Monday, December 12, 2016

Corporate Domination

Corporate impunity is not only bad for the environment, it's lethal for the resisters.
In the fight for land and the environment - which UK-based watchdog Global Witness calls "a new battleground for human rights" - communities are locked in deadly struggles against governments, companies and criminal gangs exploiting land for products including timber, minerals and palm oil.

Global Witness documented 185 murders in 16 countries last year, or more than three people a week being killed defending land, forests and rivers in the deadliest year on record.

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An average of nearly 16 farmers, indigenous people and advocates of land rights were killed every month through November worldwide, or three times the average in 2015, according to advocacy group PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP).

  alJazeera
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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