Occupy Amazonia? Indigenous activists are taking direct action – and it’s working

The pioneers of indigenous direct action were the Kayapó of southern Pará in Brazil, who began monitoring goldmining and later logging in their territory, which senior leaders tolerated and indeed profited from. In the early 1990s, environmental destruction and mercury poisoning led many Kayapó people to support a younger generation of leaders who expelled the miners and loggers from their territory. Images of the Kayapó have since become synonymous with indigenous environmentalism.
http://theconversation.com/occupy-amazonia-indigenous-activists-are-taking-direct-action-and-its-working-38626