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If Brazil Allows Terra Legal Changes, Land Grabbers Win and the Amazon Loses
New bill would alter federal program meant to provide peasants with small land plots into a land giveaway for big landowners.
Brazil Assaults Indigenous Rights, Environment, Social Movements
The Temer administration is provoking violence, while trashing environmental, indigenous and social rights.
The Robot Economy: Ready or Not, Here It Comes
As more jobs are turned over to robots and algorithms, more wealth will accumulate in the hands of those already at the top of a steep pyramid.
Brazil Moves to Cut Amazon Conservation Units by 1.2 Million Hectares
Brazil seeks drastic reduction in Amazon conservation to allow private land ownership, agriculture, and logging on protected land.
Abrupt Climate Change Is Happening Faster Than Before
We need a law to regulate climate pollution just like we do other forms of pollution, to overcome doubt and apathy.
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Indigenous Groups, Amazon’s Best Land Stewards, Under Federal Attack
Brazil's Temer government, backed by the agribusiness lobby, seems determined to reduce Indigenous rights and end recognition of new Indigenous territories.
Suppliers of Lowe’s in the US and Walmart in Brazil Linked to Slave Labor in the Amazon
Slave labor-analogous conditions were revealed by investigation of logging camps in Para, Brazil.
Slave Labor in the Amazon: Risking Lives to Cut Down the Rainforest
The practice of worker-exploitation in the illegal logging industry appears widespread.
A Risk of Genocide: Protecting Amazon Peoples Endangered by Petroleum Exploration in Bolivia
The area of oil extraction in Bolivia has increased from 3 million hectares in 2007 to more than 31 million.
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Saramurillo: A Hope for Justice for Peru’s Amazonian Peoples
Could the recent mobilization held at Saramurillo be the one that finally brought much needed justice?