Category:The Amazon
DNIT has not met commitments to Assurini
Interview with Federal Prosecutor Rafael Silva
Topic:Land Conflicts
Category:The Amazon
This highway makes the Assurini hungry
So they closed it
Category:The Amazon
Mayor threatens Assurini Indigenous people
Exclusive: Federal Prosecutor Rafael Martins da Silva responds
Category:The Amazon
Pará police encircle 1,000 rural workers
Prosecutors warn of risk of violence and rights violations
Category:The Amazon
Lula's river privatization decree was revoked
LISTEN: People react with joy as decree privatizing three Amazonian rives revoked
Category:The Amazon
Lula’s river privatization decree revoked after Cargill offices occupied
Brazil revoked Lula’s river privatization decree after Indigenous protesters occupied Cargill facilities in Santarém and escalated pressure ahead of negotiations, averting a looming police eviction and delivering a major win for river communities.
Category:The Amazon
“We aren’t leaving”
Authorities gave a 48-hour deadline to “unblock” access roads to a Cargill grain port in Santarém and remove more than 1,000 Indigenous protesters camped outside
Category:The Amazon
Indigenous board ship near Cargill port; police respond
On Feb. 19, Indigenous protesters boarded a ship near Cargill’s grain port in Santarém, hanging banners saying “The Tapajós River isn’t merchandise” and demanding repeal of a decree privatizing three Amazon rivers. Police ordered them to leave what they called an “area of international security.”
Topic:Climate
"Shipping channels will cause deforestation."
Auricelia Arapiuns says “a series of destructive projects” — shipping channels, railways, ports, mining — threaten traditional peoples in the Amazon. The government narrative of shipping channels reducing carbon emissions is incorrect, as they’ll cause deforestation, she says. Part 2 of interview.
Dateline:SANTARÉM, Brazil
Indigenous remain in Cargill port after court overturns order to remove them
On Sunday, a higher court overturned a Friday judicial order to “unblock” areas where Indigenous groups are blocking access to U.S. grain giant Cargill’s port facility in Santarém in the Brazilian Amazon. Protesters want to halt Brazil’s plans to dredge and privatize the Tapajós River.
Dateline:SANTARÉM, Brazil
Tupinimbá chief on Cargill's role in Brazil's privatization of rivers
WATCH: I interviewed Tupinambá Chief Gilson Tupinambá, who criticizes Cargill’s alleged role in driving plans to dredge and privatize the Tapajós River and defends the protests as a legitimate response to alleged violations of Indigenous and constitutional rights.
Category:The Amazon
Why Indigenous peoples are blocking U.S. giant Cargill
EXCLUSIVE: Shaman Nato of the Tupinimbá Indigenous people explains why, for 3 weeks, Indigenous protesters have blocked the port of U.S. grains giant Cargill in the Amazon. They say they won't leave until President Lula revokes a decree privatizing three Amazonian rivers.
Category:The Amazon
Indigenous protests hit U.S. grain giant Cargill over river privatization
Since Jan. 22, Indigenous protesters have occupied Cargill’s port in Santarém, Brazil, blocking soy exports in protest over a government plan to dredge the Tapajós River without consultation or environmental licensing.
Category:The Amazon
Riverfolk are defending their ancestral territory
Category:Gaza
A Childhood Buried Alive, Death, Displacement, and Starvation
Two Years of War In Gaza
Category:Israel
Calls For Action Against Settler Violence In West Bank
Protest Outside US Command And Control In Southern Israel