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ens-newswire.com - 1/30/2009
Human Banner Formed to Defend Amazon Rainforest
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Quantcast Human Banner Formed to Defend Amazon Rainforest BELEM, Brazil , January 29, 2009 (ENS) - Indigenous people from across Latin America led more than 1,000 World Social Forum participants to form a human banner Tuesday, using their bodies to dramatize the increasingly precarious situation ...

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Green Options:  Indigenous People Form Human Banners, Plea For Help Saving the Amazon

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ipsnews.net - 1/29/2009
Brazil: "Wake Up, World!" - SOS from the Amazon
— ipsnews.net — Inter Press Service: A human banner made up of more than 1,000 people, seen and photographed from the air, sent the message "SOS Amazon" to the world, in the first action taken by indigenous people hours before the opening in northern Brazil ... (more) Brazil: "Wake Up, World!" - SOS from the Amazon

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Indigenous People Form Human Banners, Plea For Help Saving the Amazon
Green Options — ... Over 1,000 indigenous rights activists formed human banners across a stretch of deforested Amazon rain forest this week at the World Social Forum in Brazil. ...

Occupy the Amazon so as Not to Lose it—with Palm Oil
The Understory : Understory.RAN.org — ... . Several new palm oil plantations are being developed here (Agropalma considers them competitors), and soy continues to expand and threaten the Amazon at an alarming rate. Cattle ranching, mining, and oil exploration are all major threats as well. If we are to save the Amazon, perhaps it’s time to consider occupying something else, like the headquarters of the corporations and financiers responsible for damaging it. ...

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