Community | January 13, 2010 | 6 comments

A fiery battle over land in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest

source: http://www.grist.org/article/2010-01-12-battle-brazil-rainforest/

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Avatar, the new Cameron's film mirrors our times and environmental crisis more than ever.
This is happening right now in the Amazon forest. It has always happened but may be, just may be something is changing, something is different.

Not only people's environmental consciousness has grown powerful but action is taking place as we speak and we can only fully support them.
They are not the only one to be threatened, the whole world is at risk, we lose the Amazon, we lose the Earth.
The indigenous people have gotten together to fight against the illegal logging and a system that doesn't protect them.
It gets worse. The leaders of these groups are being imprisoned and are being labelled "criminals".


Two excerpts from:
http://www.grist.org/article/2010-01-12-battle-brazil-rainforest/
"The Jaurú logging company attempted to bribe the community members to let wood pass down the river. When their offer was rejected, the company hired gunmen to accompany their barges to market. In the early morning of Jan. 3, five log-laden barges set forth, accompanied by 40 armed men. When they reached the encampment, they opened fire on the sleeping, unarmed protestors. Two people were shot. The victims were rushed to the hospital; they survived."


"The demonstration at Renascer was in part inspired by action taken a month earlier and 100 miles to the west, in an area called Gleba Nova Olinda at the source of the Arapiuns River. On Nov. 12, people from over 40 indigenous and traditional communities—frustrated after more than a decade of failed negotiations with the state for territorial rights, and increasingly suffering threats and attacks against their leaders—closed the Arapiuns River to logging traffic and sequestered two barges full of timber. The protestors camped on the river’s edge for a month as they waited, to no avail, for state and federal governments to arrive and address the problem. Finally, they set fire to the 2,000 cubic meters of wood on the barges. The fires blazed on for three days."


Avatar, the fight against the corporate domination, greed and ignorance.
They control us.
When somebody steps out of the sheeple gets labelled as a criminal or terrorist immediately. There is no need for police intervention to stop this individual(s), they made it so that we police each other.
Step out of the fiction world, this is REALITY!



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6 comments // A fiery battle over land in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest

  • good_stuff
  • EtVoila
  • jubal
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      jubal  

    • Avatar, the fight against the corporate domination, greed and ignorance.
      They control us.
      When somebody steps out of the sheeple gets labelled as a criminal or terrorist immediately. There is no need for police intervention to stop this individual(s), they made it so that we police each other.
      Step out of the fiction world, this is REALITY!

      Whoah, that was very powerful statements. I am quite impressed.

    • 2 years ago
  • jubal
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      jubal  

    • "The leaders of these groups are being imprisoned and are being labelled "criminals"."

      Yeah! Sounds like a recent administration that just left us in the toilet.

    • 2 years ago
  • WeAreChangeKy
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      WeAreChangeKy  

    • Wow, thanks for referring me over to this. What brave people. You would think some of those powerful people in Copenhagen would send some troops or do something to stop this. Guess they're too busy in their limos. Hey, Al, you lookin' at this, here's something you can actually succeed at stopping.

    • 2 years ago
  • lookatmypix
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