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Militant Brazilian Opposition to Bush-Lula Ethanol Accords
By Isabella Kenfield and Roger Burbach
São Paulo – During Bush’s visit to Brazil thousands of poor, rural members of the international Via Campesina social movement and the Brazilian Movement of the Landless Rural Workers (MST) orchestrated massive, non-violent occupations...
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's government said on Wednesday a plan to tap the Sao Francisco river for drinking and irrigation water was environmentally sound, responding to days of protests against its largest public works project.
The proposal would pump water to residents and farms in Brazil's dry Northeast, where President Luiz Inacio...
The Myth of Biofuels
Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Edivan Pinto - Marluce Melo - Maria Luisa Mendonça*
Recent studies about the impacts caused by fossil fuels contributed in highlighting the theme of bioenergy . The energy matrix is composed of petroleum (35%), coal (23%) and natural gas (21%).On their own, the ten richest countries...
SPECIAL REPORT BRAZIL
Brazil's ethanol slaves: 200,000 migrant sugar cutters who prop up renewable energy boom
Tom Phillips in Palmares Paulista
Friday March 9, 2007
The Guardian
Behind rusty gates, the heart of Brazil's energy revolution can be found in the stale air of a squalid red-brick tenement building....
Brazilians Protest Upcoming Bush Visit
By STAN LEHMAN
The Associated Press
Wednesday, March 7, 2007; 5:34 PM
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RIO DE JANEIRO, March 7 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Brazilian peasants briefly occupied an iron ore
mine on Wednesday and invaded a sugar mill in the latest of several protests ahead of U.S.
President George W. Bush's visit to the country.
A spokeswoman for the Via Campesina (Peasant Way) group said over 500 female activists had...
Brazil's Ethanol Plan Breeds Rural Poverty, Environmental Degradation
Written by Isabella Kenfield
Wednesday, 07 March 2007
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On January 22 the Lula administration announced it will increase federal funding for Brazil's sugar-based ethanol industry by almost US$ 6 billion over the next four years. One day later, U.S....
Via Campesina women protest against a Cargill ethanol plant in São Paulo
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This morning, more than 900 women from Via Campesina occupied the Cevasa sugarmill in the region of Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo state. Cevasa is the largest sugarcane company in Brazil, and was recently sold to Cargill, one of the largest agricultural...
Full Tanks at the Cost of Empty Stomachs: The Expansion of the Sugarcane Industry in Latin America
We, representatives of organizations and social movements of Brasil, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Colombia, Guatemala, and the Dominican Republic, gathered at a forum on the expansion of the sugarcane industry in Latin America, declare that:
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