Indigenous Tupinamba Fight for Land Rights in Brazil
The Tupinamba were the first indigenous people to form a front against the Portuguese invasion in 1500 in Brazil. They are a great warrior people whose organizational structure uses tactics and...
View ArticleAn Urgent Plea from Brazilian Indigenous Communities
The following press release from PLANT (Partners for the Land & Agricultural Needs of Traditional Peoples) focuses on the rights of traditional and indigenous communities being trampled by powerful...
View ArticleTriumph and Tragedy Photo Exhibit at the ¡Buen Vivir! Gallery until Sept 18
Triumph and Tragedy is an exhibit of photographs taken by GJEP Executive Director Anne Petermann. The exhibit documents movements, activists, indigenous peoples and organizations around the world...
View ArticleHow emissions trading at Paris climate talks has set us up for failure
By Steffen Böhm Professor in Management and Sustainability, and Director, Essex Sustainability Institute, University of Essex Originally published by TheConversation.com. The Paris Agreement has mostly...
View ArticleThe Jari Amapá REDD project, Brazil: Greenwashing illegal logging, a pulp...
Originally published by Redd-Monitor.org. By Chris Lang The Jari Amapá REDD+ project covers an area of 65,980 hectares in the Jari Valley in the state of Amapá, Brazil. The project is run by three...
View ArticleUS Anthropologists promote forced contact with uncontacted Indigenous Peoples
From Reuters in The Guardian, 7 July 2016 Brazil condemns anthropologists’ calls for forced contact with isolated tribes US professors say ‘controlled contact is the only possible strategy for...
View ArticlePetition: Speak Out for Rio’s Endangered Dolphins
Via Rainforest Rescue: The Atlantic off Rio de Janeiro is home to a dwindling population of Guiana dolphins. They urgently need protection – if they continue drowning in fishing nets at the present...
View ArticleWith Impeachment, Brazil’s Right-Wing Elites Deal Blow to Dilma Rousseff,...
With just one vote, Brazil’s corrupt, right-wing elites dealt a blow to Dilma Rousseff and democracy #ImpeachmentDay pic.twitter.com/mAroE4hHFy — teleSUR English (@telesurenglish) August 31, 2016 Via...
View ArticleEARTH MINUTE: Brazilian Coup Will Lead to Wide Ranging Impacts
KPFK-FM‘s Sojourner Truth Radio show aired an Earth Watch segment on it’s Sept. 14 broadcast focused on the coup of former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff. The segment begins at about the 30:25 mark...
View ArticleLISTEN: Earth Minute- Logging in Amazon Putting Kawahiva People in Crisis
KPFK-FM‘s Sojourner Truth Radio show’s Earth Minute segment on it’s Nov. 1 broadcast focused on the impacts of deforestation on Indigenous People in the Amazon. The segment begins at about the 37:18...
View ArticleWATCH: Breaking – National School of Brazil’s Landless Worker’s Movement...
At 9:25 this morning, the National School Florestan Fernandes (ENFF) in Guararema, São Paulo, which is the national school of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement, was assaulted by civil and military...
View ArticleMass Protest in Brazil In Face of Rigid Austerity Measures
Originally published at RioOnWatch.org: Protests erupted outside Brazil’s Congress in Brasília as the Senate approved a proposal to amend the constitution that would authorize the implementation of...
View ArticleWith Deforestation Increasing in Brazil, Will Norway Ask For Its $1 Billion...
By Chris Lang Originally Published at Redd-Monitor.org On 29 November 2016, Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE) released its estimate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon for...
View ArticleBrazil: As ‘Coup’ Government Targets Retirement Benefits, General Strike...
Video via TeleSURtv.net: Video ALEXANDER MAIN, [in D.C.] via Dan Beeton, beeton@cepr.net, @ceprdc Senior associate for international policy at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, Main recently...
View ArticleOutbreak of Killing in Brazil as Landowners Work to Displace Farmers
Nine men, including an Evangelical pastor, massacred in a remote part of western Brazil were knifed and shot to death, police said yesterday after releasing the bodies for burial, according to the...
View ArticleBrazil Holding First General Strike in Two Decades
Today, Labor unions, progressive political parties and social movements across Brazil are engaged in a general strike of all workers to protest the neoliberal anti-worker policies imposed by right-wing...
View ArticleWATCH: MST Militant on Taking Back Land from Plantations in Brazil
The following trailer and the full video are in Portuguese, with Spanish spoken translation and English subtitles. El preestreno y el video completo están en Portugués, con traducción en vivo al...
View ArticleInternational Peasant Movement Prepares to Converge for Seventh Conference
“We feed our peoples and build the movement to change the world!” – is the call that will carry hundreds of delegates of the international peasant movement La Vía Campesina, to the Basque Country from...
View ArticleUSDA Receives Near Unanimous Public Rejection of Genetically Engineered Trees
Statement from Biofuelwatch, Global Justice Ecology Project and Indigenous Environmental Network New York (US)–New Zealand-owned tree biotechnology company ArborGen faces near unanimous opposition...
View ArticleBrazil: MST Land Activists to Win Prestigious Agroecology Award
By Ednubia Ghisi English translation by Nate Singham NOTE: According to the national leadership of the MST (Brazil’s Landless Worker’s Movement) a proposal to expand a Suzano Papel e Celulose...
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