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Amazonía: Adelino Claudio y Maria matado!..amnestía para destructores!

Adelino, Claudio y Maria

”Con la amnestía para crimenes contra la selva los terroristas rancheros y maderistas  ven su oportunidad de hacer dinero con la destrucción de la Amazonia para satisfacer la demanda de los criminales corporaciónes internacionales, como Burger King y MacDonalds.”

  
  Adelino fue asesinado cuando estaba vendiendo verduras de su producción por enfrentar a la mafia maderera en la Amazonia de Brasil. Era dirigente del Movimiento Campesino Corumbiara y se llamaba Adelino Ramos. Un motociclista lo mató a tiros en Rondonia, norte del país.
   Tres días antes fueron ejecutados José Claudio Ribeiro da Silva y su esposa, Maria do Espírito Santo da Silva, en el municipio de Nova Ipixuna. También eran dirigentes comunitarios y peleaban contra la tala ilegal en el estado de Pará. La presidenta Dilma Rousseff mandó a investigar el hecho.

líder campesino superviviente de una masacre es asesinado en el Amazonas

 Adelino Ramos había denunciado recientemente a explotadores ilegales de madera

EFE – Sao Paulo – 28/05/2011 .El líder campesino Adelino Ramos, conocido como Dinho, uno de los supervivientes en 1995 de la masacre de Corumbiará, fue asesinado ayer en el estado de Roraima y se convirtió en la tercera víctima por conflictos de tierras esta semana en la Amazonía brasileña.
Dinho, que sobrevivió a la matanza en la que 12 campesinos, entre ellos varios niños, murieron a manos de presuntos paramilitares, fue asesinado cuando vendía verduras de sus cultivos en el barrio de Vista Alegre do Abuna, en Porto Velho, capital del Estado de Rondonia, según la organización católica Pastoral de la Tierra. La organización detalló en un comunicado que Dinho fue asesinado a balazos por pistoleros que viajaban en una motocicleta.
El líder campesino, presidente del Movimiento Campesino de Corumbiará, había denunciado ecientemente a explotadores ilegales de madera en los estados de Acre, Amazonas y Rondonia y pedía la instalación de un campamento para campesinos desplazados. “Dinho venía siendo amenazado hace años y en julio del año pasado denunció otra vez amenazas contra su vida”, apuntó la Pastoral.

El martes, en el también amazónico estado de Pará, fue asesinado a balazos el matrimonio compuesto por José Claudio Ribeiro da Silva y María do Espírito Santo, reconocidos ambientalistas de la región y exlíderes del Movimiento de los Trabajadores Rurales Sin Tierra.

El debate sobre la explotación del Amazonas ha tomado gran vuelo en Brasil después de que en una semana se siguieran dos noticias contradictorias: la publicación de un alarmante aumento de los niveles de deforestación, y la aprobación en la noche del martes, por aplastante mayoría en el parlamento, de una reforma del Código Forestal brasileño que establece una amnistía general para todos aquellos que incurrieron en delitos contra la vegetación hasta 2008

FOREST DEFENDER’S WIFE ALSO MARTYRED

UPDATE: FOREST DEFENDER’S WIFE ALSO MARTYRED IN BRUTAL ASSASSINATION

José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva speaking at TEDx Amazon in 2010
José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva speaking at TEDx Amazon in 2010

[URGENT: Please join the new avaaz sign-on letter. It is in Portuguese for Brazilian officials but you can easily enter your name, email and country. Please help the Brazilian forest defenders NOW.]

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José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife, Maria do Espírito Santo da Silva, were gunned down last night in an ambush in the city of Nova Ipixuna in the Brazilian state of Pará. Da Silva was known as a community leader and an outspoken critic of deforestation in the region.

Police believe the da Silvas were killed by hired assassins because both victims had an ear cut off, which is a common token for hired gunmen to prove their victims had been slain, according to local police investigator, Marcos Augusto Cruz, who spoke to Al Jazeera. Suspicion immediately fell on illegal loggers linked to the charcoal trade that supplies pig iron smelters in the region.

José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva, who also went by the nickname ‘Ze Claudio’, was a vocal critic of illegal logging in Pará, a state in Brazil that is rife with deforestation. He also worked as a community leader of an Amazon reserve that sold sustainably harvested forest products.

