[Xmca-l] Re: Burning...

[Greg Thompson]

And as the "yellow vests" can tell you a social fire burns in France as
well - perhaps not as dire as in Brazil; but burn it does.
Helen recently said something about the earth burning by 2040.
May be sooner?
-greg

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 12:00 PM Wagner Luiz Schmit <wagner.schmit@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Amazon is burning, but also:
>
> There is a genocide of indigenous people.
> There is a genocide of the poor (helicopters are dropping grenades on
> favelas, but only favelas  not controlled by the militias - because the
> Bolsonaro family is very very close to the militias).
> There is a total privatization of the Brazilian State.
> There is the destruction of Brazilian science (probably I won't go to
> ISCAR next year for I do not have money, nor the public university where I
> study).
> There is a total subservience to USA.
>
> Back to the forest, why it burns? For the profit of big real state
> speculators, to grow soy (to sell to China) and to make beef (to many parts
> of the world).
>
> There is strong evidence that all this started with the lawfare promoted
> in Brazil by USA government through the Car Wash movement and the same
> fascist powers that moved Brexit, Trump and now the protests at Hong Kong
> (You can see Steve Bannon's fingers everywhere). USA done this in 1964 with
> the military, and in 2016 through a legislative coup.
>
> Some people say that it is not impossible for Brazil to became the Puerto
> Rico of this century.
>
> What keeps me going is the application of Marx and Vygotsky in my classes
> and my understanding of the world, without it there would be only despair.
>
> Wagner
>
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 1:53 PM JULIE WADDINGTON <julie.waddington@udg.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> And which of the two have the media in our different countries chosen to
>> focus our attention on?
>>
>> Very big sigh,
>>
>> Julie
>>
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>>
>>
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>> ________________________________________
>> De: xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu [xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu] en
>> nom de Martin Packer [mpacker@cantab.net]
>> Enviat el: dijous, 22 / agost / 2019 16:32
>> Per a: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
>> Tema: [Xmca-l]  Burning...
>>
>> Which is more important to save from the flames? Notre Dame, or the
>> Amazon forests?
>>
>> <
>> https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/world/europe/notre-dame-paris-lead-reconstruction.html
>> >
>>
>> <https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/21/world/americas/amazon-rainforest.html
>> >
>>
>> sigh
>>
>> Martin
>>
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