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·14/5/2008 - Amazon Defender Quits As Brazil Environment Minister, Reuters
·8/4/2008 - Brazil Making Condoms To Stem Amazon Losses, AIDS, Reuters
·4/1/2008 - Jungle tribal leader Kelesau Naan took on the loggers. It may have cost him his life, Times (UK)
·18/12/2007 - Brazil courts annuls conviction of man for killing US nun, Associated Press
·8/12/2007 - Amazon Still Faces Threats Old and New, Associated Press
·4/10/2007 - Brazil Urges World Support for Amazon, Reuters
·10/6/2007 - Brazil: Google to harness satellite power for an Amazon tribe, San Francisco Chronicle
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- 1. Chico Mendes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rank: 74%
- Chico Mendes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Chico Mendez Born December 15, 1944(1944-12-15) bridgend Brazil Died December 22, 1988 (aged 44) Xapuri, Brazil Cause of death Murder Occupation Environmental activist Children Angela Elenira Sandino Mendes Francisco Alves Mendes Filho Cena ("filho" means "son"), better known as Chico Mendes (December 15, 1944 - December 22, 1988), was a Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and environmental activist. He fought to stop...
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- 2. Chico Mendes Assassin Escapes from Jail Rank: 74%
- Assassin Escapes from Jail 2/16/93 *** RELAYED TEXT STARTS HERE: /** rainfor.genera: 145.0 **/ ** Topic: Chico Mendes: more info on escape ** ** Written 1:05 pm Feb 16, 1993 by hrwatchdc in cdp:rainfor.genera ** Copyright (C) 1993. The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved DS-02-15-93 2020 a0631 amazonjailbreak AM-Amazon Jailbreak,0312 Assassin of Famed Rain Forest Guardian Escapes From Jail SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) _ The killer of internationally known rain forest...
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- 3. Chico Mendes Ten Years Later Rank: 74%
- Later 10/16/97 *** RELAYED TEXT STARTS HERE: Headline: Chico Mendes Ten Years Later Source: Amanaka's Amazon Network Date: 10/16/97 *** Call for Participation *** Amazon Week VIII Chico Mendes Ten Years Later November/December, 1998 1998 marks ten years since Chico Mendes, a rubber tapper, union leader, and environmentalist was assassinated by landowners in Acre, Western Amazon. To commemorate the anniversary, Amazon Week VIII will be...
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- 4. Chico Mendes: Voice of the Amazon, a documentary about rainforest... Rank: 74%
- Current Releases Amazon Films In Development Who We Are Contact Us Watch a preview A documentary about the life and times of Chico Mendes Narrated by Academy Award® winner Linda Hunt. Forests of the world are under siege. Cut or burned for short-term profit, they are vanishing at an alarming rate with untold consequences. The heroic effort made by one man in the Brazilian rain forest to protect this valuable resource is the subject of the film, Voice of the Amazon. This documentary...
http://www.mirandaproductions.com/voice/
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- 5. Chico Mendes--A Crusader's Legacy Blurs in Brazil's Bitter Politics Rank: 73%
- Legacy Blurs in Brazil's Bitter Politics Source: New York Times Status: Copyright 1999, contact source for permission to reprint Date: 12/27/98 Byline: DIANA JEAN SCHEMO Handwritten signs hang from the ceiling in the simple shack where Chico Mendes lived and died. ''These were the clothes he wore the day he was killed,'' says one sign, swaying over a pair of shorts and a checkered shirt that his widow, Ilzamar, has laid out on their bed. ''In the hall, I held my children and Ilzamar in my...
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- 6. CHICO MENDES AND THE RUBBER TAPPERS OF BRAZIL. FREE MOVIE Rank: 73%
- THE DOCUMENTARY FILM When a big budget Warner Brother's movie project about slain Brazilian activist Chico Mendes goes bust, Bill Day, Terry Schwartz and Caito Martins head deep into the Amazon to find out who Chico Mendes really was and why Hollywood couldn't make a big budget film about him. CLICK ON ANY PICTURE TO SEE FILM FREE WHO WAS CHICO MENDES? Sometimes called "The Ghandi of the Amazon" Chico Mendes was a Rubber Tapper who lived and worked in Brazil's Amazon region. During the 1980's...
http://www.chicomendes.com/
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- 7. Ten years without Chico Mendes Rank: 73%
- Ten years without Chico Mendes The destruction of Acre, in the Western Brazilian Amazon began in 1877, with the arrival of peasants from Brasil's Northeast, escaping from drought and misery. They were brought to the forest as cheap labour to exploit rubber for the benefit of the so called "seringalistas", composed by powerful Brazilian and foreign economic groups. They were even forced to fight against the indigenous peoples that inhabited that land: only ten out of the sixty indigenous nations...
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