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http://www.youtube.co/watch?v=ZoRhavupkfw URGENT: "We will die. We will not leave without being heard." - May 29, 2013 - THE REVOLUTION STARTS NOW! - Steve Earle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPZJIuCTdNM Letter No. 8 from the Indigenous People who are yet again occupying the Belo Monte dam: "The massacre has been announced and only the government can avoid this fate - We have occupied the construction site of the Belo Monte Dam. We are defending our lands. These ancient lands have always been ours and you have already taken a part of them. And now you are trying to take more. We will not leave. You will come to kill us and we will die. We will not leave without being heard. The federal government announced a massacre of indigenous peoples, the 170 warriors, women, children, leaders and shamans who are here. This massacre is going to happen at the hands of police, Funai, and the judicial system. You have killed at Teles Pires and will kill again when you need to. You killed us because we are against the dams. We know what you are capable of doing. This time it is Norte Energia who has asked to kill us, a company which is part of the consortium and government. Norte Energia asked a federal judge, who subsequently authorized the police to beat and kill us if needed. Government of Brazil, it will be your fault if any of us die. Enough with the violence! Stop threatening us! We want our peace and you want your war. Stop lying to the press that we are kidnapping workers and buses and causing an inconvenience. The occupation is quiet The unrest is caused by the police sent by the judge, Norte Energia, and the government. You are the ones who are humiliating us, threating us, intimidating us, and assassinating us when you don't know what else to do. We demand the suspension of the order to repossess the construction site, until Thursday morning, May 30th, 2013. The government needs to come here and hear us. You already know our agenda. We demand the suspension of all works and studies of dams on our lands. We demand the removal of the National Force from our lands. The lands are ours. You have wasted enough of our lands. You want us to be tame and quiet, obeying your civilization without question. But in this case, we know you would rather see us dead because we are making noise." Belo Monte construction sites, Vitória do Xingu, Pará, May 29th, 2013 MANY links to the Genocidal & Ecocidal story of THE BELO MONTE DAM, the REAL 'Avatar' being built in BRAZIL'S AMAZON RAINFOREST https://www.facebook.com/notes/support-chief-raoni/what-did-you-do-once-... The Guardian (major UK newspaper) - Brazil violates Human Rights of their Indigenous People http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/29/brazil-indigenous-pe... Video - 'Belo Monte - Announcement Of A War' http://www.belomonteofilme.org/portal/en What You Can Do To Help Spread The Word: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=411782595526145&set=pb.206875702... Petitions to stop Belo Monte: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=428342957203442&set=a.3893364077... 'The Revolution Starts Now' - Steve Earle "I was walkin' down the street In the town where I was born I was movin' to a beat That I'd never felt before So I opened up my eyes And I took a look around I saw it written 'cross the sky The revolution starts now Yeah, the revolution starts now The revolution starts now When you rise above your fear And tear the walls around you down The revolution starts here Where you work and where you play Where you lay your money down What you do and what you say The revolution starts now Yeah the revolution starts now Yeah the revolution starts now In your own backyard In your own hometown So what you doin' standin' around? Just follow your heart The revolution starts now Last night I had a dream That the world had turned around And all our hopes had come to be And the people gathered 'round They all brought what they could bring And nobody went without And I learned a song to sing The revolution starts now"" width="398" height="223" />

PLEASE CONTACT YOUR MAIN MEDIA - TV - RADIO - NEWSPAPERS - Tell them what Brazil is doing! (see other links below) URGENT: "We will die. We will not leave without being heard." - The Indigenous People occupying the genocidal Belo Monte Dam in Brazil's Amazon Rainforest.

AMAZON WATCH - MAIN STORY & PETITION TO DILMA ROUSSEFF TO PROTECT THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE.http://amazonwatch.org/news/2013/0529-urgent-we-will-die-we-will-not-leave-without-being-heard#readmore(see many links below)

'BELO MONTE - AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF A WAR' http://www.youtube.co/watch?v=ZoRhavupkfw

URGENT: "We will die. We will not leave without being heard." - May 29, 2013 -
THE REVOLUTION STARTS NOW! - Steve Earle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPZJIuCTdNM

Letter No. 8 from the Indigenous People who are yet again occupying the Belo Monte dam:

"The massacre has been announced and only the government can avoid this fate - We have occupied the construction site of the Belo Monte Dam. We are defending our lands. These ancient lands have always been ours and you have already taken a part of them. And now you are trying to take more. We will not leave.

