Victory for Amazon Indians
The Supreme Court in Brazil has recently upheld the creation of a 4.2-million acre Indian reservation on its northern border. Experts say that the reserve will likely strengthen indigenous land against encroaching farmers and big business while bolstering human rights for the Indian people of the country. Of course, the move is not without its critics: there are those who maintain that the area is too big for the 19,000 Indians granted the sole right to work the land. And as expected, mining, timber and agriculture businesses see it as an obstacle to economic growth -- but overall, this proves a big victory for preserving large swathes of the Amazon and protecting the life-giving "lungs of our planet."
Image: "Sunrise in the Wolf's Farm - Brazil" by de Paula FJ on Flickr courtesy of Creative Commons Licensing.
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This is good
Garden Preserves
This is very comforting news. It's time we wake up and slow the decimation of The Garden through legislation. For too long The People have been legislated from The Garden. The late Ian Lungold has an awsome seminar on You Tube expressing the current era as Ethics over Power and the comming age is the higher consciousness beyond the corrosive materialism we grew up in. May we all realize the value of plants and our relation to them. My dream is to share 40 acres bordering a preserve of The Garden.
I have to wonder if we children of the dark days of atomic threats weren't conditioned for the unknown. Not to mention the resurgence of entheogens to aid contemplation of natural constructs even before we knew what those tools were for.
Success is the Accomplishment of The Necessary
Manly P. Hall
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