Posted on April 29, 2020
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… Read More
Category: Brazil, Featured, Social Media News Tags: amazon, Brazil, deforestation, greenpeace, indigenous, Pandemic
Posted on April 20, 2020
THE US’S FAILED RESPONSE TO THE PANDEMIC IS ROOTED IN ANTI-BLACKNESS (20 April 2020) Truthout: With the speed of lightning, the coronavirus crisis is waking all of the U.S. up to a reality most Black people have known… Read More
Category: COVID: All Posts, Daily Digests of COVID-19 News Tags: anti-Blackness, Brazil, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Cuba, fascism, Wet Markets
Posted on April 20, 2020
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… Read More
Category: COVID: All Posts, COVID19 & Indigenous Peoples, Featured Tags: amazon, Brazil, Coronavirus, COVID-19, indigenous, Rainforest, the guardian, World Rainforest Movement
Posted on April 17, 2020
LULA: BOLSONARO LEADING BRAZIL ‘TO SLAUGHTERHOUSE’ OVER COVID-19 (17 APRIL 2020) The Guardian: Jair Bolsonaro is leading Brazilians “to the slaughterhouse” with his criminally irresponsible handling of coronavirus, the country’s former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has… Read More
Category: COVID: All Posts, Daily Digests of COVID-19 News Tags: Brazil, climate action, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Ecuador, solidarity
Posted on April 17, 2020
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… Read More
Category: COVID and Capitalism, COVID: All Posts, Featured Tags: Bolsonaro, Brazil, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Ecuador, the guardian
Posted on April 15, 2020
CHILE’S FEMINIST REVOLT CONTINUES IN LOCKDOWN (12 April 2020) Jacobin: Although it may sometimes seem that this pandemic has confined so many of us to the walls of our homes, and put the world on pause, time has… Read More
Category: COVID: All Posts, Daily Digests of COVID-19 News Tags: Brazil, chile, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Hopi, Miners, Mutual Aid, Navajo
Posted on April 14, 2020
WHY WE SHOULDN’T PUSH FOR A CLOSURE OF CHINA’S ‘WET MARKETS’ (13 April 2020) Earth Island Journal: Now that extensive measures during what the government called the “Special Period” have been lifted, life has sprung anew in one of… Read More
Category: COVID: All Posts, Daily Digests of COVID-19 News Tags: Brazil, Coronavirus, COVID-19, deforestation, Haiti, indigenous, Pandemic
Posted on April 13, 2020
IN BRAZIL, COVID-19 OUTBREAK PAVES WAY FOR INVASION OF INDIGENOUS LANDS (10 April 2020) Mongabay: With outsider encroachment into indigenous reserves continuing to escalate in the Brazilian Amazon and the COVID-19 outbreak spreading rapidly throughout the country, indigenous… Read More
Category: COVID: All Posts, Daily Digests of COVID-19 News Tags: Brazil, Coronavirus, COVID-19, detroit, indigenous, Pandemic, poverty
Posted on April 13, 2020
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… Read More
Category: COVID: All Posts, COVID19 & Indigenous Peoples, Featured Tags: amazon, Brazil, Coronavirus, COVID-19, indigenous, mongabay, Outbreak
Posted on September 30, 2019
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,… Read More
Category: Brazil, Featured, No GE Trees News, Press Releases, Publications, Uncategorized Tags: Brazil, Curitiba, deforestation, eucalyptus plantations, food security, forests, GE trees, GMOs, green deserts, indigenous, IUFRO, IUFRO World Congress, Monocultures, open letter, pesticide, plantations are not forests, REDD, World Rainforest Movement
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