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#WestPapua: #NeoColonialism is going on and on, it seems. Now the Permanent People’s Tribunal on West Papua, held in London on 27-29 June, once more brought the #oppression of the West Papua people, the #destruction of #biosphere|s on the table, calling on the UN to help end the crimes, committed by international #corporations with support from the #Indonesian state (or is it the other way round?):
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#BP #Unilever #PalmOil #LandGrabbing #extractivism
Ben Wray - Western corporations and states are complicit in West Papua's "human and environmental catastrophe" - Brave New Europe
A report from the Permanent People’s Tribunal on West Papua, held in London on 27-29 June, which heard direct from West Papuans about the disastrous effects of Indonesian rule on their lives and land. Ben [...]Ben Wray (Brave New Europe)
And now...
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#LoggingImpacts #LoggingIndustry #koalas #TheGreatKoalaNationalPark #NSWLogging #plantations #extractivism #deforestation #NationalSymbols #ExtinctionCrisis
We once killed 600,000 koalas in a year. Now they’re Australia’s ‘teddy bears’. What changed?
A century ago, millions of koalas were killed for their fur. The backlash was fierce.The Conversation