#lula da silva

[dadsinsuits]

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

[sudaca-swag]

Lula Da Silva was a teenager and directing massive protests against a military dictatorship, got thrown into jail and tortured for years, for 60 years he has been involved in politics in one of the worlds most important country and the region's main power, got thrown into jail at 70 y.o due to fraudulent charges made up by the far right and managed to be freed AND voted president yet again for the 3rd time, do you think he's a person scared to face netanyahu and his 3 ken dolls allies from the west

[reasonsforhope]

"In a bid to slow deforestation in the Amazon, Brazil announced Tuesday [September 5, 2023,] that it will provide financial support to municipalities that have reduced deforestation rates the most.

During the country´s Amazon Day, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva also signed the creation of two Indigenous territories that total 207,000 hectares (511,000 acres) — over two times the size of New York City — and of a network of conservation areas next to the Yanonami Indigenous Territory to act as a buffer against invaders, mostly illegal gold miners.

“The Amazon is in a hurry to survive the devastation caused by those few people who refuse to see the future, who in a few years cut down, burned, and polluted what nature took millennia to create,” Lula said during a ceremony in Brasilia. “The Amazon is in a hurry to continue doing what it has always done, to be essential for life on Earth.”

The new program will invest up to $120 million in technical assistance. The money will be allocated based on the municipality´s performance in reducing deforestation and fires, as measured by official satellite monitoring. A list of municipalities eligible for the funds will be published annually.

The resources must be invested in land titling, monitoring and control of deforestation and fires, and sustainable production.

The money will come from the Amazon Fund, which has received more than $1.2 billion, mostly from Norway, to help pay for sustainable development of the region. In February, the United States committed to a $50 million donation to the initiative. Two months later, President Joe Biden announced he would ask Congress for an additional $500 million, to be disbursed over five years.

The most critical municipalities are located along the arc of deforestation, a vast region along the southern part of the Amazon. This region is a stronghold of former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who favored agribusiness over forest preservation and lost the reelection last year.

“We believe that it’s not enough to just put up a sign saying ‘it’s forbidden to do this or that. We need to be persuasive.” Lula said, in a reference to his relationship with Amazon mayors and state governors.

Lula has promised zero net deforestation by 2030, although his term ends two years earlier. In the first seven months of his third term, there was a 42% drop in deforestation.

[Note: For context, Lula's third term as president started January 1, 2023. It was not continuous with his first two terms, when he was president from 2003 to 2010. Lula's third term has been a historic and desperately needed reversal of the anti-environmental, etc. policies of Bolsonaro, whose term ended at the end of 2022.]

Brazil is the world’s fifth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, with almost 3% of global emissions, according to Climate Watch, an online platform managed by World Resources Institute. Almost half of these emissions come from deforestation. Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, Brazil committed to reducing carbon emissions by 37% by 2025 and 43% by 2030."

-via AP, September 5, 2023

[workersolidarity]

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BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT LULA DA SILVA CALLS ISRAEL'S ACTIONS IN THE GAZA STRIP A "GENOCIDE"

📹 Brazilian President, Lula Da Silva, speaking to a crowd in Rio De Janeiro, condemns Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip, adding that "what the Israeli government is doing to the Palestinian people is not war, it's a genocide because they are killing women and children."

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[unitedfrontvarietyhour]

"Gaza is not a place, Gaza is a wake-up call."

- Abhijit Naskar

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[probablyasocialecologist]

[thekeypa]

“What's happening in Gaza isn't a war, it's a genocide. It's not a war of soldiers against soldiers. Its a war between a highly trained army and women and children.”

[jeintalu]

"What is happening in the Gaza Strip and with the Palestinian people does not exist at any other historical moment. In fact, it existed when Hitler decided to kill the Jews."

- Lula da Silva, Brazilian president

[dadsinsuits]

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

[lovvedaggers]

BOLSONARO LOST

[reasonsforhope]

"When President Lula da Silva took office this year in Brazil, many environmental and indigenous rights groups hoped he would fulfill campaign promises of better protection for the Amazon rainforest and the people who live there.

Nearly four months into his tenure and early signs are that Lula was telling the truth, as Brazilian police have evicted dozens of illegal gold miners from the Yanomami Reserve, an area the size of Portugal inhabited by around 35,000 [Indigenous people].

Illegally-mined gold accounts for around half of all the country’s exports, and a new Environment of the Amazon division of the federal police is seeking international assistance in building a first-rate structure for targeting the outside funding toward and sales from illegal gold mining.

Reuters says that so far, the new division has ousted nearly all miners from the area, including overseeing the destruction of 250 mining camps and 70 low-tech boats used for dredging. 48 planes and helicopters for smuggling the gold out of the reserve have been seized as well.

The police hope to use radioisotope technology and methods to be able to pinpoint the exact mineralogical makeup of illegally mined gold as a way of targeting it in the market even after it’s melted into ingots.

They also plan to remove miners from 6 other Amazon reserves this year, while setting up a permanent, floating police station on a river in the Yanomami Reserve.

At the moment, the Lula Administration is considering the best set of laws for tackling the problem. While 804 miners have been arrested in the raids, all were let go, and many others fled in the police advance.

Humberto Freire, from the new Amazon division, told Reuters he and his department hope to create a sophisticated electronic tax receipt for any transactions of precious metals to help pinpoint sales and distribution of suspected illegal bullion."

-via Good News Network, 3/23/23

-video via Reuters, 3/22/23

[workersolidarity]

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BRAZIL'S PRESIDENT AGAIN SLAMS ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER FOR COMMITTING GENOCIDE IN GAZA

📹 Brazil's President, Lula Da Silva, slams Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, for committing a genocide in the Gaza Strip, telling a reporter, "what I want to say is loud and clear, the Prime Minister of Israel is carrying out a genocide against women and children," adding that "this is a historical fact."

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[kirstythejetblackgoldfish]

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and First Lady Rosangela 'Janja' da Silva meeting Colombian President Gustavo Petro and First Lady Veronica Alcocer in Bogota, Colombia

They also attended a business forum and Bogota Book Fair 📖📚📔📕📙📗📘

[k-wame]

lula showing up INTERNATIONALLY for his dark skin countrymen like is so fucken epic? i have never seen this from any world ruler like ever.