Q'orianka Kilcher - Brower Youth Awards 2007

Q'orianka is an enthusiastic filmmaker and actress of Peruvian ancestry who has used her celebrity to draw attention to pressing human rights and environmental injustices. Of special concern to her was Los Angeles based Occidental Petroleum, which was responsible for pumping some 800,000 barrels of toxic wastewater containing contaminants such as cyanide, arsenic, lead and mercury into the Corrientes river basin in the Peruvian Amazon. The Achuar are one of several Amazonian communities that depend on the river basin for drinking, fishing and bathing, and they have been on the frontlines of conflict for 35 years. On a trip to Peru to promote a recent film, Q'orianka directed her publicity and media attention towards the plight faced by Achuar. She invited indigenous leaders to participate in a red carpet event, toured the impacted communities and conducted interviews with affected peoples for a documentary, collaborated with U.S. based campaigners Amazon Watch, and met with employees of oil companies to request that they tour the impacted area.

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[larslindroth]

When is "The Great Exchange" that started with Christopher Columbus setting his foot on "The New World" actually be a fair exchange for the Native People living in this not very "New World" to them. "Little Old Me"

[ADRIANR2D]

the whiteman has destroyed everything.

[MileyRocksz9]

@ADRIANR2D i agree!!

[matacabros22]

esta weona conchesumare más falsa que billete de 3 dólares... pasa nomás pendexa

[GildedButterflys]

Thats pretty messed up. using practices outawed in the USA and taking them to some one elses home and enviorment. It scares me to think of all the children drinking and playing that water. I wonder how many young lives have had to go so that we as americans can have our oil and much "needed" fuel. It's so messed up.

[dawkinsfaith]

It is quite amazing how stupid short sighted and greedy some people can be.

When there are no more forests and we are all choking for a breathe of clean air, I hope those bastards who did the destruction will be put on trial and executed for their crimes against humanity because that is what the destruction of the natural world is.

[JoulseyCupid]

God Bless you Q'orianka Kilcher !

[Zamella1]

Zona Turistica que genera divisas al Pais.

[wwSlipknOt]

y tu cchuch4 te creres pezuñiento apestoso ... maricon de mierd4 respeta a las mujeres ... ella esta defendiendo el medio ambiente = selva amazonica se nota ke eres un awebado chupa ping4 hijo de papa y mama .. si te veo te mato

[edven101]

Hola preciosa Q'orianka Kilcher, eres grande por aquel gesto con tu pueblo, con nuestro pueblo, me enorgullese la gente como tú, que defienda y ayude a defender sus derechos a todo su pueblo, ya que cientos y cientos de años, en Perú su pueblo viene siendo insultado, ofendido, discriminado, etc. Estoy contigo, si necesitas una voz, aqui me tienes, un grito de doz voces será más fuerte, con seguridad, por nuestro pueblo, VALE LA PENA Y MUCHO. SALUDOS...

[ninaraura]

Si tan solo a los 16 años, esta joven, de padre Quechua-Huachipaeri y madre Suiza, asumió acciones de tal naturaleza y envergadura como la defensa de la biodiversidad y la vida de los ACHUAR, no es una sorpresa el hecho que haya demostrado tremendo coraje,inteligencia y sabiduría al denunciar públicamente la masacre de BAGUA, el abuso y racismo cruel del gobierno de Alan García en contra de las Comunidades del Amazonas. Millones de jovenes en Costa,Sierra,y Selva seguiremos su ejemplo.