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			<description>Amazon Watch works to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with indigenous and environmental organizations in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability and the preservation of the Amazon's ecological systems.</description>
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			<copyright>2012</copyright>
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<title>Dilma's Dilemma: Urge Brazil to Veto Forest Code</title> 
<link>http://amazonwatch.org/news/2012/0516-dilmas-dilemma-urge-brazil-to-veto-forest-code</link> 
<description><![CDATA[ President Dilma has just 9 days left to veto this hatchet job before it becomes law. With the world watching, which side of history will she choose to be on? Will her legacy be Amazon ruin? Or, will she act on behalf of future generations?  ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 11:45:25 -0700</pubDate> 
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<title>Brazil's President Faces Defining Decision Over Forest Bill</title> 
<link>http://amazonwatch.org/news/2012/0516-brazils-president-faces-defining-decision-over-forest-bill</link> 
<description><![CDATA[ Rio de Janeiro &ndash; President Dilma Rousseff is facing one of the defining moments of her presidency as pressure builds on her to veto a bill that would open vast protected areas of forests to ranching and farming, potentially reversing Brazil's major gains in slowing Amazon deforestation. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 11:23:06 -0700</pubDate> 
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<title>Dam Project Threatens a Way of Life in Peru</title> 
<link>http://amazonwatch.org/news/2012/0515-dam-project-threatens-a-way-of-life-in-peru</link> 
<description><![CDATA[ Boca Sanibeni, Peru &ndash; With encroachment from settlers and speculators, and after a devastating war against Shining Path rebels a decade ago, the indigenous Ashaninkas' hold is precarious. And they are now facing a new peril, the proposed 2,200-megawatt Pakitzapango hydroelectric dam, which would flood much of the Ene River valley. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 11:13:40 -0700</pubDate> 
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<title>Jungle Justice: Ecuador Recognizes Rights Violations in Sarayaku Case</title> 
<link>http://amazonwatch.org/news/2012/0515-jungle-justice-ecuador-recognizes-rights-violations-in-sarayaku-case</link> 
<description><![CDATA[ Sarayaku in Ecuador is one of the more unique places in the Amazon. The community has beaten back oil drilling plans on their lands for over a decade, and their <em>plan de vida</em> for future development and land management is visionary. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 16:05:42 -0700</pubDate> 
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<title>Ecuador Asks World to Pay to Keep Yasuni Oil Underground</title> 
<link>http://amazonwatch.org/news/2012/0501-ecuador-asks-world-to-pay-to-keep-yasuni-oil-underground</link> 
<description><![CDATA[ Ecuador is eyeing the international Green Climate Fund as a way to help pay for its plan to trade oil for forests. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 14:19:25 -0700</pubDate> 
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<title>Epic Greenwashing From Chevron</title> 
<link>http://amazonwatch.org/news/2012/0510-epic-greenwashing-from-chevron</link> 
<description><![CDATA[ Apparently believing that no outright whopper can't be repeated again and again, Chevron has issued a report bragging about the company's "commitment to respecting global human rights." It's a glossy, 50-page masterpiece of corporate greenwashing.  ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 15:16:40 -0700</pubDate> 
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<title>Indigenous Group Rejects Ivanhoe's Rainforest Oil Project in Calgary</title> 
<link>http://amazonwatch.org/news/2012/0509-indigenous-group-rejects-ivanhoes-rainforest-oil-project-in-calgary</link> 
<description><![CDATA[ Calgary, Canada &ndash; A surprise guest met representatives of Canadian-based Ivanhoe Energy this morning at its Calgary headquarters to denounce the company's oil operations in Ecuador. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 17:04:21 -0700</pubDate> 
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<title>Talisman Energy Stirs Resistance</title> 
<link>http://amazonwatch.org/news/2012/0510-talisman-energy-stirs-resistance</link> 
<description><![CDATA[ "This is the fourth time a commission of Achuar leaders are coming here to Calgary to speak about the same thing. The Achuar people affiliated with FENAP are reclaiming their territorial rights. There is no space for Talisman Energy to enter." ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 16:22:58 -0700</pubDate> 
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<title>Indigenous Peruvian Community Locked in Dispute with Oil Company</title> 
<link>http://amazonwatch.org/news/2012/0508-indigenous-peruvian-community-locked-in-dispute-with-oil-company</link> 
<description><![CDATA[ Toronto, Canada &ndash; An indigenous group in the Amazon rain forest took its anti-oil message to Canada in a case rife with accusations of social and environmental damage that highlights the issue of securing consent prior to commencing exploration operations. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 15:03:25 -0700</pubDate> 
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<title>Investor's Eye on the Amazon</title> 
<link>http://amazonwatch.org/news/2012/0509-investors-eye-on-the-amazon-may-2012</link> 
