[Marxism] Blood in Amazon

[lara crete <laracrete@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

  Dear comrades,
I got this petition from a friend who is living in Lima, helping to  
the Resistance. Please, sign and circulate it as broad as possible
Lara Crete


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> <http://www.avaaz.org/en/peru_stop_violence/?cl=250510339&amp;v=3461>
>  Peru's government is clashing violently with indigenous groups   
> protesting the rapid devastation of the Amazon rainforest by mining,  
> oil  and logging companies. The forest is a global treasure - let's  
> stand  with the protesters and sign the petition to President Garcia  
> to stop  the violence and save the Amazon:
>
>  <http://www.avaaz.org/en/peru_stop_violence/?cl=250510339&amp;v=3461>
>
> The Peruvian government has pushed through legislation that could  
> allow extractive and large-scale farming companies to rapidly  
> destroy their Amazon rainforest.
>
> Indigenous peoples have peacefully protested for two months  
> demanding their lawful say in decrees that will contribute to the  
> devastation of the Amazon's ecology and peoples, and be disastrous  
> for the global climate. But last weekend President Garcia responded:  
> sending in special forces to suppress protests in violent clashes,  
> and labelling the protesters as terrorists.
>
> These indigenous groups are on the frontline of the struggle to  
> protect our earth -- Let's stand with them and call on President  
> Alan Garcia (who is widely known to be sensitive to his  
> international reputation) to immediately stop the violence and open  
> up dialogue. Click below to sign the urgent global petition and a  
> prominent and well-respected Latin-American politician will deliver  
> it to the government on our behalf.
>
> http://www.avaaz.org/en/peru_stop_violence
>
> More than 70 per cent of the Peruvian Amazon is now up for grabs.  
> Giant oil and gas companies, like the Anglo-French Perenco and the  
> North Americans ConocoPhillips and Talisman Energy, have already  
> pledged multi-billionaire investments in the region. These  
> extractive industries have a very poor record of bringing benefits  
> to local people and preserving the environment in developing  
> countries - which is why indigenous groups are asking for  
> internationally-recognized rights to consultation on the new laws.
>
> For decades the world and indigenous peoples have watched as  
> extractive industries devastated the rainforest that is home to some  
> and a vital treasure to us all (some climate scientists call the  
> Amazon the "lungs of the planet" - breathing in the carbon emissions  
> that cause global warming and producing oxygen).
>
> The protests in Peru are the biggest yet and the most desperate, we  
> can't afford to let them fail. Sign the petition, and encourage your  
> friends and family to join us, so we can help bring justice to the  
> indigenous peoples of Peru and prevent further acts of violence from  
> all parties.
>
> http://www.avaaz.org/en/peru_stop_violence
>
> In solidarity,
>
> Luis, Paula, Alice, Ricken, Graziela, Ben, Brett, Iain, Pascal, Raj,  
> Taren and the entire Avaaz team.
>
> Sources:
>
> Civilians and police killed: Human rights lawyers accuse the  
> government of a cover-up, BBC, 10 June:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8092453.stm
>
> Civil Society Condemns Massacre of Indigenous People in Peru, 8 June:
> http://www.globalwitness.org/media_library_detail.php/765/en/global_witness_condems_violence_in_peru
>
> On Peru's rift over economic policy and the controversial free trade  
> agreement with the US , Reuters, 9 June:
> http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN09374943
>
> Research Article: Oil and Gas Projects in the Western Amazon:  
> Threats to Wilderness, Biodiversity, and Indigenous Peoples, M.  
> Finer et al:
> http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi/10.1371/journal.pone.0002932
>
> Oil companies ‘should withdraw’ as Peru ‘faces its Tiananmen’,  
> Survival International, 8 June:
> http://www.survival-international.org/news/4640
>
> Peru's Amazon oil deals denounced, BBC News, 3 February:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6326741.stm
>
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