Land Grabbers: The Growing Assault on Brazil’s Indigenous Areas

from E360 By Jill Langlois • July 22, 2021 shared with thanks

An Indigenous Pataxó Hã-Hã-Hãe man seeks protection from military police after villagers were threatened by people who seized their land.
An Indigenous Pataxó Hã-Hã-Hãe man seeks protection from military police after villagers were threatened by people who seized their land. Isis Medeiros

Native Lands

Under President Jair Bolsonaro, illegal miners, loggers and ranchers are invading and occupying ever-larger amounts of Indigenous territory. Brazil’s original inhabitants are increasingly opposing these incursions, leading to conflicts and a surge in killings of local activists.

One afternoon last month, several vehicles descended on a village in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, where Avelin Buniacá Kambiwá and other members of some 20 Indigenous families were building their homes. Emerging from one of the cars, a man known only by his nickname, Piauí, shouted to his companions and anyone else within earshot, “Feathers are going to fly!”

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Nature’s home made energy drink! .. buzzing without caffeine

If you can’t live without your morning coffee or 2pm Red Bull when you’re flagging, then we’ve just found a treasure you’re going to want to grab with both hands.

by Nadia MendozaJuly 27, 2021 Leave a Comment on original post It’s time to take a swig of switchel.

The Switchel: The Hipster Health Drink - Eat. Fit. Fuel ...
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Nature’s energy drink! Get buzzed without the caffeine Switchel is the new Red Bull… minus the chemicals

While it might sound like the name of a new social media app, switchel has actually earned the nickname of nature’s Powerade – the drink of choice for our England Euros 2020 squad.

Switchel is a simple yet fast-track mood booster containing water mixed with apple cider vinegar and often seasoned with ginger, honey, sugar, or brown sugar.

[Credit: Kim Daniels]

It is essentially an au natural energy drink minus harmful chemicals and added sugars.

In contrast, in one can of Monster, you’ll find this… carbonated water, sucrose, glucose syrup, acid (citric acid), flavourings, taurine, acidity regulator (sodium citrates), panax ginseng root extract, L-Carnitine L-Tartrate, preservatives (sorbic acid, benzoic acid), caffeine, colour (anthocyanins), vitamins (B3, B6, B2, B12), sweetener (sucralose), sodium chloride, D-Glucuronolactone, guarana seed extract, inositol, maltodextrin.

Phew!

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United We Stood: Writings and Analysis from the Vaughn 17 prison rebels

United We Stood: Writings and Analysis from the Vaughn 17

Announcing a collection of new writings and analysis from the Vaughn 17, a group of prisoners who faced charges following an uprising at the James T. Correctional Center in Delaware. Most of the Vaughn 17 are still being held indefinitely in solitary confinement in Pennsylvania. The following text is from the preface of the new publication.

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Vaughn & Building Support for Prison Rebels

On February 1, 2017, prisoners in C–building at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Delaware took control of the building and held guards hostage in an uprising that lasted over 18 hours.

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US Drone Murder campaign Continues as Daniel Hale gets 4 years jail for Revealing Truth. ‘Up to 90% Civilian Victims’

SEE ALSO> July 28 2021… 3 innocent civilians martyred, 18 injured in U.S drone strikes – KAPISA– Sadly, Ahmad Zia and his mother were horrifically martyred by a U.S drone strike last night..

Empire of Lies. US cites ‘Human Rights’ to blockade and starve its neighbours, while continuing 100% illegal Drone Murder campaigns.

US drone whistleblower Daniel Hale sentenced to 45 months in prison

27 Jul, 2021 17:42 via RT shared with thanks. illustrations added

Daniel Hale, a former US Air Force intelligence analyst who leaked information about civilian deaths caused by drone strikes overseas, has been sentenced to almost four years in prison under the Espionage Act.

U.S. drone attack in Somalia’s southwestern region of Gedo kills at least 22

US District Judge Liam O’Grady passed the sentence on Tuesday in a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, saying that the 45-month sentence was needed as a deterrent to others from disclosing government secrets. O’Grady told Hale he had other options than to share classified documents with a reporter.

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CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL WEEK OF SOLIDARITY WITH ANARCHIST PRISONERS 2021 // 23 – 30 AUGUST

julio 19, 2021 ESPAÑOL https://anarquia.info

There is a fundamental lie in the capitalist society. A promise that never comes true.

The promise of freedom – you just have to work hard. Every time we stumble upon the crisis of capitalism we are reminded about that. More than one year of Covid-19 lies behind us.

Some say, that Covid-19 is a health crisis. But it is not! Covid-19 is another crisis caused by capitalism. Provoked by the urge of more wealth and growth.

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Spanish State: Attacks on Energy Companies: week of action against price fixing, nepotism and climate devastation

BARCELONA – MADRID, SPAIN: ACTIONS AGAINST ENERGY COMPANIES AS PART OF THE WEEK OF AGITATION AGAINST THE DEVASTATION AND THE RISE OF ELECTRICITY .

Energy companies represent the infrastructure and monopoly of capital in its maximum extension, both in its operation and exploitation (human, animal and land), as a device of social control, in addition to pollution at all levels.

On the other hand, the situation of dispossession and devastation of ecosystems and communities that have made these industries in ABYA YALA (Latin America) are catastrophic, so we consider it urgent to attack them, make them visible, and destroy them.

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Complicit in crimes against Palestinians: 160 academics from 21 countries call for boycott of Israeli universities ..Eng/Esp ..

Pro-Palestinian protests have taken place in many European countries in recent months. The protesters have called on their respective governments to impose sanctions against Israel for its crimes and to boycott Israeli products.
from www.radiomacondo.fm  shared with thanks.. read in Spanish below

Some 160 academics demand that the European Union boycott Israeli universities, accomplices of the crimes committed by Israel against the Palestinians.


The signatories have denounced the brutal repression carried out by Israel “for decades against the Palestinians who are an occupied and stateless people under a regime of colonial settlement and apartheid”, where Israeli academic institutions are implicated.

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