What do you intend to do about the massacre of Peruvian indigenous people?
What do you intend to do regarding the Peruvian Free Trade Agreement which is being used as justification for the massacre indigenous protestors who have been protesting the oil and mining projects in the northern Peruvian province of Bagua.
With the Peruvian Free Trade Agreement as excuse, the Peruvian government is now taking away indigenous rights and creating a threat to the Amazon rainforest by taking away land from indigenous people and allowing that land, rainforest, to be reclassified as agricultural land so that biofuel companies can move in with plantations and to allow oil companies and mining companies to be able to work in the area without having to negotiate or speak to the local communities before using THEIR lands.
How can we stand by and allow this to happen in the name of "free trade?"
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/6/8/peruvian_police_accused_of_massacring_indigenous
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Paulpaz
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Look here for more info from sources IN Peru and ways to TAKE ACTION! http://www.amazonwatch.org/
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Derek
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Here is a photo diary about the massacre (GRAPHIC PHOTOS): http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1896/1/
