New news on Indigenous resistance to corporate development/destruction project in Bolivia

[Colin Donoghue]

Video clip here:
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/09/20119278844472501.html

Article extract:
"The planned construction of a highway through a national park and
indigenous territory has been suspended by Bolivia's president after police
clashed with demonstrators who have been marching for more than a month to
protest against the plan.

Evo Morales announced his decision on Monday, hours after police released
hundreds of activists who had blocked roads and stopped airport traffic in
an attempt to prevent other arrested protesters from being taken out of the
area.

"We repudiate the excesses yesterday at the march," Morales said, adding
that a high-level commission including international representatives should
be formed to investigate the crackdown.

One young child reportedly died as a result of tear gas inhalation.

The crackdown came 41 days into an indigenous-led march against the
government-supported plan to build a 300km highway that would connect Brazil
with Pacific ports in Chile and Peru."

This news clip also gets at the root problem Indigenous people and all
people that wish to live more in harmony with Nature face:  Government
interest = Corporate Interest; and that profit-driven, exploitative and
destructive activity continues to reign wherever their false authority
exists, even if that authority includes the 1st Indigenous president of a
country.  These thousands of people trying to protect their land, and
preserve it for their children, are told "This highway will be very
beneficial for the nation's economy."  What these indigenous people of
Bolivia realize is that that just means it will be beneficial for the ruling
class, not any one else.  "But this project will create jobs!" the farmers
of humans proclaim.  Yes, jobs to destroy the natural environment and just
further the monetary/corporate dependence of the masses!

This goes on everywhere, the other day I saw a local South Carolina news
report about people calling for legal action against a corporation that
severely polluted the water in a natural area, and what did the politician
interviewed say?  Something like "If we fine this corp too much they may
have to lay-off workers so we must act prudently."  Do you see how this
works?  They prevent you from living self-sufficiently and sustainably on
the Earth, then make you beg for jobs that further destroy the environment,
further entrenching their control and your enslavement.

The only solution is to claim sovereign land as a human right;  nothing else
can stop this never-ending abusive relationship between disturbed
control-freaks (aka "officials") and the rest of the world (including other
species and the ecosystem as a whole).
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