Four dams are being built on the Teles Pires River — a major tributary of the Tapajós River — to provide Brazil with hydropower, and to possibly be a first step toward constructing an industrial waterway to transport soy and other commodities from Mato Grosso state, in the interior, to the Atlantic coast.
Those dams are being built largely without consultation with impacted indigenous people, as required by the International Labor Organization’s Convention 169, an agreement which Brazil signed.
A sacred rapid, known as Sete Quedas, the Munduruku “Heaven”, was dynamited in 2013 to build the Teles Pires dam. A cache of sacred artefacts was also seized by the dam construction consortium and the Brazilian state.
The Indians see both events as callous attacks on their sacred sites, and say that these desecrations will result in the destruction of the Munduruku as a people — 13,000 Munduruku Indians live in 112 villages, mainly along the upper reaches of the Tapajós River and its tributaries in the heart of the Amazon.
(Leia essa matéria em português no The Intercept Brasil. You can also read Mongabay’s series on the Tapajós Basin in Portuguese at The Intercept Brasil after January 10, 2017)
The Tapajós River Basin lies at the heart of the Amazon, and at the heart of an exploding controversy: whether to build 40+ large dams, a railway, and highways, turning the Basin into a vast industrialized commodities export corridor; or to curb this development impulse and conserve one of the most biologically and culturally rich regions on the planet.
Those struggling to shape the Basin’s fate hold conflicting opinions, but because the Tapajós is an isolated region, few of these views get aired in the media. Journalist Sue Branford and social scientist Mauricio Torres travelled there recently for Mongabay, and over coming weeks hope to shed some light on the heated debate that will shape the future of the Amazon.
In the middle of a controversy over white actor Joseph Fiennes’ new role as Michael Jackson in an upcoming British TV movie, who better to hear from than the King of Pop himself? In 1993, Jackson explained his pride in being black. That didn’t stop Fiennes from coming up with an excuse for his casting.
“When I started my musical career, I was a maid,” she told the audience. “I used to clean houses. My parents, my mother was a proud janitor. My stepfather, who raised me like his very own, worked at the post office and my father was a trash man — they all wore uniforms. And that’s why I stand here today in my black and white and I wear my uniform to honor them.”
Because I didn’t want to hijack this great post by @atheistj but I do believe there’s another reading that needs to be put out there
Cassian
Andor, played by a Mexican actor, saying to Jyn Erso, a white character, played
by a white British woman
"We
don’t all have the luxury of deciding when and where to care about something.“
Is
the greatest political symbolic moment of 2016.
Cassian
Andor, played by Diego Luna, Mexican, a Latin American, saying to Jyn Erso, a
white character, played by a white British woman, British, prime example of imperialism and
imperialism intervention
“We
don’t all have the luxury of deciding when and where to care about something.”
Is
the greates political symbolic moment in 2016.
A
Latin American with a thick accent, is saying to a British, historical allies
of the USA during the Cold War,
“We
don’t all have the luxury of deciding when and where to care about something.”
Because
the USA turned a blind eye on the atrocities committed by the Latin American
dictatorships throughout Latin America in the 20th century, because
those very same dictatorships and totalitarian governments were functional to
the USA and its allies to avoid the spread of Communism and leftist ideas, because
those very same dictatorships were either aided or orchestrated by the USA (ask
the Chileans), because the very same CIA taught torture methods that the
Argentinean and Brazilian military used on its own citizens-
Because
USA orchestrated the Plan Cóndor (Condor Plan) to subjugate Latin American
countries to their will, because they’re also responsible for the bloodsheds
and the brutal dictatorships Latin America endured, because they had the
complicity of its political allies-
Because
they rise in history as heroes and defenders of peace and democracy, when all
Latin Americans know they conveniently say after all had ended that they would
never support a dictatorship government. And the world has just taken their
word for it.
Because the USA and its allies do have the luxury of
deciding when and where to care about something, provided that it’s useful to
their interests.
I love when people try to excuse founding fathers for owning slaves and trying to say they were really against slavery and weren’t all that bad when one of their contemporaries and “forgotten” founding father Robert Carter III manumitted all his slaves, gave them the land he felt he owed them as well as training and apprenticeships, and was promptly ostracized from Virginia and political society by the likes of Jefferson for making them look like assholes. Jefferson and Washington and all of them could have freed their slaves. They could have abolished slavery. They didn’t. Stop excusing them and the atrocities they committed.
The fact manumission was ILLEGAL is some serious savagery.
How about we stop being apologists for anyone who owned slaves in the first place? Ever think of that?
White supremacists across the country have focused their attention on Whitefish, Montana, because of neo-Nazi Richard Spencer.
Spencer’s parents Rand and Sherry Spencer live in Whitefish.
Earlier this month, the town took a firm stance against Spencer’s rhetoric.
A city council meeting included the reading of a recently approved proclamation that “repudiates the ideas and ideology of the founder of the so-called alt-right as a direct affront to the community’s core values.”
