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Indigenous Peruvians Killed While Protesting Bad Trade Deal

Thousands of indigenous people in Peru face extreme violence, and the Wall Street Journal
reports that 30 indigenous protestors were killed while demonstrating against new laws passed
to implement the U.S.-Peru Free Trade Agreement that give foreign oil, gas, mining and timber
firms access to their Amazonian homelands.

In the pre-dawn hours of June 5, Peruvian military police staged a violent attack on a group of
indigenous people camped out on a peaceful blockade of a road outside of Bagua, in a remote
area of the northern Peruvian Amazon. Several thousand indigenous peoples were forcibly
dispersed by tear gas and live ammunition. Violence and protests have continued all week.

For more info, watch a video from Democracy Now on the violence against the indigenous in
Peru by clicking here

ACTIONS:

Please take a minute to send the following letters.

1. Click here to send letters to Speaker of the House Nanct Pelosi and the House trade
committee leaders. They need to know, and admit, that the US-Peru Free Trade
agreement is negatively affecting Peruvian communities, and that people in the US care, and
want it to stop.

2. Click here to send Peru President Alan Garcia the message that the international community
is watching, indignant, and willing to act.