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Via Campesina charges expanded use of genetically modified seeds harms Brazil’s environment and makes it difficult for poor farmers to compete with the nation’s rich landowners and agribusiness companies. Commenting on the Council’s decision, María José da Costa, of the Small Farmers Movement (MPA), told IPS, “We have lost some battles with the government before. But in our view, this is the greatest tragedy of the Lula government.” A letter from the Campaign for a GM-Free Brazil, reports ISP, said that sowing transgenic maize will inevitably contaminate native varieties of maize, which can be grown organically and are ecologically sound.
[Posted By ShiftShapers]Republished from Infoshop News
Hundreds of Brazilian women activists from the group Via Campesina today raided a research unit of U.S. agricultural biotech company Monsanto destroying a tree nursery and an experimental field of genetically modified corn.
Just how much of those fields were destroyed, and how, was still unknown, a Monsanto press agent said Friday.
There were no immediate reports of injuries in the invasion of the Monsanto farm about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest city.
The women were angry over the Brazilian government’s decision last month to give clearance for two varieties of GMO corn for commercial use.
The action happened four days after hundreds of members of the same group invaded a corporate tree farm owned Swedish-Finnish paper maker Stora Enso near Brazil’s border with Uruguay to protest the planting of trees that are harvested to make pulp.
In that case, police fired rubber bullets to oust the demonstrators, triggering a series of protests throughout southern Brazil that they had employed excessive force.
A spokesperson for Via Campesina, a group defending peasants and land reform, told Reuters by telephone today, “The authorization of these varieties shows once more that (President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s) government favors agribusiness and big foreign companies…
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Posted by Szamko on Wednesday, March 5th 2008
Brazil Activists Protest Police Violence Landless workers blocked roads in southern Brazil to protest alleged violence by police who ousted activists from a tree farm run by a Swedish-Finnish paper maker, protesters said Wednesday…Members of the Landless Workers Movement blocked eight roads in the Rio Grande do Sul state to call attention to Tuesday’s police operation, which they say injured 50 activists of the farm workers’ rights group Via Campesina.
yeah.
bitches be crazy
you know.. were never gonna surviiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive unnnnnless we get a littlllllle..craazy.
Brazilian landless workers vandalize iron plant of mining giant Vale Protesters from the Landless Rural Workers Movement invaded a pig iron plant in northeastern Brazil belonging to Brazilian mining giant Vale, the company said Saturday…Vale, the world’s second-largest mining company, said on its Web site that the protesters vandalized buildings and machinery at the Monte Libano charcoal ranch in an ‘extremely violent’ morning raid in the northeastern city of Acailandia.
Beware these southern women … they got the nerve. Remember the “mothers of the disappeared” movement in Argentina. They were the ones who brought down the dictatorship.