“Agribusiness is calling the shots in Brazil,” says Chico Mendes’ daughter
Environmentalist Angela Mendes spoke with Brasil de Fato about alliance against Bolsonaro administration’s setbacks
Neoliberalism
Bolsonaro issues decree, experts warn that it encourages Amazon deforestation
Provisional decree could lead to escalation of land conflicts in the world’s biggest rain forest
The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, signed on Tuesday, December 10 a provisional decree (MP) that aims to formalize the land titles of around 600,000 rural estates by 2022.
Authoritarianism a Threat to Brazilians Right to Food
FIAN Brazil launches report exposing how authoritarianism has drastically eroded the right to food in the country.
“Burning the Amazon is a crime against humanity,” Via Campesina Brazil
“The Amazon is a territory of life, food, water, and cultures, not destruction, death, and exploitation”
Brazil’s natural resources are targets for a capitalism in crisis, says MST leader
In the opening of seminar that debates agrarian and environmental issues, Stedile analyses global economic landscape
Human sciences targeted by Bolsonaro: “Censorship and persecution,” expert says
Coordinator of Campaign for the Right to Education says budget cut is “absurd” and “ideologically-motivated”
Even before he became president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro was outspokenly against human science subjects that promote critical thinking in schools and universities.
All Brazilian states hold demonstrations in defense of education, against Bolsonaro
More than one million people took part in protests against education budget cuts and the pension reform
Unions and movements take to the streets in Brazil against attacks on pension system
Protests in at least 126 cities show that organizations are not happy about changes that will hurt social rights
On the end of the public retirement and rural workers
They want to create the idea that there is a gap in foresight and that rural workers are the main culprits.
We need to fight against the destruction of the Public Pension System. PEC 06/2019 proposed by the Bolsonaro government to the legislature is an affront to social rights and affects mainly women, teachers and rural workers.
Private interests threaten Brazil’s Raposa Serra do Sol Indigenous Territory
President-elect Bolsonaro and a general in his security team want to allow niobium mining in protected area
