Blogs about: Belo Monte Dam
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The rights and wrongs of Belo Monte
The Economist, 05/04/2013 The biggest building site in Brazil is neither in the concrete jungle of São Paulo nor in beachside Rio de Janeiro, which is being revamped to host the 2016 Olympics. It lies… more →
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Amazon Be Dammed: Deforestation Undermines Future Viability of Brazil’s Hydropower Projects
wrote 1 day ago: The Amazon Basin is the epicenter of the world’s hydropower plants. Hydropower energy complexes use … more →
Indigenous People Need Our Help ~ Occupy Belo Monte Dam ~ Protect the Amazon.
wrote 1 week ago: ~ ~ Please donate today to help sustain ongoing mobilizations against the Belo Monte Dam. Donation L … more →
Save OUR Amazon!
wrote 2 weeks ago: http://www.nbcnews.com/video/rock-center/51768274#51768274 Check out this video from NBC’s sit … more →
The rights and wrongs of Belo Monte
wrote 2 weeks ago: The Economist, 05/04/2013 The biggest building site in Brazil is neither in the concrete jungle of S … more →
New Documentary Debunks Monster Dams
wrote 3 weeks ago: Cross posted from Root Force Damocracy the movie has been released, chronicling the struggles of com … more →
Deadly Sins in the Brazilian Amazon
wrote 1 month ago: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bianca-jagger/belo-monte-dam_b_3076501 By Bianca Jagger Posted: 04/16/ … more →
Belo Monte dam(n)
wrote 1 month ago: When the Portuguese arrived in the area which is now present-day Brazil, the American Indian populat … more →
This Image Should NOT be Seen by the Whole World | How to be an Anthropologist
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wrote 1 month ago: I find the Facebook meme distressing, not because of the Belo Monte Dan Project, but because the aut … more →
Brazil activists end protest occupation of Amazon dam
wrote 1 month ago: Global Post – Agence France-Presse, 03/22/2013 More than 150 fishermen and indigenous people h … more →
Tribe rejects payment from electricity company behind destructive Amazon Dam
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wrote 2 months ago: Belo Monte Dam (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Overview of the dam complex. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Lead … more →
The politics of deforestation in Brazil
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wrote 2 months ago: Source: Foreign Affairs (available at: http://www.foreignaffairs.com) Brazil is blessed with a … more →
Human trafficking and prostitution scandal threatens Belo Monte dam
wrote 2 months ago: March 8, 2013. Source: International Rivers and Amazon Watch Brazil’s Parliamentary Commission on Hu … more →
Amazon - Lungs of the Planet
wrote 2 months ago: A succinct, yet cinematically stunning glimpse of the ecological significance of the Amazon from the … more →
"Giant Dam Threatens Brazilian Rainforest"
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wrote 3 months ago: Source: Spiegel.de Jonathan Stock writes for Spiegel.de that, “The construction of a giant dam … more →
'The last bit of paradise': Giant dam threatens Brazilian rainforest
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wrote 3 months ago: By Jonathan Stock, February 1, 2013. Source: Spiegel Online. Full photo gallery here 300 Indigenou … more →
Violence is multifaceted
wrote 3 months ago: TW: racist criminalization, cissexism, transmisogyny, forced displacement of indigenous people I men … more →
Video: Damocracy
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wrote 4 months ago: January 10, 2013. Source: International Rivers DAMOCRACY is an international movement striving to d … more →
Brazil's BNDES approves $10.8 bln loan for Amazon Belo Monte dam
wrote 5 months ago: Reuters, 11/26/2012 Brazil’s state development bank, BNDES, said on Monday it has approved a l … more →
Trouble at Brazil mega-dam stops construction for now
wrote 6 months ago: November 13, 2012. Source: Bangkok Post Work on Brazil’s controversial $13 billion Belo Mont … more →
