Brazil: The Fight For Amazonia - The Internet Indians - Video Report

Brazil: The Fight For Amazonia - The Internet Indians - Video Report   "The Internet is our weapon. We gave up fighting with bows and arrows a long time ago," says Benki Piyako, son of the chief of the Ashaninka in the Brazilian rainforest. "We all need to be interconnected if we want to live in safety on our territory." The Ashaninka live on the border of Brazil and Peru. Their region is rich in tropical wood and regularly attracts illegal logging gangs. When the Indians confront the logging...

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