Articles by Chris Richards

Chris Richards goes cold turkey in her umpteenth attempt to do without her car – and fumes about the structure of modern life that makes the task so hard.

Chris Richards meets ‘Capi-communism’ – the Chinese version of capitalism that’s plundering Papua New Guinea.

In both the North and the South, communities are converting to more locally-based, sustainable lives. Lucia Ortiz – from Friends of the Earth in Brazil – reports on a cooperative of 6,000 families who already produce half of their energy without a bill in sight.

Adjusting to climate change means many changes: cutting back on oil and consumption; getting the globe to agree on a direction that will benefit everyone and adopting a creed other than greed.

Welcome to Cool Change — an audio adventure to discover how combating climate change can create a fairer world. Progressive people from Europe, Asia, Latin America, North America and Australia offer us successful strategies to confront climate change as well as some radical changes that are already taking place around the world. 

More than just a boardgame, according to its makers, Andy Sheerin and Andy Tompkins, the War on Terror challenges the terrorism taboo.

Aboriginal sea rights a landmark victory

New Internationalist campaigners explore alternative banking and resources.

Chris Richards steps into the secret world of high finance.

Annie Kajir – the lawyer who won’t be scared off by the robber barons of Papua New Guinea’s timber industry.

Debra Harry and the Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism.

Chris Richards reports from the frontline of nonviolent action’s newest frontier.

Alternatives to violence can get better results. So why aren’t we using them? Chris Richards goes to Sri Lanka and finds out.

Iranian webloggers are in prison as part of a general clampdown on internet dissent. But Jay Bakht of the Association of Iranian Blogwriters is hitting back.

A few of the many who are creating justice.

flourishing wildlife in Korea's DMZ

A life spent in pursuit of human rights: Philippine campaigner Marie Hilao-Enriquez.

New political spaces are opening up in China. Chris Richards turns up the volume on what’s safe to say in public… and what’s not.

Who now has the ear of the Communist Party: the capitalists or the workers? Chris Richards eavesdrops.

Few pacifists can put themselves in danger as much as David Hartsough, co-founder of the Nonviolent Peaceforce.

Special survey of people detained worldwide in The other Guantánamo Bays: reports from Diego Garcia, Egypt, Uzbekistan, Britain, New Zealand/ Aotearoa and Israel.

Roll over Oscar and tell Grammy the news: New Zealand/ Aotearoa's Roger Award for awful transnationals is here.

China’s new environmentalists.

The facts and fictions behind the PR hype used to build Africa’s Chad-Cameroon pipeline.

Oil pipelines are supposed to bring power to the people, but Chris Richards finds conflict and corruption littering their length.

The staff of Al-Muajaha, Iraq’s only independent newspaper, bear witness.

Interview with Stephen Kenny, lawyer for Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks.

An interview with Bharat Dogra - prolific journalist, tireless activist and pioneer of Indian resistance to globalization.

Introducing the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan.

Campaigner Vis Navaratnam on new drugs for neglected diseases.

Argentine workers are taking on corporate closures - and winning. Ivan Briscoe talks with the workers.

Giving power to the people has helped politicians in Brazil to win elections. Rebecca Abers reports.

Women’s climb towards parliamentary policy-making can start at a local level, as Raphael Tenthani discovers in Malawi.

A world powered by hydrogen is unfolding, writes Seth Dunn.

Tips for activists wanting press coverage for their projects AND a special offer for readers of the NI.

The United Nations’ Nicholas You reflects on what it takes to change the world.

Kenyan forest endangered by local people has been saved… by butterflies. Katy Salmon flies in to find out why.

‘Economy first’ is out. ‘Ecology first’ is in. Ma Guihua tracks the turn-about in the Chinese city of Chengdu.

Profile of Sunlight Bassini, excavator of the Aboriginal heritage.

Ecuadorian schoolchildren fight the oil pipeline.