Rallies across Brazil denounce bills threatening environment
An enormous inflatable globe appeared in São Paulo this Sunday (Jun. 18) to raise people’s awareness about a number of bills approved and under consideration in Congress that can threaten indigenous people as well as the environment. Among them is an initiative that establishes that only territories occupied by traditional peoples up to October 5, 1988 (when Brazil’s current Constitution was promulgated) should be officially considered indigenous lands.The rallies were organized by environmental institutions and organizations and drove hundreds of people to Paulista avenue, in São Paulo’s business center downtown. With posters alluding to the deaths of UK journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, as well as banners and animal masks, the demonstrators marched in protest...