November 12, 2009 CommonDreams.org
	Shooting Itself in the Foot, Brazil Spreads Concrete Through the Rainforest -- Brazil houses the largest expanse of tropical wilderness remaining on the globe, claiming 60% of the Amazon Rainforest. This is a vast and remote stretch which thirty years ago only Indians and wild animals roamed. Today, ranchers and sawmill owners in four-wheel-drive pickup trucks speed past new stores selling chain saws, construction materials, and farm equipment.
October 05, 2009 CommonDreams.Org
	Brazil Cattle Industry Giants Unite in Banning Amazon Destruction -- In a major step forward for climate protection, today four of the biggest players in the global cattle industry joined forces to ban the purchase of cattle from newly deforested areas of the Brazilian Amazon from their supply chains, backing Greenpeace's call for zero deforestation in the rainforest.
October 03, 2009 The Detroit News Online
	After Olympic party, hard work ahead for Brazil -- As Rio awoke from a night of celebration after being awarded the 2016 Olympics, Brazil was already looking ahead to years of hard work in what will be a historic time in Latin America's biggest nation.
July 23, 2009 Amnesty International
	Safety for Brazilian activist after Amnesty International action -- A Brazilian organization has thanked Amnesty International after an action by the organization brought safety to a peasant farmer and land rights activist.
June 25, 2009 Toward Freedom
	Fordlandia: An Interview with Greg Grandin -- In this interview Grandin talks about what led him to write his recent book, Fordlandia, The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City, the auto industry, US foreign policy, and the modern day parallels to this failed American utopian adventure in the Amazon.
June 01, 2009 New Internationalist
	Lock out the poor -- In Rio, a wall is being built to separate the slums from the city
May 02, 2009 BBC News
	Brazil clears Indian reservation -- Brazilian police and soldiers have begun an operation to remove non-indigenous residents from an Indian reservation in northern Brazil.
April 27, 2009 Toward Freedom
	The City that Ended Hunger -- Frances Moore Lappé writes about the changed fate of Belo, a city of 2.5 million people, that once had 11 percent of its population living in absolute poverty, and almost 20 percent of its children going hungry, that now has declared a "right to food."
January 28, 2009 BBC News
	Brazil holds 'alternative Davos' -- Tens of thousands of social activists and environmental and political groups have gathered in the Brazilian city of Belem for the World Social Forum.
December 02, 2008 BBC News
	70% deforestation cuts for Brazil -- Brazil has announced a plan to reduce deforestation rates in the Amazon region by 70% over the next ten years.
June 20, 2008 Associated Press
	Brazil creates new Indian Reservation -- President of Brazil decrees a new Indian reservation in the heart of the Amazon rain forest's logging frontier
June 11, 2008 Americas Policy Program
	When More Is Less: The Limited Impact of Foreign Investment in the Americas -- A comprehensive review of the impact of foreign investment liberalization in Latin America shows that, with some exceptions, foreign investment has fallen far short of stimulating broad-based economic growth and environmental protection in the region, according to a report by the Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas.
June 03, 2008 Associated Press
	Brazil seeks sanctions against US -- Brazil will seek sanctions against the U.S. after winning a World Trade Organization ruling on cotton subsidies.
June 03, 2008 Associated Press
	Brazil cracks down on Amazon cattle -- Rio de Janeiro,Brazil - Destruction of the Amazon seems to be on the upswing, and Brazil's Environment Minister has wasted no time in aiming at a villain: Cattle.
April 19, 2008 The New York Times
	With Guns and Fines, Brazil Takes On Loggers -- This is Operation Arc of Fire, the Brazilian government’s tough campaign to deter illegal destruction of the Amazon forest.
April 15, 2008 BBC News
	Brazil in 'major oil field' find -- Brazil has discovered what could be the third biggest oil reserve in the world, according to the head of the country's National Petroleum Agency.
April 06, 2008 The New York Times
	Amazon’s ‘Forest Peoples’ Seek a Role in Striking Global Climate Agreements -- MANAUS, Brazil — Some wore traditional headdresses, and some traveled by riverboat or canoe. But the dozens of “forest peoples” who descended on this capital of Amazonas State last week had a common goal of becoming bigger players in global climate talks.
