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  • GJAE, TradeJustice, Peruvian Community

    Activists Tell President Humala:

    Don't Sell Out Peru

    to Corporate Greed!




    Above: Demonstrators denounced Humala's betrayal as he received the Gold Insigne Award at the Council of the Americas

    Video: watch protester Nathalie Alegre explain why she is protesting President Humala.
    English / Spanish


    View photos from the protest.

    On September 25th, as the blood of Peruvian indigenous environmentalists and community activists is spilled...


    Peru: deadly repression of pipeline protests (World War 4 Report, Sept 5)

    Peru's indigenous murders expose scale of illegal logging (Anadoulou Agency, Sept 18)

    Peru: rural mayor killed in police repression (World War 4 Report, Sept 24)

    Peruvian President Humala wined and dined with mining companies and free trade lobbyists! President Ollanta Humala received the Gold Insigne Award from the Council of the Americas (a corporate free trade advocacy alliance) at a $500 a plate dinner sponsored by notorious human rights & environment abusing mining companies Barrick Gold, Freeport McMoran, and Pluspetrol.


    Fortunately, activists were on hand calling for environmental and climate Justice, Not corporate greed, and to demand that Humala defend workers, farmers, and indigenous peoples, not the Profits of Multinationals!


    The activists demands included:


    * No More Free Trade Agreements! No Trans-Pacific Partnership! No Trade In Services Agreement!
    * Respect Indigenous Land Rights! No more displacement!

    * Stop the Murder of Indigenous Environmental Defenders!
    * Break the US-Peru Free Trade Agreement & Demand Doe Run Clean Up La Oroya NOW!
    * No to Pluspetrol's Camisea Gas Pipeline Expansion!

    * Justice for Cajamarca: No to the Conga Mining Project!


    For hours, activists chanted and yelled up to the second story windows of this disgraceful affair. People leaving the building reported that diner participants could hear us throughout the event as we yelled “Ni TISA, ni TPP—no queremos TLCs!” and “Humala, escucha, el puebo esta en la lucha!”, and “Agua si, oro no!”



    Read Carlos Bernales' article about the protest.


    LEARN MORE

    TPP vs. the Environment

    Peruvian Resistance to TPP (Spanish)

    Barrick Gold in Peru

    Freeport McMoran in Peru


    WHAT YOU CAN DO


    • The passage of TPP threatens to bring even more devastating extraction projects to Peru—and to give foreign corporations the power to sue Peru's government for enforcing its environmental laws. With Peruvian indigenous people, workers, and rural communities still reeling from the effects of the Peru FTA, the last thing Peru needs is a new, massive free trade agreement. The most important thing we can do in the US to stop TPP is to stop Congress from granting President Obama authority to Fast Track TPP through Congress. You can help by calling, writing, and emailing your US Senators and US Representatives and urging them to OPPOSE Fast Track trade legislation under ANY name–whether called the Bipartisan Trade Priorities Act of 2014,” “Fast Track,” or anything else! Tell they you want a commitment in writing before the 2014 election, that you will remember their answer on Election Day, and that you will interpret a non-answer as a indication that they SUPPORT Fast Track! You can find their names and contact information here.

    • Print and share our informational fliers (FrontBack) on TPP and climate change (4 to a page, two-sided). Run a letter drive to stop TPP using our form letters (2 to a page, 1 sided). Collect the signed form letters and mail them to the address at the bottom of the letters.

    • Join our email list receive TPP news and information on action opportunities

    • Make a donation to Global Justice for Animals and the Environment to support our efforts to stop the TPP.

    • Contact us to learn how you can volunteer to help stop defend fight climate change by stopping the TPP! You can call us at (718) 218-4523 or email info @ gjae . org (no spaces). We also offer internships!

    Global Justice for Animals and the Environment is a project of:
    Wetlands Activism Collective
    Phone: (718) 218-4523
    Fax: (501) 633-34761
    activism @ wetlands-preserve.org