About 2000 farm workers have invaded a plantation owned by a Brazilian paper and pulp company, destroying a million saplings and wrecking a laboratory in a protest against eucalyptus tree cultivation.
The protesters, mostly women belonging to Brazil's branch of the international Via Campesina farm workers rights group, occupied the plantation about 1200 km south of Sao Paulo before dawn.
Aljazeera.Net 09.Mar.06
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