Belo Monte : death threats for Indigenous resistance

Indigenous leaders threatened with death

Indigenous leaders, community members, rural workers and members of social

movements are receiving death threats because of their opposition to the Belo

Monte Dam Complex on the Xingu River in Pará, Brazil.

The threats, which have been going on for some time now, are adding to an

extremely tense situation which has only worsened […]

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Brasília, Brazil – The Brazilian government has issued the full installation license allowing the Belo Monte Dam Complex to break ground on the Amazon’s Xingu River despite egregious disregard for human rights and environmental legislation, the unwavering protests of civil society,..Continue Reading..https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/final-go-ahead-for-belo-monte-amazon-tragedy/

Amazon Watch has organized a “Cause” at Facebook:

“This has been a time of tragedy in the Amazon. This week the Brazilian government green-lighted construction on the monstrous Belo Monte Dam despite searing local, national and international opposition.

Yet despite the initiation of this criminal operation, I can assure you that the battle to defend the Xingu River and its people is far from over. “I have just returned from the Brazilian Amazon, where Chief Raoni gathered with hundreds of Kayapo warriors, indigenous leaders from 18 ethnicities, and leaders from the Xingu Alive Forever Movement (MXVPS).

“This is the last chance we have to paralyze Belo Monte’s construction,” Renata Pinheiro told the indigenous assembly. “The future of the Xingu is in your hands, indigenous peoples and social movements. You succeeded in stopping Belo Monte for 30 years – now more than ever we need to strengthen our resolve, joining forces to stop the beginning of construction.”

Amazonia: Dinho, Claudio and Maria murdered!.Forest criminals to be amnestied!

SLAUGHTERING THE AMAZON.. With the new Forest Law and amnesty for Forest crimes the ranchers and loggers are taking their opportunity by terrorist murders. Their business is the destruction of the Amazon, now with more impunity, to satisfy the demands of criminal capitalist transnationals like Burger King and MacDonalds.
Adelino  Ramos was killed for openly confronting the beef and timber mafia. Shot to death by cowardly bastards at his street stall while selling his forest produce. He was a famous ex leader of the  Movimiento Campesino Corumbiara and had survived a fascist massacre a decade ago. Un motociclista lo mató a tiros en Rondonia, norte del país.

Just 3 days before they got José Claudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife, Maria do Espírito Santo da Silva, shooting her first and cutting off her ears. Claudio and Maria were outspoken forest defenders and cultivated Amazon produce.

At the time of murder Adelino, or ‘Dinho’,  was busy setting up a camp for people displaced by the wholesale massacre of the forest. He had been repeatedly threatened and recently denounced the escalating forest destruction in Acre, Amazonas y Rondonia states.

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.

In just a few days we have the news of a seven fold increase in deforestation, the disgraceful passing of the new Forest Law (see other posts) by fascist landlords allied with greedy corrupt politicians, companies, and media, the go ahead and 1st contracts for the Belo Monte dam, and the signing of deals to let BP, of all companies, exploit the ultra deep oil bonanza near Rio.

International resistance has failed miserably despite the best efforts of Avaaz and Greenpeace. Resistance needs to be informed and intelligent, or it plays into the hands of nationalists who argue that ‘rich parasitic 1st Worlders have no right to lecture us after decimating their own forests, etc’.

June 12th ,,Majority against Forest Sellout.  see post here

https://thefreeonline.wordpress.com/2011/06/12/most-brazilians-reject-forest-destruction-law-2/

Most Brazilians reject Forest Destruction Law

”The surprise passing of the new Forest Law in the lower house of the Brazilian congress is due to a campaign by multinational  agribusiness and the big landlords who still own most of the country. The proposed amnesty for forest crimes has caused a 6 fold increase in deforestation already. The huge majority in favour can be traced to generalized corruption of politicians, this week Lula’s right hand man, Antonio Palocci  was politely pushed aside after blatantly stealing $12.5 million. The landowners and agribusiness BOUGHT THE PARLIAMENT to cash in on ripping out the rainforest! This scandal is linked to the murders of pro Amazon activists, the going ahead contracts for Belo Monte, and the signing to BP rights to extract deep sea oil in Rio.” The Free

Majority of Brazilians reject changes in Amazon Forest Code Rhett Butler, mongabay.comJune 11, 2011

Poll takes temperature on Brazilian’s support for a bill that environmentalists say would weaken the Forest Code, which stipulates protection for forest areas on private lands in the ThAmazon. It finds 79% of Brazilian support presidential veto of Amazon Forest Code revision and raises questions on public support for politicians who support the proposed revision,

The vast majority of Brazilians reject a bill that would weaken Brazil’s Forest Code, according to a new poll commissioned by green groups.

