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...content to be a passive spectator, you have two alternatives: You could hop a flight down to Brazil's Porto Alegre for the rival World Social Forum, a gathering of globalization's discontents featuring the likes of French farmer Jose Bove, best known for his renovation-by-tractor of a French McDonald's outlet to protest imports of U.S. beef. The guys at Davos go skiing between sessions; the Porto Alegre crowd prefer something a little more active - on their first night, 1,000 activists occupied a local Monsanto laboratory to protest genetically modified food...
...course the power players gathered at Davos aren't exactly paying attention to the proceedings at Porto Alegre. So if you want to make your voice heard on the ski slopes of power, your best bet may be hellomrpresident.com, an independent Swiss media project that will project your e-mail message of no more than 160 characters onto a ski slope that looms over the town, meaning Messrs. Gates and Soros couldn't possibly miss it. Use the language of your choice, just don't cuss or advertise. Cute quote of Day 1: "Don't produce, reduce...
...tragic that we in Brazil have been warned about the destruction but are doing nothing to stop it. Most people I have spoken with feel the same. But I believe your report may change the minds of many Brazilian Congressmen. DAKIR LOURENCO DUARTE Porto Alegre, Brazil...
...drive south from Porto Velho on BR-364 offered a dramatic example of a similar process under way in the 21st century. In 1989 many small farms in the area were interspersed with patches of forests. Now much of the land is open pasture, dotted with some of Rond?nia?s 6 million cattle. About an hour out of the city, a series of illegal clearings begins in one of the few remaining stands of primary forest along the road. Settlers have invaded from every road or path, including the right of way for electrical lines that run through the forest...
...best friend of the forest may be social inertia. After more than three decades, Brazil?s vaunted Trans-Amazon Highway has yet to be completely paved, and other roads in the Amazon have been all but abandoned. The road that once linked Porto Velho and Manaus becomes impassable a mere two hours outside Porto Velho. Ecologist Nepstad argues that a more limited network of paved roads could give Santar?m all-weather access to the rest of Brazil, while forestalling incursions of unauthorized settlers from the south. The soybean exporters have already paved access to Amazon waterways through Porto Velho...