Remembering Our Future: A Collective Portrait of Cultural Work From ORA Fellows Across Three Continents
In Uttarakhand (India), a community radio station opens its doors, creating a spacious commons where multivocal knowledge flows across the community. In Cameroon, a photographer turns his lens on refugees, challenging narratives that reduce them to victimhood alone. In Argentina, a body-territory map is pinned to a clinic wall so that no physician can deny […]
Gathering in Community: ORA Latin America’s Fellows Retreat
The ORA 2025 Latin America Activist Fellows Gathering brought together a community that had spent nearly a year building relationships, reflections, and shared learning through virtual work — finally meeting in person. The gathering unfolded in two complementary parts. The first was a closed retreat for activists. After months of remote collaboration, the space was […]
Collective Speculations for Gentle Futures
This blog is a logbook and space for poetic reflection on Entangled Horizons: Collective Speculations for Gentle Futures, a project led by ORA Latin America Fellow, researcher, poet, and philosopher Gabriela Klier and her collaborators. Entangled Horizons emerged from Proyecto RUMIA, a collective that draws on biology, philosophy, and the arts to imagine ways of […]
Let Communities Lead: Reclaiming Climate Solutions from the Ground Up
The whole of society is now schooled through harsh and accelerating realities of climate change, intensified by shifting weather patterns and deepened by capitalist exploitation. Mining corporations, oil companies, and logging interests extract from people and land alike, while single dams swallow vast stretches of territory, uproot hundreds of thousands, and displace the farmers who […]
Living, Resisting, and Re-existing in the Colombian Andes
My relationship with the Colombian Andes is not purely one of landscape: it is affective, political, and inherited. I come from a peasant heritage that taught me, from a very early age, to see the mountain not as a distant backdrop, but as a living being that nurtures, feeds, and also calls for care. I […]
To Be Seen, but Not Known
Not Many Know Me Not many know me For they only know my exterior Amidst people who are unaware of reality I remain the unseeing eye. Who desires me? Those who do, only want my body Not my heart I seek a toe-hold Not felicity. Why are they so blind? If I can quench the […]
Confluence of Life: When Personal History Meets Environmental Action
Two Origins, One Current I come from two origin stories that meet within me as if they had always been destined to cross paths: a rural maternal family and an exiled father. My mother, now 67, is a woman who made herself with the tools life gave her. She did not complete even the second […]
Giving Water a New Language: Community Science & Care in Claypole, Argentina
Our history in Claypole (Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina) is repeatedly marked by the same image: the San Francisco stream overflowing after heavy rain, advancing through the streets, entering homes, and reminding residents that water-related and sanitary risk is part of everyday life. For years, the community lived with these overflows, until in 2018 we […]
Gifts From Mozambique to The Gambia: Reflections on ORA Africa’s First In-Person Retreat
This October, the 3rd cohort of ORA Africa Fellows gathered in Harare, Zimbabwe for our first in-person retreat. Held under the theme “Imagining a New World Beyond the Polycrisis,” the gathering invited us to explore both personal and community resilience, share the projects we are nurturing across the continent, and support one another in the […]
Could Rest Re-Shape How We Meet the Climate Crisis?
When Jennifer Uchendu first began climate organizing in Lagos more than a decade ago, her energy was directed outward on action. She founded SustyVibes, a youth-led nonprofit that has since trained and mobilized many young people across Africa to take measures toward a more sustainable future. But in recent years, her attention has turned to […]