ShareThisWhen Antonio Carlos Almeida Campelo, judge of the federal court Altamira had suspended the environmental rights pre-licence for the power plant Belo Monte on 14h of April 2010 and ceased the auction planned for the 20th of April, environmental- and human rights organisations were already celebrating a partial victory. Now the Brazilian president Lula da Silva has, not even 48 hours later, enforced the auction of building - commissions by court ruling. On 16th of April 2010 the federal national court in Brasilia has overturned the ruling by the federal court Altamira in the federal state of Pará.
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Brazil: Lula pushes Belo Monte through- Protest needed more than ever!
Submitted by FdN on Mon, 04/19/2010 - 08:28
Brazilian court ruling backs Amazon reservation
Submitted by rains on Fri, 03/20/2009 - 16:04
Brazil's Supreme Court sided Thursday with Amazonian Indians in a land dispute that some have called critical for determining the future of the rainforest that sprawls the size of Western Europe.
The court ruling upholds the Raposa Serra do Sol reservation for 18,000 Indians who lay claim to their ancestral land, despite a handful of large-scale farmers who also occupy the territory in the northernmost reaches of Amazon jungle bordering Venezuela.
Appeal from the Indigenous Peoples facing the Capitalist Crisis of Western Civilization
Submitted by FdN on Tue, 02/24/2009 - 10:52
World Social Forum 2009
Belém, Amazon, Brazil
Declaration of Indigenous Peoples
*Mother Earth’s global struggle against the commodification of life
*To outline alternatives to decolonization, good living, social rights, self determination and climate justice
Modern capitalism was initiated centuries ago and imposed in America with the invasion of October 12, 1492. This gave way to global plundering and invented theories of "races" to justify American ethnocide, the incursion in Africa for its slave trade and the plundering of other continents. These genocides have not ceased and they remain in the power thanks to transnational capital and military support. This global exploitation/oppression produces global warming which leads us to planetary suicide.
Alaska Natives expand sex-abuse suit against Jesuits
Submitted by rains on Fri, 02/06/2009 - 13:08
Twenty more plaintiffs and a defendant have been added to a lawsuit filed by dozens of Alaska Natives who say they were abused as children and teens by Jesuits or those supervised by Jesuits.
In the original suit, filed last month, 43 Alaska Natives said they had been abused in remote villages in the state. The suit named several defendants, including various Jesuit entities and the head of the worldwide Roman Catholic order.
The suit also named Seattle University President Stephen Sundborg, saying that as a former provincial — or head — of the Jesuits in the Northwest, he knew or should have known about an abusive priest. Sundborg denied those allegations.
Indigenous rights ignored!
Submitted by rains on Wed, 02/04/2009 - 14:16
ONE event on the sidelines of the climate talks in Poland dealt with the negative effects of the proposed forestry solution to climate change called Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD).
Victor Hugo Vela told of the problems faced by the Chiquotano tribe in Bolivia with the controversial Noel Kempff Mercado Climate Action Project.
Into its 11th year, the project is one of the earliest carbon sequestration scheme initiated by The Nature Conservancy with the government of Bolivia. It is projected to avoid emissions of 25 to 36 million tonnes of carbon dioxide over 30 years.
SOS Amazon! – World Social Forum Lends Indigenous Leaders and Supporters Opportunity to Defend Amazon Rainforest
Submitted by FdN on Wed, 02/04/2009 - 11:21
BELEM, Brazil- As world leaders focus on severe economic crisis in their homelands, an estimated 100,000 activists travelled from all over the world to attend the World Social Forum in Brazil. Critical environmental impacts in the Amazon rainforest regions brought Indigenous tribal representatives from across Latin America, environmentalists and supporters together for the multi-day event. One full day during the World Social Forum will focus on issues impacting the Amazon rainforest and the resident tribal nations who dwell there.
Led by Indigenous people from all across Latin America, over 1000 participants formed a human banner, using their bodies, to draw attention to the increasingly precarious situation of the Amazon rainforest. The wording was formed around the massive silhouette of an indigenous warrior taking aim with a bow and arrow. photo courtesy of Lou Dematteis/Spectral Q.
UNREPENTANT: KEVIN ANNETT AND CANADA'S GENOCIDE
Submitted by rains on Thu, 10/23/2008 - 11:49
This documentary reveals Canada's darkest secret - the deliberate extermination of indigenous (Native American) peoples and the theft of their land under the guise of religion. This never before told history as seen through the eyes of this former minister (Kevin Annett) who blew the whistle on his own church, after he learned of thousands of murders in its Indian Residential Schools
Gloria Ushigua and Rosa Gualinga, two indigenous leaders, were attacked, in Puyo, Ecuador
Submitted by rains on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 22:24
Thu, 09/06/2007 - 09:16 Urgent Action - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Puyo, Ecuador: Gloria Ushigua and Rosa Gualinga, two indigenous leaders, were attacked on Sunday August 26, after months of receiving death threats for their efforts to protect the territory of the Zapara people in the Ecuadorian Amazon. They were beaten until unconscious, thrown in the trunk of a car, and later, apparently, left for dead.
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