[Cja] Cja Digest, Vol 11, Issue 1

[Project Allende]

Sometimes ecological movements work in mysterious ways:
A note from Raúl in Uruguay ...

Rebellion in the Brazilian Amazon
During the month of March 2011 the biggest social protest by workers
in many years erupted in Brazil. More than 80,000 workers all over the
country paralyzed the work of “progress” in the form of hydroelectric
plants, refineries, and thermoelectric generating facilities. The
spark of the protest was lit in Jirau, in the Amazon jungle, provoked
by arbitrary action, violence, and authoritarianism.

It all started with something very small, just like in Tunisia, the
way all great social events begin. It was a fight involving a worker
and a bus driver, on the afternoon of March 15, at the camp where
thousands of laborers from the poorest regions of Brazil are building
one of the largest hydroelectric dams in the country, a gigantic
project on the Madeira River that will cost ten billion dollars.

Full Story ...
English: http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/4331
Spanish: http://www.cipamericas.org/es/archives/4257

-- 
Tony Phillips
tony.phillips at laposte.net
http://densidadregional.org/
http://cochabamba.org.ar/
http://projectallende.org/