Posted on Jul 15, Included in Bulletin It is creative and feminine in nature. This struggle not only recognizes, definitively, that this mega-venture is socially, economically and environmentally unviable, but also aims to guarantee that other predatory projects are not installed in the region.
An example of such a predatory project is Canadian mining company, Belo Sun, which is threatening the municipality of Volta Grande and everyone who lives near a river that has already been destroyed. However, it is important to remember that there are at least two stages of the landmark and ongoing fight against the Belo Monte dam. Initially, at the end of the military dictatorship in the s, the installation of the dam was momentarily stalled.
This was thanks to the mobilization of indigenous peoples of the Xingu, social movements, river-dwelling families, the Xingu Prelacy and the Ecclesiastical Grassroots Communities, who recognized the federal government and this project as enemies.
In the second stage, whenβfor the first timeβa self-declared left-wing group governed Brazil, the struggle for hearts and minds was not only between the ruling class and the working class, but to a large extent among popular groups themselves. That is, the struggle that has taken place in this region since the first white colonizers arrivedβwhich included the challenges of the rubber tapping period and the Trans-Amazonian Highwayβnow is in a distinctive chapter.
The region has shown that conflict will arise against any party or organization that does not stand with the people, regardless of its declared ideological spectrum, party flag or inst itution. In the same radical way in the sense of being rooted in non-negotiable popular demands , groups led or formed mostly by women continue to raise their voices against any project of death in the region.