The national poll asked 1286 Brazilians across a wide range of socioeconomic classes about their opinions on a Forest Code reform bill that passed Brazil’s lower house month. Environmentalists say the bill—in its present form—would grant amnesty to those who illegally cleared rainforest and would absolve them from taking reforesting lands as required under current Brazilian law. It would also reduce requirements for protecting forest on hillsides, along waterways, and on hilltops. The bill next heads to the Senate. If it passes, it would then most on to President Dilma Rousseff for final approval.

The survey found 79 percent in favor an eventual veto from Rousseff should the current bill pass the Senate. 84 percent agreed they would not vote for representatives or senators who had voted in favor of “pardoning illegal deforestation”.

The telephone survey was conducted by Datafolha at the request of Brazilian environmental groups Amigos da Terra – Amazônia Brasileira (Friends of the Earth – Brazilian Amazon), IMAFLORA, IMAZON, Instituto Socioambiental (the Socio-environmental Institute), SOS Atlantic Forest and WWF-Brazil. The poll had a margin of error of 3 percent.

Surprisingly most Brazilians indicated a preference for forest conservation over commodity production. Given a choice between giving priority to forest protection that may eventually limit agricultural and livestock production or giving priority to production at the expense of some forest protection, 85 percent of respondents chose protection.

The findings are in sharp contrast to the broad support for the bill in Brazil’s lower house of Congress, where it passed easily. The bill has been championed by Aldo Rebelo, the head of Brazil’s Communist Party, with support from industrial agribusiness interests, including the National Agriculture Confederation and companies like Bunge, a U.S.-based commodities giant. But the bill has generally been opposed by small farmer groups and the rural poor.

Speculation over passage of the bill — and potential amnesty for deforestation beyond what is allowed under the current Forest Code — is thought to be a contributing factor to the surge in deforestation this year. Data release last month by Brazil’s National Space Research Agency (INPE) revealed that 593 square kilometers of forest was cleared between March and April 2011, an area of rainforest 10 times the size of Manhattan and a 473 percent increase over the 103.5 square kilometers chopped down from March-April 2010. The increase reversed the downward trend in deforestation since 2004

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Rash of murders threatens to silence environmental and social activism in Brazil

(06/10/2011) Authorities in Brazil have sent an elite police force consisting of 60 officers to offer protection to environmental activists in the Amazon after a series of killings, reports the Associated Press. The move comes 10 days after Brazil’s Vice President Michel Temer announced the creation of a working group on Amazon violence following the assassinations of three activists in the region in late May. The Brazilian Amazon is no stranger to systemic violence against environmental activists, yet the response from the federal government in the past two weeks is the most significant to date.

Assassinations of environmentalists continue in Brazil’s Amazon, deforestation rises

(05/28/2011) A community leader in the Brazilian Amazon was slain Friday just three days after two environmentalists were killed in a neighboring state, reports Reuters. Adelino “Dinho” Ramos, the president of the Movimento Camponeses Corumbiara e da Associação dos Camponeses do Amazonas, a small farmers association, was gunned down front of his family Friday morning in Rondônia. Brazil’s Special Secretariat for Human Rights, an office of the president, said it was unclear who killed Ramos, who had received death threats from loggers.

Amnesty for illegal rainforest loggers moves forward in Brazil

(05/25/2011) A controversial bill environmentalists say could increase deforestation in the Amazon rainforest moved a step forward to becoming law in Brazil after winning approval in Brazil’s lower house of Congress. The measure, which has been hotly debated for months, next goes to the Senate where it is expected to pass, before heading to President Dilma Rousseff, who has vowed to veto any bill that grants amnesty for illegal deforestation. The bill includes such a measure, although it could be subject to change before a final decision by the president. The bill aims to reform Brazil’s Forest Code, which requires landowners in the Amazon rainforest to maintain 80 percent of their holdings as forest.

