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Join the Campaign in Defense of the Xingu River
The Brazilian Environmental Justice Network has launched an international campaign to demand President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva and other Brazilian authorities put an end to the controversial Belo Monte hydro-electric dam in Para state. Since it was first proposed in the 1980s, the Belo Monte hydro project has been at the forefront of numerous protests [...]
Indigenous Guarani occupy FUNAI headquarters
While Guarani communities in Brazil continue to reclaim their lands and face even more evictions—one leading to the disappearance of two indigenous teachers on Oct. 29—two days ago, more than 50 Guarani People occupied the headquarters of FUNAI, Brazil’s Federal Authority of Indigenous Affairs, in the southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul. The move [...]
Second Guarani village burned in Mato Grosso do Sul
On the morning of Sept. 18, the Guarani community of Apyka’y was violently attacked by a group of ten armed men. One Guarani was injured after the men fired randomly toward their village camp, situated along the BR-483 highway in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Several others were “beaten with fists and knives”. The attackers are [...]
Guarani Village torched by unknown assailants
Three nights ago, on September 14, a community of 130 Guarani-Kaiowa People watched on as their village, near the municipality of Rio Bright in Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul, burned to the ground. The Guarani were not in the village at the time, having been forced abandon their land on September 11, by order of the [...]
Underreported Struggles #26, May 2009
In this Month’s Underreported Struggles: 7,000 delegates gather in Peru for the IV Continental Indigenous Summit of Abya Yala; Hundreds of Tibetan villagers face off against armed police ; dozens of indigenous communities in Ecuador struggling after February oil spill; San Carlos Apache speak out against Land Exchange and proposed Copper mine May 30 – Continental [...]
Rice Farmers peacefully leaving Raposa-Serra do Sol
A state of lasting peace is making its way to the indigenous territory of Raposa-Serra do Sol in Northern Brazil, after years of bitter conflict between Indigenous People and non-indigenous rice farmers illegally occupying their territory. Survival International reports that the rice farmers are peacefully leaving the territory. It’s a giant step forward from last year, when [...]
Underreported Struggles #25, April 2009
In this month’s Underreported Struggles: Peruvian Indigenous Peoples Mobilize Across the Amazon; Barrick and Argentine Officials Assault Women at Roadblock; Attawapiskat First Nation prepares to evacuate 700 children; Mayans in Chiapas successfully resist eviction; Thousands of Indigenous Embera flee from armed conflict April 29 – One foot in the grave for Desert Rock power plant – [...]
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