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Ecuador Training Mission...
Oct 01, 2002,
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| October-November 2002 The Team media and communications strategist conducted a two-month mission to Quito to support indigenous and campesino organizations in preparing and coordinating communications strategies identified by local groups for the recent Free Trade of the Americas Summit mobilizations in Quito. With ACT support, local groups succeeded in capturing compelling visuals and garnering e...
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Bolivia Field Mission...
Sep 01, 2002,
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| The Amazon Communications Team embarked on a mission to support Bolivian organizations in documenting and compiling visual and oral evidence of the long-term negative impacts on indigenous communities of the Cuiabá and Bolivia-Brazil pipelines. The evidence is to be presented as part of an official audit of the pipeline projects. The team visited over 15 indigenous communities in the renowned Chiq...
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Ecuador Radio Training Missions...
Jan 01, 2002,
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| January and October 2002 ACT twice dispatched an expert radio technician to deliver extensive training in radio communication to Amazonian indigenous organizations fighting to prevent the invasion of their pristine forest homelands by multinational oil companies. In recent months, improved internal communication (via radio and email networks) provided by ACT training has proved crucial to the main...
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Ecuador Media Training...
Nov 01, 2001,
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| Our media and digital witnessing training provided local activists fighting the OCP oil pipeline with the skills and equipment to record images of local blockades of the pipeline route, which have appeared in the world media.
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Ecuador Team Mission...
Mar 01, 2001,
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| The team was deployed on a month-long mission to Ecuador (March 8-April 9, 2001). This mission was organized in response to repeated requests from several Ecuadorian indigenous organizations facing threats from new oil projects. The main goal of the mission was to assess the communications, media, and strategic campaigning skills for five organizations and to develop a plan for long-term capacity ...
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Bolivia Field Mission...
Jun 01, 2000,
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| The Amazon communications team organized a field mission accompanied by members of Friends of the Earth and Bank Information Center to the San Matias region in Eastern Bolivia. The purpose of the trip was to document and expose the impacts of the new Enron Shell gas pipeline through the pristine Chiquitano forest and Pantanal wetlands. The pipeline was build through this intact wilderness area whe...
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Training Workshop...
Jun 01, 2000,
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| The team organized a media and communications training workshop prior to the annual meeting of the Amazon Alliance in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The three-day workshop was attended by more than 30 indigenous leaders from Bolivia, Ecuador, Brazil, Guyana and Suriname. It included the following topics: writing effective news releases, controlling your message, being an effective spokesperson, using email ...
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Venezuela Mission...
Oct 01, 1999,
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| The Amazon Communications Team joined the Pemon indians in the Gran Sabana in Venezuela, where the Pemon are protesting the construction of the Guri powerline. The teams goals: To document first hand the struggles of the indigenous people of Venezuela and throughout the Amazon, the dissemination of news releases to the international press and support of the indigenous peoples. More info and photos...
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Venezuela Mission...
Jul 01, 1999,
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| The Amazon Communications Team went on a mission to the Venezuelan Amazon. Our mobile media team attended the Summit of Amazonian indigenous leaders of Venezuela, Guyana, and Brazil. In addition to publicizing the event, the Amazon Communications Team conducted a Media Workshop for the Indigenous leaders.
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Venezuela...
Jul 01, 1999,
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| During July the Amazon Communications Team supported Venezuela's indigenous peoples while the Constituent Assembly convened to rewrite Venezuela's constitution. Get the full story.
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