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Ancient Voices from The Forest (Primevalghosts - Needs to be put on UWW)
Voices from the Forest (WFF)
VIDEOS
Brazil's Indigenous People (Facebook Video) On our WFF page
Amazon Tribal Leader - We Will Not Give Up - We Will Fight (Facebook Video) On our WFF page
Indigenous Women Protest (AJ+ Facebook Video) On our Primevalghosts Page
Bolsonaro's Attack on Indigenous People (Facebook Video) On our Primevalghosts Page
Amazon fires: the tribes fighting to save their dying rainforest
Indigenous Women are Fighting to Save the Amazon (Facebook Video, Brut)
As the world prays for the #Amazon, the Xinguans gather and throw an arrow into the air. (Facebook Video)
From the Frontlines (Facebook Video, Carlos Valverde Bravo)
From a leading Bolivian journalist.... from the front lines of the destruction of world by the money lords.
ISA 25 years | #PeoplesOfTheForest (Facebook Video)
No forests, no future. Resist with the #PeoplesOfTheForest. Take action:
ARTICLES
Amazon Watch Statement on the "Amazon Pact" Issued Today by South American Leaders (Amazon Watch, 9-6-19)
Today, presidents and high-level ministers of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, and Suriname met in Leticia, Colombia to discuss regional cooperation for the Amazon. They issued this "Amazon Pact" at the end of the meeting, which laid out their agreed-upon commitments.
Amazon Watch's Moira Birss made a statement in response to the Pact:
We Made Our Voices Heard All Over the World – and We're Just Getting Started! (Amazon Watch, 9-6-19)
Yesterday, demonstrators filled the streets for the Global Day of Action for the Amazon outside of Brazilian embassies and the offices of corporations profiting from Amazon destruction.
In more than twenty countries across six continents, thousands of people marched, blocked traffic, displayed art, and held vigils, sit-ins, and other events to stand in solidarity with indigenous communities fighting to protect their homes from destruction.
From Xingu to the world, through the Amazon (Socioambiental, 8-26-19)
A message from the Xingu people to the world.
A Message from Indigenous Women of the Ecuadorian Amazon (Amazon Frontlines, 8-26-19)
Women from the rainforest speak out
Indigenous Brazilian Woman Cries As Amazon Rainforest Burns Behind Her (Unilad, 8-25-19)
Footage from the forest has been shared on social media of an indigenous Pataxó woman, filmed delivering a passionate and emotional speech in front of the burning forest, criticising Brazil’s authorities and those responsible for allowing the devastation to carry on.
Amazon rainforest fires: What caused them and why activists are blaming Brazil’s president (Global News, 8-21-19)
WATCH: Bolsonaro to send troops to Amazon amid global pressure over wildfires
The Amazon Is on Fire and the Smoke Can Be Seen from Space (VICE, 8-20-19)
The Amazon has been burning for weeks amid increasing deforestation. The intense smoke was detected by NASA and plunged São Paulo into darkness on Monday.
Amazon fires: NASA satellite images show increased carbon monoxide - Business Insider (Business Insider, August 2019)
Who Will Save the Amazon (and How)? (Foreign Powers, 8-5-19)
It's only a matter of time until major powers try to stop climate change by any means necessary.
'He wants to destroy us': Bolsonaro poses gravest threat in decades, Amazon tribes say (The Guardian, 7-26-19)
Indigenous leaders who say Brazil’s new president is trying to force them from their lands are braced for a new era of ruin
Bolsonaro’s Amazon Deforestation Accelerates Climate Change (Intelligencer, 10-31-18)
Could One Man Single-Handedly Ruin the Planet?
WEBSITES
PEOPLE TO PAY ATTENTION TO
Sonia Guajajara Twitter (Executive Coordinator of APIB - Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil.)