The Council of Ejidos and Communities in Opposition to La Parota Dam (CECOP) has condemned the efforts of armed “self-defense” groups to move into their villages, warning that the groups are actually paramilitaries hoping to provoke a confrontation with the campesin@ movement. Armed self-defense groups composed of peasants seeking to combat organized crime began to [...]

This looks like a good action calling out natural gas, dams and carbon trading are false solutions to the climate crisis … but unfortunately, the people who organized it still seem to believe the lie that wind and solar power can avert ecological collapse. From Capitalism Vs. the Climate: Hartford, Connecticut—On Wednesday, members of Capitalism [...]

From International Rivers (links added): Eight days ago, representatives of eight indigenous groups from around the Amazon began an occupation of the construction site of the Belo Monte Dam. They are asking the government of Brazil to respect the legal requirement of prior and informed consultation of indigenous peoples and to immediately suspend construction, technical [...]

Even as Guatemala’s high courts go back and forth regarding the genocide trial of former president Efrain Rios Montt, indigenous Guatemalans are facing a new wave of repression as they continue to defend their lands from big infrastructure “development” and other exploitive  projects backed by multinational corporations. From Upside Down World: During the internal armed [...]

Damocracy the movie has been released, chronicling the struggles of communities a world apart to defend their rivers from monster dams masquerading as “clean” energy: the Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River in Brazil and the Ilisu Dam on the Tigris River in Turkey. Watch it here. The 34-minute documentary is an excellent primer [...]

From Survival International: As Brazil marks its annual ‘Day of the Indian’ today, hundreds of Brazilian Indians of various tribes invaded and occupied part of the country’s Congress this week, to protest at attempts to change the law regarding their land rights. The Indians are outraged about a proposed constitutional amendment that would weaken their [...]

From International Rivers: A federal appeals court (TRF-1) in Brazil has ordered the suspension of “Operation Tapajós,” a military and police intervention organized to control indigenous protests over technical studies on their lands in preparation for the controversial São Luíz do Tapajós Dam in the Amazonian state of Pará. Judge João Batista Moreira ruled that [...]

Damocracy is a short documentary that exposes the myth of dams as ‘green’ energy through two examples from Amazonia and Mesopotamia. Film maker Todd Southgate travels from the deepest corners of the vast Amazon rainforest in Brazil to the mountains and plains of fertile upper Mesopotamia in south east Turkey. He meets academics, lawyers, campaigners and local [...]

From Indian Country Today Media Network: A 74-year old Inuit elder has ended a hunger strike and been released from jail after being arrested along with seven others protesting the controversial Muskrat Falls hydroelectric dam on the Churchill River in Labrador. But another of the arrestees says the protesters, who have been fighting for decades [...]

According to studies coming out, the current efforts being made to allow for both dams and surviving fish populations are failing.  Who would have thought, the “needs” for industrialized society are in direct opposition to a living planet! In an article about the study, Environment 360 had this to say, “In most major rivers in [...]