Action Alerts
Oil palm plantations are spreading like wildfire across the eastern Brazilian Amazon. But local communities are standing up to the palm oil industry’s brutality and sweeping land grabs, demanding the return of their ancestral lands and calling on the authorities to protect them from encroachment and violence.
6 May 2024
Collective statement, 20 November 2023
20 November 2023
Sign the letter in support of Indigenous and local communities devastated by the social and ecological impacts of industrial tree plantations, and threatened by the planned future use of GMO tree plantations.
21 September 2023
28 April 2023
We urge you to express solidarity with MST (Movement of Landless Rural Workers) and send an urgent message to the state government in order to prevent that 200 families will be evicted from a land occupation in a eucalyptus plantation area of the transnational pulp and paper company Suzano.
18 April 2023
24 February 2023
Demand that the Suzano company stops destroying quilombola territories in the south of Bahia, Brazil
12 January 2023
(Only available in French) Polices et militaires tirent à balles réelles sur des ouvriers de la Société FERONIA/PHC en grève à la plantation de Boteka.
21 September, 2021 – International Day of Struggle against Industrial Tree Plantations.
(Only available in Portuguese)
A call to Brazilian society and the peoples of the world to defend the territories from capitalism and its new “green” onslaught.
Available only in French.