James Cameron Speaks on Avatar, Brazil and Belo Monte: Europa Newswire’s Q&A
Europa Newswire
By Amy Lieberman
UNITED NATIONS – In James Cameron’s Blockbuster hit Avatar, an indigenous people called the Na’vi try to fend off a private military force from invading their mineral-rich land. In the Brazilian state of Para, the situation isn’t all that different, as 13 indigenous tribes are working to prevent the construction of the Belo Monte electro-power plant.
Though the plant would equip Brazil with a much-needed energy source, as the government says, it also stands to destroy 160 square miles of Amazon forest and dry up a 60-mile stretch of the Xingu River, uprooting 20,000 local people from their homes and destroying their livelihoods.
http://www.europanewsblog.com/2010/04/james-cameron-speaks-on-avatar-brazil-and-belo-monte-europa-newswires-qa-.html
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Avatar in Para? James Cameron speaks on Avatar, Brazil, and Belo Monte
I quote Amy's article discussing the James Cameron's interactions with the Xingu peoples of Brasil and their struggle against the government's dam project. I link to that article, also, adding links to other pages and articles of relevance, both to question of the dam project, specifically, and the Xingu's struggle, and also more general information on the Xingu River, Para, Brazil, and the Xingu.
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