Filmmakers Monti Aguirre and
Glenn Switkes have returned from a
six-month research and filming trip in
Brazil. Their film, Amazonia will
analyze the occupation of the Amazon
Basin, including the fight by Indian
people to protect their lands.
In August of 1985 Juan Francisco Fresno, Cardinal
of Santiago, issued the "National Agreement
for the Transition to a True Democracy" which
called for reconciliation and a move toward democacy.
Grassroots Rainforest Conference held near Sausalito, California, was an educational and brainstorming session put together by the Rainforest Action Network of San Francisco in order to forge an international coalition of organizations to mount a…
The government's assault on guerrilla groups in rural areas of Guatemala has involved the destruction of many Indian villages and the deaths of many Indian people.
Many Indian peoples who have an intimate reliance on spiritual based principals that become the bases for there knowledge of plants and the daily life cycle fear genocide and ethnocentrism from the European oppressors.