Brazil confirms big jump in Amazon deforestation

(05/18/2011) New data from the Brazilian government seems to confirm environmentalists’ fears that farmers and ranchers are clearing rainforest in anticipation of a weakening of the country’s rules governing forest protection. Wednesday, Brazil’s National Space Research Agency (INPE) announced a sharp rise in deforestation in March and April relative to the same period last year. INPE’s rapid deforestation detection system (DETER) recorded 593 square kilometers of forest clearing during the past two months, a 473 percent increase over the 103.5 sq km chopped down from March-April 2010

15-M. Ofensiva policial.Cargas en Salamanca

De Kaos en la Red: En Salamanca: La policía ha secuestrado cámaras de foto y video. Desde Twitter piden que quienes tengan fotos o cualquier material audiviosual lo publiquen sin demora. Puede que haya detenidos. Una compañera herida (ver foto), probablemente tenga la nariz rota. Los perros del Capital han usado gas pimienta, porras, patas, cercad, y algunos se han quitado el número de identificación a la hora de actuar. Nuestrxs compañerxs, tras un acto en una charla de Intereconomía, han encontrado a Julián Lanzarote (PP) y lo han seguido pacíficamente. La policía ha cogido a una compañera que estaba grabando con el móvil, se lo han quitado y le han retorcido el brazo, mientras empezaban a cargar al resto. Han usado spray de pimienta, porras y han dado patadas.5 compañerxs están en el centro de salud, unos por contusiones y otros por el gas. AGRESIÓN INDISCRIMINADA DE LA POLICIAL LOCAL Y SECRETAS (Policia Nazional) DE LANZAROTE PARA LOS CIUDADANOS EN CALLE TORO (SALAMANCA)

Millions will be Fleeing Floodwaters

(  ”Governments worldwide are laying plans for millions of deaths as Capitalism goes for broke, wilfully ignoring the Science that points to runaway climate change and a finally a planet only inhabited by rich dictators in bunkers. The war against the people and all the species of the world has already begun. It would only be logical self defense to start shooting extreme Climate Criminals tomorrow.” The Free   )

OSLO, Jun 9, 2011 (IPS) – Mass migration will inevitably be part of human adaptation to climate change, experts agree, since parts of the world will become uninhabitable in the coming decades.

Last year, 38 million people were displaced by climate-related disasters such as the flooding in Pakistan and China.

“Human displacement due to climate change is happening now. There is no need to debate it,” Jonas Gahr Støre, Norway’s minister of foreign affairs, told over 200 delegates attending the Nansen Conference on Climate Change and Displacement in the 21st Century in Oslo Jun. 6-7.

Governments and the humanitarian community need to understand this fact – and that it will get much worse in the coming decades, Støre said.

Without major emissions reductions, climate change could get far worse than anyone is prepared to think about.

“It may be more realistic to consider four degrees C of warming rather than two degrees C,” suggested Harald Dovland, former head of the Norwegian Delegation to the United Nations climate change negotiations.

The world has already warmed 0.8C and will rise to least 1.6 C even if all emissions of carbon and other greenhouse gases ended today, James Hansen, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told the conference.

A four-degree C warmer world is a very different planet and risks runaway climate change. Even two degrees C is not safe, Hansen said.

“The last time the planet was two degrees C warmer was during the Pliocene (five to 2.4 million years ago) and sea levels were 25 metres higher,” he said. “If we burn all the fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas) we’re creating conditions that future generations will be unable to cope with.”

Even though a four-degree C warmer world “is choosing the suicidal path”, experts must avoid fuelling xenophobia with predictions of mass migrations and conflicts, says Francois Gemenne, research fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations in Paris.

“This also feeds into a security agenda of panic and paranoia,” Gemenne said.

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#spanishrevolution..ofensiva policial…

La Policía reprime a manifestantes del 15-M en el Ayuntamiento de Madrid
by La Hainehttp://www.lahaine.org/index.php?p=54318 11 Jun 2011

Protestaban durante la investidura de Gallardón, al menos 3 heridos. En Valladolid, tres heridos. Detenciones en Burgos y Palma y más cargas en Tenerife

La Policía ha dispersado con violencia esta mañana a los manifestantes concentrados en las inmediaciones de la plaza de la Villa de Madrid. Allí se ubica el antiguo Ayuntamiento, donde se celebraba la sesión de investidura del alcalde de Madrid, el derechista Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón. Los agentes han dispersado con violencia (a patadas, puñetazos y empujones) a los manifestantes que protestaban con una cacerolada desde antes del inicio del pleno. La policía había bloqueado todos los accesos a la Plaza de la Villa, pero no la parte trasera en la que se sitúa la entrada del aparcamiento.

Heridos en Valladolid

En Valladolid, tres jóvenes indignados han resultado heridos esta madrugada, después de que un grupo ajeno al colectivo haya golpeado a varios manifestantes. Fuentes de la Policía Nacional han asegurado que se trataba de dos personas “pasadas de copas” que han entrado en el campamento y se han enzarzado en una pelea con los manifestantes, por lo que han sido identificadas, aunque no detenidas dada la “levedad” de los hechos. Otras fuentes hablan de elementos fascistas.

