Eco Rama » Environment http://eco-rama.net Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:41:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Brazil: Visible and Invisible Indians and Scoops http://eco-rama.net/brazil-visible-and-invisible-indians-and-scoops/ http://eco-rama.net/brazil-visible-and-invisible-indians-and-scoops/#comments Sat, 06 Nov 2010 02:35:44 +0000 admin Mainstream MediaBrazilian Indians were in the spotlight of world media this week and the local blogosphere has much to say about it. From the images of an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon, which were leaked first in a blog that is now claiming attribution rights for its scoop, to the enraged protest caught on camera against [...]]]> Brazilian Indians were in the spotlight of world media this week and the local blogosphere has much to say about it. From the images of an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon, which were leaked first in a blog that is now claiming attribution rights for its scoop, to the enraged protest caught on camera against the building of dams along the Xingu River in the Amazon basin where an official of Brazils national electric company got slashed by traditional machetes and clubs. Bloggers had different takes from the dominant mainstream media narratives.

Mainstream Media

Mainstream Media
Mainstream Media

Here is the Brazilian GLOBO video of the engineers encounter with the Indians.

Since the gathering in Altamira, the Brazilian media have focused mostly on the issue of violence. GLOBO included a special report in its extremely popular weekend TV magazine FANTASTICO and heres the text (computer) translated into rough English. As you can see, the focus is on the engineer and the Indians associated with the confrontation and there is very little about the many consequences of building the dam. While the Brazilian mainstream media are preoccupied with the hot story, various blogs and NGOs have been struggling to deliver the deeper messages. Encontro Xingu 08 provides great coverage of the whole event with in-depth analysis by David Cunningham and lots of wonderful photos by Sue Cunningham. The Xingu Encounter was also reported by International Rivers along with English translations of the declarations of the Xingu Peoples. And heres the (computer) translated final statement of the broad coalition of Brazilian grassroots organizations that are opposing building of th,e Belo Monte dam.Violence Vision Share

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]]> http://eco-rama.net/brazil-visible-and-invisible-indians-and-scoops/feed/ 0 Amazon: in the hands of a few http://eco-rama.net/amazon-in-the-hands-of-a-few/ http://eco-rama.net/amazon-in-the-hands-of-a-few/#comments Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:46:01 +0000 Ramana Reddy Indigenous LandCsar Salgados blog (via Altino) announces the launching of the English version of a youtube video which tells much about the lawless situation reigning in many parts of the Brazilian Amazon region. Indigenous Land Indigenous Land Farmers and politicians of the Brazilian municipality of Juna (Mato Grosso state) hinders Greenpeace activists, OPAN (Native Amazon Operation) [...]]]> Csar Salgados blog (via Altino) announces the launching of the English version of a youtube video which tells much about the lawless situation reigning in many parts of the Brazilian Amazon region.

Indigenous Land

Indigenous Land
Indigenous Land

Farmers and politicians of the Brazilian municipality of Juna (Mato Grosso state) hinders Greenpeace activists, OPAN (Native Amazon Operation) members and european journalistss visit to the Enawene Nawe Indigenous Land. Watch truculence and intimidation scenes sufered by the crew in August 20th, 2007.

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]]> http://eco-rama.net/amazon-in-the-hands-of-a-few/feed/ 0 Indians blog to defend against illegal logging along the Brazil-Peru Frontier http://eco-rama.net/indians-blog-to-defend-against-illegal-logging-along-the-brazil-peru-frontier/ http://eco-rama.net/indians-blog-to-defend-against-illegal-logging-along-the-brazil-peru-frontier/#comments Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:28:41 +0000 Ramana Reddy Cultural IdentityThe Ashaninkas are the largest indigenous group in the Peruvian Amazon and differently from the majority of the South American original dwellers, their cultural identity is greatly preserved. Apart from being among the native nations of the continent connected with the traditional use of Ayahuasca, the Ashaninkas are specially known for their use of beautiful [...]]]> The Ashaninkas are the largest indigenous group in the Peruvian Amazon and differently from the majority of the South American original dwellers, their cultural identity is greatly preserved. Apart from being among the native nations of the continent connected with the traditional use of Ayahuasca, the Ashaninkas are specially known for their use of beautiful cotton robes, or cushmas, which are woven by the Ashaninka women for the men of their tribe. Cushmas are an Ashaninkas most prized possession and there is a very long tradition of giving and exchanging cushmas and cloth with nyomparis (or trading partners) which linked distant Ashaninka villages into cycles of meetings, collaboration and resource sharing.

Cultural Identity

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Cultural Identity

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]]> http://eco-rama.net/indians-blog-to-defend-against-illegal-logging-along-the-brazil-peru-frontier/feed/ 0 Brazililian blogs follow the ethanol debate as it goes global http://eco-rama.net/brazililian-blogs-follow-the-ethanol-debate-as-it-goes-global/ http://eco-rama.net/brazililian-blogs-follow-the-ethanol-debate-as-it-goes-global/#comments Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:24:46 +0000 Ramana Reddy Lula Da SilvaEthanol has suddenly turned into a popular word among Brazilian bloggers, specially because of the foreign attention it attracts. In fact, alcohol is the word Brazilians have been using to call its sugar-cane derived biofuel since the 70s, when Proalcool started, but blogs are surely under global influence. As President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva [...]]]> Ethanol has suddenly turned into a popular word among Brazilian bloggers, specially because of the foreign attention it attracts. In fact, alcohol is the word Brazilians have been using to call its sugar-cane derived biofuel since the 70s, when Proalcool started, but blogs are surely under global influence. As President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva traveled to attend an EU-sponsored biofuel international conference last week, some blogs are tracking the global media coverage on the ethanol issue and reacting to it.

Lula Da Silva

Lula Da Silva
Lula Da Silva

An article on the Spanish newspaper El Mundo reported on Friday that the UE doesnt want Brazils dirty alcohol. The term adresses the blocks concerns over Brazilian sugar cane cultivation practices, which are seen by European leaders as potentially harmful to the environment. () Concerns over the Brazilian alcohol were manifested also by the Italian La Repubblica, who recalled the recent liberation of 1.106 workers in slave conditions in a sugar cane farm in Par state. According to the newspaper, Lula who is described as the leader with the apostle role on biofuels has not mentioned (in Brussels) the connection between the two reports. (Folha Online) ** European representative blames Lula on leading Brazil towards unsustainability. The Green Partys European representative David Hammerstein has said on Thursday that President Lula is leading Brazil through a path of unsustainability with the biofuels and that the EU should not finance the Brazilian environmental destruction. The EU should give priority to feeding and not to transportation, Hammerstein declared in a release. The representatives speech was being divulged at the same time Lula was trying to convince the European leaders that the growth on biofuel production in Brazil would not represent any social or environmental risk.
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