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    Mining Out of the Amazon

    Mining in the Amazon has terrible effects on the livelihoods and health of Indigenous peoples and frontline communities as well as the overall balance of the Amazon’s biological diversity. Yet, mining giants with well-known track records of devastation and rights violations are eyeing Indigenous and traditional communities’ lands and other protected areas in the Amazon.

    Despite committing to withdraw from all mining interests in Indigenous lands, multinational companies continue to bulldoze through communities and their territories to complete their mining projects. Banks and asset managers are once again behind this extractive surge by financing these company’s projects.

    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.

    February 13, 2012
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    Vale: Worst Corporation in the World?

    In our tradition of going after corporate crooks we invite you to help denounce Vale, the largest iron-ore mining company in the world and a prime force behind the disastrous Belo Monte Dam.

    January 12, 2012
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    Amazon Watch is building on more than 28 years of radical and effective solidarity with Indigenous peoples across the Amazon Basin.

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    Ecuador Charges Indigenous Activists with Terrorism

    DW-World | Defending sacred sites and the environment can land you in jail for being a terrorist, according to indigenous activists in Ecuador. "There are about 200 cases against indigenous activists, campesinos, mextizos and other leaders," according to Pepe Acacho, Vice President of CONAIE, the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities in Ecuador.

    September 19, 2011
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    Humala Victorious as Fujimori Concedes

    The Independent | Lima, Peru – The left-wing former army officer Ollanta Humala has won Peru's bitterly contested presidential elections after his hard-right rival Keiko Fujimori conceded defeat.

    June 7, 2011
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    Indigenous Leaders Imprisoned at What Cost?

    Latin America Herald Tribune | Quito, Ecuador – One week after a Human Rights Watch report raised concerns about political and media freedoms in Ecuador, Shuar Indigenous leader Pepe Acacho, along with three others, were charged with terrorism and sabotage and arrested in a joint police-military action.

    February 8, 2011
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    Entrevista con Pepe Luis Acacho desde el Penal

    CONAIE | Quito, Ecuador – Pepe Luis Acacho hablo con el equipo de Comunicación Social de la CONAIE, desde el Penal García Moreno de Quito el 5 de febrero del 2011. Sin cámaras, filmadoras ni grabadoras por que no permitieron.

    February 5, 2011
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    Ecuadorian Indigenous Leaders Arrested

    Servindi | Río Blanco, Ecuador – Around 11 am today, several indigenous leaders were arrested in a joint operation of the Army and the National Police. Among those detained is Pepe Acacho, one of the candidates for president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE).

    February 1, 2011
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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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