Detenciones en Burgos

También se han producido detenciones. Dos personas fueron detenidas este mediodía en la protesta a las puertas del Ayuntamiento de Burgos. Fuentes de la Policía Nacional aseguran que uno de ellos propinó un golpe en la espalda a uno de los agentes, mientras que otro fue detenido por sacar fotografías a los policías, según testigos presenciales.

Palma de Mallorca

Tres “indignados” del Movimiento 15-M han sido detenidos hoy por la Policía Local por trepar hasta el balcón del Ayuntamiento de Palma después del acto de constitución del consistorio celebrado esta mañana, han informado fuentes policiales.

Desalojo en Alicante

En Alicante se ha producido el desalojo sin mayores incidentes. Frente al Ayuntamiento alicantino una treintena de indignados que pasaban la noche para protestar contra la corrupción y manifestar contra la investidura de la alcaldesa entrante, la derechista Sonia Castedo, fueron obligados a abandonar la plaza a las 7.30 de la mañana.

Cargas en Tenerife

Efectivos del Cuerpo Nacional de Policía han efectuado varias cargas a lo largo de la tarde contra los ciudadanos que se manifestaban en los exteriores del Ayuntamiento de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, mayoritariamente miembros del Movimiento 15-M y de la Plataforma contra el Plan General.

Más de un centenar de ciudadanos se manifestaron durante toda la mañana en el exterior de la Casa de los Dragos mientras que en su interior, José Manuel Bermudez, era elegido alcalde de Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Zamora

Según ha relatado la Cadena Ser de Zamora los incidentes han sido muy duros, con intervenciones policiales desde el primer momento que se han concluido con fuertes cargas y algunos heridos. No hemos dado con ninguna información actualizada pues los hechos son relativamente recientes. (Fuente valladolorentodaspartes.blogspot.com)

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Greece: this is the war that was given up for dead

Class struggle in Greece :: Measures passed – Second day of demonstrations :: Three refections about the Greek struggle :: Simeon arrested after being shot by the police :: ¡¡We can!! :: This is a robbery :: This is the war that was given up for dead :: Statement from a Marfin Bank employee about today deaths in Athens :: Greece explodes :: Wild strike in Athens :: Greece strike update at 19.00: violent repression, three people dead in Athens :: Uprising message from the Acropolis :: Gathering outside the Greece consulate in Valencia :: At least three people dead in Greece demonstrations :: More than 200 greek comrades from KKE, dress up the Athens Acropolis as prelude for the May 5th general strike :: Can’t pay, Won’t pay: Solidarity with the people of Greece

previous news: March 2010: Anarchist Lambros Foundas killed by police in Athens, Greece :: Communiqué from the Athens Anarchist Archive about the police murdering of comrade Lambros Foundas february 2010: Greece runs out of gasoline due to the custom strike :: Nikollas Todi, a 25 year youth, dead by police bullets, January 2010: A ”failed arrest” and imprisoned comrades moved

relatred news: The end of economic globalization? :: Call for solidarity with Giannis Dimitrakis :: Attempt to cover up the murder of Alexis Grigoropoulos :: The Philadelphia Experiment (hysteria and police control in the “Revolutionary Struggle” case :: Workers pay the crisis and employers use it to blackmail :: Running up against the FMI!

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continuidad de #acampadaBCN

Sobre la continuidad de #acampadaBCN y su presencia en la plaza

#AcampadaBCN decide por mayoría en asamblea levantar entre mañana y el domingo algunas de las infraestructuras de la plaza después de una asamblea muy conflictiva.

Finalmente, después de la lluvia, de que algunas comisiones se manifestaran a favor de seguir en la plaza y otros, Plaza Catalunya seguirá funcionando como ágora en la que se realizaran las asambleas periódicamente, llamado a ser el punto de encuentro de toda la ciudadanía y espacio de participación y donde se realizarán distintas actividades durante el día y la noche.

La asamblea general de #AcampadaBCN ha decididó hoy, a raíz de lo acordado el pasado domingo, desmontar  las infraestructuras de las personas y comisiones que se quieren ir entre mañana y el domingo.  No obstante, permanecerán las infraestructuras, sonido, extensión, información, sinergia, medio ambiente, acción, internacional necesarias para seguir tanto de dia como de noche. También otras comisiones siguen funcionando en la plaza, y habrá muchas actividades durante el día.

Durante el día se realizarán actividades y las asambleas generales tendrán lugar los martes, viernes y domingo, por lo tanto el resto de los días y a la misma hora micrófono abierto e informes  de las distintas comisiones. Además, todas las comisiones existentes seguirán en activo e interconectadas, asegurando así la continuidad del movimiento 15-M.