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The jungle massacre: Peru's tribal chief flees country

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Protesters block access to Yurimagua city in the Amazon Protesters block access to Yurimagua city in the Amazon

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Here we go again!
[info]fourpie wrote:
Thursday, 11 June 2009 at 05:36 am (UTC)
Prepare yourselves for the capitalist bulldozer. Lie down and die, so that the rest of us can continue a few more years in this padded cell of consumerism. What can we minions in far lands do to help? It is the story of human existence, this struggle against greed and self interest.
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Greed
[info]chiennoir wrote:
Thursday, 11 June 2009 at 05:45 am (UTC)
We are all being held to ransom by the big oil companies and their insatiable greed. The Amazonian Indians in Peru are fighting for all of us.
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[info]andre_t wrote:
Thursday, 11 June 2009 at 06:25 am (UTC)
a disgrace, we need to stop the exploitation and racism against the "indigenous" people of America
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revolt take action!
[info]to_i_om wrote:
Thursday, 11 June 2009 at 06:30 am (UTC)

cut free from the binding chains of consumerism that the capitalist beast tied around your neck. Become your on master and take control over your life. Resist being led to mindless action against your brother and sister. We are all one family, humanity, and its time that we evolve into that.

shop and eat local, recycle, express your free thought, think individually, be yourself!!!!!!

spread love around you, and share your gifts with others.

turn this sad day into a happy one by feeling remorce and compassion toward both sides of this blind struggle.

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The Peruvian President & most greedy Third World leaders are the real savage!
[info]nooraza wrote:
Thursday, 11 June 2009 at 06:44 am (UTC)
Sickening! If the govt, is genuine, then negotiate and allow the tribal communities to have an investment share and say in the development; but only if the development is sustainable. Not destroying rainforest or the ancestral land of the tribal communities. This unfortunately is happening in most corrupted Third World, such as in Malaysia, towards the bravest guardian of our rainforest, the Sarawak Borneon Penans. See Swiss-based Bruno Manser Fond (BMF) at www.bmf.ch. Bruno Manser, a Swiss activists was fighting alone as an environmentalist and human rights activist with the Penans since the 1980s, and founded BMF; but have been missing since year 2000 in Sarawak forest (suspected murdered by logging or plantation corporations). The Penans and BMF are still fighting the greedy Malaysian Govt and corporation today.
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This is the legacy of G W Bush
[info]guayacan wrote:
Thursday, 11 June 2009 at 06:52 am (UTC)
I lived in Latin America for 10 years. Garcia is one of the republicans men, along with Uribe of Colombia. They signed deals for mainly oil, disguised as a free trade agreement. What it means is they murder the local indians, steal the land, and get paid their cut thereafter. If anyone protests they are slaughtered and quartered/buried/burned. Anyone that investigates in the future will be the same, which is exactly what happened in Colombia by the paras (Uribes terrorists). It is also worth noting that the paras commited these offences against locals (Colombian) protesting about oil in their environment (food, water etc), and the company that caused the slicks/problems......BP (also Texaco did this in Ecuador). Gets interesting doesn't it. They will kill these people (peruvian), make them offers worth nothing and eventually set up a para-style terrorist group to keep them under control whilst capitalism (AKA greed) progresses. It will end in minimum salary slavery (under 100 US per month for the breadwinners).
What will the conscious US voters do. The same as they did for Colombia, Iraq, Vietnam, and Venezuela when they ran that, until Hugo Chavez took over. The best chance for Latin America is they design social capitalist programs, as they have always lived in pure capitalism. Let this be a lesson to the new rich in the UK.
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When will exploitation of other humans stop..
[info]smarttog wrote:
Thursday, 11 June 2009 at 09:15 am (UTC)
When will the so called leaders and massive companies learn to stop the exploitation of people and the natural resources of the planet.

It is absolutely obvious that the destruction of pristine forest is in no ones interest.

The European and American based companies which hide behind brutal and repressive governments are just as guilty of murder as the respective governments are.

