A year without Ricardo
It was on August 16 last year that we lost Ricardo Carrere, the international coordinator of the World Rainforest Movement (WRM) for 15 years. Those of us at the WRM (Read More)
OUR VIEWPOINT
THE FOCUS OF THIS ISSUE: THE FINANCIALIZATION OF NATURE
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Growing speculation: From the appropriation and commodification to the financialization of nature
Finan-what? The term “financialization” may sound overly complex and academic, or perhaps even made up. It could lead some people to ask, finan-what? However, it is increasingly being used (Read More)
PEOPLES IN ACTION
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Honduras: Urgent Action Alert. Heavily armed paramilitary groups threaten Garifuna communities and could provoke a massacre
Six Garifuna´s cooperatives that have recovered their land are facingat this moment the threat of paramilitaries who move around on motorcycles and 4×4 vehicles with heavy weapons and could massacre (Read More)
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China: Local protesters stop plans of Oji Paper
The Japanese paper-making company Oji Paper Group runs a paper mill in Nantong, East China, and had plans to build a pipeline for wastewater discharge from the mill. However, in (Read More)
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Philippines: Continuing the campaign against mining in Palawan
ATM (the Alliance Against Mining), the largest anti-mining network in the Philippines, has issued a press release reporting that President Benigno Aquino III recently signed an Executive Order on mining. (Read More)
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Ecuador: Inter-American Court of Human Rights rules in favour Sarayaku people
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) has ruled in favour of the Sarayaku indigenous people of the Ecuadorian Amazon in the case of Sarayaku v. Ecuador. The ruling, made (Read More)
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Nature is not for sale!
A leaflet on the Green Economy and the financialization of nature, published by Friends of the Earth France, ATTAC and AITEC. Available at http://www.amisdelaterre.org/IMG/pdf/nature_is_not_for_sale.pdf
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Africa: Social movements building resistance
Members of farmers’ organizations, women’s movements and civil society organizations from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Swaziland, Lesotho, the DRC and Mozambique gathered on August 15-16 in Maputo, Mozambique, to analyze (Read More)
RECOMMENDED
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Palawan: Our Struggle for Nature and Culture – VIDEO
A video documentary launched on July 27 by ALDAW, showing the cultural values of Palawan and the encroachment of mining operations in ancestral domains.
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Stop the takeover of nature by financial markets
A short animated film about the takeover of nature by financial markets and the real alternatives coming up from civil society. An initiative of SOMO, European ATTAC Network, Food & (Read More)
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Beauty and the Beast – Norway’s investments in rainforest protection and rainforest destruction
This new report published by Rainforest Foundation Norway and Friends of the Earth Norway documents the political incoherence of the Norwegian government, which spends an annual 500 million US dollars (Read More)
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Law on Payment for Environmental Services in Acre benefits the financial market
An article that analyzes the law passed in the Brazilian state of Acre in 2010 to create the State System of Incentives for Environmental Services (SISA). The law is considered (Read More)