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Take Action - URGENT: Peru Is Murdering Amazon Protesters To Secure Oil Expansion!!!


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SirRobert
- 166 days ago - ga3.org
In the past several days the Peruvian government has murdered dozens of indigenous protesters, who tried to unite in peaceful protests against an oil expansion in Peru's rainforests! Take Action Now, because time is running out for many!!!
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SirRobert THE FIFTH KNIGHT (271)
Friday June 12, 2009, 10:13 am
We must do something NOW -- or else just sit back and wait for the last rainforest trees to burn!!!

WHICH WILL IT BE - FIGHT OR SURRENDER???


Signature: THE FIFTH KNIGHT'S NEWS
 

Catherine Turley (45)
Friday June 12, 2009, 10:42 am
don't forget to change the name and email before sending the message.
 

Ben Oscarsito (310)
Friday June 12, 2009, 10:49 am
Thanks Robert.

"Worldwide protests in support of Amazon Indians" (Survival International)
Thousands of protesters marched in towns and cities around the world yesterday in support of Peru’s Amazonian Indians.
Demonstration and vigils were held outside Peruvian embassies and consulates in Bonn, Milan, Madrid, Barcelona, Rome, Paris, Washington DC, Brussels, Quito and many other cities.

There were also demonstrations across Peru, from Iquitos in the Amazon to the capital Lima.
In response to the national and international outcry over the dozens of deaths in last week’s Indian protests, Peru’s Congress has suspended for 90 days two of the decrees which were at the root of the dispute.

The underlying cause of the protests, however, remains – the government’s aggressive push to open up Indian lands in the Amazon to oil, gas and logging companies.
Survival International is lodging formal requests for an independent and impartial investigation into last week’s violence with the Organisation of American States and the UN.

A Peruvian news team was present at the road blockade near the town of Bagua in which scores of people, both Indians and police officers, died last week. Their report (in Spanish) is now available online in two parts, and reveals the chaotic scenes as police broke up the blockade.
Please write to Peru's President:
http://www.survival-international.org/actnow/writealetter/peruvianindians
 

Claudia Peters (322)
Friday June 12, 2009, 11:15 am
Signed.Yes,had to log of as another name was on it
 

Ben Oscarsito (310)
Friday June 12, 2009, 11:34 am
Avaaz. Org:
Protect Indigenous Rights - Save the Amazon!
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/peru_stop_violence/
149,821 people have shown their support to the indigenous struggle in less than 48 hours. Help us get to 200,000
 

Ben Oscarsito (310)
Friday June 12, 2009, 11:51 am
UPDATE:
In response to the outcry, Peru's legislature has just temporarily suspended two of the controversial decrees -- the pressure is working - let's keep it up!
150,135 people have shown their support to the indigenous struggle in less than 48 hours.
(Avaaz Org.)
 

Past Member (0)
Friday June 12, 2009, 12:29 pm
The Cowards Way
Essay one

Great men have advanced civilization with creative ideas, changes that brought about innovation and better ways to advance the rights of life for mankind. Many are known and many others are less known for they are your neighbor’s friends and kin that make each day better for they never refusing. To do all they can …. With what they have at the time… the need is known. However others take the coward’s way out for they do not have that light spark and glow of others to press forward when faced with insurmountable problems. They instead retreat behind closed doors to conspire and scheme to hoard what they have. For in them from the very start was bad genetics. They were just born wrong.

John D. sr. pictured above … his father was a medicine man selling a SNAKE OIL potent laced with heroin to housewives as cure all. He was never around home much, but had women in beds waiting him most places that he traveled, so John D. sr. had a lot of bastard brothers and sisters. Now what does that do to ones psyche?

So how does a past like that get one center stage to be the big want to be giant in mankind’s history? It takes a sociopath mentality. That occurs early on when in the development stages of the personality the ego runs wild and goes after what it cannot have legally then invents ways to be satisfied outside all the rules of laws, conscience first, common laws next, local state then federal.

