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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#2FB22B"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;">Greenspiration News</span></font></font></div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#333333" style="font: 13.0px Verdana; color: #333333">"If we’re going to live in a world beyond the financial crisis, we’d better start making things for ourselves, growing our food, making our homes, creating our education and health systems."</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Vandana Shiva</span></font></p></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------------ </div>------------------------------------------------------------------------------ <div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 32px; "><font face="Arial" style="font: 30.0px Arial; letter-spacing: -1.0px"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF046E"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;">Pedestrians are big part of Broadway's new outdoor show</span></font></font></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 32px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: normal;"><b><br></b></span></font></div></div><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 15.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">Five blocks of the thoroughfare running through Times Square are now closed to traffic, creating a pedestrian plaza where locals and tourists can lounge in lawn chairs and take in the spectacle — or join it.</font></p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 15.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">"It's wonderful to see these streets inhabited by people instead of traffic," Marlene Cartaina said Wednesday.</font></p></font><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 15.0px"><font face="Arial" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Arial">The street closing, which began Sunday and will continue until at least the end of the year, is part of a city plan to untangle traffic jams.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; line-height: 15.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-05-27-timessquare_N.htm">http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-05-27-timessquare_N.htm</a></span></font></p></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------------ </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------------ </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3D6CB5">Ontario's liberal government is asking the federal government to subsidize the construction of new nuclear reactors for Ontario</font></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3D6CB5">. </font></font> </font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Arial; ">This doesn’t make sense for a number of reasons. </font></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Arial; "> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 48px; text-indent: -24px; "><font face="Symbol" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Symbol; ">·</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1" style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </font><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Arial; ">First, if you want to create a culture of conservation, you shouldn’t subsidize the cost of electricity supply.</font></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Arial; "> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 48px; text-indent: -24px; "><font face="Symbol" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Symbol; ">·</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1" style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </font><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Arial; ">Second, according to a new Ontario Clean Air Alliance report, <a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org/files/active/0/replacingnuclear.pdf"><font color="#0032e6" style="color: rgb(0, 50, 230); "><u><i>Powerful Options</i></u></font></a>, Ontario’s electricity needs can be met at a much lower cost with an integrated combination of energy conservation and efficiency, wind power, natural gas-fired combined heat and power and hydro-electric imports from Quebec and Labrador.</font></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Arial; "> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 48px; text-indent: -24px; "><font face="Symbol" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Symbol; ">·</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1" style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Times New Roman'; "> </font><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Arial; ">Third, shifting subsidies from one set of taxpayers to another is just a way of hiding the fact that nuclear is not economically competitive.</font></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 15px/normal Arial; "><br><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3D6CB5">Please click </font></font><a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org/send_a_message"><font><u><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#B50434">here</font></font></u></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3D6CB5"> to contact Prime Minister Harper and the leaders of Canada’s other federal parties and tell them that you don’t want your tax dollars used to subsidize new high-cost nuclear reactors for Ontario.</font></font></font></p></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------------ </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------------ </div></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Verdana; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#790323">Vandana Shiva on Gandhi for Today’s World</font></b></span></font></font></div></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana">But I think the highest concept that Gandhi has left us is <i>satyagraha</i>, the fight for truth, which is translated into civil disobedience. In his writings he says very clearly, “As long as the assumption is there that unjust law must be obeyed, so long will slavery exist.” It is the highest moral duty for justice to have the courage to say no to unjust law. That’s what Martin Luther King did. That’s what Gandhi did.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Verdana"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" color="#002fd7" style="font: 13.0px Verdana; color: #002fd7"><u><a href="http://yesmagazine.org/article.asp?id=3517">http://yesmagazine.org/article.asp?id=3517</a></u><u></u></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002FD7" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#002FD7" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------------ </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------------ </div></span></span></font></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#6A0BFF">Take the Tooker - Bike Lanes on Bloor</font></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#C008FF">Le Monde a Bicyclette</font></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Last weekend, 2000 cyclists in Toronto rode for Bike Lanes on Bloor, a campaign that was initiated by friends of Tooker's following his passing.