Such companies should be made to publish there environmental and ethical policies and where they are found to encourage the exploitation of peoples or the wholesale destruction and pollution of the natural environment they should be named, shamed and prosecuted..
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How Can a Nation
[info]brumbar wrote:
Thursday, 11 June 2009 at 09:27 am (UTC)
such as America which has so many educated, intelligent, knowledgable people who claim to be Christian sanction, approve of and back these companies? And as for the other governmants of 'civilised' nations why do they lend support to sociopathic gevernments again and again and again and again? Can they really live in such a bubble of Complacency, Laziness, Greed, Ignorance, Prejudice etc. etc.?
The bottom line is that resource wars will become more and more common. The first and most imperative step is to develop alternative power sources. This is not some wishy-washy dippy-hippy ballocks - it is hard reality. Governments are extremely reluctant, whether through lack of imagination or theough industrial pressure, to do this off their own bats. It is up to us to exert what pressure we can, through personal choices, argument and the ballot box.
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Alan Garcia is the criminal
[info]arthur_ide wrote:
Thursday, 11 June 2009 at 02:59 pm (UTC)
Alan Garcia is a criminal. He and his military should be tried in a world court for crimes against humanity. His history is filled with murders, his military out of control, the nation impoverished because of his arrogance and cavorting with the rich while discrimination rises and education dies.
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protest link
[info]01mari49 wrote:
Thursday, 11 June 2009 at 06:11 pm (UTC)
If you are interested in protesting, here is a link to do so.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/peru_stop_violence/97.php?cl_tta_sign=cfc2b0f974891838f32f9fcb88429132


# Amazon Watch website:
http://www.amazonwatch.org/
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Hail to you warriors of Mother Nature..
[info]cervera wrote:
Thursday, 11 June 2009 at 06:21 pm (UTC)
May you bring the power of the Sun and the Moon into your heart.

May the Eagle protect you and warn you againts the beast - the Rothshilds - who are destroyng the world under the ax of they greed, the lust for the blood, the slavery, the misery, the death and desperation all across the world.

May you mighty Warriors of Light, with the help of the Spirits, with the help of the Queen of the Sea, San Miguel and Ayahuasca, stop the advance of our mad system, before is too late, before it's done.

Amen.

E. M.
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Lies by The Independent
[info]javier_peru wrote:
Sunday, 14 June 2009 at 12:49 am (UTC)
What a bunch of lies. A total of 34 people have died in the confrontations, ten civilians and twenty four policemen, nine of which were found hands tied and throats slashed - the culprits, the natives. These are the facts as verified by the office of the Defensoria del Pueblo, the independent ombudsman. That is the massacre that this article talks about. Stop disseminating lies and report the facts The Independent. The natives reject all attempts at dialogue, they insist on all or nothing, they will not allow any exploitation of natural resources, nothing. To achieve this, they do not use the democratic resources available to them, instead, they blockade highways, disrupt oil production, burn public and private property, take policemen hostage. The peruvian government has the obligation to restore order and ensure the safety of all peruvians.
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a solid block of thoughts for any who would read it
[info]truetemper wrote:
Friday, 10 July 2009 at 12:26 am (UTC)
This seems to align with the current crisis of our times. One generation hoarding all available resources to the detriment of following generations. Those who disagree pay a high price. Those who orchestrate it receive a large pay off. The wars over ancestral lands in the shadow of development go way back in my country. Look at Tecumseh and his tribal confederacy during the War of 1812. He championed the idea that the country belonged to all Indians and that all sales were null and void. He died defending his people's way of life and the old land boundaries. His struggle continues to this day wherever native people are engaged by the modern world. It continues in Peru. They fight the machinery that would exploit their land and prostitute their people. All in the name of modernity. But the modern country is but a veneer to cover up an old native heritage that has spoiled its resources and lusts after the unspoiled glory of another country. The modern country ought to spend more time listening to the natives. They are the ones who have lived for generations without amassing landfills, poisoning their rivers, and classifying its people into truncated social classes. The modern world is sick with a disease that it ought not spread to those still unaffected. So let there be outrage. Let it ring out now more than ever. Let it be like when the Quakers visited Tecumseh's city on the Wabash River. They saw godly men doing godly work. They saw men living according to divine law - not aiming to be so sinister to find ways to cheat it.
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