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Issue 14 — A Late Summer Update
If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, the last time I wrote it was probably cold, maybe wet, maybe snowing. (And if you live in the Southern…
Aug 14, 2023
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Alessandra Bergamin
Issue 13 — Protesters, a Pipeline, and the Police
PUGLIA, ITALY—The mole arrived after dark — an almost 20-yard, 75-ton machine sent to bore a tunnel beneath the Adriatic Sea and into southern Italy…
Aug 11, 2023
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Alessandra Bergamin
Issue 12 — A Note & A Holiday Print Sale
As always, it has been a minute since my last newsletter. When I last sent out an issue of Defender, I was about to undertake a reporting trip to…
Aug 11, 2023
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Alessandra Bergamin
Issue 11 — Artifacts & Evidence: Remembering Edwin Dobb
Just over three years ago, the journalist, writer, teacher, and artist Edwin Dobb passed away suddenly and unexpectedly. Over the span of his career…
Aug 11, 2023
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Alessandra Bergamin
Issue 10 — A Belated "Ask Me Anything"
A couple of months ago, I asked my very few Instagram followers for questions about reporting and writing. While writing about “craft” makes me a little…
Aug 11, 2023
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Alessandra Bergamin
Issue 9 — Bitter Fruit, a weekend long read
When the Q’eqchi’ first moved northward, to a place then uninhabited, the land was tranquil and bountiful. There was maize to harvest, leafy hierba mora…
Aug 11, 2023
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Alessandra Bergamin
Issue 8 — The Devil and the Wool (Happy Earth Day)
Years ago, as I leaned back against a floor-to-ceiling glass window, my Nonna said to me in Calabrese dialect — "u diavulu un tena pècuri e và binnenn’a…
Aug 11, 2023
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Alessandra Bergamin
Issue 7 – Into the Forest and Out of the Fire
Hello Defender subscribers! I usually leave a personal note at the end of the newsletter but 🎉 new year, new me 🎉 or whatever it is we tell ourselves…
Aug 11, 2023
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Alessandra Bergamin
Special Issue: On Conflict and Climate Change in Afghanistan — A Short Conversation with Nasratullah Elham
Earlier this year, for a story about climate migration across Asia, I spoke with Nasratullah Elham, a climate activist from Afghanistan’s eastern…
Aug 11, 2023
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Alessandra Bergamin
Issue 6 — On Borderlands, a dispatch from the future frontline of the climate crisis
Plant bones litter the desert — mottled, desiccated, permeable. Under the weight of the sun, they are stripped of the skin that renders them cacti and…
Aug 11, 2023
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Alessandra Bergamin
Issue 5 — What we should we talk about when we talk about "extraction"
About a month ago, I published a story about dairy biogas — a type of natural gas derived, more or less, from cow poop. To report that story, I spoke…
Aug 11, 2023
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Alessandra Bergamin
April 2021
Issue 4 — "You feel like you have no future, nothing"
On the exploitation of people and the environment
Apr 9, 2021
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Alessandra Bergamin
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