Brazil

Brazilian Activists Occupy Gov’t Building To Protest Austerity

August 5, 2015 EFE, www.latino.foxnews.com Resist! Agrarian Reform, Brazil, Government, Landless Movement

By EFE in Fox News Latino - Some 1,000 members of Brazil's MST Landless Movement on Monday occupied the finance ministry to protest the austerity policies of President Dilma Rousseff. The MST activists arrived during the early morning, occupied the first floor of the building and blocked access to ministry officials, police said. In a communique, the MST said that the protest was called to protest the combination of spending cuts and tax hikes that the Rousseff government decided to implement to shore up public finances and straighten out the economy, expected to shrink at least 1.5 percent this year. Alexandre Conceição, a member of the national MST coordinating body, told reporters that the cuts in public spending announced by the government has reduced by almost 50 percent the funds available this year for agrarian reform.

Amazon Tribe Creates 500-Page Traditional Medicine Encyclopedia

July 2, 2015 Jeremy Hance, www.news.mongabay.com Create! Brazil, Indigenous Peoples, Medicine, Peru

By Jeremy Hance in Mongabay News - The Matsés have only printed their encyclopedia in their native language to ensure that the medicinal knowledge is not stolen by corporations or researchers as has happened in the past. Instead, the encyclopedia is meant as a guide for training new, young shamans in the tradition and recording the living shamans' knowledge before they pass. "One of the most renowned elder Matsés healers died before his knowledge could be passed on so the time was now. Acaté and the Matsés leadership decided to prioritize the Encyclopedia before more of the elders were lost and their ancestral knowledge taken with them," said Herndon. Acaté has also started a program connecting the remaining Matsés shamans with young students.

Amazonian Tribe Brings Struggle to International Stage

June 21, 2015 Christian Poirier & Brent Millikan, www.internationalrivers.org Resist! Amazon, Brazil, Dams, Energy, Hydroelectric Energy, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Resist, Rivers

By Christian Poirier, Amazon Watch & Brent Millikan, International Rivers. When Brazilian energy planners proposed to choke the Amazon’s Tapajós River and its tributaries with dozens of large hydroelectric dams, they underrated a formidable foe: the Munduruku people. The largest indigenous group in the Tapajós Basin, the Munduruku are proving to be sophisticated adversaries who are throwing a wrench in the dam industry's plans. The tribe has frequently caught the Brazilian government off guard with their tactics. They have a flair for the theatrical – they staged a series of dramatic protests in Brasilia, including a “die-in” at the Ministry of Mines and Energy – and the practical. In January, they delivered a protocol to government officials demanding a culturally-appropriate process of free, prior and informed consultation and consent (FPIC). While enshrined in Brazil’s constitution and integral to ILO Convention 169, the indigenous right to FPIC has been systematically ignored in Brazil.

Brazil Teacher Strike In Sao Paulo State Ends

June 16, 2015 BBC News, www.facebook.com Resist! Brazil, Education, Labor Unions, Teachers, Worker Rights and Jobs

By BBC News - Thousands of protesters from one of the largest teachers' unions in the Americas met in the centre of Sao Paulo to cast their vote. It began after the state government failed to offer a salary increase. A union leader said the strike had lost force when strike payments had had to be reduced. The strikers of the Union of Official Teachers for the State of Sao Paulo (Apeoesp), had been calling for a 75% pay rise. The union represents about 180,000 teachers. Last year, in the lead up to the World Cup in Brazil, thousands of protesters took to the streets in cities across Brazil to demonstrate against the spiralling costs linked to the building of the football stadiums, and corruption. Many protesters complained money was being cut from basic public services.

