Alleen Brown

New York

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10 States Fund Prisons Using Stolen Indigenous Lands

Feb 17, 2025 | matr.net | Alleen Brown |Clayton Aldern |Maria Rose

Bozeman is a rapidly growing city with a high quality of life in part due to the easy access to the outdoors, burgeoning tech industry, and cultural experiences it offers.
10 States Fund Prisons Using Stolen Indigenous Lands

Feb 17, 2025 | dailyyonder.com | Alleen Brown |Clayton Aldern |Maria Rose

This story was originally published by Grist. Steven Amos feels hopeful for once. He’s finishing a drug and alcohol treatment program, living in a halfway house, and working a new job, doing carpentry. “I love anything outdoors,” he said. “I’m happy I’m not locked up.” A member of the Northern Arapaho Tribe, Amos, age 53, grew up with the snow-capped Rocky Mountains set like a painting behind his childhood home in Ethete, Wyoming, on the Wind River reservation.
These states use stolen Indigenous land to fund prisons

Feb 4, 2025 | hcn.org | Alleen Brown |Clayton Aldern |Maria Rose

This story was originally published by Grist and is republished here by permission. Steven Amos feels hopeful for once. He’s finishing a drug and alcohol treatment program, living in a halfway house, and working a new job, doing carpentry. “I love anything outdoors,” he said. “I’m happy I’m not locked up.” A member of the Northern Arapaho Tribe, Amos, age 53, grew up with the snow-capped Rocky Mountains set like a painting behind his childhood home in Ethete, Wyoming, on the Wind River reservation.
Alleen Brown, Clayton Aldern, Maria Parazo Rose, Author at High Country News

Feb 4, 2025 | hcn.org | Alleen Brown |Clayton Aldern |Maria Rose |Nick Estes

State trust lands generate millions of dollars for carceral facilities and programs every year, largely from extractive industries like oil and gas drilling.
10 states fund prisons using stolen Indigenous lands

Jan 28, 2025 | grist.org | Alleen Brown

Steven Amos feels hopeful for once. He’s finishing a drug and alcohol treatment program, living in a halfway house, and working a new job, doing carpentry. “I love anything outdoors,” he said. “I’m happy I’m not locked up.” A member of the Northern Arapaho Tribe, Amos, age 53, grew up with the snow-capped Rocky Mountains set like a painting behind his childhood home in Ethete, Wyoming, on the Wind River reservation.
10 states fund prisons using stolen Indigenous lands

Jan 28, 2025 | ecotopical.com | Alleen Brown

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A Dystopian Future Emerges for the Zombie Keystone XL Pipeline

Nov 29, 2024 | alleenbrown.ghost.io | Alleen Brown

Every month, I assemble a round-up of stories I’m following and issues I’m covering, with palate cleansers at the end. The Keystone XL pipeline died a few years ago. It wasn't just that Joe Biden canceled the cross-border permit for the project but also that U.S. oil production continued to grow under his watch.
Eco-Roundup: How Activists Used a New NASA-Funded Toxic Prisons Map to Respond to Helene

Oct 31, 2024 | alleenbrown.ghost.io | Alleen Brown

Happy Haloweeeeeeen. Every month, I assemble a round-up of stories I’m following and issues I’m covering, with palate cleansers at the end. Earlier this fall, this badass researcher I've been in touch with for ages, Ufuoma Ovienmhada, helped launch aninteractive map of environmental hazards impacting prisons. Part of the reason I'm so excited about this project is that the mapping team incorporated data from me and Akil Harris's Climate and Punishment prison mapping project.
Is it Ethical for Climate Journalists to Accept a Paid trip to Israel?

Sep 19, 2024 | alleenbrown.ghost.io | Alleen Brown

I first learned about the opportunity for climate journalists like me to attend an all-expenses-paid trip to Israel at the annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists last spring.
Eco-Roundup: Atlanta Police are monitoring picnics, study groups, and canvassing events

Jul 30, 2024 | alleenbrown.ghost.io | Alleen Brown

Every month, I assemble a round-up of stories I’m following and issues I’m covering, with palate cleansers at the end. The Atlanta Police Department’s Homeland Security Unit has routinely monitored organizing events held by an array of environmental and racial justice groups across Atlanta, according to public records obtained by the Brennan Center for Justice.