Alcoa vs. the Amazon: how the ribeirinhos won their collective land rights

Mongabay
Oct 2, 2020, 8:42 am233 pts
JURUTI VELHO LAKE, Pará, Brazil — No one knew what a momentous day it would be. On 28 January, 2009, about 1,500 people blockaded the road linking the town of Juruti with a mine belonging to Alcoa, the giant U.S. transnational company. That protest was calculated to gain international attention by coinciding…

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