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Another P&G case: TEMPO

posted Tuesday, 28 February 2006


P&G comes under criticism following the displacement of Indians in Brazil

Tempo tissues are full of the suffering of Brazilian Indians

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Procter & Gamble (P&G) buys cellulose from Aracruz Celulose for use in its hygienic products such as Tempo tissues and Charmin toilet paper. Acting on behalf of the latter corporation, police brutally drove the Tupinikim and Guarani Indians off their lands last January to protect the gigantic eucalyptus plantations planted there. ROBIN WOOD (among other NGOs) demands that P&G accept its share of responsibility for the conflict over land rights. In response to this action, P&G should not buy any more cellulose from its supplier Aracruz as long as this corporation refuses to return the ancestral land to the indigenous peoples.

On 20 January, the dispute over land rights peaked in a violent move by the police. 120 federal policemen, acting on the initiative of Aracruz, destroyed the Indian villages Corrego do Ouro and Olho de Agua in Espirito Santo. They fired rubber projectiles at the Indians and hounded the fleeing people from helicopters. More than a dozen people were injured.


Representatives of  the Green Desert Movement from Brazil has confronted P&G with photos of the brutal attacks; they show Indians with bleeding gunshot wounds and policemen in helicopters aiming their rifles at the people who are fleeing. Three P&G representatives participated in the meeting in Frankfurt am Main, including George Carpenter, P&G Environmental Director from the USA. It was revealed during the meeting that P&G, according to its own information, has not once met with the affected Indians or the relevant NGOs in Brazil.


"Procter & Gamble continues to buy its cellulose in Brazil as if nothing had happened. The international corporation denies any share of responsibility for the conflict. But the suffering of many people in Brazil is a part of every Tempo tissue. When the consumers learn about that, many of them will leave these products on the shelves," says Peter Gerhardt, rain forest specialist at ROBIN WOOD.


This recent action by the police was intended to break the resistance of the Tupinikim and Guarani against Aracruz Celulose. They are fighting to regain 11,000 hectares of land which Aracruz has not returned to them although the Brazilian Indian agency FUNAI recognized this area as indigenous territory as far back as 1998. Aracruz drove the Indians away from this territory during the Brazilian military dictatorship so that a eucalyptus monoculture for cellulose could be planted. An end to the conflicts is not in sight. The Indians have in the meantime returned to their destroyed villages and have begun rebuilding.


In contrast to Procter & Gamble, the Swedish royal family quickly reacted to the bloody displacement and rid itself of all of its investments in Aracruz.

 

Sources of info and more details regarding these brutal acts can be found @:


For those mastering the German language, you can also click on the banner below for more info:
(The others can do so as well, but they won't understand much.)



Do you bother, that you support such shit each time when you blow your nose with a Tempo or wipe your ass with Charmin?
Our society is seriously sick.



a few P&G products


To read about P&G animal testings check out this entry.


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