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Brasil:Ofensiva dos latifundiários

 

“Estamos diante da tentativa do governo do PT/PCdoB/PMDB e seus aliados latifundiários assassinos de frear a luta pela reforma agrária” O líder sem-terra José Rainha Júnior foi preso na cidade o­nde mora na quinta-feira (dia 16) pela Polícia Federal na chamada Operação Desfalque.

Para a ação, a Justiça expediu dez mandados de prisão de sem-terra, sete mandados de condução coercitiva (quando a pessoa é encaminhada para depoimento) e 13 mandados de busca e apreensão…..

…- Pela imediata libertação de José Rainha Jr. e de todos os presos políticos da luta pela terra!

MAIS AQUIM…http://www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/brasil-ofensiva-dos-latifundiarios

Destroy the Amazon: Cashing in on Impunity..


Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon from August 2009-May 2011
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon from August 2009-May 2011.The analysis by Imazon suggests that the Forest Code debate may be a factor in rising deforestation. It found a 363 percent increase in forest degradation — logging and burning of forest that typically precedes deforestation — over the past 10 months, reaching 6,081 sq km. Most of the degradation occurred in major agricultural states: Mato Grosso (42 percent of degradation in May), Para (27 percent), and Rondônia (22 percent). The majority of deforestation also took place in these states: 39 percent in Pará, 25 percent in Mato Grosso, and 21 percent in Rondônia.

More tellingly, two-thirds of clearing occurred on private lands, which are most likely to benefit from changes in the Forest Code. Private landowners — particularly agroindustrial interests — have been pushing Forest Code reform, while small landowners and indigenous groups have generally opposed changes. Accordingly, deforestation over the past 10 months in indigenous territories and areas of agrarian reform (usually small-holder zones) amounted to only 12 percent and 1 percent, respectively. 22 percent of deforestation in May 20111 occurred in conservation areas.

Deforestation in May was highest in the municipality of Altamira, Para, where the controversial Belo Monte dam is to be constructed. Critics say the project will drive deforestation in surrounding areas as well as inundating large areas of forest and displacing thousands of indigenous people. Altamira accounted for 13 percent of total deforestation. It was followed by Porto Velho, Rondonia (8 percent), which serves as a key hub for the newly paved Trans-Oceanic Highway that links the heart of the Amazon to Peruvian ports. The highway will facilitate shipping of agricultural and timber products from the Amazon to China

Revised Forest Code may cost Brazil climate commitments
(06/14/2011) The proposed revision of Brazil’s Forest Code could prevent the country from meeting its lower emissions target and is unlikely to ease rural poverty, concludes a new study by the Brazil-based Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA).

read lots more here

http://news.mongabay.com/2011/0617-imazon_2011.html

 

 

 

 

Guatemala genocide: Lopez arrested. 29 years late!

Ex-armed forces chief Lopez Fuentes arrested

Relatives of victims of Guatemala's civil war try to identify exhumed remains, Zacualpa, Guatemala (5 July 2001) Relatives of victims of Guatemala’s civil war try to identify exhumed remains
Guatemalan authorities have arrested a former armed forces chief accused of joining in massacres during the nation’s civil war nearly 30 years ago.Retired general Hector Mario Lopez Fuentes, 81, was detained in the capital, Guatemala City, on Friday.Human rights groups have accused him of participating in genocide and crimes against humanity during the military government of Efrain Rios Montt.It is not clear how Mr Lopez Fuentes is likely to plead to the charges.Guatemala’s office of public prosecutions said he was accused of being the intellectual author behind the killings of more than 300 indigenous Maya civilians from the Ixil region in 1982 and 1983.It is the latest high-profile arrest linked to alleged crimes committed during the country’s 36-year civil war.

More than 200,000 people were killed or disappeared during the conflict, the vast majority at the hands of the security forces.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-13819853

Peru: Indigenous languages recognised! ONLY 500 YEARS LATER!

AIDESEP, June 15, 2011.

The Peruvian Congress has approved the Law for the preservation and use of indigneous languages, a measure proposed by Congresswoman Maria Sumire, who noted that this decision is part of the United Nations Declaration in the sense that indigneous peoples have the right the full enjoyment of all fundamental freedoms recognized by the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

To refute the comments of the Executive, Congresswoman Sumire said it was required that public administration had to communicate in more than 80 native languages ​​exist as in Article 2, of opinion, there is a declaration of interest national use, preservation, development, recovery, development and dissemination of indigenous languages ​​in the country.

She argued that the law of preservation and use of indigneous languages provides that any person is entitled to their ethnic and cultural identity and stressed that this debate comes at a very special month as it celebrates farmer’s day and in the city of Cusco, capital of the empire of the Incas the festival of Inti Raymi,

The LAW is INCLUSIVE , supporting not only men and women from the Quechua nationality, but also Aymara and Amazonian peoples

see more stories here

http://another-green-world.blogspot.com/2011/06/new-victory-for-amazon-indigenous-as.html

When They Find Out You’re a Lesbian They Refuse to Help”

Kristin Palitza interviews lesbian rights activist FUNEKA SOLDAA

CAPE TOWN , Jun 16, 2011 (IPS) – With homophobia on the rise, large numbers of South African lesbians are being subjected to discrimination and violent assaults. There has also been an increase in “corrective rape” by men trying to “cure” them of their sexual orientation. More than 30 lesbians have been killed since 2006. But most of these crimes go unrecognised by the state and unpunished by the legal system….

continued HERE   http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=56110

Peru Revokes Permit for Giant Dam on Amazon Tributary

 
Environment News Service

After years of community opposition, a 2,000 megawatt dam planned for construction on a major Amazonian tributary, has been cancelled, the government of Peru announced Tuesday. The dam was to have been built across the Inambari River in Madre de Dios province.

For the past 36 days, some 2,000 people in the Puno area blocked access roads to the region and held mass protests to convince the government to cancel mining concessions and the dam project.

To appease the strikers, the government established a high-level commission to review the Inambari dam.

After a tense meeting with local communities on June 13, Commission Chair and Vice-Minister of Energy Luis Gonzales Talledo cancelled the project, stating that the Brazilian EGASUR consortium’s rights to develop the project had been revoked.

“Although this resolution does not prevent the construction of all dams in the Inambari Basin, it is very important because it clearly cancels EGASUR’s participation,” said Aldo Santos, from the local nongovernmental organization Rural Educational Services, or SER.

“The resolution states that all future proposed projects must be subjected to prior consultation with local communities according to ILO Convention 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, which is an important precedent,” said Santos.

Affected communities have long opposed the Inambari Dam, which would have flooded 410 square kilometers of forest, including part of the Bahujan Sonene National Park buffer zone.

http://www.amazonrainforestnews.com/2011/06/peru-revokes-permit-for-giant-dam-on.html

Carga de los mossos d’esquadra. 15/6/2011. Parc de la Ciutadella.

Carga de los mossos d’esquadra. 15/6/2011. Parc de la Ciutadella.  
per indignada 17 jun 2011
Qui són els violents?
Que no et despistin!
La unió fa la força.
Que no ens divideixin, ho estan intentant i volen que criminalitzem a una part del nostre moviment.Rebut per email:Buenas,este es un vídeo que hice el domingo 15 a las 15:50 h.http://ahref=

http://youtu.be/ILO8oMVDE2s

En el puedes ver como los mossos agreden a un grupo de personas, entre ellas mi hermana, un amigo y personas de la acampada de Badalona.

Te pido que hagas el máximo de difusión posible.

Gracias,
Mira també:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILO8oMVDE2s