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">This was the largest bicycle advocacy event in Toronto's history.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Check out the 7 min. video that was produced of the event.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzOrp0Uup1g">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzOrp0Uup1g</a></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------------ </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------------ </div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#0032e6" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman; color: #0032e6"><u style=""><b style=""></b></u></font><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#5B11B1">Why Flaherty loves his $50 billion deficit</font></b></span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#0032E6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><b><br></b></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"> The $50 billion shortfall is a godsend for neo-cons like Jim Flaherty: a useful crisis that will provide the rationale for huge spending cuts.</span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Times New Roman"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; "><font color="#3f3f3f" style="font: 12.0px Verdana; color: #3f3f3f"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">It is astonishing given all the commentary and news stories about the "sudden" $50 billion federal deficit there has not been a single story in the mainstream media that focuses on the principal explanation: the huge tax cuts made by the Liberals and Conservatives since 1</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">995.</font></span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3F3F3F" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3F3F3F" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://rabble.ca/columnists/2009/06/why-flaherty-loves-his-50-billion-deficit">http://rabble.ca/columnists/2009/06/why-flaherty-loves-his-50-billion-deficit</a></span></font></div></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Times New Roman"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------------ </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------------ </div></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px"><font style="font: 17.0px Arial; letter-spacing: -1.0px color: #90221f"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFB60E">Goodbye, GM ...by Michael Moore</font></b></span></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; line-height: 17.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FFB60E" face="Arial" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px; line-height: normal;"><b><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">It is with sad irony that the company which invented "planned obsolescence" -- the decision to build cars that would fall apart after a few years so that the customer would then have to buy a new one -- has now made itself obsolete. It refused to build automobiles that the public wanted, cars that got great gas mileage, were as safe as they could be, and were exceedingly comfortable to drive.</font></font></p></b></span></font></p></div></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#0032e6" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #0032e6"><u><a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php">http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/message/index.php</a></u><u></u></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Arial"> </font></p></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------------ </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------------ </div></div></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#B50434">The Barefoot Guide to Working with Organizations and Social Change</font></span></font><div><br><p align="justify" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; line-height: 19.0px"><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#030001">This is a practical, do-it-yourself guide for leaders and facilitators wanting to help organisations to function and to develop in more healthy, human and effective ways as they strive to make their contributions to a more humane society. It has been developed by the </font><a href="http://www.barefootguide.org/collectivet.php"><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; "><u><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#030001">Barefoot Collective</font></b></u></font></a></font><font face="Arial" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Arial"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#030001">.</font></font></p><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; 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margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 2.0px 0.0px; line-height: 33.0px"><font face="Georgia" size="6" style="font: normal normal normal 29px/normal Georgia; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#690FCC">Shell pays out $15.5m over Saro-Wiwa killing</font></font></p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Georgia" size="7"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 21.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><br></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; line-height: 21.0px"><font face="Arial" size="5" color="#333333" style="font: 16.0px Arial; color: #333333">The <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/oil"><font color="#145680" style="color: #145680">oil</font></a> giant Shell has agreed to pay $15.5m (£9.6m) in settlement of a legal action in which it was accused of having collaborated in the execution of the writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other leaders of the Ogoni tribe of southern <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/nigeria"><font color="#145680" style="color: #145680">Nigeria</font></a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px; 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color: #f04297"><b>PROTECT INDIGENOUS RIGHTS - <br> SAVE THE AMAZON!</b></font></p> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="padding: 2.0px 0.0px 2.0px 0.0px"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" style="width: 386.0px; margin: 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px 0.5px; padding: 0.0px 2.0px 0.0px 2.0px"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">Peru is witnessing <b>violent clashes</b> between indigenous groups desperately trying to protect the Amazon and the government, who has pushed through legislation allowing <b>intensive mining, logging and large scale farming in the rainforest.</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Verdana; min-height: 13px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">If government and extractive industries have their way, the Peruvian rainforest and its people will suffer <b>massive devastation, with disastrous consequences for the global climate.</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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