Citizens of the World Against Belo Monte

A global video petition against the building of the Belo Monte Dam in the heart of the Amazon rain forest,Brazil. Please create as much awareness on this cause as you can! Write to your local Brazilian embassies and express your discontent against this project.
Stand with the Xingu people.We are all related! No to Belo Monte Dam!
Directed by: Nadine Mazloum
Sign the petition on:
http://www.raoni.fr/
http://amazonwatch.org/take-action/stop-the-belo-monte-monster-dam
http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_amazon_a/?rc=fb&pv=0
http://www.belomonte.org/petition/

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Tribes
• Amazon
• Amazon River
• Environmental
• petition
• activism
• Belo Monte
• Dilma Vana Roussef
• Chief Raoni
• Kayapo
• Xingu
• Amazon Rainforest
• Brazil

[nadinemazloumfilms]

One last thing - you say that no one is "green" enough to be on this video. Says who? Citizens around the world who oppose this dam are the little people that try to make a difference with as little as they can, be it recycling, or watching their energy consumption. It is up to the authorities, the people in power, to create alternative means of sustainable energy. this is the message that the video, and its participants is trying to get through.

[nadinemazloumfilms]

When a project threatens to destory one fifth of the earth's fresh water reserve and the supplier of 20% of the Earth's oxygen (the same kind the opposers of this video breath) its a shame to even try to convince them why this project is a mass miscalculation on the behalf of the Brazilian authorities. Please also note that half the footage on this video was provided by fellow Brazilian journalists/citizens. Are you also telling them not to interfere when it comes to opposing your convictions?

[nadinemazloumfilms]

To all those flooding the page with their own comments in the hopes of showing that their own opinion surpasses those of others, please show the courtesy of being democratic. you say you are Brazilian and that no one should interfere with your countries sovereignty. but i must ask, do you see any one with forks and pitches running towards you?? people are free to express their discontent against a project that does involves the EARTH as a whole....

[brazilrules11]

hey anyone want to a video about how the us is the number 1 contributor to global warming and how america wastes half of the worlds energy??? i mean jesus i get belo monte is a big deal cause its a large project but fuck me america has fucked with this planet for like 100 freaking years!!! atomic bombs,a billion suv's,wasting half the worlds energy and etc....

[nadinemazloumfilms]

@brazilrules11 this is not an American Hollywood production.

[nadinemazloumfilms]

On all of the videos against Belo Monte you see the same fight...many calling people standing against this project as HYPOCRITES. I have one thing to say, OPEN YOUR MIND. If any one from around the world would have bothered to take that much interest in saving the cedar forests of my country, Lebanon, I would crown their heads and place them on a pedestal of respect. Do you not see that we are NOT against you??? we are all one, the destruction of the earth is our own destruction.

[LizzieCornish]

@ovalente76 ovalente, I have sent you a message privately, so as to keep this arguing OFF this page. Please be good enough to reply to me there. Thank you.

[FluffyJetProductions]

The Bel Monte Dam must be stopped at all costs!! Awesome video!!

[bahiaronan]

You all should read this manifest PRO the construction... if no one speaks portuguese, please Google translate it: tempestadeemcopodagua . com / artigo . aspx

[bahiaronan]

40 billion dollars it'll produce for year, this resources should be invested in social aid to the families that will be afected (ITLL NOT BE 40000 PEOPLE!). in the last year it was ilegally deforested in amazon more than 6000km2!one Belo Monte in two months.NO ONE SAYS NOTHING! deflorestation without any gain for the country!Belo Mont is actually a good thing for the country, it'll produce resources that wil be invested in the conservation of amazon and the welfare of the people that lives there

[bahiaronan]

the dam will flood 516km2 (228km2 is already the area occupyied by the river). in the totality, 52 hectares NOT 400000 hectares! in majority the occypied part is already deforested. the dam will be the third biggest in energy potencial not in flooded area! it'll produce 100billions of kw/h for year! this is totally necessary to mantain the growth of brazil.