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by China Environment shared with thanks September 16, 2021by cen21
“the reality is that the Biden is doing everything he can to sabotage the adoption of solar power across the globe”
Extreme heat in 2021 has broken the famous Dust Bowl record from 1936 for the hottest summer on record in the USA.
Update Late News>Brazil’s Supreme Court on Wednesday suspended the high-profile land rights case that Indigenous people in the South American nation say is vital for their survival, with no new date for when it will revisit the matter.
Brazil’s Supreme Court Minister Edson Fachin cast his vote to reject the time frame thesis and in favor of indigenous peoples’ rights.
Fachin stated: «There is no greater legal certainty than complying with the Constitution,» rebutting the ruralist argument that demarcations without a «time frame» generate legal uncertainty.
In his vote, Fachin defends that indigenous constitutional rights cannot be set back, «since these rights are linked to the very condition of existence of these communities and their way of life.»
He rejects interpretations that try to equate indigenous ownership and civil ownership, as the time frame thesis does. «Indigenous lands», he says, «are broader than ‘a set of huts’; they comprise all the territory necessary for the existence of the peoples. »
He added that «Land for the…
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Update Late News> Brazil’s Supreme Court on Wednesday suspended the high-profile land rights case that Indigenous people in the South American nation say is vital for their survival, with no new date for when it will revisit the matter.
Update Late News>Brazil’s Supreme Court on Wednesday suspended the high-profile land rights case that Indigenous people in the South American nation say is vital for their survival, with no new date for when it will revisit the matter.
«’Time frame’ is a path of the enemies of the forest against my people. ‘Time frame’ for me means stealing more Yanomami land. Stealing more from our lands that have already been demarcated, ratified and registered by the Brazilian government.»
– Spokesperson and shaman Yanomami Davi Kopenawa
Since August 22nd, over 6,000 native people from 176 indigenous nations have gathered outside Brazil’s Supreme Court in Brasilia to demand that the justices rule in their favor and reject the time limit date of 1988, adopted by the Bolsonaro government in 2016 and promoted by the agribusiness, cattle ranching, logging and gold mining sectors.
The legal appeal by the Xokleng people of Santa Catarina state, maintaining that the «time frame» is an overly narrow interpretation of indigenous rights that recognizes only the lands occupied by native communities at the time Brazil’s…
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note: We refuse to be guilt tripped into auto-austerity by governments, corporations and billionaires who knowingly cause 90% of the Climate and Biosphere collapse. We are ‘austere’ by conviction. It’s sometimes possible to live well and richly while rejecting the capitalist rat race. e.g. in our Collective we boast about not paying rent or electricity bills for the last 25 years!)
Lambeth council Citizens’ Assembly Lambeth Tackling climate change Lambeth. Lambeth is a big, busy, crowded area of south inner London, working class, mainly immigrant and descendants, with pockets of yuppification. Famous for the Brixton riots and anarcho squatters.
by newsfromcrystalpalace.wordpress.com shared with thanks
A ‘Citizens Assembly’ have produced 13 recommendations on tackling climate change in the borough. Citizen’s Assembly’s 13 recommendations on tackling the issue in the borough of Lambeth
Lambeth council say the 50 residents – chosen by an outside organisation – were asked: ‘We are facing a climate crisis. “How can we work together in Lambeth to address climate change and its causes fairly, effectively and quickly?”
Their main recommendations (with others in full below):
TRANSPORT:
To reduce the number of journeys made using private vehicles, Lambeth council together with Transport for London should review existing public transport routes in the borough to ensure greener transport options are introduced effectively and quickly based on user need.
Organisations across the borough should encourage and enable cycling through development of better cycle routes and cycle storage. Lambeth council should play a co-ordinating role, working with: neighbouring local authorities (to ensure continuity at boundaries); local and national cycling organisations (for advice);
Tirada: 1.500 ejemplares
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UPDATE 15th SEPT..Bar Association Chair, lawyers taken out of the courtroom by police force At the hearing of jailed former Nusaybin Mayor Ayşe Gökkan in Diyarbakır, the presiding judge ordered the Diyarbakır Bar Chair and lawyers out of the courtroom by police force. Gökkan’s requests for additional time and recusal have been rejected. While the lawyers and the relatives of Gökkan, who objected to the incident, were battered out, the police tried to detain Ayşe Gökkan’s niece Vedat Gökkan. They stopped after MPs and lawyers intervened. Meanwhile, Ayşe Gökkan’s elder sister Mihrican Gökkan passed out and was taken to a hospital.e “We are Kurds, we are women…
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Thousands of indigenous people have remained in the Brazilian capital since mid-August awaiting the decision of the STF.
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