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Eleven Belo Monte Activists Criminalized
Note of Support Victims of Belo Monte are not criminals Original text (Portuguese) From the moment they were conceived during...
Lawful Belo Monte Protestors Threatened with Imprisonment
Father Alirio Bervian, 65 years old, is among those threatened with a prison order Leaders of Brazilian movement opposed to...
Wrapping Rio
By Jason Rainey/International Rivers I’m now back in California after the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development that played out...
Amazonian Indigenous Peoples Occupy Belo Monte Dam Site
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Altamira, Brazil – Indigenous peoples affected by the controversial Belo Monte Dam complex now under construction along...
Stirring up the Streets of Rio
At the global march of the People’s Summit, signs and chants against Belo Monte were a central themeBy Brent Millikan/International...
The Belo Monte Dam: An Environmental Crime
Bianca Jagger, Sheyla Juruna, and other indigenous activists of the Amazon.Photo: Rainforest Foundation UK This article was originally published on...
An Earth Summit Draws on Oil, Mining and Utility Largess (NYT)
This blog originally appeared in The New York Times Indigenous people protesting the Belo Monte dam project on Wednesday as...
River & Rio+20 Dispatch: Brazil Energy
Today the UN Conference on Sustainable Development formally opens, yet the preliminary dialogue process, side events, and People’s Summit that...
Update from Rio: Strengthening the Alliance of River Defenders
Jason and Brent speak at the People’s Summit on debunking the myth of destructive dams as clean energy Today was...
On the Road from the Xingu to Rio
Indigenous Brazilians call on President Dilma Rousseff to cancel the Belo Monte Dam during the Xingu+23 gathering, June 2012Photo by...