Da Silva had received countless death threats and had frequently warned that he could be killed at any time, however he was refused protection by officials.

“I will protect the forest at all costs. That is why I could get a bullet in my head at any moment … because I denounce the loggers and charcoal producers, and that is why they think I cannot exist,” da Silva said in a TED Talks last November, adding “but my fear does not silence me. As long as I have the strength to walk I will denounce all of those who damage the forest.”

Clara Santos, the niece of the da Silvas, told BBC that the couple had suffered death threats for 14 years. A report compiled by Brazil’s Catholic Land Commission, a human rights group, in 2008 listed Da Silva as one of the environmental activists most likely to be assassinated.

The double assassination comes at a fateful time for the Amazon rainforest. Politicians in Brazil are considering changing to its Forest Law, which would allow ranchers and farmers to cut down a higher percentage of forest on their land. A vote may occur today.

Brazilian environmental journalist, Felipe Milanez, has said the assassination of da Silva has created ‘another Chico Mendes’. Mendes was a rubber trapper turned Amazon activist whose 1988 assassination catalyzed efforts to save the Amazon.

Da Silva’s killing comes six years after Dorothy Stang, an American nun who fought against deforestation, was slain by gunmen hired by a cattle rancher, also in the state of Pará. Her death was met by a sharp crack-down by the Brazilian against illegal fore

After my last birthday I trashed my car.

 After my last birthday I trashed my car.

Well, in fact I still have it, but the weeds have reached the windows.

Tomorrow my friends will help push it out on the road, where it can be towed away for scrap.

So ha ha ha you filthy spewing dupes of capitalism ! Coz we’re the greenest squatters on the block!

This is a joke of course, I had a car for 30 years and justified it to myself…

..now I have more money for less work, I have to walk and wait quite a lot,

and I and my family can do less things.

On the other hand I AM fitter and less harrassed, people pick me up on the road and chat

on the bus if it ever comes. But  the best thing of all is off loading the hypocrisy, I  still feel bad

but at least I’m not personally promoting car culture. Maybe we could go for a negative carbon footprint

and still enjoy the party?

Everyone is just ignoring the fact that climate  change gases are  totally out of control with zero prospect of agreement.

When 90% of scientists predict monumental future suffering and death of billions of innocent creatures and people and almost nobody complains…, it’s like there’s a mass conspiracy to ignore or deny the facts

We would need a mass movement just to stop the capitalist machine in any that could be sustainable,

So  Let There Be INFINITE GROWTH and at least enjoy the spectacular gadgets and gigantic immoral waste, while

wage slaving to pay the bills and by the way… destroy the planet for everyone but the hyper rich criminals.

Just don’t be surprised if some vegan or anarchist terrorist trashes your wheels!

Check out review of new anti car book here

http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/05/steering-away-from-car-culture/

URGENT AMAZON FOREST ALERT

URGENT AMAZON FOREST ALERT

slaughtering-the-amazon-cover

[UPDATE 20 May 2011: The Guardian UK reports, “Brazil forms ‘crisis cabinet’ following unexpected deforestation surge”.]

Events are moving quickly in Brazil’s epic battle over a new national Forest Code. The struggle has has reached a critical stage full of both danger and opportunity. Please take action.

EMERGENCY — BRAZIL’S NATIONAL MONITORING AGENCY JUST CONFIRMED THAT RECENT DEFORESTATION HAS JUMPED 473 PERCENT. THE SITUATION IS CRITICAL.

[Reuters reportagem em Português]

Sign the international petition to defend Brazil’s forests.

If you would rather sign a petition in Portuguese, here is one from avaaz.

The recent monitoring reports of both the government and the environmental NGOs showed prelimary data of a huge surge in deforestation as agribusiness and the ruralist coalition push to deforest and create a new code of amnesty for the forest destroyers. Today’s release of frightening new data shows how aggressive the large farmers and agribusiness are. PLEASE ACT NOW.

The Dilma government has been caught between its desire for for rapid economic development and its desire to maintain its green image to the international community where it has pledged to reduce emissions from deforestation and to maintain biodiversity. Additionally, it wants to showcase its “greenness” at the upcoming 2012 “Rio+20” world environment conference. Indeed, on the advice of its Foreign Ministry, the Dilma leadership delayed the recent Forest Code debate (google translation from Portuguese) in Congress in order to revise its position.

