While the world nervously watches the uprising in Iran, an even more
important uprising has been passing unnoticed - yet its outcome will
shape your fate, and mine.
In the depths of the Amazon rainforest, the poorest people in the world have
taken on the richest people in the world to defend a part of the ecosystem
none of us can live without. They had nothing but wooden spears and moral
force to defeat the oil companies - and, for today, they have won.
The
recent clash between indigenous peoples and Peruvian national police
sends a powerful message from the Amazon jungle straight to Washington:
The enormous social, political, and environmental costs of the
free-trade model are no longer acceptable.
