.social on this great new report on global land grabbing, by the likes of Blue Carbon and TIAA, and the need for land redistribution. #ICARRD+20
🌐New FIAN & @focussouth.bsky.social report puts spotlight on top 10 global landowners controlling area as big as Japan.
📢Threatening food security/ livelihoods of 2.5 billion smallholder farmers & 1.4 billion of the world’s poorest.
📃 shorturl.at/SVJKX
#LandGrabbing #FoodSovereignty #ICARRD+20
📢Threatening food security/ livelihoods of 2.5 billion smallholder farmers & 1.4 billion of the world’s poorest.
📃 shorturl.at/SVJKX
#LandGrabbing #FoodSovereignty #ICARRD+20
June 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Congratulations to FIAN and @focussouth.bsky.social on this great new report on global land grabbing, by the likes of Blue Carbon and TIAA, and the need for land redistribution. #ICARRD+20
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US Pension Fund TIAA Linked to Brutal Land Grabs and Evictions of Farmers in Brazil: On a new report from @fian-international.bsky.social.
www.commondreams.org/opinion/tiaa...
www.commondreams.org/opinion/tiaa...
US Pension Fund TIAA Linked to Brutal Land Grabs and Evictions of Farmers in Brazil | Common Dreams
The 10 largest transnational landowners in the world control an area larger than Japan, according to a new report. This accumulation fuels human rights abuse, inequalities, and environmental destructi...
www.commondreams.org
June 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
US Pension Fund TIAA Linked to Brutal Land Grabs and Evictions of Farmers in Brazil: On a new report from @fian-international.bsky.social.
www.commondreams.org/opinion/tiaa...
www.commondreams.org/opinion/tiaa...
Big scoop for @leahjdouglas.bsky.social This government is both dangerous and dangerously incompetent www.reuters.com/world/us/fem...
reuters.com
www.reuters.com
June 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Big scoop for @leahjdouglas.bsky.social This government is both dangerous and dangerously incompetent www.reuters.com/world/us/fem...
“ @BrandonCWu.bsky.social of anti-poverty group @AAUSA.bsky.social said that Rubio's plan was "part of an unhinged crusade against perceived 'woke' policies and practices, not a coherent plan for reform." www.yahoo.com/news/us-stat...
US State Department to cut positions, rights offices
President Donald Trump's top diplomat Marco Rubio on Tuesday unveiled a restructuring of the US State Department that will cut positions and scale back human rights offices, saying the "bloated" organ...
www.yahoo.com
April 22, 2025 at 10:06 PM
“ @BrandonCWu.bsky.social of anti-poverty group @AAUSA.bsky.social said that Rubio's plan was "part of an unhinged crusade against perceived 'woke' policies and practices, not a coherent plan for reform." www.yahoo.com/news/us-stat...
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It is crisis for the West that agreeing with this Israeli newspaper headline can get you blacklisted, fired,
arrested, and deported.
arrested, and deported.
April 18, 2025 at 9:58 AM
It is crisis for the West that agreeing with this Israeli newspaper headline can get you blacklisted, fired,
arrested, and deported.
arrested, and deported.
US citizen Indigenous Maya Tzotzil man age 20 still being held in Florida jail after arrested for being undocumented by an apparently racist cop using a racist Florida law. floridaphoenix.com/2025/04/17/u...
U.S.-born man held for ICE under Florida's new anti-immigration law • Florida Phoenix
Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a 20-year-old U.S. citizen, was being held in the Leon County Jail Thursday, charged with illegally entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien” — even as a supporter waved his...
floridaphoenix.com
April 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
US citizen Indigenous Maya Tzotzil man age 20 still being held in Florida jail after arrested for being undocumented by an apparently racist cop using a racist Florida law. floridaphoenix.com/2025/04/17/u...
I will be there, please join us!
Join @aausa.bsky.social & @foeus.bsky.social for a webinar on pension funds, landgrabs & deforestation in Brazil. New research links TIAA & Cosan’s Radar to landgrabs, deforestation & rights abuses in the Cerrado. Don’t miss this vital convo!
@stopmoneypipeline.bsky.social @stand.earth @grain.org
@stopmoneypipeline.bsky.social @stand.earth @grain.org
April 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I will be there, please join us!
I will be there!
TIAA is destroying Brazil’s most biodiverse savannah!
Join @foeus.bsky.social @aausa.bsky.social @tiaadivest.bsky.social on 4/15 via Zoom to learn about TIAA’s land speculation + how to support rural communities in defense of land rights.
📅 April 15
🔗 here: foe.org/tiaa-webinar
#TIAADivest
Join @foeus.bsky.social @aausa.bsky.social @tiaadivest.bsky.social on 4/15 via Zoom to learn about TIAA’s land speculation + how to support rural communities in defense of land rights.
