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    Destructive Infrastructure

    Despite Protests, Work Continues on Madeira River Dams

    Recent events surrounding the Santo Antonio and Jirau hydroelectric dam schemes underway on the Amazon’s Madeira River highlight the controversial nature of these projects as well as the lack of public consensus around the Brazilian government’s “development” plans for the Amazon basin.

    April 1, 2009
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    Brazil's Madeira Riverbank Dwellers Call for Help

    Members of the riverbank communities on Brazil’s Madeira River sent a letter to Brazil’s President Lula da Silva prior to his visit to see work on the two dam sites of Santo Antonio and Jirau, key projects of the Initiative for the Regional Integration of Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA).

    March 20, 2009
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    Civil Society Organizations from 13 Countries Highlight Inter-American Development Bank Failure

    Development Model Condemned as 50th Bank Meeting Approaches

    March 18 (IDB.50 Coalition) - As the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary in Medellin, Colombia, a coalition of 42 civil society organizations from across Latin America is calling it to account for its failure to eradicate poverty and inequality across the region.In a paralle

    March 18, 2009
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    COIAB meets with Prince Charles in Manaus

    The coordinator-general of the National Indigenous Organization of the Brazilian Amazon (COIAB), Jecinaldo Satere, delivered a document to the heir of the British throne detailing the position of indigenous peoples on environmental issues.

    March 13, 2009
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    WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: "Wake Up, World!" - SOS from the Amazon

    Interpress Service | BELÉM, Brazil, Jan 27 (IPS) - A human banner made up of more than 1,000 people, seen and photographed from the air, sent the message "SOS Amazon" to the world, in the first action taken by indigenous people hours before the opening in northern Brazil on Tuesday of the 2009 World Social Forum (WSF).The mass message ref

    January 27, 2009
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    S.O.S. Amazon! Over 1700 People Create Human Banner and Urge Global Action

    Brazilian Indigenous Leaders Unite International Efforts to Defend the Amazon Rainforest during the World Social Forum

    BELEM, Brazil – Indigenous people from across Latin America today led over 1700 participants of World Social Forum to form a human banner, using their bodies to draw attention to the increasingly precarious situation of the Amazon rainforest.

    January 27, 2009
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    Escuela Senen Soi

    As a response to increasing threats from logging, oil and gas drilling, industrial agriculture, and mining, the Escuela Senen Soi was launched in 2007 as a training program by and for indigenous leaders of the Peruvian Amazon.

    October 29, 2008
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    Brazil Searches for More Energy

    New York Times | Altamira, Brazil - Nearly 2,000 miles to the south, in the huge cities ofRio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, electricity is being rationed and blackoutsare a greater threat.

    October 21, 2001
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    Coordinator of Movement against Xingu Dams is Murdered

    Forum of the Eastern Amazon Brazil | Early this morning around 2:30 AM, one of the coordinators of the Movement for the Development of the Transamazon and the Xingu* was assassinated. Ademir Alfeu Federicci, known as "Dema", was shot in the head following a struggle with an armed man who entered his house in Altamira.

    August 25, 2001
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