09/08/2010 - join the letter campaign against Belo Monte
The Rainforest Portal started a letter campaign against the Belo Monte hydroelectric. Join the campaign! Show your position against this pharaonic undertaking in the midst of the Amazon!
The wild and free Xingu River is critical to maintaining intact the Amazon, its peoples, Brazil's national advancement, and the Earth we share. The Brazilian government continues with plans to build the massive Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu River in the Amazon rainforest, despite intense and growing domestic and international opposition. The 11.2 billion dollar dam will devastate an extensive area of the Amazon rainforest and threaten the survival of tens of thousands of indigenous and traditional peoples who depend on the Xingu River for their livelihoods. It is estimated 500 square kilometers of intact Amazon rainforest land would be flooded by the dam.
URGENT ACTION - INDIGENOUS TEACHER MISSING IN BRAZIL Two Guarani Kaiowá teachers went missing on October 30 after a violent eviction by armed men. One was killed, his body found with signs of torture. The other one remains missing. Call the authorities to take necessary measures.
ACT NOW: Letter campaign in defense of the Xukuru people Act now and stand up for the rights of the Xukure people. Dozens of their leaders are persecuted, accused and put on trial, while their rights to defense are not respected. In these court cases they receive absurd sentences. Please send letters, faxes, or
Action Tupinikim and Guarani to the Ministry of Justice - September Once again, the Tupinikim and Guarani communities ask support to put pressure on the Brazilian government, especially the Minister of Justice, so that he finally demarcates the Tupinikim and Guarani indigenous lands in Espirito Santo.
Amnesty International - Fear for savety Pataxó Hã Hã Hãe About 500 members of the Pataxó Hãhãhãe indigenous community in Bahia state, northeastern Brazil, are in imminent danger of violent eviction from their ancestral lands.
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