Matt Witt reviews Truth Demands: A Memoir of Murder, Oil Wars, and the Rise of Climate Justice, by lawyer, climate activist, and writer Abby Reyes. Twenty years after Abby Reyes's partner, Terence Unity Freitas, was assassinated in Colombia while working with the indigenous U’wa community to protect their land and their rights from multinational oil interests, Reyes attends the truth and reconciliation process revisiting the murders. Her memoir interweaves these and other stories of her longtime climate activism with reflections on the process of navigating grief and seeking hope. Matt Witt is an author, photographer, activist, and sometime Mole contributor.
Fair use image of cover of the book Truth Demands: A Memoir of Murder, Oil Wars, and the Rise of Climate Justice, by Abby Reyes; title and author information appears against a collage of torn landscape photos.
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