Brazil has more than 24,000 mapped dams on its territory hydroelectricity, mining, water accumulation small, medium and large impact This impact is felt by the populations affected by dams in rural and urban areas these people are so helpless by government and by corporations responsible for the enterprises was to fight the contradictions of energy model for the defense of rights The humans of those affected that was bornthe MAB Movement of People Affected by dams. We started our story with the period of extension of the work of dams in the country always in the 70s since we demand recognition of the rights to from the 90s we realize our first national congress of reached where he was determined creation of the national, popular and autonomousmovement. [Song] We are a mass struggle with the leadership regional collective faces we fight for the guarantee of the rights to indigenous, peasants, quilombolas riparian, fishermen and all affected population we are rooted in 20 states we understand that water and energy are heritage of peoples and must have the popular control we are fighting for anotherenergyproject modelfor Brazil In the Amazon which is the scene of major conflicts in which we operate in defense of families in the construction of Jirau and Santo Antônio and also in the Belo Monte that destroyed Altamira in Pará that made the small town becomes the first in the classification of urban violence The struggle we have waged unevenly and which has led to criminalization of our defenders of human rights Nicinha and a Dilma Ferreira.
Brazil is one of the largest hydraulic power generators simultaneously charges one of the the most expensive fares in the world. <div>The whole world demonstrates</div><div>concern for the environmental and social situation</div> <div>of dam failures as in</div><div>Mariana and Brumadinho</div> who killed workers, residents of the regions <div>destroyed the entire basin</div><div>the Doce river and the Paraopeba river,</div> real crimes. Even with all this scenario, the Brazilian State <div>has not yet created a legal framework</div> <div></div>that ensures<span style="font-size: 1.
1em;">the rights of affected populations</span>and guarantees the rights to the affected populations meanwhile we keep fighting for sovereignty, in the resistance. [Song] Water is for life and not fordeath!
