AMAZON IN PERIL: INDIGENOUS STRUGGLES AGAINST HYDROELECTRIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE SHEYLA JURUNA HEART OF THE AMAZON
Friday September 23rd 5:00 to 6:30PM
Ward Building, Room 1
SHEYLA JURUNA
The Brazilian Government is moving ahead “at any cost” with plans to build the third-largest dam in the world and one of the Amazon’s most controversial development projects- the Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River in the state of Para.
Mega-projects like these confront indigenous communities with massive displacement, disease, loss of food and clean water sources, cultural disintergration and serious human rights abuses. Sheyla Juruna has been active in the struggle to defend the Xingu River since the landmark victory in 1989 that stopped the Kararao Dam Complex. She has since become an important leader in the indigenous rights movement, working to insure “health, culturally appropriate education, land demarcation, and respect for indigenous rights” for her people.
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