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Rising Tide North America is calling for a week of action starting Monday June 15th to show solidarity with the indigenous tribes resisting Peru’s attempt to open their lands to the oil, gas, and logging industries.
Last week over 85 people were killed by Peruvian police while protesting the governments plans revoke protections for traditional [...]

Following is a list of some upcoming (North American) protests in solidarity with the indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon, who are facing murderous repression in a two-month mobilization against laws that would open their territories to increased exploitation.
For a list of protests outside the American continent, see here. Remember that June 11 is the [...]

Recent reports indicate as many as 84 people killed and 150 arrested in clashes stemming from an early morning violent raid by police on unarmed protesters on June 5. Police are reported to be burning the bodies of the dead and dumping them into the river.
Astonishingly — but not surprisingly — the government is accusing [...]

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Background
Early this morning (June 5th), Peruvian police launched a violent attack on a nonviolent road blockade held by Amazonian indigenous protesters opposing 10 laws that would open up their territory to increased mineral, oil, gas and timber exploitation. Police opened fire with live ammunition, killing at least 28 people (see below).
Why [...]

Following Peruvian President Alan Garcia’s order to begin clearing, by force, the protests and blockades that have paralyzed the country’s Amazon region for nearly two months, police launched a violent raid early this morning on unarmed protesters at a roadblock outside of Bagua.
The raid began at 2am while protesters were still sleeping, and began in [...]

A massive indigenous mobilization in the Peruvian Amazon is nearing its second month, with no sign that the native protesters will allow themselves to be intimidated into giving up on their demands.
Thousands of indigenous protesters have blockaded critical infrastructure in Peru’s Amazon region since April 9, when they declared a national strike in protest of [...]

For more than a month, indigenous groups in the Peruvian Amazon have been maintaining blockades of roads, rivers, airports and oil and gas pipelines to protest a series of new laws that would lead to increased industrial exploitation of their territories. The decrees were passed in accordance with the US-Peru Free Trade Agreement.
An estimated 13,000 [...]

The Canadian company Pacific Rim Mining Corp. has filed a lawsuit under the provisions of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), seeking to force the government of El Salvador to approve its extraction permit for the proposed El Dorado gold and silver mine. The government denied the permit after an initial study concluded that [...]

The Mexican government is making a renewed push to exploit and destroy the land and people of Chiapas as the reborn Plan Puebla Panama (PPP, now renamed the “Mesoamerica Initiative”) pushes forward in Chiapas:
• Mexican Energy Secretary Georgina Kessel has announced plans for oil drilling in Chiapas, with private companies invited to invest as early [...]

On September 2, a group of anarchists blockaded transport infrastructure in Guelph, Ontario, in solidarity with Six Nations resisters and to strike a blow against the system.
The action was spurred by the Sep. 1 arrests of indigenous Six Nations protesters opposing a development project on their land.
The Guelph actions saw burning tires and branches used [...]