An activist in the town called for a boycott and protest of the businesses in a building owned by Sherry Spencer.
In response, Andrew Anglin wrote an article for The Daily Stormer in which he targets Jewish Whitefish residents, exposing their contact information.
The article, entitled “Jews Targeting Richard Spencer’s Mother for Harassment and Exortion. TAKE ACTION!” uses anti-Jewish slurs and describes the Jewish people as “a vicious, evil race of hate-filled psychopaths.“
Anglin calls on supporters to “hit [the named targets] up,” asking “Are y’all ready for an old-fashioned troll storm?“
Targeted individuals and human rights organizations, as well as city council members, have received death threats since the article was published. Local businesses in support of human rights have also been harassed. Read more
Don’t forget they also released the name and social media information of a Jewish 7th grader who is a child of an activist. These monsters aren’t opposed to coming after our children.
They have always been okay with coming for Jewish children because to then Jews an infestation and thus not children or human.
“Looting? I thought these were supposed to be nonviolent protests”
I know it’s incredible! People are literally coming out of the woodwork to comment on this photoset to focus on the looting headline with “well yes it is nice they were helping people hit with the tear gas, but stealing is still wrong uwu” as if they’re back to kindergarten morality.
Like everyone who’s gone to boot camp I’ve been tear gassed. They put about 50+ of you in a gas chamber and toss it in. You have to stay there until your rank is allowed to exit. Before that though, you have to say your name, rank, and social security number. You then exit and file into ranks (again) outside and are not allowed at any point to rinse your face or eyes for the entire day.
That right there? Easily the worst part of boot camp. My eyes were literally swollen shut. I was blinded for a good 30 minutes and my chest hurt for days.
I have zero problem and not and ounce of judgement for people raiding a mcdonalds that can easily afford to repair damage for ANYTHING to help ease the shittiness that is being tear gassed. Esp because every one of us in boot were medically sound to deal with tear gas. Children, asthmatics, people prone to panic and anxiety attacks, the elderly as sooo many more are NOT going to handle tear gas well at ALL.
Or that smoke the police use either.
It’s easy to sit there and judge someone from the safety of your home and say things like “it’s just tear gas” or “it can’t be that bad”.
Fuck you. As someone who HAS been gassed, you need to stfu.
I remember all the preparation they did to get us ready for the gas chamber in boot camp. We were taught how to handle ourselves, how to control our breathing, not to touch anything, how to avoid the worst of the gas. But it still didn’t matter. I remember taking in that first breath and feeling like I had just been kicked in the chest. I remember a few guys in my platoon falling down and vomiting. We knew the gas wasn’t as bad on the floor but we were the fifth platoon through and the vomit kept us from bending over more than absolutely necessary. I remember a few guys, guys in peak health training to be infantrymen, breaking ranks and running for the door only to be dragged back in kicking and screaming until they said name, rank and serial. They were expecting it, trained for it, bragging about how it wouldn’t bother them. I remember standing there with all of the mucus from my nasal cavity on the front of my ACUs and thinking to myself “This is the nonviolent option?” Covered head to toe and my skin still itching I looked down at the silver wedding band hanging next to my dog tags and realized that the gas had eaten little pits into its surface. I stood there and thought of all the news reports I had seen over the years. The uprisings and revolutionaries being gassed, the crowds running from men in masks. That’s the moment I got it, staring at my ruined wedding band, that’s the moment I realized terrorism isn’t about bombs or who is using them. It’s about controlling people through fear. It’s about removing their ability to act reasonably, to make them seem like the monsters. Terrorism is about triggering people to fight or flight then blaming them for not being rational. It’s about power. Remove someone’s power to act with reason, and you remove their humanity.
Oh fuck
My god this commentary is perfect. Also a reminder that it turned out this “looting” was not that at all, the police bust that window with a bullet and the staff were gracious enough to hand milk out it seems, the protestors did not break in but even if they did just look at what they were trying to do with that milk, look at what they went through. The immense endurance that’s been shown by the people of Ferguson in the face of all this is incredible.
According to the 2010 census Dietrich had a population of 334. Over 90% of those 334 people are white. Less than 1% of those people are black, 0.9% to be exact. There are three literally less than 5 black people in Dietrich.
John was the ring leader of a group of players who continually harassed and eventually sexually assaulted their teammate. According to information from the aforementioned lawsuit, Howard led a group of students who regularly called this boy every racist name under the sun. They threw every stereotype imaginable at him. And eventually, while in the locker room alone and vulnerable, they tricked him into thinking they were going to give him a huge for a job well done. And they sexually assaulted him.
We’ll spare the details, but here are some links if interested. Or google “Dietrich Idaho.”
Please take a minute to read and share this. This is disgusting. It enables casual everyday racism I’ve experienced personally and it’s completely unbelievable something like this could play out the way it has.
Black people inspire me everyday, the world gives us shit and we take it and turn it in to something beautiful.
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…If this post is gonna continue floating around and people really wanna support them, they should know that most likely they will not find noirbnb but they definitely WILL find Innclusive.
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