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The Movimento Xingu Vivo para Sempre (Xingu Alive Forever Movement) is a grassroots organization based in the Amazonian town of Altamira, located in the state of Pará, Brazil. For over ten years, Xingu Vivo has been the main resistance movement challenging human and environmental rights violations associated with the Belo Monte hydroelectric mega-dam complex on the Xingu River.

Created in 2008, during the second encounter of peoples of the Xingu mobilized against Belo Monte – which brought together more than two thousand indigenous people, riverside dwellers, small farmers, fishermen and national and international organizations – the Xingu Vivo Movement has mobilized populations threatened by the dam project, carried out dozens of peaceful civil disobedience protests, organized and participated in national and international campaigns that obtained support in more than 20 countries, pressured the Brazilian government, corporate actors and financiers involved in the project, and supported legal actions (nationally and internationally) with partner NGOs and the Federal Public Prosecutors’ Office (MPF).