The good news it that IBAMA (the national environment protection agency) has just announced a new policy of zero deforestation. The future of the forest hangs between this positive initiative and the reckless campaign of ruralista deforestation. This is the defining moment!

[Update: Here are the latest reports on deforestation and the new IBAMA policy.]

ACT NOW. Sign the petition in English or in Portuguese to defend Brazil’s forests.

with thanks via:

http://lougold.blogspot.com/2011/05/urgent-amazon-forest-alert-events-are.html

BRAZIL’S NEW OIL PARTNER IS…GUESS WHO?

BRAZIL’S NEW OIL PARTNER IS.

bp5

GUESS WHO?

BP recently announced that the Brazilian National Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANP) has approved its bid to purchase 10 exploration and production blocks in Brazil from Devon Energy. BP had declared its decision to buy the assets from Devon in March 2010, and had been waiting for the regulatory approvals from ANP since then.

However, the ANP put the deal in Brazil on hold — admittedly to see how BP contains the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico — and finally cleared it now seeing BP’s response to the world’s largest accidental oil spill.

With the Brazilian deepwaters showing a lot of promise in terms of oil and gas reserves, BP’s exploration in the area is expected to primarily add to the company’s oil production capacity in the years to come.

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Amazon destruction..6 fold increase..- 593,000,000 m2 in 2 months

BRASILIA (AFP) – A sharp increase in forest destruction in March and April in the Amazon has led Brazil to announce the creation of an emergency task force to fight against deforestation.

The two-month total of 593 square kilometers (368 square miles) deforested represents a six-fold increase compared to the same period last year, according to official statistics. The office will be comprised of government experts and representatives of states badly impacted by recent deforestation, according to Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira, who announced the office at a press conference. “Our goal is to stifle deforestation,” Teixeira said. “And we are going to do it by July.”

In the Amazon state of Mato Grosso alone, 480 square kilometers (298 square miles) of forest were destroyed in two months, according to official statistics based on satellite images.

The land is used for cattle and soybean farming. Teixeira said those responsible for illegal deforesting will have their cattle seized. Officials in Mato Grosso are investigating how so much land was destroyed in their central-western state, Teixeira added. Brazil, the world’s fifth largest country by area, has 5.3 million square kilometers of jungle and

PARÁ, BrazilThe Amazon jungle is metaphorically referred to as the lungs of the world: CO2 in, O2 out, transformed through a dense emerald mass. It’s an irreplaceable treasure, in many spots still unmapped, and a biological preserve filled with species that we likely haven’t even seen.http://theamazonforest.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html

forests — mostly in the Amazon river basin — of which only 1.7 million are under state protection. The rest is in private hands, or its ownership is undefined.

Massive deforestation has made Brazil one of the world’s top greenhouse gas emitters. But the pace of deforestation peaked in 2004 at 27,000 square kilometers a year, and in 2010 it dropped to 6,500 square kilometers. The announcement comes as Brazil’s Congress debates a bill that has sparked clashes between environmentalists and supporters of farmers and ranchers over how to regulate the country’s vast but vulnerable wilderness. At issue is a reform of the 1965 law regulating forestry.

The current law forces land owners that have forest on their property to keep part of it intact. A reform is being pushed by Brazil’s powerful agribusiness sector, which is chafing under the country’s strict environmental rules.

Brazil is a major world exporter of grains — including wheat, rice and corn — as well as soybeans, coffee and beef, and posted record exports worth $80 billion over the past 12 months, according to recent government figures. The government hopes the proposed reform would force private owners to re-forest land they have already destroyed. Debate has created splits across the political spectrum, and President Dilma Rousseff’s control over her party on the issue appears in question.

Rousseff pledged during her campaign to make no concessions that would result in further deforestation or threaten Brazil’s international environmental commitments.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110519/sc_afp/environmentbrazilpolitics_20110519013854

Still NO Roadmap for Sustainable Development

By Portia Crowe

UNITED NATIONS, May 18, 2011 (IPS) – The road to the crucial Rio+20 conference on greening the world economy next year has hit a setback with the breakdown of the 19th session of the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development after 10 days of intense negotiations.

No decisions were adopted at the session, also known as CSD-19, which ran from May 2-13 in New York and examined consumption and production, transport, chemicals, waste management and mining.