Brazil tribes call for halt to dam project
June 28, 2012, www.aljazeera.com | “Work on part of a huge hydroelectric dam being built in the Brazilian Amazon has been halted by a tribal protest for an eighth day. One hundred and fifty indigenous people from five different tribes are occupying a work area at the Belo Monte dam construction site, saying promises made to them by the builders and the government have not been fulfilled.”
“~ TRIBAL RESISTANCE TO BELO MONTE DAM BEGINS!
150 people from five different tribes have occupied the site and shut down operations in the Brazilian Amazon. Watch the VIDEO on this link that shows their strength.
For more info, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belo_Monte_DamTribes say government broke promises and constructed dam that cuts the flow of river where they fish.”
Shalahnia Riversong“If you go to this photo you can see the process of their occupation in progress. Nice to see all those people cooperating for Mother Earth!”
Xingu River, Brazil (June 15, 2012) — Three hundred indigenous people, small fa…See Morethe resistance has begun2012/ 0619-rio20-human-dam-banner .html 
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Nearly 1500 people formed a human banner on a beach in Rio de Janeiro today to protest plans to build dozens of dams in the Amazon basin, reports Amazon Watch, an NGO campaigning against Brazil’s controversial Belo Monte dam.”Justin Henson, Shalahnia Riversong, Eugenia Linn, Sarah Kottnaurová, Lynda Mink, Luz Engelbrecht, and Tara K Woolstenhulme like this.
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