Behind closed doors cowards meet or just mediate on ways to lie, cheat, steal and kill without being noticed. That has been the way of the Rockefellers causes, since JD Rockefeller claimed God gave him all the oil in the earth. Now think … “Who”, was the God that gave him … just one greedy sorry wretched man all that oil?

Again that was his creation of his story the way he wanted it told. And that fit his outward religious affiliations at that time Baptist. John D even stole from his brother William. It was not John D, that was the cleverer but brother William for in him too was bad genetics he knew how to manipulate Wall Street and did that very well. William laid out the financial groundwork for their railroad, pipeline, and refinery deals etc. that led to the Creation of Standard Oil, the biggest meal ticket of all.

However it was John D that crunched the numbers and got high theft down to science. Hoarding was his way of life and he admitted that he was never satisfied. Again the cowards way out. He began to manipulate the markets by raising the prices of oil that brought about more drilling by independents. When new discoveries were made John D lowered the price of oil that drove many of the new guys on the block to bankruptcy. John D would buy those reserves for pennies on a dollar and all got put in the financial box of being cheated. When drilling for oil investors put in the lions share of the cost then share in revenues made from each specific well or field. So each time that has been done, I think for about 25 to 50 years investors have been the ones who took the big hit.

Round about men of wealth come many that want to take them behind the closed doors with plans to further their goals. The halls and corridors are full of folks with supposed good ideas how they can aid one --- who needs no help at all. But the Cowards listen intently to see how they can steal the idea. Nothing new about folks doing that they are called investment bankers. Listening for that deal or patent or good idea that can be stolen. And each time a high theft occurs with no retribution the ego grows more out of hand in the way of the coward. During the last 100 years the Rockefellers have leveraged that old oil wealth into a colossus of espionage and sabotage against all the inhabitants of the earth, mass genocide is in their plans.

“ Yes”, do not forget you are one of us. Your head is on the chopping block too.

Dbaker007@stx.rr.com



 

Past Member (0)
Friday June 12, 2009, 12:38 pm
The Cowards Way
Essay two

David Rockefeller above was born in 1915 his grandfather was JD Rockefeller. He inherited all that great wealth from Dad and Granddad and he inherited those bad genetics too. He is a coward just like them. His fan club the Bilderbergs calls him King of the world. But could that be right because President Obama thinks he is that too.

In about 1990 David and Henry Kissinger met with President Regan and handed him out the plans for the Bilderbergs to take over and run the world. Regan just being an actor said “Give me the lines to read”. And off David and Henry went to do their longer range planning behind locked doors. Their grand design then is being implemented today, to reduce earth’s population down to a manageable 3 billion, with 6 billion of us alive today wonder “Who” is going to get the Bilderberg Axe. NOT ME.

Now how about you, are you ready to roll over and just let them kill your family friends kin and you too?

The need for greed breeds insanity into those that get it. It is called “They get to play like they are GODS”. Oops some might say come again on that one. “They get to play like they are GODS”. All that play time is done behind closed doors in secret meetings all over the earth in hide a ways that many times our tax money is used to make sure high security protects them while they are playing their sin sick cowardly games. Again some might asks, “How could that be”? Simple, they buy politicians all over the world change laws around that favor them so the bribe just works out real good in their favor. Now for those that need proof just google Bilderbergs in the Obama Administration and you will find many. All those Bilderbergs holding high-ranking offices are not working for We the People but for the Biderbergs agenda and that is to rob us blind.
Now the TV press is in on it too. The Printed media too, to know the TRUTH you must study. It is out there just find it.

The group of misfit morons and cowards they call themselves Bilderbergs but that is just their Giant they try to hide behind. They are all cowards and hide behind that seemed colossal giant. They play like, behind closed doors, they have it all, yet they do not. For the Bilderbergs is just a paper tiger. The “More”, that WE know that the better off earth’s population is going to be.

