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Ideologies / Eco-Socialist / Chico Mendes
Chico Mendes — ink portrait
§ The minds · 1944–1988 · Brazil · Union & eco activist

Chico Mendes

Defender of the rainforest

Rubber tappers and the forest commons.

Reformist Eco-Socialist →
Economic−78
SocialistMarket
Governance−48
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social+58
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The Amazonian rubber-tapper and union leader who fused labour organising with rainforest defence, murdered for it and martyred as an eco-socialist icon.

social

Progressive champion of indigenous and worker rights.

economic

Cooperative, sustainable use of the forest against agribusiness.

governance

Grassroots union organising and extractive reserves.

Notable for
  • Led the rubber tappers' union
  • Won extractive forest reserves
  • Martyr of the Amazon
forest-defenseunionismcommons
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