Blockades, checkpoints and court action: fending off Brazil's biofuel giants in the Amazon
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Quilombola communities in Pará, northern Brazil, are mounting organized resistance against palm oil companies that have seized their traditional lands over two decades, using blockades, checkpoints and court action to reclaim territory and protect their families from displacement and violence.
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