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New York, New York, USA
August 22nd 2010
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WAR-FAUN "Save Our Rainforests - STOP Belo Monte!" international solidarity with VEDDAS demo against the Belo Monte dam in Rio Xingu, Amazonas, manifest:
The Consulate General Of Brazil
1185 Avenue of the Americas (6th Ave)
New York City NY, on Monday, August 22nd, 2o11
This was a powerful gathering of animal/earth activists from all walks of life, who spoke with a unified voice and a focused message for the Brazilian government: NO DAMS IN THE AMAZON! It shocks and horrifies me that the political/social/economic leaders of rapidly developing Brazil would allow and even facilitate the pending plunder of one of the world's greatest lingering bastions of the Earth's natural beauty - the mighty/majestic Amazon river basin. Today 16 activists came together in solidarity against this genocidal/ecocidal crime, in the launch demo of what will be a formal campaign against the critical life-on-Earth support system known as the Amazon. We were interviewed by Rede Globo, Brazil's largest news agency, who thanked us for doing this & told us to inform them of subsequent demos. our signs and leaflets told the tale of this crime against Nature to hundreds if not thousands of people - this is not an end, but only the beginning of a fight for all life on Earth!
For more information and/or to get involved:
http://veddas.org.br/forests/130-belomontevideos.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Melq7VA7FjY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W5WQKcS2i8&feature=share
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Toronto, Canada
August 22nd 2010
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Rob Hii (Eco-Gear) & Bob Timmons (Artist for the Ocean) came together to organize a solidarity protest to help save the Amazon!
The Lungs of the Earth is going to be DROWNED!
60% of the Amazon is slated to be drowned by the initial building of the Belo Monte Dam and the additional 68 dams that will cut off the Xingu River.
100,000 Animal and Plant species are going to be killed and some extinct.
50,000 Indigenous people are going to be displaced from their home on the Xingu River.
Destruction of an Ecosystem, Plants, And Animals!
Call or Email the Toronto Brazil Consulate and tell them you do not approve!
Consulado-Geral do Brasil em Toronto
77 Bloor Street West, Suite 1109, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1M2
Phone: 416.922.2503 Fax: 416.922.1832 e-mail:
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Bob timmons
http://www.facebook.com/aArtistfortheOcean
http://www.bobtimmons.org
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Los Angeles, CA, USA
August 22nd 2010
Extracted from http://www.bdci.tv/news_details.php?id=268
Global mobilization to defend the Brazilian Amazon
LOS ANGELES, CA (BDCi) --Activists gathered in front of the Brazilian Consulate in Los Angeles to protest against the construction of the Belo Monte Dam this past Monday.
An “International Day of Action to Defend the Brazilian Amazon” happened in 22 other cities spanning 16 countries; six cities registered protests in the United States.
The activists want to send a message to President Dilma Rousseff to stop the construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric project, revoke the proposed gutting of the Forest Code, and protect forest activists from live threats.
About 1.4 million people around the world were mobilized to support the event that was organized via social media and activists groups.
The Belo Monte dam, which the government approved in June to meet the country's growing power needs, will be the third largest in the world.
According to a spokesperson for the group Amazon Watch, Atossa Soltani, the “construction will displace about 40 thousand people along the Xing. We understand Brazil needs energy, but there are other alternative ways to meet their energy needs without sacrificing the people, the Amazon forest, and the Xingu River.”
The group Amazon Watch flashed picket signs saying “Stop the Belo Monte Dam” and some protesters were dressed in indigenous outfits to ask for support from the international community against the project.
At the Los Angeles Brazilian Consulate, Soltani was able to meet with the Deputy Consul General, Eduardo da Costa Farias and delivered a letter addressed to President Dilma to express their concern about the Belo Monte construction.
The Deputy Consul told BDCi News that the group’s concern would get to the Brazilian President; however he was in no position to address the concerns on behalf of the Brazilian Government.
In Brazil the protests happened over the weekend in 15 cities as the streets filled with thousands of demonstrators who urged the President to end the assaults on the forests and the people of the Amazon.
In the United States other protests were held in Washington D.C., New York, San Francisco and Miami.
