Peru: 10,000 Aymaras Protesting Transnational Mining Company

cross-posted from Intercontinentalcry.org [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BmMQ_0hWEQs]For the past three weeks, more than 10,000 Indigenous People, mostly Aymaras, have been protesting against the oncoming Santa Ana silver mine in southeastern Peru near the border with Bolivia. The Indigenous people are concerned that pollution from the […]

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Indigenous Protests Erupt in Peru

by BBC World News Thousands of angry indigenous protesters have taken over the city centre of Puno in south-eastern Peru. Looters have taken advantage of the unrest and ransacked offices and shops as the police retreated. Cars and buildings were torched on […]

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Anti-logging activist Jose Ribeiro murdered

An Amazon environmental activist and his wife were killed late on Monday and the crime is being investigated as a possible assassination to silence the outspoken forest defender, according to police. José Claudio Ribeiro da Silva, also known by his nickname of […]

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Green Terror

An interview with Will Potter, author of “Green is the New Red.” By Michael May Published on: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 in Texas Observer For Will Potter, the subject matter behind Green is the New Red is personal.  While working at the […]

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