I still have hero’s one of mine is King David. He had proved his worth as a boy. Done what he was asked to do. Protected his fathers sheep fought a bear and lion with bare hands and won. When Goliath threatened to take out David’s Kin he took on that fight. I have been to that brook where the fight ensued and let me tell you there are no small pebbles to be seen. David looked for the most vulnerable point on Goliath to take him down. He found it and down Goliath come tumbling to the ground. Then with the sword that Goliath had prepared to kill others he got that to his own neck.

What is the most vulnerable spot on the Bilderbergs Goliath? What kind of stone must we throw to bring that beast to the ground?

Now I have some ideas, but heck you got a good mind you think about it too.

More to come on finding that right stone to bring that beast to the ground then gather up all the cowards as they try to run off and hide, bring them before the bar of Justice for the high crimes they have all committed. Strip them of everything they have hoarded. Then destroy all the things that had prepared to destroy us, and that my friend is a terror of horrors likes unto Hitler’s Germany of poisons but far worse.

Dbaker007@stx.rr.com
 

mary f. (74)
Friday June 12, 2009, 1:17 pm
signed and forwarded thanks robert
 

Karen S. (97)
Friday June 12, 2009, 1:54 pm
I saw something about this on the news and was alarmed. I don't even want to try to express the anger I feel when I hear what lengths people will go to to protect big business. No matter what casualties occur in the pursuit, it's all about $$$$$$$$$$!!!!!
 

Kari D. (168)
Friday June 12, 2009, 2:16 pm
noted & signed
 

Joanna D. (195)
Friday June 12, 2009, 2:36 pm
Send a Message to the President of Peru:



Peru - take action!



Please take action also on these sites:


http://rainforestportal.com/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=peru_amazonhttp://www.survival-international.org/actnow/writealetter/peruvianindianshttps://secure.avaaz.org/en/peru_stop_violence/
 

Leigh B. (178)
Friday June 12, 2009, 3:50 pm
Signed and noted, thanks Robert
 

Rhonda Maness (450)
Friday June 12, 2009, 4:15 pm
Thank you for taking action! This is an urgent crisis and we need to get as many people as possible to let Secretary of State Clinton know that the US needs to take action! Thanks Robert
 

Barbara Liebowitz (872)
Friday June 12, 2009, 6:08 pm
noted thank you
 

Aletta Kraan (31)
Friday June 12, 2009, 6:11 pm
Noted and signed, thanks !!
 

SirRobert THE FIFTH KNIGHT (271)
Friday June 12, 2009, 6:34 pm
Open-Petition Letter To Sign & Send For This Post!

Thank you to all who make the extra effort to note, sign and forward!!!
 

Joycey B. (695)
Friday June 12, 2009, 6:38 pm
Action taken. Thanks Robert.

Thank you for taking action! This is an urgent crisis and we need to get as many people as possible to let Secretary of State Clinton know that the US needs to take action!
 

Roger Bertrand (4)
Friday June 12, 2009, 6:46 pm

MORE LIES...

"who tried to unite in peaceful protests against an oil expansion in Peru's rainforests!"

Cannot believe that CARE 2 loans itself to such lies.

PEACEFULL....

One has to be really ...

Taking Highways, taking public property over... etc... and you call that PEACEFULL... what a piece of crap.

Roger
 

SirRobert THE FIFTH KNIGHT (271)
Saturday June 13, 2009, 4:55 am
* New Related Care2 Article:

"Protesters Gird for Long Fight Over Opening Peru's Amazon To Oil Drilling and Logging Deforestation" - New York Times


Signature: THE FIFTH KNIGHT'S NEWS
 

Tierney G. (300)
Saturday June 13, 2009, 9:45 am
Already signed Thanks Robert
 

Christy V. (36)
Saturday June 13, 2009, 10:36 am
thanks for the opportunity. noted and signed.
 

Past Member (0)
Saturday June 13, 2009, 10:51 am

I have no doubt that any reading this would refuse to aid one in peril. For to do so who prove one was not one in tune with the human race. For the first and most sane law of justice is conscience. What I have read studied and witnessed with my eyes while on the thread is the EYE or CORE from where all must seek refuge seems to get lost along the way.

