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    Live from the Amazon: Indigenous Leaders Arrive in Brasília

    The 150 indigenous protestors who have staged a courageous nine-day occupation of the Belo Monte dam's main work camp have traveled to Brasilia today to meet in the Presidential Palace with high officials from the Brazilian government.

    June 4, 2013
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    Indigenous Demand Meeting with Brazilian President over Dams

    Huffington Post | Armed with bows, arrows, and heavy wooden clubs, roughly a dozen indigenous men of the Munduruku tribe take shifts guarding the entrance to the construction site of the world's third-largest dam, the Belo Monte. Together with 170 indigenous protestors of various tribes, including women and children, the Munduruku have forced all construction to a...

    May 28, 2013
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    Brazil Indians Occupy Belo Monte Dam Site

    Lucy Jordan

    The Rio Times | Brasilia, Brazil – The federal government said Monday it would not negotiate with indigenous groups which on Tuesday entered their sixth day of occupying the controversial Belo Monte dam construction site.

    May 7, 2013
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    Amazon Indians Occupy Controversial Dam to Demand a Say

    Indians from different river basins unite to oppose dams

    Reuters | Brasilia, Brazil – Amazon Indians on Friday refused to end their occupation of a building site that has partially paralyzed work on the world's third largest hydroelectric dam for two days.

    May 3, 2013
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    A United Cry Against Dams in the Amazon

    Yesterday Brazil and the world witnessed a historic moment of unity and struggle for the Amazon and its people. Some 200 indigenous peoples, riverine communities and fishermen continue to stop work on the Belo Monte dam.

    May 3, 2013
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    Indigenous Peoples Launch New Occupation on Belo Monte Dam Site

    Tribes from Xingu and Tapajós rivers unite to protest violations of rights to prior consultations in construction of Amazon dams

    Altamira, Brazil – Some 200 indigenous people affected by the construction of large hydroelectric dams in the Amazon launched an occupation today on one of the main construction sites of the Belo Monte dam complex on the Xingu River in the Brazilian Amazon.

    May 2, 2013
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    Deadly Sins in the Brazilian Amazon

    The trampling of indigenous rights, military force used against protesters, impunity, megadams and environmental destruction. Is Brazil returning to the bad old days?

    Huffington Post | By prioritising these large infrastructure projects at immense cost to the people and the environment, by suppressing protest with military force, by condoning the appalling conditions in these construction sites, by failing to prevent the murder of protesters and indigenous and grassroots leaders, the Brazilian government is sending the dangerous...

    April 16, 2013
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    A Cry from the Heart of Pan Amazonia

    Last month the sixth Pan Amazon Social Forum brought together hundreds of community leaders, academics, and NGO representatives from across the Amazon to discuss and debate common challenges and forge collaborative solutions.

    December 12, 2012
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    Is Brazil Destroying The Amazon For Energy?

    Forbes | Who said women were stewards of the environment? Brazil's first woman president, Dilma Rousseff wants to eliminate more than 86,000 hectares of protected areas in the Amazon.

    February 27, 2012
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    Dam-Affected People Deliver Half a Million Signatures to Stop the Belo Monte Dam

    Several Hundred Amazonian Indigenous Leaders and Dam-Affected People Participate in Colorful Demonstration and Deliver Signatures to the Office of the President

    Brasilia, Brazil – Over half a million people, most of them Brazilians, are calling on newly-elected President Dilma to halt plans to construct the Belo Monte Dam. Outside the Brazilian Congress and Presidential Palace, several hundred people gathered in protest, including indigenous chiefs and community leaders from the Xingu River basin.

    February 8, 2011
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    March and Human Banner Are Reminder that "The Rivers of the Amazon Are Alive"

    700 people, many threatened by dams and deforestation, form a human banner on Tapajós River in Santarém to bring attention to the threat of large dams in the Amazon

    Santarém, Para, Brazil – For the people of the Amazon, the forests and the rivers are life. That is why they mobilized at the V Pan Amazon Forum in a global call to protect the rivers of the Amazon.

    November 26, 2010
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