📅 April 15
🔗 here: foe.org/tiaa-webinar
#TIAADivest
April 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I will be there!
I'll be there!
Interested in pension funds & land grabbing? Join this deep dive into how TIAA is "investing" in farmland in Brazil to manage US workers' retirement funds - at the expense of local communities
15 April | 13:30-15:30 ET | Zoom
Register: foe.org/tiaa-webinar
@financialization.bsky.social
15 April | 13:30-15:30 ET | Zoom
Register: foe.org/tiaa-webinar
@financialization.bsky.social
April 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I'll be there!
Good news. Now let’s see if the criminal Trump administration obeys the order. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
April 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Good news. Now let’s see if the criminal Trump administration obeys the order. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Waiting with fellow protesters on news from the US District Court, about the government’s illegal rendition of our community member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, husband and father of three to the Bukele’s torture cages in El Salvador
April 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Waiting with fellow protesters on news from the US District Court, about the government’s illegal rendition of our community member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, husband and father of three to the Bukele’s torture cages in El Salvador
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"Harvard stole Brazilian land. It’s time to make amends", writes Kayla P.S. Springer in The Crimson
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... @tiaadivest.bsky.social @realfoodmedia.bsky.social @doug-hertzler.bsky.social
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... @tiaadivest.bsky.social @realfoodmedia.bsky.social @doug-hertzler.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
"Harvard stole Brazilian land. It’s time to make amends", writes Kayla P.S. Springer in The Crimson
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... @tiaadivest.bsky.social @realfoodmedia.bsky.social @doug-hertzler.bsky.social
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... @tiaadivest.bsky.social @realfoodmedia.bsky.social @doug-hertzler.bsky.social
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The protests are scheduled to take place at Tesla facilities across the U.S. and in Europe on Saturday, as part of a grassroots campaign against Tesla CEO Elon Musk's work in the Trump administration.
Hundreds of anti-Musk protests are planned at Tesla locations worldwide this weekend
The protests are scheduled to take place at Tesla facilities across the U.S. and in Europe on Saturday, as part of a grassroots campaign against Tesla CEO Elon Musk's work in the Trump administration.
www.npr.org
March 29, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The protests are scheduled to take place at Tesla facilities across the U.S. and in Europe on Saturday, as part of a grassroots campaign against Tesla CEO Elon Musk's work in the Trump administration.
Be on the lookout for these “brownshirts” in our neighborhood, whatever the color of gear they are wearing. Know what to do.
🚨ALERT 🚨ICE activity has been reported in Adams Morgan: this morning (3/26) HSI agents showed up at H.D. Cooke Elementary School and tried to detain a school employee as they got out of the car. The agents did not show a warrant and other employees managed to intervene and prevent the arrest. 1/
March 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Be on the lookout for these “brownshirts” in our neighborhood, whatever the color of gear they are wearing. Know what to do.
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This is a better shot of the size of the crowd at Powder House Square for Rumeysa Ozturk. Less than 24 hours notice.
March 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
This is a better shot of the size of the crowd at Powder House Square for Rumeysa Ozturk. Less than 24 hours notice.
Please follow and support our allies CJA and C2C www.foodjustice.org as they work for the freedom of Mixteco farmworker leader Lelo Juarez detained by ICE because of his speaking out on behalf of human rights, which he began doing at age 14 when he worked in the berry fields. @aausa.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Please follow and support our allies CJA and C2C www.foodjustice.org as they work for the freedom of Mixteco farmworker leader Lelo Juarez detained by ICE because of his speaking out on behalf of human rights, which he began doing at age 14 when he worked in the berry fields. @aausa.bsky.social
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Our gratitude to everyone who has already called, messaged, and showed up to support detained Farmworker organizer Alfredo 'Lelo" Juarez. Keep up the pressure! CJA member Community 2 Community is collecting contributions for Lelo’s legal defense fund.
March 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Our gratitude to everyone who has already called, messaged, and showed up to support detained Farmworker organizer Alfredo 'Lelo" Juarez. Keep up the pressure! CJA member Community 2 Community is collecting contributions for Lelo’s legal defense fund.
Had a lot of fun with about 200 people at the dance party today in front of DC Tesla. Support school kids, disabled people, elders, immigrants, farmers, scientists. Everyone under attack by Musk. Upcoming events around the world Teslatakedown.com
March 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Had a lot of fun with about 200 people at the dance party today in front of DC Tesla. Support school kids, disabled people, elders, immigrants, farmers, scientists. Everyone under attack by Musk. Upcoming events around the world Teslatakedown.com