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Indigenous community threatened in the Amazon - Take action!
Target: President Lucio Gutiérrez of EcuadorSponsored by: EarthRights International
The Sarayaku people need your help to resist oil development in the Amazon!
Sarayaku is a Kichwa community in the Ecuadorian Amazon that is fighting for its very existence against the specter of oil exploration in its territory. Having seen the deforestation, contamination and cultural destruction of Amazonian communities elsewhere in Ecuador, Sarayaku has taken a firm stand in favor of their environmental and cultural rights, and against oil activities in its territories. This position has led to threats and retaliation by oil workers in neighboring communities. Sarayaku community members cannot travel safely on their river and cannot walk safely in their forests. They are enduring a de facto medicine embargo on their community.
Please join EarthRights International in defending the rights and environment of the Sarayaku people. Sign the petition today!
It's their land, they're not doing them a favour, they are entitled to have a life and life in peace.
How can you have a life without clean environment?
Indigenous people play a very important role in our cultural richness and are essential for all humanity, it is the mark of a really well developed country, not only economically but also intellectually, to be able to protect and keep what is their tradition, heritage and show respect for people, who chose another lifestyle than the consumating one, which is now dominating and considered as right, although it causes much damage. This is another reason why we need those indigenous people, in order to balance our world.
They are not only linked, they go hand in hand, because humans can not take care of their environment, if they can not take care of their families, their neighbours, their country, state and in the end we all are somehow responsible for the whole world. We must join together with respect and will to cooperate and except the other partner, work together in brothership, only then can we face environmental issues together and solve them!
please do everything to protect these people and their human rights!
The companies that consume this land care nothing for the people. When the natural resources are used up, they will abandon your country without a care. You are viewed as profit.
They have rights to the land & have lived there longer than Ecuador has been a political entity.
they have the right to live & be safe,they are your people too.
They are linked in every way,just go to a big city where there are no parks,clean air,or quiet & see how long you can live there,see how it is to have no nature to go & feel Peacefull in.
It's not right that these beautiful people should be forced out of their home so that some rich white men can get even richer and pollute the planet.
The Sarayaku ancestor leave a trail of teaching mankind how to preserve natural resources (The Precious Jungle )& the knowledge is pass on to their people. Our planet natural resources is enough to feed all human & therefore do we need to dig ourselves to the GRAVE b'cos of GREED!!!
everyone has the right to protect their own space, what is happening to these people is terrible! these people will have nowhere else to go should their homes be destroyed,the oiling co`s must back off and leave these people in peace.
we all have to share the natural environment around us,it affects us all if we continue to destroy it,it is our right to maintain a clean,safe environment for all.
Indigenous people are the soul of the country and a wealth of information and manpower. With compassionate, diplomatic leadership,they are an ally to prosperity, not an impediment.
Survival is linked to air and water- not just for the people of Ecuador, but for the world. Our survival as human beings in the long term depends on protecting the natural systems that provide our food, water and air. We must look to alternatives to oil now. Our survival depends on it.
they were there first.
All people must have the basic human rights
they are RIGHTS! no questions asked!
we all have the right to live on clean land!
People are more important than oil and the rain forests are important to the survival of the planet!
Yes, they are! If we allow our earth to die , so will man !
The indigines have a deeper sense of respect and honoring of the Earth, and are more connected to the real truth of why we must protect her ravishment for the sake of corporate greed.
Our birthright is to be free to enjoy the gifts that the Great Spirit has given to us and left in our care.
all people should have equal human rights especially a people that we have done so much harm to already. They have a right to their land and their lives, they should not be the expense of rich countries making more money.
People sholud be treated as an asset, not like garbage
To protec people , aducate and care for them is almost the same as is to protectthe environment.
People are more important than Oil
indeigenous rights are part of human rights. By detaining peaceful activists the Ecuadorian authorities have violated democratic rights of its own citizens. This is no diferent than what Saddam Hussein did to the ethnic monorities active against its dictatorial regime, and we know that is not acceptable behavior in today's world.
The natural environment must be protected, this includes the indigenous people that live there. They are not destructive on their environment, like the oil industry.
it is really important
in the long term the native people and the Amazon forest are far more useful assets to Ecuador's economy, through sustainable tourism development, than oil.
The non indigenous people will eventually realize that thay have much to learn about their environment from the indigenous people, knowledge that will be essential to the survival of all people.
Humans are intrisically linked to environment and nature, it is only through the ignorant perceptions of a cartesion scientific perspective that we have lossed this wisdom. This is the ultimate human right.
The world needs to learn from them.
When you destroy the enviornment, you destroy food and water supplies, you destroy a people by forcing them to conform to a way of life that is very hostile. It's stealing. That's what it is.
We've already destroyed indigenous people in America, Austrailia, Africa, etc. these are the last of a precious and rare people. Learn from others mistakes, and choose life not money.
Its Humans job to take care of the environment, earth nurtures human life, humans need earth, earth does not need humans.
No rain forests, no oxygen. Whole planet. Period.
Everyone deserves a clean environment if they are to survive
Everyone deserves a clean environment if they are to survive
failure to do so will damage ecuador's reputation globally and also create conditions within ecuador of social inequity and dissatisfaction which in turn leads to a cycle of rebellion and repression, a "vicious circle".
The most basic human rights are for clean and healthy surroundings in which to grow and develop, not the right to exploit and profit from the destruction of the environment
These are simple people who live a simple life, and don't hurt anyone. They should be protected because they are weak and helpless agains huge corporations that care only about money, and nothing about the future of this earth and our children.
The way people treat each other reflects how they treat the environment. If they have no respect for human life and human rights, most likely they have no respect for animal and plant life either.
they both ae needed in order for the other to survive