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Almost 4,000 rainforest fires started across Brazil in 48 hours after ban on burning was passed -
Almost 4,000 new forest fires were started in Brazil in the two days after the government banned deliberate burning of the Amazon, officials have revealed.
Some 3,859 outbreaks were recorded by the country’s National Space Research Institute (Inpe) in the 48 hours following the 60-day prohibition on setting trees alight. Around 2,000 of those blazes were in the Amazon rainforest.
The figures come as the latest blow in an environmental crisis that has caused panic across the world, and which led the agenda at the recent G7 summit in France.
More than 72,000 fires had already been detected across Brazil between January and August – the highest number since records began in 2013 and an 83 per cent increase on the same period last year.
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We, the peoples of the Amazon, are full of fear. Soon you will be too. -
”For many years we, the indigenous leaders and peoples of the Amazon, have been warning you, our brothers who have brought so much damage to our forests. What you are doing will change the whole world and will destroy our home – and it will destroy your home too.We have set aside our divided history to come together. Only a generation ago, many of our tribes were fighting each other, but now we are together, fighting together against our common enemy. And that common enemy is you, the non-indigenous peoples who have invaded our lands and are now burning even those small parts of the forests where we live that you have left for us. President Bolsonaro of Brazil is encouraging the farm owners near our lands to clear the forest – and he is not doing anything to prevent them from invading our territory.We call on you to stop what you are doing, to stop the destruction, to stop your attack on the spirits of the Earth. When you cut down the trees you assault the spirits of our ancestors. When you dig for minerals you impale the heart of the Earth. And when you pour poisons on the land and into the rivers – chemicals from agriculture and mercury from gold mines – you weaken the spirits, the plants, the animals and the land itself. When you weaken the land like that, it starts to die. If the land dies, if our Earth dies, then none of us will be able to live, and we too will all die.
Why do you do this? You say it is for development – but what kind of development takes away the richness of the forest and replaces it with just one kind of plant or one kind of animal? Where the spirits once gave us everything we needed for a happy life – all of our food, our houses, our medicines – now there is only soya or cattle. Who is this development for? Only a few people live on the farm lands; they cannot support many people and they are barren.
So why do you do this? We can see that it is so that some of you can get a great deal of money. In the Kayapó language we call your money piu caprim, “sad leaves”, because it is a dead and useless thing, and it brings only harm and sadness.
When your money comes into our communities it often causes big problems, driving our people apart. And we can see that it does the same thing in your cities, where what you call rich people live isolated from everyone else, afraid that other people will come to take their piu caprim away from them. Meanwhile other people starve or live in misery because they don’t have enough money to get food for themselves and their children.
But those rich people will die, as we all will die. And when their spirits are separated from their bodies their spirits will be sad and they will suffer, because while they are alive they have made so many other people suffer instead of helping them, instead of making sure that everyone else has enough to eat before they feed themselves, which is our way, the way of the Kayapó, the way of indigenous people.
You have to change the way you live because you are lost, you have lost your way. Where you are going is only the way of destruction and of death. To live you must respect the world, the trees, the plants, the animals, the rivers and even the very earth itself. Because all of these things have spirits, all of these things are spirits, and without the spirits the Earth will die, the rain will stop and the food plants will wither and die too.
We all breathe this one air, we all drink the same water. We live on this one planet. We need to protect the Earth. If we don’t, the big winds will come and destroy the forest.
Then you will feel the fear that we feel.”
- Raoni Metuktire, environmentalist and chief of the indigenous Brazilian Kayapó people
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The Trump administration had tried to secure a tour for him on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2017, according to the Post. However, Bunch wrote that the museum arranged another date for the visit after Trump’s team requested that the museum be closed to the public for the tour.
“The notion that we could shut out visitors on the first King holiday since the opening of the museum was not something I could accept,” he reportedly wrote.
Bunch also alleged that the Trump officials told him shortly before his arrival that he “was in a foul mood and that he did not want to see anything ‘difficult,’” according to The Post.
In another passage detailing the tour, Bunch reportedly took aim at the president for not “paying attention” to an exhibit that was dedicated to the Dutch involvement in the slave trade.
“The president paused in front of the exhibit that discussed the role of the Dutch in the slave trade. As he pondered the label I felt that maybe he was paying attention to the work of the museum. He quickly proved me wrong,” Bunch recalled in the memoir. “As he turned from the display he said to me, ‘You know, they love me in the Netherlands.’ All I could say was let’s continue walking.”
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On this day, 2 September 2005, just after hurricane Katrina, New Orleans police officer David Warren gunned down Henry Glover, an unarmed African-American man who was picking up baby clothes. Some members of the public tried to assist Glover, but they were physically attacked by police officers. Another officer, Gregory McRae, then drove Glover away in a civilian’s car, then setting the car containing the body on fire. He was observed by a fellow officer laughing while he did this. Five police officers were subsequently charged. Warren was originally convicted of manslaughter and jailed, but later won an appeal and was acquitted. Tragically this was just one of many racist police murders and abuses in the wake of hurricane Katrina.
Pictured: the car where Glover’s body was dumped https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1201735870011561/?type=3
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On this day, 2 September 1945 following the August revolution Vietnam declared itself independent from France. Vietnam’s declaration of independence, modelled on the American declaration, established the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and set the scene for years of war with the French and later the US. Learn more in our podcast about the Vietnam war with Noam Chomsky: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/10/31/e14-the-vietnam-war-with-noam-chomsky/ https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1201378570047291/?type=3
