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New York City Is One of the Biggest Destroyers of the Amazon Rainforest

By Robert Jereski, AlterNet. Posted October 15, 2007.


New York City's parks department is America's biggest destroyer of Amazonian rain forest, and Mayor Bloomberg isn't doing much to stop it.
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Robert Jereski is an activist and writer based in New York City, who was the National Environment Coordinator for Kucinich's 2004 Presidential Campaign. As a Democrat, he challenged Congresswoman Maloney for her seat in Congress in response to her support of Bush's invasion of Iraq and other undemocratic practices. He directed the International Forum for Aceh, a human rights organization focused on Aceh, Indonesia.

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