Chief Raoni crying when he learned that the President of Brazil approved the Belo Monte dam project on the Xingu indigenous lands. Belo Monte will be bigger than the Panama Canal, flooding nearly a million acres of rainforest & indigenous lands. 40,000 indigenous and local people will be forced off their native lands (as well as millions of unknown species & plants) In the name of “progress.”
SIGN TO SAVE THE AMAZON!
http://amazonwatch.org/take-action/stop-the-belo-monte-monster-dam
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How could they do this? Haven’t people learned anything from the past? And what about the 40,000 people who live there?...
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so wrong on many levels
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That’s terrible…
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devastating. i saw on facebook posted by one of my midrasha teachers.
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