Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Abortion has become the central issue in the last stages of the Brazilian electoral campaign. We are witnessing dogmatic religious sectors making tremendous pressures on the two candidates now running (second round) as well much shifting of positions and accusations on both sides.
Therefore a (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
An international call in support for the candidate of the PSOL, Party of Socialism and Freedom, in the next presidential Brazilian elections.
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FOR PLINIO DE ARRUDA SAMPAIO
A socialist candidate for the Brazilian presidential elections
The elections (…)
, by HERRERA Ernesto
The call for a congress for the formation of a new Brazilian trade union federation - the Congress of the Working Class (Conclat) - aroused enthusiasm. The Conclat proposed to unify, in a new class-conscious federation, trade union, popular and student currents resisting the offensive of the (…)
Brazil is about to pass an agreement with the Holy See establishing a Juridical Treaty with the Catholic Church. The proposal was included in the Brazilian House of Representative’s trial calendar on August 18, 2009 as Legislative Decree Project 1736/2009, and is to be voted at any moment.The (…)
Fortaleza, Brazil - Here we are celebrating the election of a local representative from PSOL, João Alfredo, former congressman. Along with a very nice votation from the mayor candidate Renato Roseno, which surpassed 5% with his 67 thousand votes, PSOL which led the Socialist Left Front with PSTU (…)
, by MST (Brazil)
Friends abroad and representatives from civil society organizations, MST is suffering an offensive launched by conservative forces in Rio Grande do Sul state.
Not only do they want to impede the land division, as determined by the Federal Constitution, but they intend to criminalize those who (…)
, by McDONNELL Patrick J.
For as far as the eye can see, stalks of sugar cane march across the hillsides here like giant praying mantises. This is ground zero for ethanol production in Brazil — “the Saudi Arabia of biofuels,” as some have already labeled this vast South American country.
But even as Brazil’s booming (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
June 1971; the young Brazilian journalist Luiz Eduardo Merlino, militant of the Fourth International, dies from torture, 23 years old. Now, his partner,
June 1971; the young Brazilian journalist Luiz Eduardo Merlino, militant of the Fourth International, dies from torture, 23 years old. Now, (…)
, by La Via Campesina
We express our solidarity with the women of Rio Grande do Sul/Brazil in their action against green deserts.
On March 4th, around 900 women of Via Campesina Rio Grande do Sul occupied the 2.100 hectares “Fazenda Tarumã” in Rosário do Sul. The women cut the eucalyptus and planted native trees in (…)
Contribution to the “Climate Change” seminar, International Institute for Research and Education (IIRE), Amsterdam, February 22-26, 2008.
1.Introduction
This paper intends to make an analysis, even if brief and not conclusive, of the environmental policy — addressing its interfaces with the (…)
, par Collective / Multiple signers
A petition is being signed to endorse the Bishop calls for final suspension of the São Francisco river diversion project. To sign it, click the above link or here :
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To : President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva To : Minister of Integration – Geddel Vieira Filho
After (…)
, by RIBEIRO Sylvia
Last October 21st, an armed militia under contract to the GM seeds multinational Syngenta invaded the Terra Livre camp in Paraná in Brazil, killing with two shots from point blank range a 34 year-old activist of the Landless Workers Movement (MST), Valmir Mota de Oliveira, known as Keno, a (…)
, by La Via Campesina
For background, see on ESSF: Brazil: Attack of Syngenta’s armed militia results in deaths and woundeds
To: Organisations of Via Campesina, allies and friends
From: The International Coordinating Committee of Via Campesina (CCI)
In response to the events of the past 21st of October, where (…)
, by La Via Campesina
During an attack of an armed militia with around 40 gunmen to the peasant’s camp at the experimental field trial of Syngenta Seeds multinational, at Santa Teresa do Oeste, at 13:30 of today (October 21st), a Via Campesina member, Valmir Motta, 32 years old, father of 3 children, was executed (…)
, by ZIBECHI Raúl
Brazil is staking its claim as a great emerging power thanks to the leadership it maintains in biofuel production. The price of this ambition is paid by the environment and by the cane cutters, who are the invisible characters in this story.
“When the airplane passed, pouring out that bath of (…)
, by MST (Brazil)
We, 17,500 Landless rural workers from 24 states in Brazil, 181 international delegates representing 21 peasant organizations from and friends from several movements and organizations, met in Brazilia from June 10th to 15th, 2007, for the 5th MST National Congress too discuss and analyze the (…)
, by Commitee of fight for the legalization of abortion
Legal and safe abortion!
A condition for the autonomy of the women! A responsibility of the State with the women!
No woman would have to be obliged to take a indesejada pregnancy ahead. To be mother does not have to be an obligation, but part of a project of life of the women. When a woman (…)
, by FASE
Table of Contents:
I. Introduction: FASE against the challenges of a new era of exploitation of the Amazon 1.1. The historical legitimacy of FASE and their partners 1.2. The worsening dispute over the destiny of the Amazon
II. The political reason for the debate Planetary solidarity
III. (…)
, by LEITE José Correa, MACHADO João
In the first round of Brazil’s elections on 1st October, a disenchanted electorate was forced to make its choices in the context of an electoral polarisation between the country’s two biggest political blocks: one around the PT and another based on the alliance between the PSDB and the PFL . (…)
, by Left Front (Brazil)
Left Front was founded at the appeal of the three parties in Brazil: PSOL, PSTU and PCB. The PSOL (Party for Socialism and Liberty) was founded in 2004 after the expulsion from the Workers’ Party (PT) in December 2003, of the senator Heloísa Helena and the deputies Babá, Luciana Genro and João (…)
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