Is Brazil Plan For Rainforests Environmental Protection Or Exploitation

May 20, 2015 Donna Bowater, www.independent.co.uk Educate! Brazil, Capitalism, Deforestation, Environment, Nationalism

The Brazilian rainforest could be effectively nationalised under a draft bill being considered by the country’s MPs. The proposed legislation would recognise the sovereignty of Brazil over the Amazon’s natural resources and set up a national Amazonian policy council with the aim of enshrining environmental protection and regulating economic activities in the rainforest. Should the law be passed, companies wanting to operate in the area would require approval from the new state entity in return for shares of the proceeds – in a similar way to that which oil exploration concessions are granted through state-controlled company Petrobras in return for royalties. The draft bill was put forward by Sergio Zveiter, a Social Democratic MP in Rio de Janeiro, and will go before a special commission created at the end of March.

Indigenous Camp Outside Brazil Congress For Land Rights

April 24, 2015 Ashoka Jegroo, www.wagingnonviolence.org Resist! Brazil, indigenous, Land Right

Almost 1,500 indigenous people from about 200 different tribes have been protesting in Brazil’s capital as part of a National Week of Indigenous Mobilization. These actions coincide with Brazil’s Day of the Indian on April 19. The protests are aimed mostly at a new bill, known as PEC 215, that would amend the Constitution and give Brazil’s legislative body, the National Congress, the power to decide the borders of indigenous territories. Currently, the mapping out of indigenous territories is handled by the National Indian Foundation, or FUNAI, a government agency set up to protect indigenous interests. “A hundred groups from across the country are here to express their dissatisfaction and denounce attacks against their rights, which are happening in Congress,” Cleber Buzzato, executive secretary of the Indigenous Missionary Council, told AFP.

Video: Fighting The Amazon’s Illegal Loggers

April 20, 2015 VICE, www.news.vice.com Resist! Brazil, indigenous, Logging

On the Alto Rio Guamá reserve in Brazil, the Tembe tribe has been battling for decades to save its land from illegal loggers and settlers. As tension escalates, the Tembe people have now been forced to take up arms and confront the loggers, sparking violent clashes deep within the jungle. With the odds stacked against the tribe, VICE News traveled to the northern Brazilian state of Para to meet the Tembe and witness the tribe's struggle to protect its land.

Squatters Invade Building To Become Luxury Hotel

April 9, 2015 Associated Press, www.theguardian.com Resist! Brazil, Land Rights

A vast Art Deco residential building in Rio de Janeiro that Brazil’s one-time richest man was supposed to transform into a luxury hotel ahead of the 2016 Olympicshas been invaded by squatters. Around 100 people moved into the building overnight Monday and Tuesday, slipping through a breach in the wrought-iron fence. The squatters, many recently evicted from another site in downtown Rio, said they were determined to remain in the building until city officials agreed to provide them housing. “We’re only leaving here with a house. If not, we’re staying right here,” said Alexandre Pereira da Silva, an unemployed father of three, one of several squatters who spoke to reporters across the iron fence, their faces shrouded from cameras by blankets.

Brazilians Protest Against The Outsourcing Of Jobs

April 9, 2015 AP, www.AP.org Resist! Brazil, Worker Rights and Jobs

Thousands of workers staged rallies in 12 cities across Brazil on Tuesday to protest a proposed law that would allow companies to outsource their labor force. The biggest rally occurred in the federal capital of Brasilia, where some 3,000 demonstrators gathered in front of Congress hours before lawmakers were expected to vote on the measure. Except for a brief clash between police and demonstrators in Brasilia, the rallies across Brazil were peaceful. Most drew less than 500 people. In Sao Paulo, Brazil's financial and industrial nerve center, less than 1,000 people took part. The rallies were organized by the Central Workers Union, Brazil's largest labor union umbrella organization. It fears the legislation could lead to dismissals and the hiring of outsourced workers at lower wages.

