Pará: Amazonian Communities Occupy The Belo Monte Dam Site To Free The Xingu River
http://indigenouspeoplesissues.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15369:para-amazonian-communities-occupy-the-belo-monte-dam-site-to-free-the-xingu-river&catid=23&Itemid=56
On the Eve of the Rio+20 UN Conference, Community Resistance Calls Attention to Brazilian Government‘s Unsustainable Energy Policy. While the Brazilian Government prepares to host the Rio+20 United Nations Earth Summit, 3,000 kilometers north in the country’s Amazon region indigenous peoples, farmers, fisherfolk, activists and local residents affected by the construction of the massive Belo Monte Dam project began a symbolic peaceful occupation of the dam site to “free the Xingu River.”
In the early morning hours, three hundred women and children arrived in the hamlet of Belo Monte on the Transamazon Highway, and marched onto a temporary earthen dam recently built to impede the flow of the Xingu River. Using pick axes and shovels, local people who are being displaced by the project removed a strip of earthen dam to restore the Xingu’s natural flow.
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