Show your support for the Indigenous Peoples of TIPNIS!

25.9.11

Show your support for the Indigenous Peoples of TIPNIS!: sponsored a petition in support of the ongoing march to defend the Isiboro Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park (TIPNIS) in Bolivia.

If you haven't already signed the petition, please do so now! Visit: http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_tipnis

Since August 15, 2011, Indigenous Peoples from the TIPNIS have been marching against a new highway that the government of Bolivia wants to build through the protected territory.

So far, more than 1,500 people have joined the 375-mile journey from the eastern lowlands of Bolivia to La Paz--a number that's growing by the day. Sadly, President Evo Morales has responded to the march by labeling the protesters "enemies of the nation." He is also trying to discredit the protesters by portraying them as being confused by NGOs. He even tried to denounce the march as another strategy of US imperialism.

As of late, this misleading rhetoric has turned into action. According to NACLA,