Brasil: Asesinan a defensor de los bosques

Português · Brasil: Defensor da Floresta é Morto

Français · Brésil : Un défenseur de la forêt assassiné

bahasa Indonesia · Brazil: Forest Defender Shot Dead

English · Brazil: Forest Defender Shot Dead

Brasil

Mientras el congreso brasileño debate un nuevo Código Forestal, y el Ministerio del Medio Ambiente lanza nuevas acciones [ing] sobre la tala ilegal en Brasil, el defensor de los bosques José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva fue asesinado a tiros [pt]. Él había anunciado [pt] que su vida estaba amenazada en la conferencia TEDxAmazonia, el pasado noviembre.

via Brasil: Asesinan a tiros a defensor de los bosques · Global Voices en Español.

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

toma la calle. Solidarity #spanishrevolution in Dublin –

Ya Basta! Solidarity with #spanishrevolution in Dublin

category international | rights and freedoms | news report author Sunday May 22, 2011 21:11author by Trade Union TVauthor email tradeuniontv at gmail dot com Report this post to the editors

Hundreds took part in a joyful protest in Dublin in solidarity with the Europe Summer protests in Spain. This is a flavour of the Dublin solidarity protest.

This is the Manifesto of the Spanish Revolution- just watch the video!

We are ordinary people. We are like you: people, who get up every morning to study, work or find a job, people who have family and friends. People, who work hard every day to provide a better future for those around us.

Some of us consider ourselves progressive, others conservative. Some of us are believers, some not. Some of us have clearly defined ideologies, others are apolitical, but we are all concerned and angry about the political, economic, and social outlook which we see around us: corruption among politicians, businessmen, bankers, leaving us helpless, without a voice.

This situation has become normal, a daily suffering, without hope. But if we join forces, we can change it. It’s time to change things, time to build a better society together. Therefore, we strongly argue that:

via Ya Basta! Solidarity with #spanishrevolution in Dublin – Indymedia Ireland.

toma la calle. Marruecos/ disuelto violentemente protestas 22M

Marruecos/ disuelto violentemente protestas 22 mayo

La policía marroquí ha disuelto violentemente las protestas del 22 de mayo, que se estaban llevando a cabo a pesar de la prohibición. En Rabat los manifestantes intentaron reunirse en la plaza fuera del parliamento; pero el régimen marroquí, por el miedo de una situación tipo plaza Tahrir, hizo lo posible para evitarlo.

By: Yassine Channouf. Del holandés al inglés: Mariam El Maslouhi.

No es una novedad que en los paises árabes se asocie Marruecos con la magia negra. Pero ahora están realmente pasando cosas estrañas, en este reino. El 26 de abril cinco activistas del movimiento 20 de febrero han muerto en Guercif mientras iban de camino hacia una asamblea del movimiento revolucionario en Rabat. ¿Accidente?

El 28 de abril algunos “desconocidos” explotaron un bar en Marrakech, en una de las plazas más turísticas de Marruecos. 16 muertos, casi todos turistas occidentales. “Es un trabajo de los servicios secretos” susurran algunos marroquies. La pregunta es: qué interés tienen en un ataque terrorista en Marruecos?

Los únicos interesados en desestabilizar el país es el estado marroquí mismo, y elementos contrarevolucionarios de fuera. Pueden acusar al movimiento 20 de febrero de contribuir a la desestabilización del país con sus manifestaciones.

CONTINUAR::mucho mas……

via Indymedia Barcelona: Magia en Marruecos durante la primavera árabe.

