Electric Companies Murder Kayapó Tribe of Brazil
The evacuation of the Kayapó tribe – an Indian people of the Amazon region in Brazil’s Mato Grosso has started.
The construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam is released, despite numerous protests and more than 600,000 signatures were collected.Thus, the death sentence was spoken about the people at the great bend of the Xingu River. Belo Monte will be a total of 400,000 hectares of flooded forest, an area that is larger than the Panama Canal. 40,000 people of indigenous and local communities are distributed – the habitat of many animal and plant species will be destroyed. All this in order to produce electricity, the easier, more effective, and can be profitably produced primarily by investors.We must use this picture to create revolt within our hearts for allowing such an atrocity to take place before our eyes. The power companies have done enough damage to the earth, and it’s time for us to step up with the fire of passion in our hearts fuelled by this incident and take back the power to create a world not of greed and coersion, but of love and cooperation. Share, Share, Share this article. It must go Viral!
Brazillian Kayapo tribes take to Western courts to protest the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam that will wipe out their land and homes.
Brazilian president Dilma Roussef has given approval to build a hydroelectric plant – the third largest in the world - at Belo Monte on the Xingu River in Brazil‘s northern Amazonian region.
The region is currently home to huge local communities, totalling 40,000 people, the majority of whom will be flooded out when water levels eventually eradicate 400,000 hectares of ancient forest and towns.
Despite this, and despite significant protest from the tribal communities in Western courts – no mean feat, mind you – approval was passed without the slightest resounding outcry from the world.
It pisses me off that globally we care more about stopping Internet Copyright laws like SOPA and Protect-IP than the lives of 40,000 human beings‘ homes in the name of business profits.
The Amazon region should belong to the world, as the Internet does, and the world should get pissed off at things threatening it just as if your local government signed papers that meant they could build a highway through your house whenever they felt like.
What’s about to happen to the Kayapo community will be more devastating than the 2011 Queensland Floods.
Yet this time, it’s deliberate, and it’s OK.
“While newspapers and television talk about the lives of celebrities, the chief of the Kayapo tribe received the worst news of his life: Dilma, “The new president of Brazil, has given approval to build a huge hydroelectric plant (the third largest in the world). It is the death sentence for all the people near the river because the dam will flood 400,000 hectares of forest. More than 40,000 Indigenous Indians will have to find another place to live.
The natural habitat destruction, deforestation and the disappearance of many species is a fact.”
The reaction of the chief of the Kayapo community when he learned of the decision— was to break down into sobs of helplessness before the advance of capitalist progress:
This is the price Western countries pay for your “quality of life”. The hypocracy levelled at governments who wouldn’t dare try this on a first world citizens utterly reeks of racism, discrimination, crimes against humanity, biased laws and total ignorance of land rights. If this kind of stunt were to be pulled on a person like you and your home today, the entire world would know about it overnight and all hell would break loose.
But 40,000 Brazillians? Nup. Fuck them.
According to Brazil’s Environment Minister, Carlos Minc, the construction company heading the project will be forced to spend around $800m (£501m) in order to offset environmental damage caused by the project.
Note: this is the real consequence of the global carbon offset initiative. Quantifying enormous, irreversible environmental damage into a single monetary payment that makes it all OK.
Meanwhile, loads of spin and propaganda are being spewed forth as the government goes into damage control:
Minister Of Environment Carlos Minc told Brazilian TV stations, “There is not going to be an environmental disaster. Not a single Indian will be displaced. They will be indirectly affected, but they will not have to leave indigenous lands.”
Without question, that claim is not one anyone is taking to the bank.
He is, of course, backed up by Roberto Messias, the head of Ibama, Brazil’s government-funded environmental agency, who justifies the construction with this amazing statement:
“Many of them currently live in wooden riverside shacks. They are likely to benefit from the dam’s constructions.”
The comment seems to greatly slight these native people who have lived for so long without the need of “benefit” from people like Messias or the government.
This dam is the supposed ‘alternative’ to what the corporations really want to build… nuclear power plants.
Plans on the drawing board for nuclear power facilities in Brazil were tossed in the trash after the Fukushima, Japan nuclear facility melted down. However successful efforts in Brazil to prevent the construction of these facilities only seems to have led to another disaster, and this one, affecting indigenous tribes, requires no tsunami to set it off.
Since this empathic photo above was released by the media, finally, the story is beginning to gain some attention. Hundreds have begun occupying the construction site on behalf of the Kayapo people, while hundreds of thousands are pledging their support by signing this online petition:
Sign the AVAAZ Petition to stop the dam
For United Nations Hunman Rights
For Human Rights Watch
For Amnesty International
For Greenpeace International
A Distress call to all international human rights society and organizations worldwide to helping those natives the real owners of the land and assist them iinstead of pushinf them away off their homes and their own place without reasonable meaning or target more than the government business targets.this is an emergency all all of us has to lend the hand of help now
HAND IN HAND WE STAND
FOR
LOVE....PEACE AND FREEDOM
Collected , Edited And Report By:
Pilot / Tarek Elagamy
2013
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