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  • Com suas cores suas cores, cantos e luta os povos indígenas se uniram a povos de todo o mundo nas ruas de Glasgow em defesa do planeta.

    COP26: “There Will Be No Solution for Humanity Without Us”

    Representatives of indigenous organizations continue to fight to have their voices and perspectives heard during the COP26 negotiations and climate crisis solutions. Civil and environmental organizations have denounced that governments and large corporations have left them out of many of the most important decisions, such as the carbon market and financing structures for climate adaptation…

  • Rural Society vs. Guardians of the Mapuche Ancestral Territory

    FROM THE EDITORS: In Puelmapu, Argentine Patagonia, Gloria Colihueque Catriman and her mother Isabel, almost 80 years old, both Mapuches, are facing dispossession by two mining and forestry extractivist entrepreneurs. Gloria is on trial for defending the land where they have lived for the past 22 years, which is also Mapuche’s ancestral territory. If found…

  • May our utopia be a future on Earth

    Speech at COP26 My name is Txai Suruí. I am only 24 years old, but my people have lived in the Amazon rainforest for at least 6,000 years. My father, the great chief Almir Suruí, taught me that we must listen to the stars, the moon, the wind, the animals, and the trees. Today the…

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    Trapped in the Greenhouse?

    Translated by Awasqa. SOURCE: https://desinformemonos.org/atrapados-en-el-invernadero/ “To address the root causes of environmental and climate injustices, we must confront four centuries of colonial-imperialism, ongoing patriarchal and white supremacist oppression, and today’s extreme neoliberal, globalized, industrial capitalist expansion.” This is how the introduction of “Hoodwinked in the Hothouse” begins, which was prepared as an activist training document…

  • Community Journalists Condemn Police Attacks on El Estor Maya Q’eqchi´ People

    FGER [Guatemalan Federation of Radio Schools] MAYA K´AT  Red de Comunicadoras Indígenas Jun Na’oj. Source: https://www.facebook.com/crfger/posts/3107980039482472  We repudiate the actions of the National Civil Police (PNC) and tear gas attacks against members of Maya Q’eqchi´ communities from the municipality of El Estor, who organized a peaceful resistance to show their disagreement with the operations of…

  • All My Relations and indigenous feminism

    FROM THE EDITORS: It is with great joy that we share the transcript of one of our favorite podcasts, All My Relations, with two hosts, Matika Wilbur and Adrienne Keene, who share with us honest conversations about identity, colonialism, territory, sex, art, food, motherhood, resistance, in short. On multiple issues of concern to indigenous and…

    Chile: Constituents Reject the Militarization of the Wallmapu Territory

    FROM THE EDITORS: The 17 elected representatives for the seats reserved for the first nations for the Constitutional Convention in Chile have released a statement against the militarization and declaration of a state of emergency in Wallmapu territory. On October 12, President Sebastián Piñera declared a state of emergency in the southern macrozone for “serious…

  • Notes from the XI Indigenous March in Bolivia

    I was able to spend part of the last week visiting with the XI Indigenous March for the Defense of the Territory, Identity and Culture of the Indigenous Peoples of the Lowlands in the city of Santa Cruz. The following text and photos are some of my initial impressions of the gathering of Indigenous peoples…