This is why we do what we do. Not only because it is the right thing to do, but because we committed to these people and to the Amazon. It's because standing in solidarity means much more than a simple expression.
Eye on the Amazon
PlusPetrol Contaminates Rio Corrientes with More Oil Spills
Video Denounces New Spill
Alianza Arkana Blog | Still recovering from a recent spate of devastating oil spills on the Chambira and Marañon rivers, leaders from Amazon communities in Northern Peru are decrying yet another PlusPetrol spill on the Rio Corrientes.
Notes from Bogotá: The U'wa Solidarity Campaign
Claudia Cobaría of the U'wa relates the threats of oil and gas extraction to Mount Cocuy, "the lungs of water." "The snowcapped mountain is a source of life, the connection we U'wa have with the ocean and the rest of the planet."
An Evening with the Bacajá Xikrín
An intimate look into the life and culture of the Xikrín Kayapo in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon just kilometers away from where the government is plowing forward to build the Belo Monte Dam that could devastate their way of life.
URGENTE: Cacique Raoni e Indíos Kayapós sob ataque!
Cacique Raoni pediu apoio para pressionar o governo brasileiro para proteger as terras de seu povo contra criminosos armados enviados para intimidá-los.
Iquitos Streets Fill with Demands for Clean Water
Oil Companies Pose New Threat to City Water Source
Alianza Arkana Blog | Lending their bodies and voices to a chorus of songs and chants, hundreds of Peruvians marched through the streets of Iquitos to protest destructive oil drilling along the tributaries of the Amazon River.
URGENT: Chief Raoni and the Kayapo Under Attack!
Chief Raoni has called for support to pressure the Brazilian government to protect his people's lands against armed thugs sent by ranchers and illegal settlers to intimidate them and encroach upon their lands.
Chevron turns to 'Arbitration' Star Chamber to Try to Cheat Justice
After losing court rulings in Ecuador and the United States in recent weeks, Chevron is now betting everything on an obscure private arbitration panel acting under the mantle of the U.S.-Ecuador Free Trade Agreement.
US Court Delivers Serious Rebuke to Chevron's Abusive Legal Tactics
Victory for Ecuadorians Seeking Justice in the Amazon
The ruling sets right a "grave injustice against the Ecuadorians," and "rebukes Chevron's abusive legal tactics ... to malign the very people who suffer as a result of the company's deliberate poisoning of their homeland."