And that is the rule of law for all in common mankind in all degrees.

Thus right is right and wrong does not belong in any civil society.

The world system is corrupt for there is Beast that preys on their like kind as cannibals.

Yet the far greater problem for the good of mankind is that the TRUTH has never come to been known to most. Thus, many live in a vacuum with blinders on for the terrors in horrors done by the Beast are just too far upsetting for those who have not seen the TRUTH.

That segment regardless what they think of themselves are slaves the evil world corrupt system for they have proven to have NO SANE SOUND VOICE to come against the evil world system.

Accordingly they have become one with them. And to that end MY GOD FORBIDS.

The Eye Me Mates


Raging seas cast us about
Swells from the deep
Held us in check

Captain oh Captain
What be the
Course?

Who has the mainstay?
Can he manage?
To hold the gust?

Captain oh Captain
What be the
Course?

Aghast at the torment
Violent unrelenting storms
Cast us to and fro some
Thrown overboard
Hours became days
Days seemed to have no end
Adrift cold and lonely
This again was heard

Captain oh Captain
What be the
Course?


The Eye Me Mates

Dwight Baker copyright 2009

Dbaker007@stx.rr.com
 

Maria Chinchilla (30)
Saturday June 13, 2009, 10:53 am
Thanks for the post!
This is not the first time that García commits atrocities in Perú. The sad part is the people that look the other way, pretending it's OK, and do nothing to stop him. He does not care about Peruvians nor the Rain Forest, he only cares about fattening his pockets, with total disregard for human rights.
 

Past Member (0)
Saturday June 13, 2009, 10:58 am
Chevron belongs to David Rockefeller he is King of the World and worshiped by those that call themselves Bilderbergs.

The Bilderbergs work both sides to the middle for their benefit.

The TRUTH is everywhere but we must first want to look. Thus I encoruge all to do so in this the dawn for mankind, where information awaits all who is hungry to know the TRUTH and to that end the TRUTH will set us FREE, from what Slavery.


Chevron faces shareholder rebuke on claims by Amazon rainforest Indians
mongabay.com
May 21, 2009


Calpers, the country's largest public pension fund with $170 billion in assets, announced Thursday it will support a resolution calling on Chevron to examine whether it complies with environmental regulations in Ecuador.

The move comes as the oil giant faces a potential $27 billion dollar liability for environmental damage caused by Texaco, a company Chevron (NYSE:CVX) acquired in 2001. In court filings Texaco has admitted to dumping and spilling billions of gallons of toxic waste and oil in eastern Ecuador's Amazon rainforest between 1964 and 1990.

Calpers (the California Public Employees' Retirement System) joins two New York funds—the state’s Common Retirement Fund and the Employees Retirement System of New York City—and public pension funds of Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Maryland in supporting the resolution. Together the funds control more than $1 billion of Chevron stock. Calpers own about $600 million worth of shares in the oil major.

“The CalPERS vote is a significant announcement that puts enormous pressure on Chevron’s management in the investor community,” said Dan Orlow, a private American investor who is advising the Amazonian communities. “It demonstrates that important pension funds are now lining up against Chevron on Ecuador.”

Chevron’s management says it expects an adverse judgment in the case but would appeal. The potential liability is about one-fifth the current market value of Chevron ($129 billion) and 87 percent of the price Chevron paid for Texaco.

Chevron's annual meeting is scheduled for May 27 at the company's headquarters in San Ramon, CA. The Amazon Defense Coalition, a group that represents the plaintiffs, including rainforest communities and indigenous groups, says that indigenous leaders from the affected region are expected to attend and confront Chevron’s management about Ecuador.

Chevron has carried on costly public relations and lobbying campaign

In an effort to block the legal judgment.