You will come to kill us and we will die. We will not leave without being heard.

The federal government announced a massacre of indigenous peoples, the 170 warriors, women, children, leaders and shamans who are here. This massacre is going to happen at the hands of police, Funai, and the judicial system.

You have killed at Teles Pires and will kill again when you need to. You killed us because we are against the dams. We know what you are capable of doing.

This time it is Norte Energia who has asked to kill us, a company which is part of the consortium and government. Norte Energia asked a federal judge, who subsequently authorized the police to beat and kill us if needed. Government of Brazil, it will be your fault if any of us die.

Enough with the violence! Stop threatening us! We want our peace and you want your war. Stop lying to the press that we are kidnapping workers and buses and causing an inconvenience. The occupation is quiet The unrest is caused by the police sent by the judge, Norte Energia, and the government. You are the ones who are humiliating us, threating us, intimidating us, and assassinating us when you don't know what else to do.

We demand the suspension of the order to repossess the construction site, until Thursday morning, May 30th, 2013. The government needs to come here and hear us. You already know our agenda. We demand the suspension of all works and studies of dams on our lands. We demand the removal of the National Force from our lands. The lands are ours. You have wasted enough of our lands.

You want us to be tame and quiet, obeying your civilization without question. But in this case, we know you would rather see us dead because we are making noise."

Belo Monte construction sites, Vitória do Xingu, Pará, May 29th, 2013

MANY links to the Genocidal & Ecocidal story of THE BELO MONTE DAM, the REAL 'Avatar' being built in BRAZIL'S AMAZON RAINFOREST
https://www.facebook.com/notes/support-chief-raoni/what-did-you-do-once-you-knew/403021629735575
The Guardian (major UK newspaper) - Brazil violates Human Rights of their Indigenous People 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/29/brazil-indigenous-people-violates-rights
Video - 'Belo Monte - Announcement Of A War'
http://www.belomonteofilme.org/portal/en
What You Can Do To Help Spread The Word:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=411782595526145&set=pb.206875702683503.-2207520000.1359573214&type=3&theater
Petitions to stop Belo Monte:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=428342957203442&set=a.389336407770764.80422.206875702683503&type=1&theater

'The Revolution Starts Now' - Steve Earle
"I was walkin' down the street
In the town where I was born
I was movin' to a beat
That I'd never felt before
So I opened up my eyes
And I took a look around
I saw it written 'cross the sky
The revolution starts now
Yeah, the revolution starts now

The revolution starts now
When you rise above your fear
And tear the walls around you down
The revolution starts here
Where you work and where you play
Where you lay your money down
What you do and what you say
The revolution starts now
Yeah the revolution starts now

Yeah the revolution starts now
In your own backyard
In your own hometown
So what you doin' standin' around?
Just follow your heart
The revolution starts now

Last night I had a dream
That the world had turned around
And all our hopes had come to be
And the people gathered 'round
They all brought what they could bring
And nobody went without
And I learned a song to sing
The revolution starts now" 

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From survivalinternational.org 

Brazil police shoot Indians - more violence feared 31 May 2013

Police in southern Brazil yesterday killed a Terena Indian and wounded several others.© Marcello Casal Jr/ABr

Police in southern Brazil yesterday killed a Terena Indian and wounded several others while violently evicting them from their land. Members of the tribe had returned to live on part of their ancestral territory currently occupied by a rancher who is also a local politician.

Elsewhere in Brazil, an eviction order was served on Kayapó, Arara, Munduruku, Xipaya and Juruna Indiansoccupying the controversial Belo Monte dam site. Armed police have surrounded the protesters and tensions are rising amid fears that there will be similar violence.

Munduruku Indians are also protesting construction of a dam on the Tapajós river. One Munduruku was shot dead when police invaded a community last November.

Paygomuyatpu Munduruku said, 'The government is preparing a tragedy. We will not leave here. The government has ignored us, offended us, humiliated us and assassinated us... They are killing us because we are against the dams.'

The Brazilian constitution and international law enshrine the right of tribal peoples to be consulted about projects on their land. Yet a raft of bills and constitutional amendments proposed by a powerful agricultural and mining lobby threaten to undermine these land rights. Indians are angry that, despite being in office for two and half years, President Dilma Rousseff has yet to meet any Indians.