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Nowhere to go: Brazil’s COVID ‘refugees’ struggle after eviction

By Charlotte Peet at Al Jazeera , 8 Jul 2021, shared with thanks

Informal settlements have sprung up across the country amid Brazil’s ongoing COVID-19 crisis and its economic fallout, symbols of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s failure to effectively soften the coronavirus pandemic’s blow.

Itaguai, Brazil – Miani Cristina once considered herself lucky. Her employer had kept her on during Brazil’s devastating first wave of COVID-19 infections in 2020. Her monthly income of just over 1,000 reais ($190) and a monthly handout from the government of 41 reais ($8) had kept her and her three children afloat — barely.

Then the country’s devastating second COVID-19 wave hit. Cristina lost her job. The informal work her elder 20-year-old and 18-year-old daughters relied upon vanished. Food and gas prices soared.

“I lost all of my income and could no longer pay rent,” Cristina, a 46-year-old former general services assistant, told Al Jazeera.

The government of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro froze the monthly emergency aid packages of 600 reais ($114) it had been offering, and Cristina would have to wait three months until they resumed.

Continue reading “Brazil’s Petrobras evicts thousands of destitute families in ‘1st May Refugee Camp’”

Jul 6, 21 https://itsgoingdown.org/fairy-creek-forest-defenders-take-back-waterfall-camp/ shared with thanks!!

Report from the Fairy Creek Forest blockade. To keep up with the ongoing action, follow them on Instagram for daily action reports.

Today we had a huge victory. Despite confusion earlier in the week about reducing numbers at camp (to be clear, we are NOT, and we need you now more than ever), we have managed to take back Waterfall Camp!

At about 5:30 this morning, forest defenders near Waterfall Camp executed an action that had been planned for weeks.

🌲Sunday July 4 Report
WE RETAKE WATERFALL IN HUGE VICTORY; RCMP ENFORCE FOR FIRST TIME ON A SUNDAY
Day 46 of Police Enforcement
Day 329 of Direct Action Protecting Ancient Temperate Rainforests on Ancestral Pacheedaht & Ditidaht Territories
4 arrests today
356 arrests to date. pic.twitter.com/6kioWeG4Gz

— Fairy Creek Blockade (@SaveFairyCreek) July 5, 2021

Continue reading “Fairy Creek: Forest Defenders Take Back Waterfall Camp as Climate Heatwave massacres hundreds.. .. Urgent.. Reinforcements welcome!”

by Turkish Minute.. shared with thanks

Eighteen women were murdered by men in Turkey in June and 20 more died under suspicious circumstances, in the third month since Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan withdrew from the Istanbul Convention, according to the latest report released by the We Will End Femicide Platform.

18 women killed by men, 20 more died suspiciously in Turkey in June 2021…

Nine of the women were killed at home. Twelve were murdered by their current or former husband or partner; four were killed by a relative or acquaintance; and one was murdered by her father, according to the June report.

The report further showed that nine of the femicides were committed with a gun, while four of the women were killed with a knife.

In four of the incidents, the women were murdered because they wanted to make their own decisions about their lives, such as wanting a divorce or refusing to remarry or get back together with their former husbands or partners, while two women were killed due to financial reasons.

Continue reading “Erdogan celebrates end of Women’s Rights with 18 more femicides and 20 suspicious deaths in June”