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The Xingu Encounter 2008 will be a 5-day mass gathering of 1,000 Brazilian Amazon Indians and their allies to protest the development and construction of government-supported hydroelectric dam projects on the Xingu River.
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Xingu Encounter in the News

Thu, 05/29/2008 - 10:03am

The Real News interviews Glenn Switkes and Amazon Indigenous Indian protesters who say the social and environmental costs of the Belo Monte dam, the world's third largest proposed dam, will destroy their way of life and wreck the Xingu river's ecosystem.

Sonia Legg of Reuters reports on the angry reaction from environmentalists and tribal Indians to Brazilian plans to build a hydro-electric complex on the Xingu River.