Amazon Rebels Against Oil and Mining: Nine Countries Draw a Map to Expel Extractivism · Global Voices

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For a week, more than 2,500 people gathered in Puyo, Ecuador, during the twelfth edition of the Pan-Amazonian Social Forum

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The Amazon is rebelling against oil and mining: in the Ecuadorian Puyo there is an air of resistance. Hundreds of voices from the nine countries of the Amazon basin are embracing themselves these days to put together a common front against the implacable advance of oil and mining companies. The urgency is real: the governments of turn do not loosen and the big companies press more and more. Between assemblies and talks, the people of the territo…