Indigenous Activists Murdered in Peru
Where are all the babblers now, who is going to call their MP, their MPP, their prime minister to express their shock and outrage about this massacre? Canada has a free(?) trade agreement with Peru.
I find it terribly disheartening to see that the babblers are willing to go to bat for a seven year old who had his hair cut without permission with 58 responses, and I am going to call the Crown attorney to get to the bottom of this, and make my outrage known, and on and on.
Yet here we have over 60 people dead, and not a single response from any of you.
Thank you, Joey, for posting this.
I think I need to go and pray.
Zazzo, I mean geez your post is personally offensive to me.
Although I have little faith in self serving politicians, I'll contact members of parliment on this. But, more importantly to me, I'm bringing this event to the attention of others who I hope may have voice.
Your post seems more an opportunity of attack than an expression of concern.
I find it terribly disheartening to see that the babblers are willing to go to bat for a seven year old who had his hair cut without permission with 58 responses, and I am going to call the Crown attorney to get to the bottom of this, and make my outrage known, and on and on.
Some people can tell the difference between crimes that we commit (our society, our governments, our educational system), and crimes that others commit. Some people think it's important to fix the problems that we create at least as vigorously as we protest the ones committed by others.
I find it terribly disheartening to see that you don't understand that.
I'm not surprised at these responses. And politicians do react to some pressure.
US Peru FTA Sparks Indigenous Massacre
http://mostlywater.org/node/68605
OPPigs Assault Mohawks: Mohawk Women retake Skyway Bridge
http://mostlywater.org/node/68651
DEFINITELY time to apply heat to the pols
[url=http://www.survival-international.org/news/4547]Canadian oil company contract in Peru[/url]
[url=http://www.canadians.org/action/2009/11-June-09.html]Council of Canadians action alert[/url]
[url=http://www.calgarysun.com/news/alberta/2009/06/12/9781841.html]Activists protest in Calgary[/url]
Another ugly Canadian corpo involved in this is Dorato Resources
http://www.doratoresources.com/s/corporate.asp
"has excellent relationships with local communities.."
Thank you, Joey, for posting this.
I think I need to go and pray.
Yes thank you, and thank you too Zazzo for caring so much; youre not the only one. High time this liquidation of our rain forests and their indigenous caretakers got some attention again. This will destroy us all as surely as global warming. It may also be illegal in this case, which may give us some grounds to fight it before its too late. Like we fucking well need more dirty energy projects. Grave robbers of our children.
[url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jun/13/forests-environment-oi..."We are fighting for our lives and our dignity"[/url]
[url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jun/13/forests-environment-oi..."We are fighting for our lives and our dignity"[/url]
In some of the worst violence seen in Peru in 20 years, the Indians this week warned Latin America what could happen if companies are given free access to the Amazonian forests to exploit an estimated 6bn barrels of oil and take as much timber they like. After months of peaceful protests, the police were ordered to use force to remove a road bock near Bagua Grande.
In the fights that followed, at least 50 Indians and nine police officers were killed, with hundreds more wounded or arrested. The indigenous rights group Survival International described it as "Peru's Tiananmen Square".
"For thousands of years, we've run the Amazon forests," said Servando Puerta, one of the protest leaders. "This is genocide. They're killing us for defending our lives, our sovereignty, human dignity."
Yesterday, as riot police broke up more demonstrations in Lima and a curfew was imposed on many Peruvian Amazonian towns, President Garcia backed down in the face of condemnation of the massacre. He suspended - but only for three months - the laws that would allow the forest to be exploited. No one doubts the clashes will continue
Viva la Revolucion!
Peruvian government forced to repeal Amazon free trade decrees!:
A BUMP on the highway to hell.
A Bump on the highway to hell. Yes. But this IS hell. There is so much raw, stinking evil loose in the world it is sorely impossible for one soul to see it all. It's not that we are indifferent to the sufferings of our brothers and sisters in Peru.. on the contrary.. every such act diminishes us.. but we cannot drop every issue that is currently before us and rush off to attend to every new issue that arrives. Such arrivals are constant and always increasing in ferocity. Some of us are still mourning events that happened in THIS country 150 years ago! Please understand that we are not Gods. We cannot deal with every issue. Though we would like. It cannot be done.