Rio+20: Manifestação e protesto da Via Campesina

“Comida ruim ninguém aguenta, é a Syngenta./É veneno em todo canto, é a Monsanto./Mata gente e mata rio, é a Cargil./Agronegócio, a mentira do Brasil.”

Foto: Manifestantes organizam intervenção dentro da AgroBrasil, no Pier Mauá, espaço coordenado pela Confederação da Agricultura e Pecuária do Brasil

Rio de Janeiro Manifestantes ligados à Via Campesina Internacional, que congrega movimentos sociais de pequenos agricultores de diferentes países, realizaram na manhã desta quinta-feira, 21, um protesto contra produções baseadas no uso de agrotóxico e monocultura. O ato aconteceu dentro do Pier Mauá, onde foi instalado o AgroBrasil, espaço coordenado pela Confederação da Agricultura e Pecuária do Brasil (CNA). A entidade é presidida pela senadora Kátia Abreu (PSD-TO), uma das principais lideranças da Frente Parlamentar de Agropecuária, a Bancada Ruralista.

O AgroBrasil tornou-se a principal base utilizada pelos parlamentares ligados ao setor e empresários durante a Conferência das Nações Unidas sobre Desenvolvimento Sustentável, a Rio+20. Com apoio de Monsanto e JBS, entre outros, o espaço virou uma feira de negócios com expositores oferecendo alternativas para ampliar a produção e com monitores defendendo e explicando a importância do uso do veneno para aumentar a produção. Até simuladores de máquinas utilizadas na aplicação foram instalados.

Com gritos, música e cartazes, os manifestantes procuraram chamar a atenção dos demais visitantes para o fato de o Brasil ser hoje líder no uso de agrotóxicos no planeta e as conseqüências relacionadas a uma produção de alimentos cultivada com veneno. Uma maquete, na qual os expositores exibiam o que consideram modelo ideal de agricultura, com amplas áreas de pasto, monocultura de eucalipto e grãos, foi coberta de cartazes e manchada de tinta. Continue reading “Rio+20: Manifestação e protesto da Via Campesina”

new book: Imperiled Life, Revolution against Climate Catastrophe.

Anarchist Interventions #4: Imperiled Life by Javier Sethness-Castro,

Now Available for Pre-order

Imperiled Life theorizes an exit from the potentially terminal consequences of capital-induced climate change. It is a collection of reflections on the phenomenon of catastrophe—climatological, political, social—as well as on the possibilities of overcoming disaster.

The fourth title in our Anarchist Intervention Series, co-published with AK Press!

Javier Sethness-Castro presents the grim news from contemporary climatologists while providing a reconstructive vision inspired by anarchist intellectual traditions and promoting critical thought as a means of changing our historical trajectory.

Praise for Imperiled Life:

Imperiled Life is an angry and urgent dissection of the omnivorous economic system that is mercilessly turning the planet into a death camp.”—Jeffrey St. Clair, author Born Under a Bad Sky

About the author:

Javier Sethness-Castro is a libertarian socialist and an animal rights advocate. Imperiled Life is his first book.

This title is available for preorder from AK Press! Order now and get 25% off the list price!  http://www.anarchist-studies.org/node/549

Related articles   Javier Sethness “Imperiled Life” @SubRosa Santa Cruz, CA 5/26 6pm (revolutionbythebook.akpress.org)

Can you help distribute ‘The Free’..repost please!

Hi there.. I see on Farcebook we are now more than 2000 Friends of ‘The Free’ the new novel set in an Occupy style social revolution, during the COLLAPSE of capitalism due to Climate Chaos. If you haven’t seen it yet you can read online or free download, or even order a paper edition  HERE: thefreeonline.wordpress.com

In reality only a tiny handful of those who’d like it have even heard of ‘The Free’..It has no commercial distribution for one thing, and most folks are put off by words like REVOLUTION..

Can you help please..? by re-posting, sharing, or re-blogging this letter, or asking your bookshop or library to stock it.

Best wishes and LOTS of luck………mikegilli

Desert Lizard Painting by eco-prisoner Marie Mason

Desert Lizard Painting by Marie Mason

About Marie Mason

Marie Mason is a loving mother of two and a long-time activist in the environmental and labor movements. In March 2008, she was arrested by federal authorities for charges related to two acts of property destruction that occurred in 1999 and 2000; no one was injured in either oDesert Lizard watercolor painting by Marie Masonf them. She accepted a plea bargain and was sentenced on February 5, 2009 to just under 22 years. She is now serving the longest sentence of any “Green Scare” prisoner.

“A friend of mine sent me a really lovely photo of this desert lizard as she let me know that she was heading out for her Pacific Trail hike. I hope she has an easier time than the author Cheryl Strayed did doing the same hike. It seems like a grueling but amazing adventure. I will just be grateful to be able to walk in a straight line for a few blocks, feel grass (and not cement) under my feet, see the moon without a fence in between… and I am patient and content to wait for that day.”

-Marie Mason

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5th May..Climate impact day..Connecting the dots..

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Freak weather is not climate change… up to a point..when it suddenly becomes clear fromn all the evidnce, that runaway climate change is happening.

Finally we can join up the dots.

Thousands worldwide to “connect the dots” between climate change and extreme weather this weekend Anyone and everyone can participate in this day.

Many of us do not live in Texas, the Philippines, or Ethiopia — places deeply affected by climate impacts. For those communities, there are countless ways to stand in solidarity with those on the front-lines of the climate crisis: some people will giving presentations in their communities about how to connect the dots.

