Indigenous groups, activists rally at Cargill's Brazil HQ over river dredging plans

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Dozens of Indigenous people and environmental activists held a protest on Friday (Feb 20) outside agribusiness giant Cargill's headquarters in Sao Paulo, chanting and waving signs against Brazilian government plans to dredge Amazon rivers to speed up grain transport.   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Dozens of indigenous people and environmental activists held a protest on Friday outside

00:06agribusiness giant Cargill's headquarters in Sao Paulo, chanting and waving signs against

00:12Brazilian government plans to dredge Amazon rivers to speed up grain transport.

00:18Demonstrators gathered on the street, outside the building, with indigenous participants

00:23dancing in a circle as others shouted slogans opposing the project.

00:28The Sao Paulo rally broadened a protest led by members of the Tupanamba indigenous group

00:34in the Amazon city of Santarem, where protesters have blocked access since January 22nd to a

00:41Cargill river terminal and have stopped truck traffic at the entrance in recent days.

00:46The group says the mobilization targets plans to dredge the Tapajos river, including the removal

00:52of rocks from the riverbed. Cargill has rejected responsibility for the government's

00:58waterways project and has filed lawsuits seeking to lift the blockade of its Santarem terminal.

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