A group of artists visited the Federal Senate, this afternoon (9), to alert the president of the House, Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG), about a series of projects that, in the interpretation of the movement, facilitate deforestation, weaken the indigenous property rights and make the rules for the use of pesticides more flexible. In response, Pacheco stated that such projects focus on changes in environmental laws and will be discussed in commissions before going to the plenary.
“The commitment I make with the leader of the opposition and with you, from organized civil society, is that none of these projects will be directly based on the plenary of the Federal Senate without the due consideration and processing within the scope of the permanent and thematic committees of the House”, said Pacheco.
The group of artists, which represents the so-called Movimento 342 Amazônia, expressed concern with the approval, in the Chamber, of the urgency regime for voting on the Bill (PL) 6.299/2002, which revokes the current Pesticides Law and makes the rules for the approval and marketing of these products more flexible. Therefore, the group decided to go to the Senate to prevent the same from happening there, when this and other projects go to the senators for consideration.
“We will be very careful with each of these five projects, dealt with in the document I received, to have the destination, the zeal, the care, the dignified process and proportional to the importance of what they represent. We cannot be understood, neither Brazil nor the National Congress, as international pariahs removed from the environmental agenda”, added the president of the Senate.
According to Pacheco, who was a congressional representative at the 26th United Nations Climate Conference (COP26), Brazil has a bad image in terms of environmental preservation and will be doomed to economic failure if it distances itself from the environmental agenda.
The projects criticized by the movement are PL 2.159/2021 (which loosens the rules of Environmental Licensing); PL 2,633/2020 and 510/2021 (which changes land tenure regularization rules); PL 490/2007 (which establishes the Temporal Framework for the demarcation of indigenous lands); PL 191/2020 (which creates rules to authorize the exploitation of natural resources in indigenous lands), in addition to the PL of pesticides.
Some artists took the floor, criticized the projects and asked for their rejection in Congress. “If approved, these proposals could facilitate deforestation, allow mining and prospecting on indigenous lands, and unprotect the forest against land grabbing and criminals. As part of civil society, artists in large numbers decided to come to this House, together with members of non-governmental organizations and experts on climate issues, to express their disapproval of these projects”, said musician Caetano Veloso, spokesman for the movement. on the date.
“It is essential that there is, within the political game, a brake that prevents this barbarity that is on the verge of happening. The responsibility of the gentlemen and ladies of the Senate is immense”. Agribusiness is practicing autophagy, destruction. See the drought in Rio Grande do Sul”, pointed out the musician Nando Reis. In addition to them, actresses Cristiane Torloni and Alessandra Negrini, musicians Seu Jorge and Emicida, artistic producer Paula Lavigne, among others, attended the meeting with Pacheco.
STF
The delegation also visited the Federal Supreme Court (STF) and delivered the document with 42 signatures to 4 of the 11 ministers of the court – all of whom were reporting actions targeted by the movement.
The artists asked for priority in the judgment of 11 lawsuits that deal with environmental issues, among them the Argument of noncompliance with a fundamental precept (ADPF) 760 – which deals with deforestation in the Legal Amazon; the Direct Action of Unconstitutionality by Omission (ADO) 79 – which deals with the Amazon Fund; ADPF 708 – which deals with the Climate Fund; and ADPF 857, which deals with fires in the Pantanal region.
