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Brazil: Online Campaign to Protect Xingu Against Belo Monte

Categories: Latin America, Brazil, Citizen Media, Development, Digital Activism, Economics & Business, Environment, Human Rights, Indigenous, Politics, Protest

A new movement called Gota D'Água [1] (Drop of Water) [pt] has launched an online campaign to discuss Brazil's energy planning through the analysis of the Belo Monte dam project. The campaign includes a video [2] featuring public figures and a petition [3], that has already gathered 1923 signatures, to be handed over to the government.