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Amazon forest sold off in housing scam, claims Greenpeace
By Sophie Morris
Published: 21 August 2007
The Brazilian government stands accused of selling off huge swaths of the Amazon rainforest - including its oldest protected national park - to unscrupulous logging companies, under the cover of a flawed sustainable...
In an interview with the online newspaper Tribuna da Imprensa, João Pedro Stedile, of the national MST leadership, speaks about the need to build a development model that prioritizes democratization of the land, the distribution of income, and an agriculture based on small and medium-size properties.
Today, it is no longer possible to...
Naomi Klein: From Think Tanks to Battle Tanks, “The Quest to Impose a Single World Market Has Casualties Now in the Millions”
Amy Goodman & Naomi Klein, Democracy Now!
Thursday 16 August 2007, posted by Dial
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007 - Democracy Now! News Program.
AMY GOODMAN: The State Department is coming...
Americas Program Commentary
Via Campesina Sets an International Agenda
Laura Carlsen | August 8, 2007
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Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP) americas.irc-online.org
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The peasantry has been portrayed historically as a backward sector, rooted in traditional productive practices and...
Written by Global Justice Ecology Project
Thursday, 02 August 2007
An overwhelming majority of governments, including Norway, Sweden, Germany and Indonesia expressed serious concerns about the risks of large-scale production of biofuels to forests, ecosystems, indigenous peoples and local communities at a meeting of the Subsidiary...
Dear Friends of the MST,
Through more than two decades of struggles, we have learned that it’s necessary to break, not just the fences of the latifúndio but also the barriers that impede access to knowledge. With this understanding, we are initiating our mobile schools and building more than 2,000 schools for basic teaching, besides the...
Chiapas: Zapatista Encuentro meets on contested turf
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Thu, 07/26/2007 - 22:50.
Representatives of peasant organizations from across the globe have gathered in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas for the "Encuentro with the Peoples of the World," hosted by the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN...
Brazil landless raid Reverend Moon cattle ranch
30 Jul 2007 19:22:30 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Andrea Welsh
BRASILIA, July 30 (Reuters) - At least 100 landless people have taken over a ranch in southwestern Brazil owned by South Korea religious leader Reverend Sun Myung Moon and evicted his followers, said police on...
Brazil's deadly land wars put indigenous leaders in firing line
By Natalia Viana
Published: 23 July 2007
It was 6.30am when the Brazilian indigenous leader Ortiz Lopes was called to his front door in Coronel Sapucaia, in the frontier state of Mato Grosso do Sul. According to his wife, the head of the embattled Guarani-Kaiowa...
Slave descendants invade Aracruz Brazil plantation
24 Jul 2007 20:18:43 GMT
Source: Reuters
BRASILIA, July 24 (Reuters) - Part of a eucalyptus plantation belonging to Brazilian pulp and paper company Aracruz was invaded by descendants of slaves claiming ownership, a company spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
As many as 500...