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May 27, 2009

ALERT! Resource Boom in Peru's Amazon Threatens Indigenous Peoples' Livelihoods and Their Rainforest Homes

By Ecological Internet's Rainforest Portal with Rainforest Rescue

Resource Boom in Peru's Amazon Threatens Indigenous Peoples' Livelihoods and Their Rainforest HomesTAKE ACTION HERE NOW!

Support tens of thousands of indigenous people bravely protesting Peru government's give-away of their rainforest homes [search] to oil, mining and logging industry without their approval; insist peaceful protests are not met with violence by President Alan Garcia's government, and that the focus for Amazonian development be upon benefiting from standing trees and intact rainforest ecosystems.

BRIEF BACKGROUND:

Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon are protesting investment laws passed under a free-trade pact with the United States and against concessions granted to foreign energy companies. Some 30,000 indigenous people have blockaded roads, rivers and railways to demand repeal of new laws that allow oil, mining and logging companies to enter indigenous territories without seeking consent or even any consultation. Indigenous communities complain that some 70% of Peruvian Amazon territory is now leased for oil and gas exploration, putting at risk their own lives and the biodiversity of the Amazon.

Please add your voice in solidarity with the tens of thousands of indigenous people and their international supporters mobilizing to protect the Peruvian Amazon. Send a letter today to the Garcia Administration demanding respect for the constitutionally guaranteed rights of indigenous peoples, and Amazon development based upon standing forests.

TAKE ACTION NOW:
http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=peru_amazon

Comments

If these are American companies shouldn't the protest also be going to President Obama?

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Eight long, dark years of woefully inadequate leadership that has marked the earliest years of Century XXI have mercifully become history. A different kind of leadership and a new direction are offered to the human family.

As President Barack Obama has noted, the necessity of "seismic change" prompted by human-induced climate destabilization is recognizable and called for by sensible people everywhere. And yet conspicuous silence and elective mutism identify the "thieves of the highest order" among us in the "Axis of Arrogance and Greed" who self-righteously defend the status quo against necessary change.... come what may for the children and life as we know it on Earth.

In order to preserve their own selfish interests, perverse speechlessness by many too many people with great wealth and power has been knowingly employed to willfully orchestrate the denial of global threats looming ominously before the family of humanity. Thanks to President Barack Obama, perhaps free speech and corrective action can begin to occur now.

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Thanks Glen for posting this. I have signed the letter.

Perhaps the resource "boom" could also be described as a "resource grab". The pressure on the Earth seems relentless. Thank you for your courage and persistence in the face of it.

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