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·10/5/2008 - Acquittal appealed in nun's slaying, Miami Herald
·8/5/2008 - Acquitted Brazilian rancher says he admired US nun, Associated Press
·6/5/2008 - Brazil: Amazon rancher acquitted in nun killing, Associated Press
·6/5/2008 - Brazil jury absolves rancher in murder of U.S. nun, Reuters
·26/4/2008 - Whistleblowing farmer killed in Brazil, Associated Press
·18/2/2008 - Brazil: Managed forestry offers hope of saving Amazon, Reuters
·4/1/2008 - Jungle tribal leader Kelesau Naan took on the loggers. It may have cost him his life, Times (UK)
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- Dorothy Stang News, Links and Information from Forests.Org Amazon Dorothy Stang News Results ·10/5/2008 - Acquittal appealed in nun's slaying, Miami Herald ·8/5/2008 - Acquitted Brazilian rancher says he admired US nun, Associated Press ·6/5/2008 - Brazil: Amazon rancher acquitted in nun killing, Associated Press ·6/5/2008 - Brazil jury absolves rancher in murder of U.S. nun, Reuters ·26/4/...
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- 2. Dorothy Stang fought for social equity in the Amazon Rank: 74%
- Dorothy Stang, an American nun who spent more than 30 years fighting for land rights for poor settlers in the Amazon, was murdered by a contract killer in February 2005 in the Brazilian state of Para. Stang, 73, was shot six times with a revolver as she read from the Bible. Stang's confessed killer said he was hired by Amair Feijoli da Cunha, a rancher. He and a partner were offered 50,000 reais...
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- 4. Killings Over Forest and Land Issues Must End Rank: 72%
- The Brazilian government has compared Mrs. Stang's murder with the infamous 1988 killing in Acre of rubber tapper, union leader and environmental activist, Chico Mendes. Sister Dorothy, as Mrs. Stang was known in the region, was very active supporting poor peasants in the region and an outspoken critic of land clearance and land grabbing in the Amazon. Sister Dorothy, from North America, had lived...
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- 5. Nun assassinated defending Amazon | Greenpeace International Rank: 72%
- Anapu with some colleagues when she was shot three times by two gunmen. This tragedy occurred 16 years after the murder of Chico Mendes, who was also a defender of rural communities. Mendes was also a colleague of the current Minister for the Environment Marina Silva. Marina Silva is in Anapu meeting with State authorities, following the news of Sister Dorothy's death. "Like Chico Mendes, Sister...
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- 6. Brazil: Nun made an impact in life and death Rank: 72%
- David Stang, noting the humidity. "But right now, I'm breathing the cool air of Palmer Lake (Colo.)," where he lived. She spoke of the bugs, the heat and, most of all, her hard, sometimes dangerous work with Brazilian peasants. She said she was "going down the road," to again confront a few powerful Amazon loggers and ranchers -- men who were cutting through the rain forest and displacing the...
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