200 indigenous people take control of key Belo Monte construction site
By Mongabay On Thursday roughly 200 indigenous people launched an occupation of a key construction site for the controversial Belo Monte dam in the Brazilian Amazon. The protestors, who represent...
View ArticleInternational activists block Ilisu Dam construction site in Turkey
By Amazon Watch Today [May 21, 2013] representatives of dam-affected communities and organizations from South America, the Middle East, Europe, the US and Africa, including Brazilian indigenous leaders...
View ArticleIndigenous-led resistance forces regional court to freeze Belo Monte dam project
By Latin American Herald Tribune Brazil’s first regional federal court suspended the environmental permit for the massive Belo Monte dam project in Amazonia and ordered an immediate halt to...
View ArticleIllegal dam threatens to flood Ngäbe territory; Panama planning forcible...
By Richard Arghiris / Intercontinental Cry Having fought tirelessly against the unlawful Barro Blanco hydroelectric dam, the indigenous Ngäbe communities on the banks of Panama’s Tabasará river are...
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Indigenous Activists Block Entry to the Barro Blanco Hydro Dam
By Richard Arghiris and Jennifer Kennedy / Intercontinental Cry June 14, 2015 NGÄBE ISSUE ULTIMATUM TO THE GOVERNMENT OF PANAMA: CANCEL THE PROJECT BY MONDAY A 30-strong splinter group of Ngäbe from...
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Barro Blanco Protesters Injured and Arrested During Crackdown in Panama
By Richard Arghiris / Intercontinental Cry Protests against the Barro Blanco hydro dam in western Panama turned violent last Saturday, July 25, when riot police, claiming to act in self-defense,...
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Judge sides with Hoopa Valley and Yurok Tribe scientists, preventing Klamath...
By Dan Bacher / Intercontinental Cry A federal judge on Aug. 26 denied a request by the San Luis Delta Mendota Water Authority and Westlands Water District for a temporary restraining order and...
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Water: DGR Southwest Coalition Statement of Commitment and Call for Allies
By Deep Green Resistance Southwest Coalition Whiskey’s for drinking, water’s for fighting over. —Mark Twain More than any other area of North America, the Southwest faces water shortages just as...
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International Indigenous anti-dam activists join two year anniversary...
By SAVE Rivers, JOAS, The Borneo Project, BMF and BRIMAS / Intercontinental Cry Indigenous resistance against the proposed Baram Dam receives international support for the celebration of the second...
View ArticleGuatemala: Two Indigenous Prisoners Released after Years in Prison on False...
By Cultural Survival Two Q’anjobal Maya community leaders who were imprisoned in Guatemala for the past two years, have finally been declared innocent and released. A regional criminal court Guatemala...
View ArticleBrazil authorizes operation of Belo Monte Dam
By Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense via Intercontinental Cry Image: Mural in São Paulo, Brazil (Photo: Monica Kaneko/flickr). Some Rights Reserved Altamira, Brazil. The Brazilian...
View ArticleSuccess for Sarawak tribes as dam shelved
By Survival International The Baram dam, which would would have flooded 20,000 tribal people from their homes in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, has been shelved following years of protest. Sarawak’s...
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