World hugest Indigenous Mobilization
Since August 23rd, part of the Floresta TV collective team arrived in Brasília (Federal District) to follow the movements of the Original Peoples and the votes that (not) took place at Praça dos Três Poderes. From the Deputies and the Federal Supreme Court (STF), our actions started from a movement that is growing exponentially globally and brings together leaders of Native Peoples, artists, filmmakers, photographers, researchers, communicators, autonomous, independent and international networks in a close dialogue with the Brazilian bureaucratic structure.
We are knocking on doors, we want actions and answers.
We have an Open Letter circulating with over 1,600 signatures and growing every day.
We know that the Amazon Forest is considered the heart of the world for being the biggest biodiversity hub on the planet, and we live in a new era where the society is fully aware of the need to preserve the environment.
At the same time, according to our indigenous traditions, we are living the New Thought, known as Xinã Bena. After centuries of persecution, exploitation and conflict, we are gaining a voice in society and we believe that the time has come to open up to interact with the whole world.
In this New Time, we all collaborate and together we co-create a new world, made by us, Colored Peoples: all races of all colors reach a new way of feeling and integrating the true Xinã Bena and acting in favor of the forests. Aware of our importance and our rights, we want to show our cultural legacy and our way of seeing human beings as part of nature.
We’ve been screaming for attention for over 500 years. Our premise is to engage more and more people in the conservation of biodiversity and this ancestral culture that can help the planet so much with our millenary knowledge about living in harmony with the forest.
We ask for the REJECTION of Bill 490 of 2007, which is being processed in the Chamber of Deputies and deals with the change in the legislation on the demarcation of indigenous lands in Brazil. The text of PL 490, and its addenda, paves the way for our extermination and desertification of the Amazon Forest. Therefore, it is irrefutable that this bill must be REJECTED in its entirety by the Legislative House of this country, as well as other bills that are under the same theme and purpose.
Pajé Txaná Ixã, Pajé Txaná Kixtin, Ibã Huni kuin, Eduardo Pizaroli [Tete Beru], Shane Inu Bake [Guilherme Meneghelli], Camila Saibro, Mathilde Everaere, Flora Dutra, Advan Haschi, Rael Castro, Hugo Takemoto, Daniel Heberle, Graziele Borges, Gabriela Guidetti, Chloe Malkine, Nathalie Malkine [Pranad Monja do Amor], Vhera Xunú, Cacique Nasso, Cacique Geral da Nação Huni Kui Ninawa Inu Huni KuĪ…
Sign this letter and take part of this Global Movement that concerns all of us :
While setting up our base in the Federal Capital, our thoughts and freedom of expression led us to understand that we need a political goal in which the main capital is the spiritual.
Our actions become timeless as they do not represent fixed structures within a system. That’s how we managed to gather in this video some of the actions and emotions that we have been experiencing in recent days and that will unfold in other actions and productions.
We are still here, awaiting the vote on the Marco Temporal which is a proposed legislation and landmark case in brazil’s highest court would remove laws that protect the Amazon Rainforest and many other ecologically sensitive areas, and would have severely detrimental effect on the rights of indigenous peoples.
Since the actual government plans to open to open the Amazon and other protected areas to predatory mining, logging and farming.
The marches, which drew about 6,000 Indigenous leaders, are believed to be the largest mobilization of Indigenous activists in more than three decades, organizers say; supporters in cities around the world, including London and San Francisco, have also staged solidarity protests.
The case being heard will set an important precedent on whether courts can deny land claims by Indigenous people whose ancestral lands were appropriated before the Brazilian Constitution came into force in 1988 will be taking place tomorrow (September 1st).
With such a historic mobilization, the Original Peoples are still camping now at FUNARTE, and from there they continue with plenary sessions and discussions until the time of voting.
We are living a historic moment, a moment in which we manifest our potential for the political goal to incorporate spiritual capitals that are broadly capable of varieties of individual and collective behavior in new organizations and social mobilizations such as the STRUGGLE for Life camp.
The demonstrators, clad in traditional Indigenous dress, chanted, danced and waved signs painted with the slogan of their movement, “Struggle for Life,” or Luta Pela Vida in Portuguese, which they are also using on social media through the hashtags #MarcoTemporalNão and #AcampamentoLutaPelaVida.
This assault on the Amazon means that the forest now emits more carbon than it absorbs, with scientists recently warning that it is reaching an irreversible ‘tipping point’, beyond which it will not generate enough rain to support itself.
“IF WE LOSE THE AMAZON THE WORLD WILL LOSE ITS FUTURE
THIS WOULD BE A CATASTROPHE OF UNPRECEDENTED PROPORTIONS PUTTING ALL OUR FUTURES IN PERIL “
We usually refer to the Amazon rainforest as the lungs of the planet, but it is much more than that. Perhaps it’s better to understand the Amazon as both the lungs and the kidneys of the planet, filtering carbon and regulating water currents. If we extend the metaphor, we can say that the planet’s lungs and kidneys are being attacked by the pathogens of greed, arrogance, and indifference, with implications for other vital organs and the very metabolism of the earth.
The indigenous original peoples of this nation are committed to protecting our territory from all extract industries for our children and for all beings around the world now and in the future.
RAISE YOUR VOICE IN DEFENSE OF INDIGENOUS OF BRAZIL,
RAISE YOUR VOICE FOR HUMANITY.
Text : San | @Guardianofthenewearth & Mathilde Everaere Ma'ah Tribu|
Fotos : Guilherme Meneghelli Guilherme Meneghelli, Hugo Takemoto & Mathilde Everaere Ma’ah Tribu|
diagramação : Mathilde Everaere Ma’ah Tribu|
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