"Chief Raoni crying when he learned that the President of Brazil approved the Belo Monte dam project on the Xingu indigenous lands. Belo Monte will be bigger than the Panama Canal, flooding nearly a million acres of rainforest & indigenous lands. 40,000 indigenous and local people will be forced off their native lands (as well as millions of unknown species & plants) in the name of progress." You can read more about this tragedy here. I don't know if it will change anything by signing an online petition, but you can take action against the construction of this monster dam here. Do it. It takes 2 seconds.
