f{"id":28162,"date":"2023-08-27T13:32:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T20:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=28162"},"modified":"2023-08-27T13:32:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T20:32:17","slug":"victory-in-the-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/08\/27\/victory-in-the-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Victory In The Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.levernews.com\/author\/keerti-gopal\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.levernews.com\/content\/images\/size\/w30\/2023\/07\/500x500_Keerti_sq.jpg\" alt=\"Keerti Gopal\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.levernews.com\/author\/keerti-gopal\/\"><strong>KEERTI GOPAL<\/strong><\/a> (levernews.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-87.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-87.png 1000w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-87-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-87-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-87-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-87-250x141.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/keerti_gopal\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><em>Waorani Indigenous people attend an event promoting a referendum on not extracting oil in Yasun\u00ed National Park. (AP Photo\/Dolores Ochoa)SHARE<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good things are happening! Voters in Ecuador are putting Big Oil in its place (underground), while Maine invests in heat pumps. Plus, a conservative activist known for dark-money influence is under federal scrutiny, a Georgia judge is standing up for transgender kids, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"democracy-defends-the-amazon\">Democracy Defends The Amazon<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democracy beat out fossil fuels in Ecuador last Sunday! In a historic referendum, Ecuadorian voters chose to halt all future oil drilling at a protected site in the Amazon, keeping 726 million barrels of oil in the ground, where it belongs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFinally, we are going to kick oil companies out of our territory!\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/21\/ecuador-votes-to-halt-oil-drilling-in-amazonian-biodiversity-hotspot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>&nbsp;Indigenous Waorani leader Nemonte Nenquimo. \u201cThis is a major victory for all Indigenous peoples, for the animals, the plants, the spirits of the forest, and our climate!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The site is in Yasun\u00ed National Park, a UNESCO-<a href=\"https:\/\/en.unesco.org\/biosphere\/lac\/yasuni\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">designated<\/a>&nbsp;world biosphere reserve and home to two of the world\u2019s last voluntarily isolated Indigenous communities, the Tagaeri and Taromenane people. It\u2019s part of the world\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazonconservation.org\/the-challenge\/why-the-amazon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">most<\/a>&nbsp;important rainforest, where experts say resource extraction and deforestation are \u2014 to put it simply \u2014 very&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/education.nationalgeographic.org\/resource\/amazonia-human-impact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bad<\/a>. Grassroots activists&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/21\/ecuador-votes-to-halt-oil-drilling-in-amazonian-biodiversity-hotspot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gathered<\/a>&nbsp;hundreds of thousands of signatures to petition for the referendum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/8\/25\/ecuador-election-as-run-off-looms-voters-crave-genuine-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">political violence<\/a>&nbsp;leading up to the election, Ecuadorian voters were on a roll last Sunday: With a 68 percent margin, voters in Quito also blocked gold mining in Choc\u00f3 Andino, another sensitive and biodiverse forest region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KEERTI GOPAL (levernews.com) Waorani Indigenous people attend an event promoting a referendum on not extracting oil in Yasun\u00ed National Park. 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