January 23, 2008 Upside Down World
	Australian-Style Intervention of Indigenous Communities Moves to Brazil -- There's a new law being debated in Brazil that threatens to undermine the rights and livelihoods of all Indigenous people in this South American nation.
October 29, 2007 naclanews
	Corporate Murder in Brazil: Land Activists Shot by Militia Linked to Multinational -- In the Brazilian state of Paraná, Valmir Mota de Oliveira of Via Campesina, an international peasant organization, was shot twice in the chest at point blank range by armed gunmen on an experimental farm of Syngenta Seeds, a multinational agribusiness corporation. The cold blooded murder took place on Sunday, October 21 after Via Campesina had occupied the site because of Syngenta’s illegal development of genetically modified (GM) seeds.
August 02, 2006 Z Magazine
	Green Tide: Plantations, Indigenous Rights, & Genetically Engineered Trees -- In November 2005 we traveled to an international meeting in Vitoria, Brazil. The purpose of the gathering was to discuss plantations, genetically engineered trees and their impact on local and indigenous communities.
July 26, 2006 IPS
	Race Quotas - Accused of Racism. -- The imminent approval of a law that establishes obligatory quotas for Afro-Brazilians and indigenous peoples at public universities, and of a Racial Equality Statute that defines public policies for promoting ethnic groups who suffer discrimination, has sparked a resurgence of the controversy about how to combat racism and inequality in Brazil.
July 25, 2006 (IPS)
	Soy Industry Joins Effort Against Amazon Deforestation. -- The environmentalist movement, and especially international watchdog Greenpeace, are celebrating a new victory in Brazil: the big companies that process and export soy have decided not to buy soybeans from newly deforested areas in the Amazon jungle.
July 18, 2006 Tierramérica
	Biodiesel Comes in All Flavors -- The production of biodiesel from low-quality coffee, from the oils extracted from urban runoff, or from cattle fat is a pioneering initiative in Brazil, where efforts are under way to diversify the raw materials used as clean fuels, the consumption of which is on the rise.
May 10, 2006 Associated Press
	Brazil, Gilead agree AIDS drug price cut -- Gilead Sciences will slash by half the price of its drug tenofovir, used in an anti-AIDS cocktail, Brazil's Health Ministry said.
April 24, 2006 Inter Press Service
	Activists for Reelection of Lula, but With Reduced Hopes -- The reelection of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is still the best option in the view of Brazil's social movements. But activists would have a "qualitatively different" relationship with a second Lula administration, "because they have lost the high expectations and hopes" for enormous changes that catapulted the left to victory in the late 2002 elections.
April 17, 2006 Friends of the MST
	April 17th - International Day of Peasant Struggle -- “They came from both sides and we were caught in the middle. We weren’t in the position to anything against a large group of policemen armed with rifles and machine-guns!” Avelino Germiniano, 51, survivor of the Eldorado dos Carajás Massacre.
March 24, 2006 Inter Press Service
	Terminator Seeds Suffer Defeat at Global Conference -- Small farmers and activists celebrated a triumph against Terminator seeds in Brazil Friday, but said they would not let down their guard, and would continue to fight the seeds.
March 14, 2006 Friends of the MST
	La Via Campesina holds a parallel conference to coincide with UN Conferences -- Between March 13 and 31, La Via Campesina International will organize a camp called “Land Free of Transgenics” to accompany the negotiations of two conferences being held in Curitiba (PR). The camp will be in place in Newton Freire Maia Park, (formerly called Castelo Branco Park), in Quatro Barras (20 km from Curitiba) and around 6,000 small farmers (men and women), mainly from the South and Southeast regions of the country, are expected to gather there.
March 14, 2006 Inter Press Service
	Private Role in the Amazon Triggers Doubts -- Thirteen million hectares of tropical forest in Brazil will be concessioned to private firms, according to a new law. Analysts fear it could accelerate the destruction of the Amazon forest.
February 14, 2006 Inter Press Service
	Lula's Popularity Rallies after Months of Decline -- Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's prospects for reelection this year, which were hurt in the past eight months by a spate of corruption scandals, have improved according to a poll released Tuesday.