#spanishrevolution.. para destruir el capitalismo…

Si no es para destruir el capitalismo… ¿para qué?
24 mai 2011
Huracanes en EEUU, terremotos en Centramérica, tsunamis en Japón. Contaminación nuclear con opacidad informativa, destrucción del territorio por grandes empresas en todos los lugares del mundo, guerras imperialistas en Libia, Irak, Afganistán, por el control de los recursos naturales y la posición geoestratégica. Empeoramiento de condiciones de trabajo en Occidente (perdida de pensiones, aumento del paro, disminución de salarios, desmantelamiento de sanidad, educación y asistencia social), mantenimiento (o empeoramiento) de condiciones de vida en países pobres, destrucción de modos de vida locales en todo el mundo, revueltas en el Magreb y otros países árabes, huelgas y manifestaciones en Grecia, Chile, Reino Unido, Francia, España, Italia…
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El capitalismo, como sistema basado en el dinero y la mercancía, en la esclavitud del trabajo asalariado y el miedo a la exclusión social, es responsable de lo que pasa. Hasta que no cuestionemos la esencia del Capital y el Estado que lo respalda, no habrá cambios sustanciales. No queremos la gestión de los hospitales, de las escuelas, de la asistencia a lxs necesitadxs (necesitadxs precisamente por la misma precariedad que produce este sistema), mientras exista dinero, mercancías y relaciones mediadas por ellos. No queremos la gestión de algo basado en los mismos presupuestos. Queremos su desaparición. Y sabemos (al menos intuimos por la fuerza de la memoria, de la historia) que no habrá cambio sin violencia porque lxs que viven bien a costa de esto no querrán perder sus derechos. Entre ellxs políticos, empresarios, banqueros, especuladores de todo pelaje, comerciantes… Esto, a nuestro pesar.

Desde hoy los telediarios ya empiezan a cuestionar las acampadas. Ahora ya dan problemas. Desde lxs que llevan un negocio al lado y se ven afectados en sus ventas hasta los que distribuyen mercancías y ven dificultado el paso. Porque habrá problemas para celebrar la victoria del Barça o porque hay que hacer un desfile militar. Las excusas son variadas. La noticia ya no satisface el ansia de novedad. Es lo que tiene la vida de consumo y el consumo de la vida.

Si se quiere seguir adelante habrá que decidir si sequiere cuestionar realmente el status quo del capitalismo o replegarse hasta desaparecer tras 5, 10 ó 15 propuestas formales de mejorar lo existente (en nuestro ámbito nacional[1]) y esperar a que ‘nuestros políticos’ las hagan realidad. Y luego… hasta ´el próximo momento de indignación. La alternativa pasa por interrumpir la circulación del capital, la toma de lo que necesitamos, la ruptura con los gestores de la salud, de la educación, de la seguridad, de la defensa, de la cultura… y la propia organización y autogestión. Seguro que todxs no estaremos de acuerdo, pero habrá que arriesgarse.

[1] No olvidemos que lxs griegxs dependen también de lo que hagamos el resto de explotadxs de otros países. En los últimos días piden solidaridad internacional. Allí las condiciones son ya insostenibles y el Capital no tiene nada que ofrecerles, por lo que la represión es la respuesta del Estado. La revuelta permanente es la mejor solidaridad con nuestrxs hermanxs.

Mira també:
http://amotinadxs.blogspot.com/

toma la calle Londres.”They all must go!” .take the streets.

“They all must go!” …

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Tagged as: culture cuts demo2011 democracia_real_ya free_spaces real_democracy_now social_struggles solidarity spanish_revolution true_democracy_now workers_struggles
Neighbourhoods: belgravia spain westminster

… people kept shouting last night outside the Spanish embassy in Belgravia. Since Wednesday 18th large crowds of mainly spaniards living in London are following a call to demonstrate and to express anger about the “political, economic, and social outlook which we see around us: corruption among politicians, businessmen, bankers, leaving us helpless, without voice.”

On Friday 20th around 300 people showed up at Chesham Place for a ‘pots & pans’ protest, coinciding with hundreds of ‘cacerolazo’ protests called thorughout Spain as part of the ‘Spanish Revolution’ currently taking place all over the country. After the protest, a public assembly took place where, amongst other things, people debated the practicalities of setting up camp till Sunday 22nd. As a result, around 50 people spent the night outside the embassy, and there are plans for further demonstrations today Saturday and Tomorrow Sunday [See Real Democracy London blog]

Latest: Protest set to continue this week. Daily popular assembly takes place from 7 to 9pm.

See pics of the London protest and read about the background story …

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Crowd gathering outside the Spanish embassy
front view of the crowd

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/