Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Thu, 08/16/2007 - 03:36.
From Weekly News Update on the Americas, Aug. 5:
On July 23 as many as 500 people occupied part of a eucalyptus plantation run by the Brazilian pulp and paper company Aracruz in the coastal state of Espirito Santo. The invaders, the descendants of slaves, cut down trees and blocked roads as they occupied some 10,000 hectares they claimed belonged to them. The next day, on July 24, an indigenous group invaded the plantation and claimed about 11,000 hectares, according to a statement from the Indigenist Missionary Council (CIMI).
A spokesperson for Aracruz, the world's largest producer of bleached eucalyptus pulp, said she could not yet calculate the impact of the seizure. The land the slave descendants seized was planted with trees that would be harvested in two years. Brazilian law recognizes the rights of communities of descendants of former slaves to lands they traditionally inhabited, but the government has been slow to process the claims. A spokesperson for the government's National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform (INCRA) said rights to the Aracruz plantation were still being investigated. The slave descendants "are protesting because the process is stalled," she said. A strike at the agency has slowed progress on the case, according to the spokesperson. (Reuters, July 24 via Friends of the MST)
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More land occupations in Brazil
From Weekly News Update on the Americas, Aug. 5:
On July 23 as many as 500 people occupied part of a eucalyptus plantation run by the Brazilian pulp and paper company Aracruz in the coastal state of Espirito Santo. The invaders, the descendants of slaves, cut down trees and blocked roads as they occupied some 10,000 hectares they claimed belonged to them. The next day, on July 24, an indigenous group invaded the plantation and claimed about 11,000 hectares, according to a statement from the Indigenist Missionary Council (CIMI).
A spokesperson for Aracruz, the world's largest producer of bleached eucalyptus pulp, said she could not yet calculate the impact of the seizure. The land the slave descendants seized was planted with trees that would be harvested in two years. Brazilian law recognizes the rights of communities of descendants of former slaves to lands they traditionally inhabited, but the government has been slow to process the claims. A spokesperson for the government's National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform (INCRA) said rights to the Aracruz plantation were still being investigated. The slave descendants "are protesting because the process is stalled," she said. A strike at the agency has slowed progress on the case, according to the spokesperson. (Reuters, July 24 via Friends of the MST)