Upset about the massacre of Peruvian indigenous people?
Please consider voting at progressive.org to have this question asked at their next Q&A session:
What do you intend to do about the massacre of Peruvian indigenous people?
What do you intend to do regarding the Peruvian Free Trade Agreement which is being used as justification for the massacre indigenous protestors who have been protesting the oil and mining projects in the northern Peruvian province of Bagua.
With the Peruvian Free Trade Agreement as excuse, the Peruvian government is now taking away indigenous rights and creating a threat to the Amazon rainforest by taking away land from indigenous people and allowing that land, rainforest, to be reclassified as agricultural land so that biofuel companies can move in with plantations and to allow oil companies and mining companies to be able to work in the area without having to negotiate or speak to the local communities before using THEIR lands.
How can we stand by and allow this to happen in the name of “free trade?”
If enough people vote for this question, it will be answered on the floor of the House of Representatives by members of the Progressive Caucus live on C-SPAN and also be recorded as part of the official Congressional Record.
Admittedly it’s a small step, but IMO anything that adds visibility to this issue is a good thing.
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It’s not much, but I hope it will help in some way.
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and not for this weeks Q&A about energy. I added it again as a topic with a new “energy-related” subject line (that unfortunately got truncated):
Perhaps they’ll delete it as a “duplicate” but let’s vote for it anyway. NOW is the time for this to be discussed. It’s most definitely about energy, even if they left the original question out. Now is also the time to vote for this while it’s still timely. If you voted before, please vote again. If you didn’t, please vote for both questions!
Here is the link to the new submission:
http://feedback.progressivecon…