Environmental and Indigenous Activists Criticize Proposed Deal to Save Rainforests
On Wednesday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the Obama administration would commit $1 billion over the next three years toward a proposed global scheme to preserve tropical forests. It's called REDD, or Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation. As countries attempt to hammer out a final deal before the end of the summit, Anjali Kamat files a report featuring a range of concerns over what this UN-backed proposal could mean for the future of the world’s rainforests and forest dwellers.
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/18/environmental_and_indigenous_activists_criticize_proposed
Showing posts with label Brazil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brazil. Show all posts
5/17/2009
Troops to Support Police Against Peruvian Tribes
Peru army call for Amazon protest
Peru authorises the temporary use of the armed forces to support police over protests by indigenous tribes in the Amazon.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/americas/8054043.stm
Peru authorises the temporary use of the armed forces to support police over protests by indigenous tribes in the Amazon.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/americas/8054043.stm
3/20/2009
Land Use for Indigenous Rights
Land boost for Brazilian Indians
Brazil's top court approves a large reservation for the sole use of Amazonian Indians, in a boost to indigenous rights.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/americas/7954121.stm
Brazil's top court approves a large reservation for the sole use of Amazonian Indians, in a boost to indigenous rights.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/americas/7954121.stm
3/15/2009
11/29/2008
10/01/2008
6/25/2008
Gilberto Gil: Life, Music, Digital Divide
* From Political Prisoner to Cabinet Minister: Legendary Brazilian Musician Gilberto Gil on His Life, His Music and the Digital Divide
* Forty years ago, the legendary Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil was a political prisoner. Today, he is a cabinet official in the Brazilian government. As protests raged across the globe in 1968, Gil was at the center of a cultural and political revolution in Brazil known as Tropicalia. The movement was seen as such a threat to Brazil's military dictatorship that Gil was jailed, then forced into exile, where he would become one of the world's most celebrated musicians as well as a spokesperson for Brazil's emerging black consciousness movement.
Today, Gil remains one of Brazil's best known artists, as well as the country's Minister of Culture. He is now spearheading a different kind of anti-establishment revolution. This time it¹s about democratizing the distribution of intellectual property rights.
We spend the hour with Gilberto Gil in a wide-ranging interview on his life, his music, the black consciousness movement and the future of the internet.
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/6/25/from_political_prisoner_to_cabinet
* Forty years ago, the legendary Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil was a political prisoner. Today, he is a cabinet official in the Brazilian government. As protests raged across the globe in 1968, Gil was at the center of a cultural and political revolution in Brazil known as Tropicalia. The movement was seen as such a threat to Brazil's military dictatorship that Gil was jailed, then forced into exile, where he would become one of the world's most celebrated musicians as well as a spokesperson for Brazil's emerging black consciousness movement.
Today, Gil remains one of Brazil's best known artists, as well as the country's Minister of Culture. He is now spearheading a different kind of anti-establishment revolution. This time it¹s about democratizing the distribution of intellectual property rights.
We spend the hour with Gilberto Gil in a wide-ranging interview on his life, his music, the black consciousness movement and the future of the internet.
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/6/25/from_political_prisoner_to_cabinet
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