Indigenous struggle in defense of Mother Earth and its collective organization (By Hugo Blanco) http://tiny.cc/2sob6

The indigenous population of America has been fighting for over 500 years in environmental protection and collective social organization. With the onslaught of neoliberalism, both nature and your organization, this struggle has intensified. In all countries with indigenous populations, it has fought hard in defense of Mother Earth against attack by oil, mining, logging, etc..

Agribusiness is also destructive of soil and elsewhere, for killing the soil with monoculture and the use of agrochemicals, super-exploits its workers and in general produces for export, including biofuels to feed cars. Another attack is the construction of dams, hydroelectric plants, airports, roads, etc.. to serve the people hurting businesses.The slaughter of about 200 (the official figure is 10) Peruvian Amazon natives in Bagua, whose bodies were cremated by repression, caused international outrage.

There are also successes, such as Tambogrande that prevented the Canadian company Manhattan extract the gold which is under the population.In Chile, the "socialist" government repressed the Mapuche who defends the laws of Mother Earth with Pinochet.In Argentina, Andalgalá and other peoples are fighting bravely in defense of the environment.In Guatemala report that hundreds of thousands of Indians fighting against the mining legislation.

In the U.S., Indians are opposed to uranium mining that damages "Great Grandma" (the Grand Canyon).In British Columbia, Canada, indigenous struggle against the emergence of structures in its territory for the Winter Olympics. The attack of big business is not only against the environment, knowing that collective organization is the weapon of defense of the Indians, it also attacks target. The anti-Indian community was almost simultaneously in Mexico and Peru. The anti-Indian law decrees Peruvian President are against the environment and against the indigenous community.

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