Love, joy and resistance: Satish Kumar’s advice to ‘seed-activists’ in Brazil
The Indian founder of Schumacher College shares common ground with Indigenous, black, antiracist, and feminist campaigners from the frontlines of the Amazon and São Paulo
Make climate polluters pay
As Rio Grande do Sul faces up to gigantic clean-up costs, it should look at the example just set in Vermont which has passed a new law to make oil firms responsible for damages caused by floods and other manifestations of global heating
A Ribeirinho raised by grandma
In this podcast episode, forest-journalist Maxiel Ferreira, a participant in the Mycelium-SUMAÚMA Co-Training Program, tells the story of his grandmother, Francisca Ferreira, an Amazonian woman who embodies strength and resilience: 'She gave me life'
The grileiro, conniving land thief who molds the map of Brazil with blood and destruction
The perverse way that so much land is concentrated in the hands of so few is the result of land theft through 'grilagem'. This text is an attempt to better explain this process so we can grasp the full effects of it on the Amazon region
Ayumã Xipai, midwife to a people
She overcame slavery in the rubber era, the invasion of large landowners with their armed gunmen, and the neglect of the State and proved her people were not extinct and the Amazon region was the home of her ancestors
Where there are no votes, there are no schools
For more than 20 years, traditional forest communities and residents of extractive reserves in the Amazon have fought for the right to a decent education, but politicians and government agencies have paid little heed
A fish-eye view of Belo Monte’s brutal impact
River-journalist Sara Lima uses her deep knowledge of the Xingu to imagine how water-dwellers suffer from the hydroelectric dam that is choking the Volta Grande region. The story is told in graphic form through a character, Pacu Seringa, who represents life on the river.
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Ascending the Falls: Life on the Xingu River
Guardians of the Amazon Forest in the Middle Xingu describe how the river’s rapids and waterfalls are more-than-human beings that interweave with their lives
Gold mining profiteers take no risks and don’t muddy themselves
Mining operations are sponsored by filthy-rich criminal organizations, and the technological transformations that boost productivity are accelerating deforestation and the destruction of ways of life
Why were we separated?
In the first story from Micélio Sumaúma - a Forest-Journalist Co-Training Program - Yudjá-Juruna reporters from Volta Grande do Xingu answer a question that ties violence to resistance, all at the same time