Last year it was revealed that Chevron hired

Former Senate majority leader Trent Lott,

Former Clinton White House Chief of Staff Mac McLarty,

Former Democratic senator John Breaux

John McCain fund-raiser Wayne Berman

To lobby

United States Trade Representative Susan Schwab,

Key Members of Congress, and Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte

To threaten suspending U.S. trade preferences with Ecuador over the law suit.

http://waronyou.com/forums/index.php?topic=3124.0

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/global_elite_gather_135.html

http://24ahead.com/blog/archives/005927.html

http://www.bilderberg.org/kissing.htm

http://www.apfn.org/apfn/bilderberg.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Breaux


______________________________________________________________________


Chevron Management Dealt Major Blow With CalPERS Announcement On Ecuador
California Pension Fund Voting for Resolution Stemming From Chevron's $27 Billion Ecuador Liability in Rainforest

Pressure Grows as Funds from Connecticut, Philadelphia, Detroit Defy Recommendation of Chevron Management

San Francisco, CA (May 21, 2009) – Chevron is facing a shareholder rebuke at its annual meeting next week over the company's $27 billion Ecuador liability with the announcement that the nation's largest public pension fund in California is defying the recommendation of company management and voting for a resolution on the issue.

CalPERS, which owns an estimated $600 million of Chevron stock and controls $170 billion in assets, announced on its website today that it will vote for a resolution calling on Chevron to examine whether it complies with host country laws and environmental regulations. Chevron has been heavily criticized for violating such laws in Ecuador, leading to a humanitarian crisis among indigenous and farmer communities in an area of rainforest where Texaco admitted to dumping billions of gallons of toxic waste from the mid-1960s to the early 1990s.

New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has also opened an investigation of Chevron to determine if it is misleading shareholders about the financial risks the company faces in Ecuador.

"The CalPERS vote is a significant announcement that puts enormous pressure on Chevron's management in the investor community," said Dan Orlow, a private American investor who is advising the Amazonian communities. "It demonstrates that important pension funds are now lining up against Chevron on Ecuador."

CalPERS and the two New York funds – the state's Common Retirement Fund and the Employees Retirement System of New York City – are three of the largest public pension funds in the U.S. and together control more than $1 billion of Chevron stock. Other public pension funds that have announced their support of the resolution include those of Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the pension funds of firefighters and police in Detroit and other large cities.

Funds from three large unions – the AFL-CIO, Teamsters, and AFSCME – have announced their support of the resolution along with several smaller private funds, such as Trillium Asset Management in Boston.

The Ecuador liability was featured earlier this month on 60 Minutes in an unflattering report for Chevron. Thousands of rainforest residents have been fighting a legal battle against the company for clean-up of their lands since 1993.

The case is in Ecuador at Chevron's request after the communities in U.S. federal court initially filed it. The company agreed to be subject to jurisdiction and be bound by any ruling in Ecuador as a condition of the case being transferred out of U.S. court, which makes the enforceability of a judgment out of Ecuador likely despite what the company is saying to shareholders, said Steven R. Donziger, an American legal advisor to the Amazonian communities.

The liability appears to be the largest ever faced by an oil company for environmental damage, and almost surpasses the $31 billion price tag paid by Chevron to purchase Texaco in 2001. Chevron's management has announced it expects an adverse judgment in the case but has said it would appeal, while the plaintiffs have announced they plan to ask the court to hold the amount of any judgment in escrow pending appeals – a move that could severely hinder the company's cash position in a time of relatively low oil prices, according to analysts.

Previously, the Securities and Exchange Commission denied an attempt by Chevron management to prevent the Ecuador resolution from coming to a vote.

The announcement by CalPERS comes the same week that Chevron's management filed with the SEC an open letter to shareholders urging them to vote against the Ecuador resolution. That letter – signed by Chevron Corporate Secretary Lydia I. Beebe – contains incorrect and misleading information and appeared to backfire, said Donziger.

"Each assertion in the Beebe letter is either false, materially misleading, or incomplete except for the part where the company admits it might lose the legal case," said Donziger.

"Our team is being contacted repeatedly by shareholders and analysts who are concerned that Chevron management is not fully and honestly disclosing the company's exposure in Ecuador," said Orlow. "There is a real concern that Chevron is not playing it straight and that it might have overpaid for Texaco."