Brazil’s Indigenous Struggle To Protect Land From Oil Extraction

March 24, 2015 Santiago Navarro F., Renata Bessi and Translated Miriam Taylor, www.truth-out.org Resist! Brazil, Corruption, Environment, Oil & Gas

Since the end of 2014, the publicly owned Brazilian oil company Petrobras has experienced heavy criticism, beginning with an operation called Lava Jato. Lava Jato was an investigation carried out by the federal police that identified a corruption network involving certain public officials and politicians with money laundering and organized crime. Meanwhile, in the halls of power and the media, as well as in academic spaces, a fierce debate has been unleashed regarding the topic. The discourse has become polarized between those in favor of nationalization and those who defend privatization as one of the solutions to the problem. As Luiz Ferreira, an economist and professor at the University of Sao Paolo, told Truthout, "one of the efficient ways of returning the company of Petrobras back to Brazilian society is through its privatization."

Sao Paulo: A Sea Of People Fighting For Water

March 8, 2015 Midia Ninja and Marianna Olinger, www.ninja.oximity.com Resist! Brazil, Commodification, Homeless, Poverty, Water

These sacred luxury consumer temples (where the water tanks are always full), lowered their doors before the the march that brought together 15 thousand men, women and children - a significant part dressing in MTST (Workers Homeless Movement)’s t-shirts - in addition to other left wing organizations protesting on Thursday (26/02) against the water crisis in São Paulo. It was the first major public protest on the issue and involved people like the seamstress Maria Francisca da Conceição, 69, who walked, wearing her flip-flops, the 6300 meters that separate Largo da Batata, in Pinheiros neighborhood, and the Bandeirantes Palace in Morumbi, where is the official residence of the governor Geraldo Alckmin (PSDB) is located.Maria Francisca has been a resident of an MTST occupation in Numa Pompilius, in the extreme east of the city of São Paulo, since early 2014, when she joined the homeless movement.

Occupy Golf Protests Course Built In Environmentally Sensitive Area

February 27, 2015 Keely Levins, www.golfdigest.com Resist! Brazil, Environment, Occupy, Sports

Golf’s first appearance in the Olympics since 1904 won’t happen without a few bumps along the way. While questions have been raised in court rooms about what impact the new Olympic golf course designed by Gil Hanse for the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro is going to have on the surrounding ecosystem, a group named Occupy Golf is protesting on the side of the highway near the where the course is being built. Like the more famous Occupy Wall Street, this group is attempting to make its point -- in particular about the environment and money -- peacefully. The environmental issues are straightforward: The golf course is being built on a section of land that was formerly part of the Marapendi Municipal Natural Park.

Over 2,500 Landless Families Occupy 6 Properties In Brazil

February 9, 2015 EFE, www.latino.foxnews.com Resist! Brazil, Housing, Land Rights, Poverty

More than 2,500 families are occupying six properties in Brazil's Federal District as part of a protest organized by the MTST Homeless Workers Movement, the organization said Sunday. The coordinated occupation was carried out peacefully in Brazlandia, Ceilandia, Planaltina, Recanto das Emas, Samambaia and Taguatinga, all of them cities in the Brasilia metropolitan area. The protesters plan to occupy the properties until an agreement is reached with the regional government, the MTST said. "We are going to stay here until there is an agreement with the government (of the Federal District). We spoke with them on Saturday and we set a new meeting for Tuesday," the MTST coordinator in Brasilia, Edson Silva, told Efe.

Green Neocolonialism, Afro-Brazilian Rebellion In Brazil

December 29, 2014 Santiago Navarro F., Renata Bessi and Translated Miriam Taylor, www.truth-out.org Resist! Brazil, Community, Displacement

The Afro-Brazilian Quilombola people were forced from their land in Brazil in order to make way for eucalyptus plantations, which produce toilet paper destined for Western markets. But they are resisting by replanting native trees and food crops, and working for a post-eucalyptus reality. The principal use for the cellulose found in eucalyptus plants in Brazil is disposable paper products, such as toilet paper and paper towels - products most in demand in first-world markets. Yet these types of paper products generate social and environmental impacts in places in Brazil where many communities have never even had access to them. The region known as Sape do Norte, which includes the cities of Sao Mateus and Conceicao da Barra, in the state of Espirito Santo, in Brazil, has been heavily affected by eucalyptus plantations.

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