Altamira, Brazil – Drive about 90 minutes outside this sultry Brazilian Amazon town, and into the thicket of the jungle, and a surreal, other-worldly scene appears. It’s a place where dozens of steel arms with giant claws from land excavators cut into the red earth, carving out deep holes. There are earth movers, growling bulldozers [...]
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Gabriel Elizondo Last Modified: 20 Jan 2012 15:16 Reposted from Al Jazeera In Depth Features Joao Pimentel is a key figure behind the building of the Belo Monte Dam, Brazil’s biggest. He has decades of experience in the energy sector in Brazil, having worked in both the private and public sectors. He was interviewed by [...] Omali Yeshitela, Chairman of the African Socialist International, founder of the Uhuru Movement and leader of the Black is Back Coalition speaks at Occupy Wall Street in Oakland, California to the People of Color Caucus about struggles of African and Indigenous peoples against U.S. imperialism and Wall Street interests since its inception. Join the Black [...] The Huffington Post James Gerken First Posted: 9/15/11 09:28 AM ET Updated: 9/15/11 09:38 AM ET Last month’s worldwide protests against the Brazilian government’s Belo Monte Dam project may have ended, but concerns about deforestation and displacement of indigenous populations remain. Now, there may be something else to worry about. Philip M. Fearnside, a researcher [...] Chris Arsenault Last Modified: 01 Jan 2011 12:30 GMT Tuxtla Gutierrez, Dec 31, 2010 – Seventeen years after rallying cries for land and freedom sparked the Zapatista rebellion, a quiet mist cloaks the mountains of Chiapas state in southeast Mexico. Unlike previous years, there are no major celebrations, no marches or fiery public speeches by [...] |
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