Amazon Protests

Brazilian Indians protests against Amazon deforestation during the 2009 World Social Forum in the city of Belem, at the mouth of the Amazon River

The World Social Forum is the annual gathering to protest against the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Anti-capitalist groups are protesting against free market economics

Since the first world encounter in 2001, the protest has been a permanent world forum seeking to build alternatives to neo-liberal policies.

More than a thousand indigenous from around the world create a human banner that reads in Portuguese "Save the Amazon" and a silhouette of an indigenous warrior during a demonstration marking the beginning of the World Social Forum ( See Image 7)

Hundreds of activities ? such as campings, workshops, seminars, conferences, testimonies, marches, cultural and artistic activities, take place during the six days.

 

 

More than a thousand indigenous from around the world create a human banner that reads in Portuguese "Save the Amazon" and a silhouette of an indigenous warrior during a demonstration marking the beginning of the World Social Forum

 

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Performers at Chinese New Year

 

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Chen Ting, a Beijing Opera artiste from the Jiangsu Art Group of China, applies make-up for a Chinese Spring Festival performance.jpg

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Chinese New Year Celebrations in pictures

On the first day of the Year of the Ox, the lunar new year is seen in.

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