<description><![CDATA[ In this Spring edition of Investor's Eye on the Amazon, we would like to draw your attention to several investor resolutions at Chevron, news that Talisman Energy may pull out of Peru altogether, and protests by Vale shareholders over its huge investments in disastrous projects like Brazil's Belo Monte dam. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 10:45:45 -0700</pubDate> 
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<title>Update for Chevron Investors and Shareholders</title> 
<link>http://amazonwatch.org/news/2012/0509-update-for-chevron-investors-and-shareholders</link> 
<description><![CDATA[ Four separate resolutions have been filed related to Chevron's corporate governance issues and management of legal liabilities in Ecuador. In addition, an investor's letter to the company has a deadline of May 14th. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 10:45:24 -0700</pubDate> 
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<title>Amid Brazil's Rush to Develop, Workers Resist</title> 
<link>http://amazonwatch.org/news/2012/0505-amid-brazils-rush-to-develop-workers-resist</link> 
<description><![CDATA[ Jaci Paraná, Brazil &ndash; The revolt here on the banks of the Madeira River, the Amazon's largest tributary, flared after sunset. At the simmering end of a 26-day strike by 17,000 workers last month, a faction of laborers who were furious over wages and living conditions began setting fire to the construction site at the Jirau Dam. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 08:30:59 -0700</pubDate> 
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<title>The Battle for Brazil's Rainforest</title> 
<link>http://amazonwatch.org/news/2012/0504-the-battle-for-brazils-rainforest</link> 
<description><![CDATA[ A new bill in Brazil seeks to relax the rules governing forest preservation in the Amazon. Joining the discussion are guests: Andrew Miller of Amazon Watch; Joao Augusto de Castro Neves, a Latin America analyst at Eurasia Group focusing on Brazil; and Mark London, a filmmaker and author who has extensively documented the changes in the Amazon region. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 08:18:36 -0700</pubDate> 
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<title>Colombia's Road to Extinction</title> 
<link>http://amazonwatch.org/news/2012/0509-colombias-road-to-extinction</link> 
<description><![CDATA[ Indigenous groups in Colombia continue to face unjust violence, colonization, dispossession of lands, displacement due to armed conflict and climate change, stunted recovery and development due to ethnic discrimination, forced assimilation, and cultural degradation. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 18:43:49 -0700</pubDate> 
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<title>Conoco Drilling Threatens Water Source for Half Million in Peru</title> 
<link>http://amazonwatch.org/news/2012/0509-conoco-drilling-threatens-water-source-for-half-million-in-peru</link> 
<description><![CDATA[ San Francisco, CA &ndash; Grassroots opposition is mounting as ConocoPhillips' plans to drill for oil within the fresh-water source for Peru's largest rainforest city. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 18:05:21 -0700</pubDate> 
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<title>Talisman's Very Bad Day</title> 
<link>http://amazonwatch.org/news/2012/0504-talismans-very-bad-day</link> 
<description><![CDATA[ CEO John Manzoni's mouth was frozen in an outraged pout, as if he were undergoing some unspeakably undignified surgery. His meeting with the face-painted Achuar leaders was not going well at all. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 09:14:00 -0700</pubDate> 
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<title>Achuar Leaders Demand Talisman Vacate Peruvian Amazon</title> 
<link>http://amazonwatch.org/news/2012/0501-achuar-leaders-demand-talisman-vacate-peruvian-amazon</link> 
<description><![CDATA[ <em>Interviews, hi-res photos &amp; b-roll available upon request</em>&nbsp;

<em>Calgary, Canada &ndash;</em> Canadians rallied in support around Peruvian indigenous leaders who spoke out against Talisman in the company's Annual General Meeting of shareholders today. [...] ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 16:58:34 -0700</pubDate> 
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<title>This Used to Be Forest</title> 
<link>http://amazonwatch.org/news/2012/0430-this-used-to-be-forest</link> 
<description><![CDATA[ The Achuar people live on both sides of the Peru-Ecuador border in the Amazon rainforest. Since 2004, Calgary-based Talisman Energy has been drilling exploratory wells in a remote watershed in the heart of Achuar territory &ndash; despite strong opposition from the people who live there. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:19:50 -0700</pubDate> 
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<title>An Amazon Precedent</title> 
<link>http://amazonwatch.org/news/2012/0427-an-amazon-precedent</link> 
<description><![CDATA[ Sarayacu today is a postcard-pretty rain forest village strung along the banks of the Bobonaza River, with a sandy main square on a bluff high above the waters. A decade ago, the 1,200-resident village nearly became a battleground as Ecuadorian troops sought to impose the rights of an Argentine-US consortium to explore the area for crude oil. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 09:49:57 -0700</pubDate> 
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<title>Human Rights Court In Unprecedented Visit to Sarayaku</title> 
<link>http://amazonwatch.org/news/2012/0427-human-rights-court-in-unprecedented-visit-to-sarayaku</link> 
<description><![CDATA[ Top judges of the Inter-American Human Rights Court visited the Kichwa indigenous community of Sarayaku to investigate their long-running case against the Ecuadorian government over rights abuses. ]]></description> 
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:21:24 -0700</pubDate> 
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