What This Is
This is a listing of the current pages under ‘Peru’. We’ll be tracking the goings-on in Bagua, and other places.
Brief Outline, Thoughts, Feelings, …
Note that what’s going on right now down there isn’t being shown or talked about fairly in Peru’s mainstream media, and the government is doing everything they can to show themselves in good light, since the heavy-handed approach they took was certainly not the right thing to do, and now they are trying to cover their asses.
Canadians here should take note of the fact that Peru and Canada recently signed a free-trade agreement, and that Peru recently changed some laws to make it easier for “foreign investors” to “invest” in Peru; the changes weren’t done with any sort of consultation with Amazonian Indigenous peoples, and this is why they are protesting.
Up until recently, the protests have been peaceful, and were not causing any real problems for anyone, including the truckers delivering various things in and out of the area. It is only when the police came in and started attacking the barricade and people manning it — including women, children, and elders — and started shooting people and tear gassing them did it get out of hand….
My Twitter and Identi.ca feeds, as well as people subscribe to me or vice-versa, the links page here and elsewhere, and other sites have a lot of info. If you have a site, consider putting up a page or 20 about this. Your thoughts, links, videos, photos, discussions, blogs, or anything else related to this.
This isn’t just about Indigenous peoples, it’s about all of us of humans, and all the other life we share the planet. There are people out there that want to make as much money as possible irregardless of the ways they get that money. Not about fluffy animals, or scaly ones, or fish, or birds, the waters of the world, you or me, nothing. And they will stop at nothing to get it, and take any means necessary to obtain it — as you can see from the videos. This isn’t just an “isolated incident”, open your eyes and ears to the truth, and see for yourself.
We don’t own land, we borrow from our children, because they inherit what we do it.
You do ill, they will get ill. You do well by it, they will reap the benefits.
This we as Indigenous peoples have known forever and never forgotten, and I think others can learn from this, and remember it, as they too, once knew.
It might seem like platitudes to you maybe, but when you take the time, slow down, and think, to feel the thought and feelings behind it, you might just realize that it is a profound truth.
