By Survival Worldwide activist Sarah Shenker
As we speak is Amazon Day and Indigenous peoples in Brazil and their allies world wide are protesting towards the fires destroying the Amazon rainforest and President Bolsonaro’s battle on Brazil’s first peoples.
Bolsonaro and his agribusiness colleagues – by way of racist phrases and genocidal proposals to steal Indigenous land – are launching the largest assault on Indigenous rights for 50 years. The variety of assaults and invasions of Indigenous territories is sky-rocketing, and the fires, many set by unlawful loggers and ranchers, are destroying the forest at an alarming and heart-breaking tempo. The survival of complete uncontacted tribes – probably the most weak peoples on the planet – is at stake.
Indigenous peoples are combating again, extra united than ever earlier than. In January, they led the largest ever international protest for Indigenous rights. In April, hundreds gathered in Brasília to take their pressing messages to the guts of presidency, and now, for Amazon Day, the world is protesting once more, to inform President Bolsonaro to #StopBrazilsGenocide. Our anger solely strengthens our will to withstand.
Indigenous peoples – nature’s greatest guardians – have fought to guard their lands from outsiders for over 500 years they usually most positively gained’t cease now. As Sonia Guajajara says: “We’re placing our our bodies and our lives on the road to try to save our territories.”
Survival Worldwide is inviting supporters world wide to tune in to social media the place we’re sharing loads of concepts for folks to get lively and take part with at the moment’s actions.
Collectively we’ve gained many victories during the last 50 years. We will win this battle too. Indigenous peoples’ survival, and the survival of all humanity, depends upon it.