The Cuomo investigation is being brought under New York's Martin Act, which allows for both civil and criminal liability for fraud. Several New York-based shareholders, including Amnesty International, had requested the probe to determine if the company's public disclosures complied with securities regulations.

The annual meeting is scheduled for May 27 at Chevron headquarters in San Ramon, CA. Indigenous leaders from Ecuador's Amazon are expected to attend and confront Chevron's management about Ecuador.

"In past annual meetings, Chevron CEO David O'Reilly occasionally has treated the Ecuadorian visitors with a discourteous tone and shut down the microphone when they attempted to speak," said Donziger.


http://www.livecitizen.com/2009/05/bilderberg/



 

Alicya L. (184)
Saturday June 13, 2009, 11:48 am
http://www.canadians.org/action/2009/11-June-09.html
ACTION ALERT: Canada must halt free trade agreement with Peru

Indigenous communities in Peru have been holding peaceful protests since April 9 to condemn new laws that would allow for the rapid industrialization of the Amazon rainforest. These laws were put in place by the Peruvian government to further facilitate its proposed free trade agreements with Canada and the United States.

Over 30,000 Indigenous protesters have blocked roads, rivers and railways to force the repeal of these new laws, which would make way for intensified oil, mining, logging activities and massive agricultural projects, and to demand that they be consulted on all development planned on their land.

But at dawn on Friday, June 5, 600 Peruvian police in helicopters and on foot opened fire on protesters blocking a road near Bagua in the Peruvian Amazon. Conservative estimates indicate that 60 Indigenous and police have been killed. Police are accused of burning bodies then hiding them in the river and of removing the wounded from hospital to hide the real number of casualties.

Should Canada really be signing a free trade agreement with the Peruvian government when this is how they respond to legitimate protests against oil, mining and forestry projects that threaten to displace local and indigenous communities and further despoil Amazonian ecosystems?

Many of our elected Members of Parliament seem to think so.

The Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement gives Canadian resource companies new legal powers to challenge what few Peruvian laws stand in their way, while paying only lip service to labour rights and environmental protection. The House of Commons has already passed Bill C-24, the implementing legislation for the Agreement, without adding even a mention of human rights; it is currently before the Senate.

But the deal can still be stopped!

We need you to write to the Senate immediately and ask them to send the Canada—Peru FTA back to Parliament for reconsideration. The Senate cannot be allowed to rubber stamp this deal, which legitimizes state repression for the sake of boosting the profits of Canada’s oil patch and major mining companies. By using the form below, your letter will be copied to all the major party leaders so they know Canadians stand in solidarity with the Peruvian Indigenous protesters and oppose the free trade agreement.

In solidarity,

The Council of Canadians
Common Frontiers
MiningWatch Canada


 

Alicya L. (184)
Saturday June 13, 2009, 11:51 am
sorry just this link will do fine (I hope)



http://www.canadians.org/action/2009/11-June-09.html
 

Anumpeshi Aduddell (198)
Saturday June 13, 2009, 11:52 am
Our forest are our breath of life and of all living,please don;t take all that lives as Beauty and grace,mother earths gifts are precious/awaken your heart chakra to compassion and to a love forgotten,
 

Alicya L. (184)
Saturday June 13, 2009, 11:55 am
Thank you for taking action! This is an urgent crisis and we need to get as many people as possible to let Secretary of State Clinton know that the US needs to take action!

 

Simone D. (882)
Saturday June 13, 2009, 11:57 am
Thank you Robert.
 

