Atlanta, Georgia - Demanding an end to "fast-track" destruction of the Amazon and the Earth's climate, environmentalists today disrupted a US government-sponsored conference designed to promote US investment in Latin America.
All: 1997
Demonstrators Protest at Occidental
United Press International | Los Angeles - The leader of a band of Colombian Indians who have threatened mass suicide if Occidental Petroleum drills for oil on what the tribe contends is their territory joined about 50 demonstrators in Los Angeles calling for the company to stop the project.
Tribe Threatens Mass Suicide U’wa Chief to Deliver a Personal Message to Occidental Petroleum and Shell (Entrevistas en Espanol)
WHO: Roberto Cobaria, President of the Traditional U’wa Authority, an indigenous tribe from the Cloud Forest joins scores of demonstrators and other concerned members of the Los Angeles environmental, human rights, religious, legal and academic communities calling on Occidental and Shell International to abandon plan
Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, Yanomami Indigenous Leader from Brazil
TO ALL WHO WISH TO HEAR METhe biggest problem for the Yanomami Indians now are the garimpeiro (goldminers) who are in our land, and the illnesses they bring with them. The government's National Health Foundation say that 1300 Yanomami had got malaria up until May this year.
ENVIRONMENT-AMAZON: Infrastructure Plans Threaten Amazonia
InterPress Service | ATT EDS: Please relate the following to 'ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Indigenous Communities Fend Off Gold Miners', moved from Brazil/ Boa Vista, Brazil - Soldiers dressed in olive-green camouflage uniforms sit high up in the cabins of three bright yellow bulldozers, maneouvering their way up the uneven dirt r
Amazon Watch is building on more than 25 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.
Indians Threaten Mass Suicide to Safeguard Oil-Rich Land
National Catholic Reporter - The Independent Lay-Edited Catholic Newsweekly | Los Angeles - It was a collision of wildly contrasting worlds that occurred on May 6: in a Beverly Hills corporate office Roberto Cobaria, the council president of 23 communities of the indigenous U'wa people of Colombia, sang a song in the language of his people to three top executives of the Occidental Oil and Gas Corporati
Occidental Offers to Meet with Indians
Reuters | Santa Monica, Calif.
Colombian Tribe Has OXY over a Barrel Business: Indigenous People Vow Mass Suicide if Company Goes after Oil under Disputed Territory
Los Angeles Times | Oil companies have encountered some tough opponents and have suffered their share of black eyes. But never have they come up against a dilemma like the one Occidental Petroleum of Los Angeles faces in the wilds of Colombia.
Message from the U'wa People to the World
Each time that a species is extinguished, mankind comes closer to his own extinction, each time an indigenous people becomes extinct, one more member of the great human family leaves forever on a journey with no return.
