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The 2023 Time100 Next list was created to show the future leaders who are rising in health, climate, business, sports, the arts and more. TIME’s global network of editors and correspondents look through hundreds of suggestions and meet each week to decide who gets on the list.
“Through this process, we get to know so many extraordinary leaders who are creating change across the world. Our hope is that this list offers a glimpse into their important work,” said Cate Matthews, a TIME editorial director.
The selectees will have the opportunity to meet in October for a dinner party, hosted in New York City.
Here are the Indigenous women selected:
Actress Lily Gladstone, Blackfeet/Niimíipuu, is listed in the artists category.
“In all of Lily’s performances, she is able to bring a raw presence and incredible emotional honesty. It’s hard to keep your eyes off of her. She is exhilarating to watch,” actress Riley Keough said.
Activist, constitutional and human rights lawyer, Megan Davis, Aboriginal from the Cobble Cobble clan, is Australian. She was listed in the leaders category.
“She has played an instrumental role in getting Australia to this historic moment; in a referendum later this year, the country has the opportunity to finally recognize Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Constitution,” Linda Burney said.
Activist Txai Suriu, Paiter Suruí Indigenous community in Brazil, is listed in the advocates category.
“…the 26-year-old activist founded the Indigenous Youth Movement of Rondônia, which rallies young people in her state, and coordinates the Associação de Defesa Etnoambiental — Kanindé, a community organization that has worked with Indigenous people for over 30 years,” Armani Syed said. “Suruí also was the first woman in her community to obtain a law degree, which she used, with peers, to sue the Brazilian government for defaulting on its emissions commitments under the Paris Agreement.”
Environmental activist Xiye Bastida, member of the Indigenous Otomi community in Mexico, is listed in the phenoms category.
“In 2020, Xiye co-founded the Re-Earth Initiative — an international, youth-led organization devoted to magnifying the intersections of the climate crisis with other forms of injustice. Her unwavering commitment to amplifying the voices of marginalized individuals and communities stands as a testament to her character,” Nalleli Cobo said.
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On a visit to Alaska last week, the leader of the national community service agency AmeriCorps said the group plans to increase its investment in the state.
AmeriCorps received an additional billion dollars added to its budget as part of the American Rescue Plan in 2021. Last year, more than 400 people worked or volunteered with AmeriCorps in Alaska. The federal program spent more than $4.3 million in the state by funding community-led initiatives in schools, youth centers, health clinics and shelters.
AmeriCorps CEO Michael Smith said the investment will grow.
“Not only increase the size, but increase the depth of our relationship — the quality of our relationships. So we’re not just diving in and sprinkling some resources, but we’re helping communities to really address the challenges that they face,” he said.
Smith said he spent “lots of time” with rural and tribal communities because he wants to increase the AmeriCorps presence there. READ MORE — Grist
MADISON, Wis. — Tribes in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin have asked federal officials to deny a utility’s request for a loan to help build a natural gas-fired power plant on the shores of Lake Superior, calling the project unthinkable in the face of climate change.
Chippewa tribes located across the northern third of the three states sent a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture officials on Sunday asking them to deny Dairyland Power Cooperative’s request for a $350 million public loan. The request is intended to cover the utility’s share of the cost of building the Nemadji Trail Energy Center power plant.
“As our shared climate rapidly continues to destabilize, it is unconscionable that Dairyland Power Cooperative has not canceled its request for a $350 million public loan and permits to build Nemadji Trail Energy Center,” the tribes said in the letter. It added later, “In short, this location was never the place, and now is obviously not the time, to build new fossil fuel infrastructure of any kind.”
Dairyland Power Cooperative, Minnesota Power and Basin Electric Cooperative have been working to gain permission to build the $700 million power plant for more than three years. Plans call for the facility to be built near an Enbridge Energy pipeline hub on the banks of the Nemadji River, which flows into Lake Superior, in the city of Superior, Wisconsin. READ MORE — Associated Press
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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is recommending changes to a 151-year-old law that governs mining for copper, gold and other hardrock minerals on U.S.-owned lands, including making companies for the first time pay royalties on what they extract.
A plan led by the Interior Department also calls for the creation of a mine leasing system and coordination of permitting efforts among a range of federal agencies. This comes as The White House has been pushing to boost domestic mining for minerals needed for electric vehicles, solar panels and other clean energy.
Under terms of an 1872 law, the U.S. does not collect royalties on minerals extracted from federal lands, a fact Democratic lawmakers and environmental groups have long lamented. The White House plan would impose a variable 4 percent to 8 percent net royalty on hardrock minerals produced on federal lands. The proposal needs approval by Congress — unlikely when the House is controlled by Republicans who have long opposed such fees.
Undeterred by such political reality, an interagency working group — led by Interior — touted the benefits of imposing royalties on about 750 hardrock mines on federal lands, mostly in the West. The figure does not include about 70 coal mines whose owners must pay federal royalties. READ MORE — Associated Press
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