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DESCRIPTION:  ACTION ALERT \nJoin Amazon Watch, Rising Tide, and Earth First Roadshow 
 (they are organizing the demo, delete this part duh) in Calling for 
 Solidarity with Indigenous Resistance in Peru.\nPeruvian Police Attack 
 Indigenous Communities Opposed to Mining and Oil Extraction in Amazon 
 Jungle… \n\nJoin Amazon Watch and others in front of the Peruvian 
 Consulate in San Francisco. \n\nTuesday, June 16, 2009, at 9:00 AM 
 \n\nPeruvian Consulate\n870 Market St\nSan Francisco, CA 94102\n(415) 
 362-5185 … give ‘em a call! \n\n \n\nAn emergency demonstration will be 
 held on Tuesday at the Peruvian Consulate in San Francisco as part of a 
 week long call to action by Rising Tide, to decry the attack on indigenous 
 peoples in the Peruvian Amazon on Friday, June 5. \n\nDuring last 
 Friday’s violent raid, Special Forces of the Peruvian National Police 
 opened fire on a peaceful indigenous blockade on a road outside of Bagua, 
 in a remote area of northern Peruvian Amazon. Several thousand Awajun and 
 Wambis indigenous peoples were forcibly dispersed by tear gas and live 
 ammunition leaving more than 150 injured and at least 40 confirmed dead, 
 although the death toll is likely to continue to grow. 22 Police officers 
 were also reported killed. Indigenous protests throughout the Amazon 
 continue to grow while the Garcia Administration expands the State of 
 Emergency in the region.\nPeaceful demonstrations have been underway for 
 nearly two months with no bloodshed until Friday’s aggressive raid. 
 \n\nThe protests are in response to President Garcia’s failure to uphold 
 indigenous peoples’ constitutionally guaranteed rights. In particular 
 indigenous peoples are calling for the repeal of a series of Presidential 
 decrees that Garcia promulgated in the context of the Free Trade Agreement 
 (FTA) with the United States. These degrees erode indigenous rights to land 
 and resources in favor of oil and mineral exploitation. Garcia continues to 
 block open and democratic debate about the constitutionality of the decrees 
 in Peru’s Congress. \n\n\nAmazon Watch \nTel 415-487-9600    \n\n  
 \n\nwww.amazonwatch.org \n \n  \n \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/15/18601834.php
SUMMARY:Solidarity w Indigenous Resistance in Peru Protest @ Peruvian Consulate
LOCATION:Peru Consulate\n870 Market St. near Powell BART
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/15/18601834.php
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