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International Day of Action for Rivers
March 14, 2008
The International Day of Action Against Dams and For Rivers, Water, and Life was inspired and mandated by the participants of the First International Meeting of People Affected by Dams that took place in March, 1997 in Curitiba, Brazil. Representatives from twenty countries decided that the International Day of Action would fall on 14 March, Brazil’s Day of Action Against Large Dams. One of the goals for the Day of Action is to build and strengthen regional and international networks within the international anti-dam movement.
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Burma: Looking Out For Burma's Natural Resources
The Kuki Students Democratic Front (KSDF) and Burma Rivers Network(BRN) staged a mass rally. Participants criticized and protested against the military regime's misuse and mismanagement of Burma's natural resources by the building of destructive mega dams across the rivers. Ethnic Karen people living along Burma’s Salween River gathered in colorful traditional dress to pray to the spirits of the river and the land around it for protection against the planned construction of the Hut Gyi Dam, which threatens to devastate the area’s fragile ecosystem. Over 250 villagers from over 18 villages in the area affected by the proposed dam took part in the ceremony, and were joined by Burmese opposition politicians, environmentalists and student activists. Read more

India: Indigenous Protest in North India
Thousands of indigenous Lepcha natives of North India ,Sikkim and Darjeeling went to the river Teesta to protest the government's decision to construct 32 dams in one river. The places chosen for construction are important religious landmarks, and their destruction has already created the impetus for a hungerstrike that will last more than 300 days. Read more

Mexico: Action in Protest of the Parota Dam
The organization CECOP brought communities together to protest the Parota Dam on the 11th annual International Day of Action. This hydro-electric project threatens to displace 25,000 people and flood 17,000 hectares of forest and farming land in Guerrero, Mexico. A document that includes all of the members of the Frente Guerrerense contra la Represión y la Impunidad (FGRI), which includes more than 1000 members, was approved in an assembly in the town of Aguacaliente, the seat of the struggle against the La Parota dam. Read more

For a full list of all actions by region, please visit our main International Day of Action for Rivers page.