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Biofuels and Small Farmers
Victor M. Quintana S. | August 29, 2007
Translated from: Biocombustibles y agricultura campesina
Translated by: Annette Ramos
Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP) americas.irc-online.org
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The biofuels boom is not just another trend or a passing fashion....
5th Congress of Brazil's Landless Movement
Creating the Bases for a New World
Raúl Zibechi | August 23, 2007
Translated from: MST: Crear las bases del mundo nuevo
Translated by: Maria Roof
Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP)
americas.irc-online.org
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The largest social...
Soraia Soriano of Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement and the Zapatista Encuentro
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By Juan Trujillo
Special to The Narco News Bulletin
August 13, 2007
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Oventik and Morelia 23rd and 25th July 2007: Within the themes worked on with major interest and intensity in this second encuentro between the...
Dear Friends of the MST,
In this bulletin we want to talk about a very important topic for Brazil: education. But it’s impossible to speak about education without engaging in an important discussion about the economic policy that the Brazilian state has put into practice. An increase in investment in public education is the basis for...
Agri-bonanza’s ripples – Church cautiously watches ethanol boom
By Barbara J. Fraser
8/16/2007
Catholic News Service (www.catholicnews.com)
DOURADOS, Brazil (CNS) – As the bus rolls along between endless fields of corn on the highway from Campo Grande to Dourados, it is...
Biofuels menace rainforests
The arguments against burning crops for energy gather momentum
August 17, 2007 10:00 AM
Substituting fossil fuels with biofuels will not only add more carbon to the atmosphere, but will destroy primary forests, biodiversity and livelihoods, writes Tristan Farrow. The study, published in this week's...
Brazil rejects reports of Amazon logging in camps
21 Aug 2007 21:13:51 GMT
Source: Reuters
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By Raymond Colitt
BRASILIA, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Brazil's government rejected accusations on Tuesday that its settlement of poor peasants in the Amazon was fueling the destruction of the world's largest rain forest but...
Amazon forest sold off in housing scam, claims Greenpeace
By Sophie Morris
Published: 21 August 2007
The Brazilian government stands accused of selling off huge swaths of the Amazon rainforest - including its oldest protected national park - to unscrupulous logging companies, under the cover of a flawed sustainable...
In an interview with the online newspaper Tribuna da Imprensa, João Pedro Stedile, of the national MST leadership, speaks about the need to build a development model that prioritizes democratization of the land, the distribution of income, and an agriculture based on small and medium-size properties.
Today, it is no longer possible to...
Naomi Klein: From Think Tanks to Battle Tanks, “The Quest to Impose a Single World Market Has Casualties Now in the Millions”
Amy Goodman & Naomi Klein, Democracy Now!
Thursday 16 August 2007, posted by Dial
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007 - Democracy Now! News Program.
AMY GOODMAN: The State Department is coming...