Background Articles

Activist Organizing in Lima

http://cumbrepuebloscop20.org/about-us/peoples-summit-on-climate-change/ &

http://world.350.org/tierractivaperu/informacion-general-sobre-el-encuentro/

TPP Meeting and Resistance in DC this Week

http://www.foe.org/news/news-releases/2014-12-dracula-trade-deal-underway-in-dc-this-week

NY Times Summary of Global Witness Report, Including Policy Recommendations to Peruvian Gov't

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/peru-prepares-to-host-climate-talks-as-its-indigenous-forest-defenders-die/?_r=0

Intro to TPP

http://bit.ly/1sgitEn & http://tradejustice.net/tpp

TPP & Climate Change

http://action.sierraclub.org/site/DocServer/0584_TPP_Report_03_low.pdf?docID=14641

Peruvian Resistance to TPP (Spanish)

http://www.nonegociable.pe/

Trade In Services Agreement

http://tradejustice.net/?page=TISA

Peru Free Trade Agreement

http://stopperufta.info/

Abya Yala Indigenous Summit Statement on Land on corporate theft and looting of indigenous lands, neoliberal trade agreements, & REDD

http://vcontinentalsummitabyayala.blogspot.com/2013/12/declaration-of-la-maria-piendamo.html

Conga Mine

http://www.earthrights.org/blog/renewed-protests-conga-mine-again-result-armed-police-response &

http://upsidedownworld.org/main/peru-archives-76/3544-peru-cajamarca-protests-continue-as-conga-gold-mine-awaits-green-light

Doe Run Smelter & Peru FTA

http://www.foe.org/news/archives/2012-04-pay-the-polluter-800-million-trade-deal-injustice-fo

Camisea Gas Pipeline

http://inhabitat.com/peru-approves-large-gas-project-that-could-wipe-out-uncontacted-tribes/

Lorento Oil Field

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/25/indigenous-protesters-occupy-perus-biggest-amazon-oilfield

Barrick Gold in Peru

http://www.protestbarrick.net/section.php?id=9

Freeport McMoran (mining company) in Peru

http://int.piplinks.org/peru-protests-reviving-cerro-verde,-t%C3%AD-mar%C3%A

Anti-logging Activist Killings and the Broken Promises of Peru FTA:

http://fsrn.org/2014/09/murders-of-indigenous-forest-defenders-highlight-illegal-logging-in-peruvian-amazon/

US Pushes Copper Mining, Targeting Indigenous

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/brenda-norrell/2011/02/wikileaks-peru-us-targeted-indigenous-promoted-copper-mining

Clinton State Department Complicity in Bagua Massacre

http://wetlands-preserve.org/phpUpload/uploads/Hillary_Clinton.pdf

Gaps in Peru's New Indigenous Consultation Peoples Law

http://politicsofpoverty.oxfamamerica.org/2014/05/protestors-un-report-test-peru-new-indigenous-peoples-consultation-law/

¿Qué diablos sucede adentro de la COP20? Si, exacto, eso que Ud. sospecha... es real. 

https://kolumnaokupa.lamula.pe/2014/12/09/que-diablos-sucede-adentro-de-la-cop20/rociosilva/

Declaración de Lima: Cumbre de los Pueblos Frente al Cambio Climático

http://viacampesina.org/es/index.php/acciones-y-eventos-mainmenu-26/cambios-climcos-y-agro-combustibles-mainmenu-79/2312-declaracion-de-lima-cumbre-de-los-pueblos-frente-al-cambio-climatico1

Indigenous groups in Peru's Amazon face risk of extinction, admits Pluspetrol

http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-indigenous-groups-in-perus-amazon-face-risk-of-extinction-admits-pluspetrol-102039

Peru: deadly repression of pipeline protests

http://www.ww4report.com/node/13499

Ashaninka communities issue statement and demands at COP in Lima.

http://www.rainforestfoundation.org/article/ashaninka-communities-issue-statement-and-demands-cop-lima

The Laundering Machine: How US Corporations Threaten Peru's Forests Through Illegal Logging

http://truth-out.org/news/item/27927-the-laundering-machine-how-u-s-corporations-threaten-peru-s-forests-through-illegal-logging

Peruvian President Ollanta Humala: Promises Cheap Gas as the Country Tries to Push for Renewable Energy

http://www.latinpost.com/articles/14911/20140615/peruvian-president-otlanta-humala-promises-cheap-gas-as-the-country-tries-to-push-for-renewable-energy.htm

COP20: Peru must give indigenous people means to combat climate change

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2014/dec/05/cop20-peru-indigenous-people-combat-climate-change

Illegal loggers remain hidden in Peru’s forest but timber finds global buyers

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/oct/14/illegal-logging-peru-amazon-deforestation

Corruption in Peru Aids Cutting of Rain Forest

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/19/world/americas/corruption-in-peru-aids-cutting-of-rain-forest.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

U.S. gobbling illegal wood from Peru's Amazon rainforest

http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0410-hance_illegallogging_peru_eia.html

‘It’s War!’ Peru-Brazil Indigenous People Pledge to Fight Amazon Oil Exploration

http://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2014/12/09/its-war-peru-brazil-indigenous-people-pledge-to-fight-amazon-oil-exploration/

Widows of Peru’s Murdered Indigenous Rainforest Defenders Demand Justice at U.N. Climate Summit

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/8/widows_of_peru_s_murdered_indigenous

Indigenous people slam Peru government for unrestrained deforestation of Amazon

http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/indigenous-people-slam-peru-government-unrestrained-deforestation-amazon