Others will do projects to demonstrate what sorts of climate impacts we can expect if the crisis is left unchecked. And still others of us will express our indignation to local media and politicians for failing to connect the dots in their coverage of “natural disasters.”

Jeremy Hance mongabay.com May 03, 2012 Continue reading “5th May..Climate impact day..Connecting the dots..”

Somontes..Reocupado en 24 hrs! Land and Liberty!

Cerca de 100 personas han reocupado a primera hora del viernes la finca Somontes, una hacienda de casi 400 hectáreas que la Junta de Andalucía mantiene sin uso en Palma del Río, Córdoba. La toma se produce menos de 24 horas después de que la Guardia Civil desalojara a los ocupantes.

About 100 people have reoccupied the early hours of Friday Somontes estate, an estate of nearly 400 hectares of Andalusia remains unused in Palma del Río, Córdoba. The decision comes less than 24 hours after the Civil Guard to evict the occupants.

“No se han llevado nada de material, tan sólo algunas fotos”, informa Víctor, uno de los jornaleros y miembro del Sindicato Andaluz de Trabajadores (SAT), impulsor de la acción. “Pero si no hubiéramos vuelto, las huertas estarían sin riego y las gallinas se habrían muerto de sed o se las hubieran comido los perros”, continúa.

“There has been no material taken, only some pictures,” says Victor, one of the laborers and union member Andaluz de Trabajadores (SAT), driver of the action. “But if we had not returned, would be no watering gardens and chickens would have died of thirst or the dogs might have eaten them,” he continues.

Porque la ocupación no pretende ser sólo una denuncia de la falta de uso de los terrenos públicosen este caso, pendientes de una subasta, sino una vía de autoempleo para jornaleros y jornaleras en paro que están participando en la ocupación.

Because the occupation is not intended as only an allegation of non-use of public lands in this case, pending an auction, but a way of self-employment for unemployed day laborers who are participating in the occupation.

Poco antes de las tres de la tarde del viernes la Guardia Civil no se había presentado para hacer ninguna nueva identificación. Los y las ocupantes se dedican ahora a reordenar lo revuelto por el cuerpo armado (“han dejado alguna casa echa trizas, con todo revuelto y embarrado”) y a preparar los detalles del acto central del 1 de mayo que el SAT organiza precisamente en la finca ocupada. La organización prevé varios conciertos, así como talleres de autoformación sobre técnicas agrarias tradicionales.

Shortly before three o’clock in the afternoon of Friday, the Civil Guard had not submitted the occupiers  to any further identification. The occupants are engaged and now it scrambled to reorganize the destrruction by the miltary police.  (“left a house check shredding, yet turbulent and muddy”) and prepare the details of the central act of May 1 the SAT union organized precisely on the squatted farm e. The organization provides for several concerts and workshops on traditional agricultural techniques .

El SAT impulsó la ocupación de la hacienda el 4 de marzo. Las 400 hectaŕeas, en su mayoría de secano, de la finca de Somontes son sólo una parte de las 400.000 hectáreas de terreno agrícola que, según el sindicato, son propiedad de la Junta y mantiene improductivas.

The SAT drove the occupation of the property on 4 March. The 400 hectares, mostly rainfed farm Somontes are only part of the 400,000 hectares of agricultural land, according to the union, are the property of the Board and remains unproductive.

http://www.diagonalperiodico.net/spip.php?page=imprimir_articulo&id_article=18353

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anti Euro-Vegas bike demo in Barcelona +Video

Un projecte mafiós immobiliaria especulatiu amenaça convertir les darreres àrees agrícoles del Delta del Llobregat en un gran casino anomenat Eurovegas.

A real estate project mobster speculative threat became the latest agricultural areas of the Llobregat Delta in a large casino called Eurovegas.
El govern català està disposat a rebaixar al mínim les exigències legals , vulnerant drets laborals i la legislació ambiental per atraure un projecte que suposadament crearia llocs de treball.

The Catalan government is willing to lower the minimum legal requirements, violating labor rights and environmental laws to attract a project that allegedly would create jobs. 

Però.. què pensen els pobles afectats pel projecte? i què en diu la gent de Barcelona? Els ho preguntem en el sí d’una marxa ciclista, realitzada el passat 21 d’abril des de Barcelona fins al cor del Delta del Llobregat. La defensa de la sobirania alimentària quedà visibilitzada
But .. what do people affected by the project think? and what do people say in Barcelona?

EuroVegaS.. nOT HERE..OR aNYWHERE

En total, unes 800 bicicletes, precedides per tractors, han fet la marxa pel Parc Agrari, mentre un altre bloc, d’unes 400 persones, sortia caminant des de Viladecans.

Al lloc d’arribada s’ha realitzat col·lectivament una plantada d’hortalisses al terra formant les lletres del lema reivindicatiu “Aturem €vegas”,
   EuroVegaS .. NOT HERE OR ANYWHERE ..

In total, about 800 bikes, preceded by tractors, made up by the Agricultural Park, while another block, some 400 people came walking from Viladecans.

At the place of arrival vegetables were collectively planted in the ground forming the letters of protest slogan “Stop € vegas”

See also:
http://lariuada.cat/web/joomla/index.php/societat/318-una-protesta-contra-leurovegas-recorre-la-zona-del-parc-agrari