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Sign This Open Letter to Reject REDD Funding in Nicaragua!
Rio Pis Pis, Nicaragua: Indigenous Mayangna traveling by panga (dugout canoe) on the Rio Pis Pis in the Bosawas Reserve in Nicaragua’s North Atlantic Autonomous Region. Photolangelle.org/ (1997) Note: GJEP's Co-Founder spent many years working in solidarity with...
Earth Minute: Racism & Environmental Devastation in Bolsonaro’s Brazil
(Brazil's Indigenous Peoples demand demarcation of their territories to give them legal rights over the land. Photo: courtesy Amazon Watch) Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod · Earth Minute: Racism & Environmental Devastation in Bolsonaro's Brazil As people...
21 May 2020 Daily Digest of COVID-19 News and Analysis
IN ITS ZEAL TO BLAME CHINA FOR CORONAVIRUS, THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS THWARTING INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE PANDEMIC’S ORIGINS (19 MAY 2020) The Intercept: For weeks, President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have been claiming without evidence that the...
19 May 2020 Daily Digest of COVID-19 News and Analysis
JESSE JACKSON: 'THE GATED COMMUNITY DOES NOT PROTECT YOU FROM THE PANDEMIC' (18 MAY 2020) The Guardian: The Rev Jesse Jackson was born in the racially segregated south when Franklin Roosevelt occupied the White House and war raged in Europe. He was an eyewitness to...
Immediate Action Needed to Save Brazil’s Amazon From Genocide
Photo courtesy of Earth Watch ‘We are on the eve of a genocide’: Brazil urged to save Amazon tribes from Covid-19 The Guardian 3 May 2020 Tom Phillips Brazil’s leaders must take immediate action to save the country’s indigenous peoples from a Covid-19 “genocide”, a...
Rising Deforestation Threatens Brazil’s Amazon
Log pile at a Veracel eucalyptus plantation in Bahia, Brazil Photo: Petermann As deforestation surges, Brazil moves to weaken indigenous and environmental safeguards Unearthed 29 April 2020 Lucy Jordan & Ana Terra Athayde With attention focused on the escalating...
The Guardian: Missionaries Banned From Amazon Indigenous Reserve
Amazon River, Santarem, Brazil. Photo: courtesy of World Rainforest Movement Brazil: judge bans missionaries from indigenous reserve over Covid-19 fears The Guardian 17 April 2020 Dom Phillips A Brazilian judge has banned a group of Christian missionaries from...
International Day of Peasant Struggle: Neoliberalism and COVID-19 Impacts in Ecuador and Brazil
Maranhao, Brazil 2016 Photo: Petermann Note: We have been hearing very little about how COVID-19 is impacting countries in the Global South. US news media is tunnel visioned on the chaos expanding in the US, meanwhile this is a global phenomenon. To commemorate the...
COVID-19 Infections Rising in Brazilian Amazon
Photo courtesy of World Rainforest Movement In Brazil, COVID-19 outbreak paves way for invasion of indigenous lands Mongabay 10 April 2020 Sam Cowie With outsider encroachment into indigenous reserves continuing to escalate in the Brazilian Amazon and the COVID-19...
Brazil Groups Denounce Industrial Forestry on Opening Day of IUFRO World Congress
Caption: "Eucalyptus Plantations are not Forests" banner at MST Camp, Espirito Santo Brazil (2005) Photo: Anne Petermann Note: The following introduction was written to launch the open letter the the IUFRO World Congress attached below it (in English, Spanish and...