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| Subject: LOL: Rio+20: Women march in Rio to protest 'green economy' - They think it's 'green capitalism' Tue Jun 19, 2012 11:59 pm | |
| Thousands of women representing social and farm movements marched in central Rio Monday to rail against the "green economy" advocated by the Rio 20 conference on sustainable development. Behind a large banner from the international peasant movement Via Campesina proclaiming "the peoples are against the mercantilization of nature", they marched several miles to the Flamengo park, the venue for the "People's Summit" organized by civil society groups on the sidelines of the Rio 20 event.
Several hundred men closed off the march to show their solidarity.
Perched atop a truck fitted with loudspeakers, a female activist howled: "This is a march of urban and rural women against this Rio 20 charade."
"No to green capitalism! Yes to an economy based on solidarity, yes to people's sovereignty," she added.
People's Summit militants view the "green economy" concept touted by organizers of the official Rio 20 gathering as just "another stage of capitalist accumulation" after the failure of the current model.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/photos/thousands-women-march-during-demonstration-against-green-capitalism-photo-174353155.html
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