The forest disappears, loggers, landowners, transnational corporations take what they get from the natural resources of the region can?
Indigenous communities, small farmers, fishermen and other small and powerless communities must give way?
The legal system makes common cause with those in power, might before right?
The Brazilian national development strategy supports the economic development of the largest rain forest area of the earth. Under development is understood to still the modernization and integration of all regions in the global market.
all Amazon states, if also ruled by left-wing parties make common cause, plan routes from the Pacific to the Atlantic and north to south, across a unique natural treasure, whose preservation is crucial for the Biodiversity and the global climate. Energy, mineral resources, natural resources: the economic enticements for states, national and multinational players are huge.
Who would oppose the thing?
Brazilian human rights groups have taken part in Belem, for decades the initiative. They organize those who have no voice, they join forces to far-reaching networks and change the world.
organizations such as FASE, SDDH, UNIPOP, FAOR and others have in their battle successes make us wonder: is perceived
victims of police violence, illegal appropriation of land by large landowners and corporations and many other things wrong, documented and fought with the means of law. Rule of law, even though this is more a hope than reality. But the social movements of the State at his word, in its laws. You give without rights law, encourage them to fight for more justice, information about the promising ways of resistance against despotism.
Such as the Community Mirguella, urban landless people who occupied seven years ago, fallow, urban land of a landowner. Under Brazilian law their right. After years of confrontation with the judiciary, the landowners, the police, the drug mafia, they proudly show the result. A new settlement for working 3000 families. Unwavering own energy, using the human rights organizations and Lutheran and the Catholic Church have rewarded their existence to the continuous sacrifice.
Financial support of Bread for the world and the Church Development Service for the human rights organizations to help these groups to stick to their fight and now to live with dignity.
Reinhard Benhöfer
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