‘The Amazon is Life’ – October 12, 2011

Q&A with Sheyla Juruna, Indigenous woman warrior from the Brazilian Amazon

If you’ve heard of the Belo Monte Dam and have signed a petition to stop it, you’ve probably seen a picture of Sheyla Juruna, Indigenous woman warrior from the Xingu River Basin of the Brazilian Amazon, who’s spent the last 20 years working to stop this dam from being built on the Xingu River in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon.

Photo courtesy Amazon WatchThe Belo Monte dam is “the project of death”: Sheyla Juruna

Sheyla was recently in the United States on a tour of NY, DC and San Francisco to expose what she calls, “the project of death” and… more

by: Leila Salazar-Lopez

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