! Solidarity with the Forest and Peoples of the Amazon ¡
posted by Scotia Scott | June 9, 2009
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IcerocketGreetings dear Friends and Family,
Nearing the end of an adventurous, enlivening, and insightful journey here in Peru with my darling Andrea.
It´s been a time of making merry with the Peoples, breathing with the essences of so many lands, and receiving a bounty of foods and medicines to guide us in our transformation as Creatures of a Lush and Lively Earth * * *
Reaching out to you all now with respect and hope for the continued Vibrancy of our Magnificent Planet, to put our collective energy in to those intentions and actions that align themself with a beautiful future for the coming generations of all beings calling home the Earthly realm of this Grand Universe!
Here I am linking for you an action-alert from the website Ecological Internet with information, and a petition, about the current situation going down here in Peru, regarding contracts signed between the government and foreign corporations under a free trade agreement and enabling these companies to pursue resource development upon indigenous lands in the Amazon. This situation is currently getting very extreme. The government has declared a ´state of emergency´ in various provinces, enabling them to send in police and military to areas where the indigenous peoples have been protesting and blockading the industrial development of the Majestic Amazon.
http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=peru_amazon
"We ask people to eliminate their use of industrially harvested timbers, oil and minerals from the world's rainforests, and protest this senseless violence at Peru embassies all over the world"
Along with attention to our own consumption of the rainforests bounty, to our ways of life that neccesitate this program of violence and degeneration, it is also the time to focus our intelligence and creativity upon an image of human culture which embraces the joy, the delight, and the vibrancy of us All...
Blessings of Paradise ***
Scott
Comments
Sad and frustrating
— Jun 09, 2009
It hurts to read this and think about the people and the rainforest being murdered by industry and government. Is writing emails all that we can do? And not buying...industrial products? Does anyone know of a guide to what materials come from the Amazon or any endangered forests for that matter?
one other way to help
— Jun 15, 2009
Another way to add your voice is here:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/peru_stop_violence/
And it's quick and easy. I know it doesn't seem like an email can do much. But when you multiply that by hundreds of thousands of people, it does start to make a difference. If there's one thing politicians from any country care about, it's public opinion. When enough of us speak together, we do make a difference.
(I've signed on to may Avaaz petitions before and I've never received any spam or annoying emails from them. They seem to me to be a quality organization.)
When we change ourselves from the inside out, that can't help but start to show up as a more compassionate, more intelligent presence in the outer world too.