Suzanna van der Voort (219)
Saturday June 13, 2009, 12:51 pm
Both actions taken:
http://ga3.org/campaign/peru?rk=upB%2dKkKazvVwE
URGENT: Peru Is Murdering Amazon Protesters!
To: Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State

http://www.canadians.org/action/2009/11-June-09.html
Canada must halt free trade agreement with Peru
To: All recipients on the website

Thanks Robert and Alicya
 

Elderberry T. (187)
Saturday June 13, 2009, 2:06 pm
Signed thanks Robert
Plz sign this petition too URGENT
http://www.care2.com/news/member/184653585/1165466 or go here

http://www.avaaz.org/en/peru_stop_violence/?cl=252958543&v=3467
 

Eureka Morrison (226)
Saturday June 13, 2009, 3:24 pm
Thank you for taking action! This is an urgent crisis and we need to get as many people as possible to let Secretary of State Clinton know that the US needs to take action!
 

SirRobert THE FIFTH KNIGHT (271)
Saturday June 13, 2009, 4:16 pm
*Important Related Care2 Article:

Take Action - Protect Indigenous Rights - Save the Amazon! > By: Jackie C.
 

Suzanna van der Voort (219)
Saturday June 13, 2009, 4:58 pm
Here is another one:

http://action.citizen.org/t/1153/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27410&track=dia061009
Take Action: Indigenous Peruvians Killed While Protesting Bad Trade Deal

Please use the form below to write a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and House trade committee leaders Charles Rangel and Sander Levin, urging them to intervene immediately and end the Peru FTA-related violence against these indigenous communities.

Will cross post as wide as possible and share!

 

Mandi T. (261)
Saturday June 13, 2009, 5:40 pm
You have already participated in this advocacy campaign.
Thank you Robert
going here now.Take Action - Protect Indigenous Rights - Save the Amazon! > By: Jackie C.
 

Cynthia Davis (223)
Saturday June 13, 2009, 6:52 pm
signed
 

Drew C. (0)
Saturday June 13, 2009, 7:49 pm
Signed!
 

Koo J. (92)
Saturday June 13, 2009, 10:47 pm
"At least 84 indigenous people have been killed fighting to defend their traditional territories from oil exploration. As part of a free trade agreement with the US, Peru has altered their constitution and implemented new laws stripping indigenous tribes of their land rights and opening their lands to oil companies. In response there has been a massive uprising for the past month with tribes around the country shutting down major highways, rivers, oil installations, trains, and other critical infrastructure. To put it bluntly these new laws are a death sentence for the indigenous of the Peruvian Amazon.

... This is not an abstraction. This is life and death for thousands of people. And may I add it is death being fueled by our addiction to oil. If we are serious about climate justice we need to provide solidarity to those resisting genocide in Peru."
http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/06/08/84-indigenous-people-massacred-in-perus-oil-war/


"An aggressive drive is taking place to extract the last remaining resources from indigenous territories," said Victoria Tauli-Corpus, chairwoman of the UN permanent forum on indigenous issues. "There is a crisis of human rights. There are more and more arrests, killings and abuses.

"This is happening in Russia, Canada, the Philippines, Cambodia, Mongolia, Nigeria, the Amazon, all over Latin America, Papua New Guinea and Africa," MsTauli-Corpus said. "It is global. We are seeing a human rights emergency. A battle is taking place for natural resources everywhere. Much of the world's natural capital - oil, gas, timber, minerals - lies on or beneath lands occupied by indigenous people."
http://business.smh.com.au/business/indigenous-genocide-in-battle-for-oilfields-20090613-c6ra.html


 

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Saturday June 13, 2009, 11:25 pm
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Janet Solomon (249)
Sunday June 14, 2009, 7:17 am
Thank you, thank you, thank you Robert!
We really need to keep the pressure up & constant--let these people know they are NOT alone in the world...That OTHERS care, too.
Namaste! xo
 

Ben Oscarsito (310)
Sunday June 14, 2009, 9:38 am
Avaaz. Org Petition:
177,552 people have shown their support to the indigenous struggle. Help us get to 200,000
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/peru_stop_violence/
 

Ben Oscarsito (310)
Wednesday June 17, 2009, 4:12 am
Avaaz.Org Petition:
209,916 people have shown their support to the indigenous struggle. Help us get to 250,000
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/peru_stop_violence/
 

Cheree Million (125)
Sunday June 21, 2009, 1:24 am
Noted & signed. Thanks
 
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