Photos from Our 2012 Annual Luncheon

October 15, 2012

Our honored guests this year were Kichwa leaders from the Sarayaku community in Ecuador, who made world news headlines recently by winning their case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.View photos »

Occupy Belo Monte

July 6, 2012

Scenes from the indigenous-led occupation of Pimental Island on the Xingu River. More than 300 people representing 21 indigenous villages and 9 different ethnicities are participting so far.View photos »

"Rivers for Life" Human Banner at Rio+20

June 19, 2012

Nearly 1500 people used Rio’s Flamengo Beach as a canvas. Their bodies formed the lines of an enormous image promoting the importance of free-running rivers, truly clean energy and including indigenous knowledge as part of the solution to climate issues.View photos »

What Bulldozers and Cynical Politics Do, Shovels and Grassroots Resistance Undo

June 15, 2012

300 indigenous people, small farmers, fisherfolk, and local residents occupied the Belo Monte Dam project, removing a strip to restore the Xingu's natural flow and "freeing the river."View photos »

The True Cost of Chevron

International coalition shakes things up at Chevron annual shareholder meeting

May 30, 2012

Each year Chevron faces opposition at its shareholder meeting, but this protest drew a larger and more diverse crowd galvanized by the oil giant's year of legal problems, oil spills and fines for reckless business practices.View photos »

Human Rights Court In Unprecedented Visit to Sarayaku

April 27, 2012

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.View photos »

Achuar Leaders Take Their Cause to Canada

April 2012

Four Achuar leaders traveled from deep in the Amazon rainforest to Canada to confront Talisman Energy for drilling for oil in their ancestral territory.View photos »

Ecuador's Indigenous Peoples Reach Quito After 600-km March for Water, Life, and Dignity

March 22, 2012

Thousands of indigenous peoples led by CONAIE converged on Quito today, culminating a 15-day march demanding a new water law, land reform, and an end to open pit mining and new oil concessions.View photos »

Occupation of the Belo Monte Dam Construction Site

"Belo Monte will only succeed if we do nothing about it. We will not be silent. We will shout out loud and we will do it now,"

October 27, 2011

The site of the Belo Monte Dam was peacefully occupied today by hundreds of indigenous leaders, fishermen and riverine people.View photos »

Photos from Our 2011 Annual Luncheon

September 27, 2011

This year's luncheon was a celebration of fifteen years of achievements for the people and rainforests of the Amazon.View photos »