[PAA-Discuss] Urgent action needed in Indonesia and Colombia

[Juli3 at aol.com]

Dear  Friends,

Your help is urgently needed by our colleagues in Indonesia  and Colombia. 
Please read this email and take action.

On 28 May 2006  hydrogen sulfide gas leaked from a gas exploration rig in 
Sidoarjo, Java,  Indonesia. Shortly after the leak hot mud and boiling water 
erupted from the  ground close to the site at a rate of thousands of liters a 
minute. Within  hours the mud was inundating nearby villages.

Two years later and  whilst the flow of mud has reduced, there has been no 
significant progress by  the government to stop it for good. Meanwhile it 
continues to devastate  people's lives. It is estimated that 11,000 people have been 
made homeless and  thousands more have serious health issues often related to 
the noxious gases  that accompany the mud flow. At least one hundred deaths 
are directly related  to the mud.

Friends of the Earth Indonesia/Walhi is calling on the  President of 
Indonesia to hold the company responsible for this catastrophe to  account and for 
them to pay compensation to the victims.

Find out more  and take action -  
http://www.foei.org/en/get-involved/take-action/stop-the-indonesian-mud-flow

At  the beginning of October, thousands of Colombia's indigenous people began 
a  popular uprising around the country to protest about the cultural and 
physical  genocide they are suffering at the hands of the state and to defend 
their  territory, autonomy and culture.

Police forces have repressed many of  the protests with bullets and tear gas. 
So far three people have been killed,  including a child, and more than one 
hundred have been injured.

Friends  of the Earth Colombia/Censat Agua Viva urge you to send a letter 
they have  produced to your respective Colombian embassy demanding that the 
government  and others responsible take action to ensure the immediate end to the 
violence  and to establish a dialogue with the community for future  
negotiations.

Find out more and take action -  
http://www.foei.org/en/get-involved/take-action/indigenous-community-under-fire-in-colombia

Once  you've completed the actions please call on your friends and family to 
do the  same.

Thanks for your continued support,


Friends of the  Earth International  
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