Two chain themselves to White House fence over oil and murder in Peru

On the first of June, as President Obama met with Peruvian President Alan Garcia, two women chained themselves to the White House fence, one covered in what appeared to be OIL, calling out Peruvian President Alan Garcia for murdering indigenous people to seize their land for oil exploration.

Across the street, protesters gathered with the same message-no resource extraction without indigenous consent!

As of last year, at least 84 people had died defending their lands against oil exploration after Peru changed their constitution in the interests of “free trade” agreements. Laws were passed stripping indigenous tribes of their land so greedy corporations like the polluting oil industry could take the land and strip it bare. Indigenous people are giving their lives to resist this outrage any way they can.

A large crowd of bystanders joined the chants of “Amazon Forest not for sale!” Wonder if, with oil as the issue here, if people had BP on their mind? BP also kills people(ask anyone who was on the Deepwater Horizen) and may put every fisherman on the Gulf Coast out of business forever.