Climate Crisis, Energy Violence - Chapter 7 - Rigged

Indigenous Peoples have been targets for abuse from the oil industry from its inception. Oil companies design infrastructure that reinforces disproportionate burdens. For example, gender violence against Native communities near oil extraction ties to broader land dispossession and wastelanding, or ecocide. Despite state and private security defending oil firms with weapons of war, intensified surveillance, and restraints to movement, frontline communities resist oil fascism and decolonize relationships through collective worldmaking, healing, and allyship based in an ethos of collective responsibility.