Real World Radio “How agribusiness and financial markets profit from the devastation of the world´s largest tropical forest”. In this first part of a series of two audio-visual reports, Friends of the Earth Brazil unravels the forces behind the crimes that take place in Brazilian forests. In its second part, the organization analyzes, together with…
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Peoples Mobilization: Crucial Negotiations in Geneva for a Globally Binding Treaty on TNCs
Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples Sovereignty, Dismantle Corporate Power and Stop Impunity Historic process continues at the UN: This week states enter substantive negotiations of the text of a binding treaty on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights. PRESS RELEASE: 14 October 2019, Geneva: The United Nations (UN) Inter-governmental Working…
Chile’s Environmental Betrayal
Alanna Elder Quintero (Photos from Mujeres de Zona de Sacrificio Quintero-Puchuncaví) Last fall, doctors in two neighboring coastal towns in Chile treated more than a thousand patients for poisoning from poor air quality, a result of the shift from a fishing and tourism economy to an industrial hub. Quintero and Puchuncavi now belch fumes from…
“The Struggle to Defend the Trees and the Forest is First and Foremost a Struggle Against Imperialism”. The Environmentalism of Thomas Sankara
In the wake of the protests launched by the young Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, the international movement to protest for the environment, against climate change and for governments to move in a ‘green’ direction has now reached global dimensions. Many young people have become aware of how important the environment is for the life of…
We Must Not Forget That Wars and the Military Industrial Complex Destroy the Climate – As Well as People
Angelo Baracca and Marinella CorreggiaSome spoke of “the second world superpower”. On February 15, 2003, millions of people simultaneously took to the streets in almost every country on the planet to say no to the wars of Bush, Blair and their lackeys against Iraq, “no to the war for oil and profit”. That experience of…
Agroecology as Resistance: The Case of Venezuela
Miguel Angel Núñez He who believes, believes He who creates, creates The doer transforms himself And the society he lives in. Mayan Proverb – EZLN Agroecology in the different agricultural productive spaces and at a global level, is positioning itself as the only valid option to advance and overcome the different onslaughts that globalizing corporate…
Indigenous Land Defender, Milgen Idán Soto Ávila, Assassinated in Honduras
Zoe PC Milgen Idán Soto Ávila 29 years old, holds up a picture of his cousin Samael Matute, assassinated because of his struggle in defense of the territory and ancestral forest. Social movements in Honduras are mourning the assassination of Milgen Idán Soto Ávila, a 29-year-old member of the Tolupán Indigenous community and of the…
Greta: Effects and Their Causes
Atilio Boron Greta Thunberg’s moving defence of the environment and her denunciation of the ravages caused by climate change, as well as her harsh criticism of the world’s political leadership, which by its ineptitude, unconsciousness or corruption has defrauded children and young people by leaving a polluted, semi-destroyed (and, for many species, unlivable) environment as…
Greta Thunberg and Big-Biz’ Climate Charade
Tony Cartalucci A 16 year old girl is obviously not behind a “global movement” demanding “climate action” from governments. The massive corporate Western media is. And anything the corporate media is behind certainly cannot be described as “grassroots.” It is the Western media’s daily promotion of this 16 year old that has created “her” movement…
La Via Campesina in New York: “it is Now Urgent to Put Human Rights and Nature Above Profit”
During the UN – United Nations Sustainable Development Summit in New York, La Via Campesina made a presentation today to declare peasant agriculture as a real solution to the food and climate crisis facing the planet. Paula Gioia, on behalf of La Via Campesina, said, “It is now urgent to put humanity and nature before…
Brazil’s An Anti-Environment and Anti-Science Policy
This episode of What’s Happening in Brazil reports on Brazil’s environmental issues, from the wildfires in the Amazon to the man-made environmental disasters caused by predatory mining. Our “Culture Talk” is about Ilu Obá de Min, an all-female drum band that honors Afro-Brazilian culture. And the “Brazilianism” segment will show you acarajé, a popular spicy…
“Bayer Monsanto Means Death”: MST Women Protest Outside Company HQ in São Paulo
Lu Sudré More than 200 landless women protested on Friday morning outside Bayer’s headquarters in Brazil, in the south side of São Paulo, as part of the Global Climate Strike, a global mobilization to demand that actions are taken to fight climate change and protect the environment. The members of the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)…
