ray levy uyeda

ray levy uyeda

ray levy uyeda is a staff reporter at Prism, focusing on environmental and climate justice.

145 posts
A van sits with its front end in the water and debris is strewn about near an embankment
Climate & Environment

It wasn’t just a hurricane that devastated North Carolina: It was climate violence 

Climate change is structural violence committed by the U.S. government

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5 Min
By: ray levy uyeda
Middle school teachers from Iowa and Illinois discuss the powerful connections students make when given the opportunity to di
Climate & Environment

‘They learn that you need to change the rules, the incentives, and the system’

Teachers from Iowa and Illinois discuss the powerful connections students make when given the opportunity to discuss the root causes of climate change

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6 Min
By: ray levy uyeda
Illustration of individuals carrying packages and looking at photos in a camp
Crime, Reform & Abolition

Documenting memories: Lessons from oral histories of Japanese American incarceration

Caitlin Oiye Coon, archives director at Densho, discusses how oral histories, photograph collection, and newspaper archives tell the story of Japanese American incarceration during World War II

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5 Min
By: ray levy uyeda
Illustration of a desert
Climate & Environment

‘Anything is possible’ in the fight for climate justice

In a wide- ranging discussion with Prism, Professor David N. Pellow links climate injustice to the prison industrial complex, militarism, genocide, and ecocide, arguing people have the power to combat the institutions that harm us and our planet

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5 Min
By: ray levy uyeda
A shadowy outdoor landscape of a canoe boat launch on the southern Haw River in North Carolina.
Climate & Environment

Tribunal aims to highlight Rights of Nature at Climate Week in NYC 

Indigenous-led tribunal on Mountain Valley Pipeline a chance to educate about protecting the rights of the non-human world, activists say

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4 Min
By: ray levy uyeda
Collage drawing of workers at various jobs
Crime, Reform & Abolition

Archive of violence 

In this Q&A with Prism, the Texas After Violence Project’s executive director Gabriel Solis discusses the power of community archives

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5 Min
By: ray levy uyeda
Project 2025 was in the works for decades. Why did the mainstream media fail to inform readers of its threats to democracy?
Politics & Democracy

Project 2025 was in the works for decades. Why did the mainstream media fail to inform readers of its threats to democracy?

It’s been more than a year since the publication of “Mandate for Leadership,” the 900-page book of policy proposals also known as Project 2025. The book outlines how a future Republican president should navigate an administrative transition. Media has painted the book as a harbinger of what’s to com

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7 Min
By: ray levy uyeda
From genocide to activism: The Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe’s battle for land and justice
Climate & Environment

From genocide to activism: The Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe’s battle for land and justice

The chairman of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas discusses the similarities between the first colonizers and today’s oil and gas companies

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5 Min
By: ray levy uyeda
A girl stands among climate change protesters and holds a large painted picture of the earth.
Climate & Environment

Youth climate lawsuits gain momentum: A look at recent victories and ongoing battles

Four groundbreaking youth-led lawsuits have snaked their way through the courts in recent months, changing the legal landscape for the future of climate litigation

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6 Min
By: ray levy uyeda
digital collage of a pencil sketch with the header "the prison in 12 landscapes" running across the top. a close-up of someon
Crime, Reform & Abolition

Meet the prison book project helping to save lives

For two decades, the Appalachian Prison Book Project (APBP) has mailed books to people in prisons and jails across six states in Appalachia. More than 70,000 reference, nonfiction, and fiction books have reached people behind bars who would not have otherwise had access to them.  Lydia Welker is the

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5 Min
By: ray levy uyeda
Healing the devastation of the land 
Climate & Environment

Healing the devastation of the land 

In this Q&A with Prism, ethnobotanist Karen Hall discusses Sagebrush in Prisons, a project that relies on the labor of incarcerated people to restore ecosystems where native plant species have been decimated

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6 Min
By: ray levy uyeda
The prison in 12 landscapes
Crime, Reform & Abolition

The prison in 12 landscapes

Prism looks at the landscapes that prisons shape to better inform our understanding of the carceral continuum

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11 Min
By: Tamar Sarai, ray levy uyeda

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