Dev Issues

Includes bibliographical references.

Bridging local fights to global struggles in resisting against corporate power -- The Caarap├│ Massacre -- Declaration denouncing violations of rights of indigenous people.

[Article Title : Bridging local fights to global struggles in resisting against corporate power / Joseph Edward B. Alegado, p. 4-6] Abstract : A report published by the Center for International Environmental Law in September 2017 revealed that 99 per cent of plastics are produced from chemicals sourced from fossil fuels. Further, researchers say that based on current projections, we will have produced 26 billion tons of plastic waste by 2050.;[Article Title : Declaration denouncing violations of rights of indigenous people / Vandria Borari, p. 8-9] Abstract : The discussion and debate included presentations by Gabriela Russo (PhD researcher at CEDLA/UvA) and Dr Tim Boekhout (independent criminological researcher and EUR research fellow). Their very stark and succinct analysis of the soya chain/'highway' (rapidly encroaching further into parts of this region) and deforestation trends was underlined in very personal and socio-environmental terms by the third speaker Vandria Borari. This indigenous activist and legal researcher researcher from Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon described the personal and community perspectives of the impact of soja in their territory. The impact on indigenous communities, she argued, has been harsh, irrespective of the measurement indicator used (water/land/health/violence/security/cultural traditions/ voice-income-dignity).;[Article Title : The Caarapó Massacre / Katiuscia Moreno Galhera, p. 10-12] Abstract : Recent forest fires in the Amazon region (2019) alerted the world to the destruction led by new frontiers of agribusiness and cattle farming. The 'Fire Day' (Dia do Fogo), as the coordinated forest fires came to be known, might become a key moment in the Amazon's recent history. Previous to that, Norway's and Germany's withdrawal from the Amazon Fund was an indication of President Bolsonaro's disdain for the maintenance of biodiversity and the lives of indigenous people. The President's explicit disdain for nature and minorities is clear, so is his cooperation with agribusiness and cattle farming elites: he got elected by this long-standing bourgeoisie. This article is about how state and capital collide to lead to ethnocide within this context.