# Johnny Helm

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Indigenous Feminism for a Future of Freedom for All

In this episode of Cooper Union, Em Haley, a Māori spoken-word artist, scholar, and human rights advocate from Waikato-Tainui, Aotearoa, discusses the fight to protect Māori language, land, and self-determination under a government rolling back Treaty of Waitangi protections. She reflects on the hi…

The Indigenous World: 40th Edition with Insights & Impacts for Indigenous Rights

In this episode of Cooper UNion, Joshua Cooper speaks with Dwayne Mamo, Documentation and Communications Manager at the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) and General Editor of The Indigenous World, about one of the most important annual publications documenting the realities o…

UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Indigenous Peoples Management

For more than three decades, Rodion, an Udege leader from Russian Siberia, has fought to protect his community's ancestral forest from industrial logging. That fight led to a landmark win: UNESCO World Heritage status for the Bikin River Valley, one of the last untouched forests on Earth and home t…

Climate Futures Forum: Mentoring the Movement & Governance

Long before they're old enough to vote, hundreds of young people across Hawaii are drafting testimony, coordinating campaigns, and pushing lawmakers toward climate justice through the Climate Future Forum. Three of the mentors behind that work — Kawika Kahiapo, who leads food-systems advocacy conne…

Namakhoen & San Indigenous Peoples' Strategies for Rights

More than a century after the 1904–1908 genocide scattered the Nama people across Namibia and Botswana, their descendants are demanding a seat at the table in the ongoing reparations talks between Namibia and Germany. Nicodemus Cooper of Botswana's Namakhoen Network of Heritage Advocacy, Bhibo Maru…

20th UN Human Rights Summit: Education & Transformative Teaching

Fresh from the 20th annual Human Rights Summit, hosted by Timor-Leste at UN headquarters, Demme Durrett, co-director of Youth for Human Rights USA, and Emma Ashton Sims, executive director of United for Human Rights and Youth for Human Rights International, unpack why human rights education drives …

Nuclear Abolition Now! & Elimination of Weapons On Earth

ER physician Ira Helfand, co-founder of Back from the Brink and a leader of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, lays out just how close the world has already come to nuclear war, and how much closer it is getting. He walks through today's flashpoints, fr…

Peace for Burma: Capitol Hill Advocacy Holding Corporations Accountable

For 30 years, Simon Billenness, director of the Campaign for a New Myanmar and former head of the Free Burma Coalition, has turned consumer boycotts, shareholder resolutions, and bipartisan lobbying into real pressure on Myanmar's military junta. He traces the coup history, from the 2015 NLD electi…

Emergence of Well-Being for Elders: Human Rights for Ageing

We are all aging, every day, yet older people are the one group without a binding UN human rights treaty to protect them. Sylvia Beals unpacks why: ageism keeps the issue invisible, treated as charity rather than rights, even as the world now holds more older people than children under five. She de…

Regenerative Human Rights Resilience Hubs: Community & City Partnerships

Frustrated that a city's mandated hazard-mitigation meetings were reaching no one, Baja, Co-CEO of Embodied Ecosystems and the Resilience Hub Collaborative, spent a year listening in Baltimore neighborhoods before landing on the answer: communities need a trusted, self-determined place of belonging…