Comments on: Peru: Amazonian Indigenous Groups Protest New Governmental Decrees http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/08/15/peru-amazonian-indigenous-groups-protest-new-governmental-decrees/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:28:23 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Free of State » Blog Archive » PERU SUSPENDS CIVIL LIBERTIES AS 65 INDIGENOUS TRIBES STRUGGLE FOR THEIR LAND http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/08/15/peru-amazonian-indigenous-groups-protest-new-governmental-decrees/comment-page-1/#comment-1565037 Free of State » Blog Archive » PERU SUSPENDS CIVIL LIBERTIES AS 65 INDIGENOUS TRIBES STRUGGLE FOR THEIR LAND Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:56:27 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=48541#comment-1565037 [...] What does the population think? The forest will not be handed over even if the government said so … The oil companies have always caused large damages to nature and human beings. The indigenous do not separate themselves from the nature. We are linked to each other. The government is in its palace; we, in our jungle. We think differently. If we hand over the jungle, where will we live? We will be beggars in our own land. (Translated from Spanish in this fine article from Global Voices.) [...] [...] What does the population think? The forest will not be handed over even if the government said so … The oil companies have always caused large damages to nature and human beings. The indigenous do not separate themselves from the nature. We are linked to each other. The government is in its palace; we, in our jungle. We think differently. If we hand over the jungle, where will we live? We will be beggars in our own land. (Translated from Spanish in this fine article from Global Voices.) [...]

]]> By: Global Voices Online » Peru: Government Attempts to Halt Protests in the North http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/08/15/peru-amazonian-indigenous-groups-protest-new-governmental-decrees/comment-page-1/#comment-1504922 Global Voices Online » Peru: Government Attempts to Halt Protests in the North Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:37:47 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=48541#comment-1504922 [...] news media has started to provide more coverage of the protests taking place in Northern Peru. The newspaper La República writes that the commission headed up by Environmental Minister Antonio [...] [...] news media has started to provide more coverage of the protests taking place in Northern Peru. The newspaper La República writes that the commission headed up by Environmental Minister Antonio [...]

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