US Museum 'Deeply Concerned' by Plans to Honor Brazil's Bolsonaro

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Globe Post

US Museum ‘Deeply Concerned’ by Plans to Honor Brazil’s Bolsonaro
Staff Writer by Staff Writer April 12, 2019

New York’s Museum of Natural History said it was “considering its options” after discovering a private function booked to take place there would honor Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.

Bolsonaro, who has been slammed at home and abroad for policies that critics say threaten the environment and indigenous communities, is due to receive an award at the museum from the Brazilian-United States Chamber of Commerce.

“The external, private event at which the current President of Brazil is to be honored was booked at the Museum before the honoree was secured,” the museum tweeted on Thursday.

Link to tweet

Read more: https://theglobepost.com/2019/04/12/bolsonaro-natural-history-museum/

[Devil Child]

1. US Army School of the Americas would be a better venue to "honor" a right winger like Bolsonaro

I hope the Museum of Natural History reconsiders their plan to host this thug.

As always, thanks for your updates Judi Lynn!

[Judi Lynn]

3. I did a check to see if he'd gone to the School of Assassins. Nothing jumped up.

Apparently he's just always been a killer.

There has been a barely hidden horde of fascists in Brazil from the begining, when the first people started enslaving or murdering indigenous Brazilians, then started kidnapping and enslaving African people once they had nearly wiped out the native citizens. They seem to believe in keeping a huge pool of desperately poor people on hand to do their work and make them wealthy.

Thanks, Devil Child.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Natural History Museum May Still Host Gala For Brazil Leader Who Stripped Amazon Protections

04/12/2019 06:01 pm ET Updated 5 hours ago

New York museum leaders are “deeply concerned” about an event honoring climate-denying Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro. But they haven’t yet canceled it.
By Travis Waldron, Alexander C. Kaufman, and Ana Beatriz Rosa

NEW YORK ― The American Museum of Natural History refused to say Friday whether it will cancel an event honoring Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right president of Brazil who has spent the opening days of his term stripping protections from the Amazon rainforest and the indigenous people who live in it.

The May 14 event will be a private gala organized by the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce, a business group that plans to honor Bolsonaro as the Brazilian of the Year. The group organized and announced the event last month, but the museum’s decision to host it drew criticism this week from activists who said it “should be ashamed.”

The museum, which calls itself “one of the world’s preeminent scientific and cultural institutions,” responded to the criticism Thursday, saying on Twitter that the event had been booked before Bolsonaro was confirmed as a guest and that it was “deeply concerned” about his attendance.

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“We are deeply concerned, and the event does not in any way reflect the Museum’s position that there is an urgent need to conserve the Amazon Rainforest, which has such profound implications for biological diversity, indigenous communities, climate change, and the future health of our planet,” the statement said.

More:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bolsonaro-brazil-amazon-museum-natural-history_n_5cb0d4d9e4b082aab085632e