Megan Alpert is a fellow at Foreign Policy. Her previous bylines have included The Guardian, Guernica Daily, and Earth Island Journal. She is an Orlando Poetry Prize winner, a former resident-fellow at Vermont Studio Center, and a graduate of The Bennington Writing Seminars.
PEITZ, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 16: A fisherman stands waist-deep in water over live carp enclosed in a net during the annual carp harvest at fish ponds on November 16, 2015 near Peitz, Germany. Fish farming at the over 100 man-made ponds located near Cottbus in eastern Germany dates back to the 15th century and carp is the main fish harvested. Carp is the traditional Christmas dinner in many parts of the region, though one fisherman laments that tastes are changing among younger generations and that the demand for carp will decline. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
MOSCOW, RUSSIA. APRIL 29, 2016. Nochnyye Volki [Night Wolves] bikers in Moscow's International Biker Centre before the start of an annual rally from Moscow to Berlin. The race celebrates the 71st anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War. Sergei Fadeichev/TASS (Photo by Sergei FadeichevTASS via Getty Images)
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 22: A group of people hold placards during a protest in Melbourne, Australia on January 22, 2015 to support the Manus Island asylum seekers and call for an end to offshore processing. (Photo by Recep Sakar/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
Peruvian peasant Maxima Acu??a, 2016 Goldman Prize recipient for the protection of nature, speaks during an interview with AFP on April 25, 2016 in Lima, upon her return from New York.
A subsistence farmer in Perus northern highlands of the Cajamarca region, Acuna has stood up for her right to peacefully live in her plot of land sought by Newmont and Buenaventura Mining to develop the Conga gold and copper mine. / AFP / CRIS BOURONCLE (Photo credit should read CRIS BOURONCLE/AFP/Getty Images)
A woman holds a portrait of murdered Honduran Human Rights activist, Coordinator of the Civil Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) Berta Caceres Flores, during an homage on the International Women Day in Tegucigalpa on March 8, 2016. Caceres was murdered on March 3 in La Esperanza, Honduras. AFP PHOTO /Orlando SIERRA / AFP / ORLANDO SIERRA (Photo credit should read ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP/Getty Images)
Laughter consultant Robin Graham and Abena Agyeman attempt to bring smiles and happiness to shoppers in Manchester city centre as part of the world laughter pledge on January 24, 2009 in Manchester, England. Graham is launching the World Laughter Pledge, an attempt to make everyone in the world laugh together every Saturday at 9am in their respective time zone. Robin hopes that through his website, www.worldlaughterpledge.org, the laughter wave will ripple around the world bringing happiness and peace.
Slain Honduran environmentalist Berta Caceres posters are carried during a International Women's day demonstration in Tegucigalpa on March 08, 2016. AFP PHOTO /Orlando SIERRA. / AFP / ORLANDO SIERRA (Photo credit should read ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP/Getty Images)
Security officers inspect the Parliament after the opposition lawmakers release a tear gas device in the Kosovo's parliament in Pristina, March 10, 016, in the latest eruption of a long-running protest against agreements made with Serbia.
Kosovo government reached a deal with Serbia in 2015 to grant more powers to the Serb minority. Opposition fears the plan will deepen Kosovos ethnic division and increase the influence of Serbia. / AFP / STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
Participants wave Israeli's flags during the annual gay pride parade in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv on June 13, 2014. AFP PHOTO/JACK GUEZ (Photo credit should read JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)
Activists protest against the murder of environmental activist Berta Caceres, in La Esperanza, 200 km northwest of Tegucigalpa, on March 3, 2016. Indigenous activist Berta Caceres, a respected environmentalist who won the prestigious Goldman Prize last year for her outspoken advocacy, was murdered in her home Thursday, her family said. AFP PHOTO /ORLANDO SIERRA / AFP / ORLANDO SIERRA (Photo credit should read ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP/Getty Images)
Lee Jong-Kul (C), floor leader of South Korea's main opposition Minjoo Party, speaks as the last speaker of marathon filibuster to call for revision of disputed anti-terrorism bill at the podium of the National Assembly chamber in Seoul on March 2, 2016. South Korean opposition lawmakers on March 2 abandoned a record-breaking filibuster aimed at blocking a bill granting greater surveillance powers to the national spy agency. AFP PHOTO / JUNG YEON-JE / AFP / JUNG YEON-JE (Photo credit should read JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images)
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (R) claps as he attends the unveiling ceremony of two statues of former leaders Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il in Pyongyang on April 13, 2012. North Korea's new leader Kim Jong-Un on April 13 led a mass rally for his late father and grandfather following the country's failed rocket launch. AFP PHOTO / Ed Jones (Photo credit should read Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images)
Colombian soldiers arrive to an area of coca plantations to take part in a joint operation with peasants to eradicated coca plantations in the mountains of Yali municipality, northeast of Medellin, Antioquia department, on September 3, 2014. More than 100 hectares of coca plantations have been destroyed in three months, according to local authorities. Colombia is responsible for 41.6 percent of the world's coca plantations, followed by Peru with 40.7 percent and Bolivia with nearly 18 percent. AFP PHOTO/Raul ARBOLEDA (Photo credit should read RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP/Getty Images)
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