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Daily Archives: 11/23/2010
Stop the Belo Monte Dam.
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Tell the Brazilian government: Stop the Belo Monte Dam.
The Brazilian rainforest and the indigenous peoples who live in it are endangered by the construction of the Belo Monte Dam, which would be one of the largest, most devastating infrastructure projects ever to be built in the Amazon. It would divert the flow of the Xingu River and flood over 100,000 acres of rainforest, displacing over 40,000 people and threatening the survival of indigenous communities. On August 26, the Brazilian government signed the concession to build the Belo Monte Dam, despite concerns over its financial viability, growing resistance amongst indigenous groups and social movements, and predictions of technical experts that the dam will be one of the worst engineering projects in Brazil’s history. The consortium responsible for building Belo Monte could receive a license to initiate the project any day. So now is a crucial time for the international community to speak out and stand up to defend the Xingu River and those who depend upon it. That is why we are joining our friends at International Rivers and Amazon Watch in taking action. This petition will be delivered to:
About 25,000 indigenous people from 24 ethnic groups live along the Xingu River. These people are a living symbol of Brazil’s cultural diversity and defenders of some of the last intact forest in the Amazon. Yet their lives and culture are under threat from the enormous Belo Monte Dam. This mega-project would leave indigenous and traditional communities along a 100 km stretch of the Xingu known as the “Big Bend” without water, fish, or a means of river transport. And communities upstream, including the Kayapó Indians, would suffer the loss of migratory fish species that are a crucial part of their diet. If Belo Monte goes ahead, it will unleash a chain of dams in the Amazon, threatening the very future of the Amazon rainforest and the web of life it supports. The Brazilian government needs to hear from people around the world that we will not sit idly by while the rights of indigenous and forest people are violated. Thank you for working for a better world. Matt Lockshin, Campaign Manager |
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tempest Tuesday …&some News
The President will be handing out the Medal of Freedom to Rep. John Lewis -we support this action and love John Lewis with all the things he has done for the rest of us so that we might be able to move forward, have access and achieve great things in our own lives as well as our children and their children in the future. Congratulations to Rep. John Lewis.
Day 3 of snow has the 206 gripped in panic closed schools and more snow on the way. The snow that fell yesterday has turned into a sheet of ice and in some parts of the 206; more snowfall is on top of that. The roads definitely look okay –they are not so stay home if you can because folks are clogging stalling and blocking the work that the people, who snow plow, dump salt, and or dirt. The ice is the problem currently causing a whole lot of accidents so again be safe than sorry and call in or ride the bus which is also causing delays what with all the SUV’s thinking they have this and obviously they do not or the number of cars trucks and SUV’s parked on streets would be a lot less. Stay home and let the good people do their jobs so people can begin to drive again. !
How odd it was to be watching the late night shows when all of a sudden breaking news that N.Korea opens fire with several rounds of fire on S.Korea and while there has been frayed contentious relations between these two the idea that a war ..An actual war could or would break out seems very strange and disturbing to say the least. The background story is that S.Korea usually holds drills at this time of year, they let N.Korea know a head of time but instead of dealing with this N.Korea decided on pre-emptive strikes against S.Korea and is by far not only violent in that several S.Koreans were injured at least 2 of their troops was killed.
The last thing for today
“Never doubt that a small Group of thoughtful, committed citizens change the World. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”
The 2008 Machine needs to get started now for the 2012 campaign -the base needs to hear from you!! Latinos, Women, Gays, the young ,our elders and with only 4.7% Blacks voting for the mid-term elections we need to go deep -rural as well, and last -Progressives need to be rubbed the right way to get their votes
Other News …
Rep.Ortiz concedes House race in TX
Plouffe to WH, Axelrod may exit sooner
Battle over who speaks for Tea Party movement
Jawbone not Holloway’s
S.Korea leader calls for enormous retaliation against NKorea
FCC updating 911 for the texting generation
11 arrested in terrorism probe, Belgian officials say
Wesley Snipes says no to being arrested by the IRS
Winter blows in fast and hard in the NWest and could complicate Thanksgiving travel
CSPAN …
American Association for Budget and Program Analysis 2010 Fall Symposium
Be a Seed for Change 