The MST has publicly denounced and taken action against GE trees. In solidarity, we are sharing their message. Brazil is experiencing a deep economic, political, social and environmental … [Read more...]
More from Int’l Women’s Day in Brazil: Women Occupy Suzano Land Against Plantations and GE Trees
Women workers report environmental impacts caused by eucalyptus monoculture and the water crisis in the region By MST Communication Group in Bahia Photos: MST Communication Translated with … [Read more...]
International Women’s Day Action in Brazil: Women from MST (Landless Worker’s Movement) Occupy Suzano Pulp Mill Against GE Trees
Women denounce loss of water, impacts from toxic agrochemical spraying and monoculture timber plantations, and future use of GE trees By MST Communication Group in Bahia Via MST.org.br Photos: … [Read more...]
Press Release – Brazil: Militant Women Occupy Pulp Mill to Protest GE Trees, Tree Plantations
For Immediate Release 5 March 2018 More than One Thousand Women Take Over Suzano Pulp & Paper Mill to Protest Genetically Engineered Trees and Eucalyptus Plantations More than one … [Read more...]
Brazil: MST Land Activists to Win Prestigious Agroecology Award
MST land activists to win prestigious agroecology award. Photo by Júlia Rohden. By Ednubia Ghisi English translation by Nate Singham NOTE: According to the national … [Read more...]
WATCH: MST Militant on Taking Back Land from Plantations in Brazil
The following trailer and the full video are in Portuguese, with Spanish spoken translation and English subtitles. El preestreno y el video completo están en Portugués, con traducción en vivo al … [Read more...]
Video: MST Fight to Take Back Land From Tree Plantations & Free Political Prisoners in Brazil
(In Portuguese with English Subtitles) The Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees recently organized an international delegation to Chile to investigate the impacts of industrial timber … [Read more...]
Organizations Urge FAO to Revise Definition of Forests
In Portuguese. Automated translation to English below. Organizações pedem a FAO que reveja sua definição de florestas Nós organizações da Sociedade Civil, abaixo assinadas, e Movimento dos … [Read more...]
On World Water Day, International Speakers Denounce Tree Plantations and GE Trees
Photo by Orin Langelle. Lucio Cuenca from OLCA gestures to crowd and man disrupting panel. On March 22nd, World Water Day, the international delegation of the Campaign to STOP GE Trees, … [Read more...]
MST Women in Brazil Take Action Against Tree Plantations on International Women’s Day
On International Women's Day (March 8), 5,000 women from the MST (Landless Movement) entered a nursery of Araupel, in Paraná Brasil, and destroyed seedlings of pinus and eucalyptus trees. It was a … [Read more...]
