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Tag: Amazon

  • The War on Indigenous People is a War on the Biosphere Itself

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    “Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.”– E.O. Wilson “Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.”–Cree Proverb

  • The Growing Resistance to Megadams in Bolivia

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    fitzdon

    A growing resistance to the Chepete/ El Bala megadam is challenging President Evo Morales’s plan to convert Bolivia into South America’s leading energy powerhouse.  Last November, representatives of 17 indigenous communities held a vigil at the site of two megadams—El Chepete and El Bala—that President Evo Morales plans to build in Bolivia’s Amazonian region. The…

  • By Blood and Fire Mining and Militarization in the Ecuadorian Amazon

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    fitzdon

    Before dawn on the Dec. 21, 2016, dozens of police raided the headquarters of the Shuar Federation (FISCH) in the Ecuadorian Amazon and arbitrarily detained its president, Agustin Wachapá. The indigenous leader was thrown to the ground and repeatedly stamped on and ridiculed beneath the boots of police in front of his wife. The police then…