Filmmaker Rich Felgate's film 'We, The Hated' had its world premiere as the opening night film of Sheffield Doc Fest, where the film received a standing ovation. Rich spent four years filming the people behind one of the most polarising movements in recent memory: Just Stop Oil. With fossil fuels driving both the climate crisis and global conflict, and governments increasingly cracking down on dissent, the film raises urgent questions about protest, power and what democracy actually means in practice.

In April the Bertha Impact Fund supported Article One to coordinate civil society engagement on South Africa’s AI policy, which was - at the time -open for a 60-day public comment period. Article One found fabricated sources, commonly referred to as “AI hallucinations”, within the policy and after informing the Minister of this, the policy was withdrawn.

As part of a reciprocity stay, the Congolese Civil Society of South Africa (CCSSA) teamed up with Bertha Retreat for a one-day capacity-building training that turned big, complicated legal topics into real talk for real people.

This powerful photoessay published by Greg Constantine, a 2026 Bertha Challenge Fellow, reveals the complex and elusive ways ICE’s abductions and immigration detentions are impacting local communities, especially in rural, pro-Trump states.