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Brazil. Quilombo Campo Grande Fights Back: Life, teachings and resistance of Landless Movement (MST)

In Brazil a tiny oligarchy still owns most of the land. The Landless Movement , MST occupied an abandoned estate and made it into a communal paradise for 20 years, with 450 families. But now the MST is under total attack from the neo fascist right under Bolsonaro and a part has been flattened and burned. The occupation continues and the MST vow to rebuild and fight on

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By Carlos Aznárez, via Latin American Summary Resumen Latinoamericano on 22 August, 2020

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Recently the Brazilian regime, through the actions of its repressive forces, invaded and destroyed a part of the camp that the Movement of the Landless of Brazil has been maintaining for 20 years in Quilombo Grande do Campo, in Mina Gerais.

It is not strange that this happens since the MST is in the sights of the bourgeoisie, the landowners and of course the genocidal government of Jair Bolsonaro, are an example of another different world and with their resistance they illuminate many and many in the continent and the world. To talk about what happened there, we contacted Daniel Pereira, a leader in the Movement’s production area, and one of the members of the attacked camp.

–Tell us how the events of the Quilombo Campo Grande camp occurred. How the police attack took place and what did the camp that Brazil’s Landless Movement has built for so many years represent

-Quilombo Campo Grande is a popular camp, located in Campo do Meio and has 450 families. It is a camp that has resisted for more than 20 years, in an area that was dedicated to the plantation of sugar cane for the production of alcohol. In this process of struggle there are two legal processes of land expropriation. One of them is the one that makes the headquarters of the old hacienda. And the rest is 3900 hectares.

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Vuelta al cole con COVID. ¿Como se Puede hacerlo? La Locura que se Avecina

Artículo de opinión de Iguazel Elhombre, afiliada del Sindicato de Administracion Pública de Zaragoza de la CGT Iguazel Elhombre Enviado por RojoyNegro_Digital el Dom, 23/08/2020 – 22:06.

Es normal que el asunto colegio les haya pillado en bragas a nuestras autoridades. No se podía saber que iba a empezar en septiembre. Estamos a 20 de agosto de una pandemia que no da tregua.

En teoría, en apenas tres semanas comienza el colegio. Pasaremos de una fase 2 en la que no te puedes juntar con más de diez personas -y la recomendación de que sean siempre las mismas- a que nuestras criaturas compartan aula con otras 25.

No sabemos de la aplicación de los protocolos en los distintos centros. No sabemos cómo abrirán los colegios o si llegarán a abrir. Es casi seguro que no habrá madrugadores ni extraescolares.

Algunos centros cambiarán su jornada partida a una continua. Desconocemos cómo será el tiempo escolar, lo que hace muy complicado planificar cómo compaginarlo con nuestros horarios laborales. Se habla de no compartir materiales. Quien lo dice desconoce cómo es el ciclo de infantil de un colegio público.

Habrá que utilizar espacios al aire libre, dicen las autoridades, que dejaron de ver colegios cuando todo el monte sería orégano. No sé qué patios se imaginan que tienen los centros públicos saturados con 4 y 6 vías y una biblioteca en un hueco del pasillo.

El principal protocolo de actuación de la administración era iniciar este curso con normalidad presencial. Ahora, a 20 de agosto, los responsables políticos ya empiezan a decir que esto no será del todo posible.

Lo peor es que se sabe desde marzo, y de entonces hasta ahora se ha dejado correr. Con la ingenuidad de creer que llegaríamos a septiembre con la pandemia bajo control y para qué íbamos a trabajar en balde en pensar modos seguros de abrir colegios.

Y aquí estamos, sin los recursos adecuados para que la normalidad rara sea estable durante el curso. Con el cuerpo escocido, sabiendo del potencial riesgo de ir al cole, contagiarnos y contagiar a nuestros familiares más vulnerables; pero pensando qué tipo de efecto puede tener en las criaturas no llevarlos – ¿Me multarán? ¿Me quitarán la plaza? ¿Les estaré convirtiendo en sociópatas al no relacionarse con otros niños desde marzo? –

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Millions of women lose contraceptives, abortions in COVID-19

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and CARA ANNA August 19, 2020

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With hospitals and medical staff overwhelmed by the pandemic and medical supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) in short supply, U.S. authorities last month recommended postponing all non-urgent surgeries. Some states used this reasoning to temporarily limit access to abortions.

NEW DELHI (AP) — Millions of women and girls globally have lost access to contraceptives and abortion services because of the coronavirus pandemic. Now the first widespread measure of the toll says India with its abrupt, months-long lockdown has been hit especially hard.

Several months into the pandemic, many women now have second-trimester pregnancies because they could not find care in time.

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Across 37 countries, nearly 2 million fewer women received services between January and June than in the same period last year, Marie Stopes International says in a new report — 1.3 million in India alone. The organization expects 900,000 unintended pregnancies worldwide as a result, along with 1.5 million unsafe abortions and more than 3,000 maternal deaths.

Those numbers “will likely be greatly amplified” if services falter elsewhere in Latin America, Africa and Asia, Marie Stopes’ director of global evidence, Kathryn Church, has said.

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The World Health Organization this month said two-thirds of 103 countries surveyed between mid-May and early July reported disruptions to family planning and contraception services. The U.N. Population Fund warns of up to 7 million unintended pregnancies worldwide.More Stories:

Lockdowns, travel restrictions, supply chain disruptions, the massive shift of health resources to combat COVID-19 and fear of infection continue to prevent many women and girls from care.

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From Lockdown to Police State: The “Great Reset” in Melbourne

Featured image: A woman walks her dogs in Fitzroy Gardens park as police and defence force officers patrol in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [David Crosling/EPA]

By Ellen Brown Global Research, August 23, 2020 Theme: Global Economy, Police State & Civil Rights, Science and Medicine

Mayhem in Melbourne

On August 2, lockdown measures were implemented in Melbourne, Australia, that were so draconian that Australian news commentator Alan Jones said on Sky News: “People are entitled to think there is an ‘agenda to destroy western society.’”

The gist of an August 13^th article on the Melbourne lockdown is captured in the title: “Australian Police Go FULL NAZI, Smashing in Windows of Civilian Cars Just Because Passengers Wouldn’t Give Details About Where They Were Going.”

Another article with an arresting title was by Guy Burchell in the August 7^th Australian National Review: “Melbourne Cops May Now Enter Homes Without a Warrant, After 11 People Die of COVID — Australia, This Is Madness, Not Democracy.”

Burchell wrote that only 147 people had lost their lives to coronavirus in Victoria (the Australian state of which Melbourne is the capital), a very low death rate compared to other countries.

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Australian police go FULL NAZI, smashing in windows of civilian cars just because passengers wouldn’t give details about where they were going

The ramped up lockdown measures were triggered by an uptick in cases due to ramped up testing and 11 additional deaths, all of them in nursing homes (where lockdown measures would actually have little effect).

The new rules include a six week curfew from 8 PM to 5 AM, with residents allowed to leave home outside those curfew hours only to shop for food and essential items (one household member only), and for caregiving, work and exercise (limited to one hour).

“But the piece de resistance,” writes Burchell, “has to be that now police officers can enter homes with neither a warrant nor permission. This is an astonishing violation of civil liberties…. Deaths of this kind are not normally cause for government action, let alone the effective house arrest of an entire city.”

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