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24 Aug 2021

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Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil – APIB

Brazil: Gathering more than 6,000 people, Struggle for Life camp is the largest indigenous mobilization of the country’s history

Conselho Indigenista Missionário (CIMI)

“The Struggle for Life Camp is already the largest national mobilization of indigenous peoples in the history of Brazil. And what does this mean?”, 24 August 2021

...The struggle for life, the motto of the camp that now gathers 6.000 indigenous people in Brasilia, is established as a necessity and an urgency for us, original people, as soon as the perverse and genocidal face of the colonialist project was revealed. We have lived in a state of alert since the first European foot stepped on this land, even before it was named Brazil...This, however, was not enough to convince the Brazilian State and a nation – that has not yet pulled out the deepest roots of racism from its culture – that fully respecting us as citizens is not a favor – it is an obligation. Both the Federal Constitution and international treaties to which Brazil is a signatory are categorical in affirming the State’s obligation to demarcate indigenous territories and protect our physical integrity...Faced with this unending need to reaffirm that our lives matter, when we hold a national mobilization with a historic number of participants, in the midst of the most serious pandemic that the world has faced in centuries, there are two conclusions that run deepest in our hearts...The world is seeing and hearing what is happening to our peoples, and it is we, relatives, who are in control of our narrative!..The record of relatives and numbers of peoples mobilized in Brasilia becomes, therefore, a message to the world, and especially to those forces that insist on trying to violate us: we will not be silenced! Our strength is greater than ever! We are 6 thousands in Brasilia, and we represent all the relatives that continue the struggle in our territories. We are 6 thousands who represent the millions of ancestors who have been erased from history. We are 6 thousands who represent the future of the indigenous peoples of Brazil!...

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