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DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NemonteNenquimo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NemonteNenquimo</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Waorani" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Waorani</span></a>, Protecting the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmazonRainforest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmazonRainforest</span></a></p><p>By Water for Life, via <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a>, Sept. 21, 2024</p><p>"Our friend Nemonte Nenquimo, a leader of the Waorani people of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecuador" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ecuador</span></a>, telling stories from her memoir, 'We Will Be Jaguars.' The book, written with her husband Mitch Anderson, about the fight to protect the Amazon rainforest, is a must read. The conversation was masterfully guided by actor, author, teacher Peter Coyote.</p><p>"Nemonte and Mitch have more readings coming up in San Francisco and Corte Madera later this week. New York City is next week!"</p><p>From Meet Nemonte Nenquimo:</p><p>"Nemonte Nenquimo led an indigenous campaign and legal action that resulted in a court ruling protecting 500,000 acres of Amazonian rainforest and Waorani territory from oil extraction. Nenquimo’s leadership and the lawsuit set a legal precedent for indigenous rights in Ecuador, and other tribes are following in her footsteps to protect additional tracts of rainforest from oil extraction. Guardians of the Amazon Rainforest</p><p>Background from the publisher:</p><p>"Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest—one of the last to be contacted by missionaries in the 1950s—Nemonte Nenquimo had a singular upbringing.</p><p>"She was taught about plant medicines, foraging, oral storytelling, and shamanism by her elders. At age fourteen, she left the forest for the first time to study with an evangelical missionary group in the city. </p><p>"Eventually, her ancestors began appearing in her dreams, pleading with her to return and embrace her own culture. She listened.</p><p>"Two decades later, Nemonte has emerged as one of the most forceful voices in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> activism. She has spearheaded the alliance of indigenous nations across the Upper Amazon and led her people to a landmark victory against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOil</span></a>, protecting over a half million acres of primary <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/rainforest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rainforest</span></a>. Her message is as sharp as a spear—honed by her experiences battling <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/loggers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>loggers</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/miners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>miners</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilCompanies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OilCompanies</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/missionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>missionaries</span></a>.</p><p>"In We Will Be Jaguars, she partners with her husband, Mitch Anderson, founder of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmazonFrontlines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmazonFrontlines</span></a>, digging into generations of oral history, uprooting centuries of conquest, hacking away at racist notions of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a>, and ultimately revealing a life story as rich, harsh, and vital as the Amazon rainforest herself."</p><p><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09/we-will-be-jaguars-nemonte-nenquimo.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/09</span><span class="invisible">/we-will-be-jaguars-nemonte-nenquimo.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveTheForests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaveTheForests</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaveTheRainforests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaveTheRainforests</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Activism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Memoirs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Memoirs</span></a></p>
Ms. Que Banh<p>More than 50 members of an uncontacted <a href="https://beige.party/tags/IndigenousTribe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousTribe</span></a> have been photographed on a riverbank in the remote <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Peruvian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Peruvian</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amazon</span></a> near an area where <a href="https://beige.party/tags/logging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>logging</span></a> companies have been granted concessions by the country's government.</p><p>The large group from the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/MashcoPiro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MashcoPiro</span></a> appeared in recent days near the southeastern village of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/MonteSalvado" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MonteSalvado</span></a>, which belongs to the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Yine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Yine</span></a> people. A smaller group of 17 appeared near a neighboring village.</p><p>The Yine, who speak a language related to that of the Mashco Piro, have previously reported that the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/UncontactedTribe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UncontactedTribe</span></a> has been angry about the presence of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/loggers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>loggers</span></a> on their land, according to the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/IndigenousRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousRights</span></a> group <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SurvivalInternational" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SurvivalInternational</span></a>.</p><p>“This is irrefutable evidence that many Mashco Piro live in this area, which the government has not only failed to protect, but actually sold off to logging companies,” Alfredo Vargas Pio, president of the local Indigenous rights group <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FENAMAD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FENAMAD</span></a>, said in a statement from Survival International.</p><p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/peru-amazon-rainforest-tribe-uncontacted-unusual-sighting-logging-area-rcna162259" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nbcnews.com/news/world/peru-am</span><span class="invisible">azon-rainforest-tribe-uncontacted-unusual-sighting-logging-area-rcna162259</span></a></p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FirstPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstPeoples</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NativeRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeRights</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Deforestation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Deforestation</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CorporateGreed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateGreed</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/GreedKills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreedKills</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/GovernmentFailure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GovernmentFailure</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Peru" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Peru</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/GlobalSouth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalSouth</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/StopEcocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopEcocide</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/StopIndigenousGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopIndigenousGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environmental</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SouthAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/StopKillingForests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopKillingForests</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AmazonRainforest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmazonRainforest</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/IndigenousLand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousLand</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NativeLand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeLand</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/EcoJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EcoJustice</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Activists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Activists</span></a> Who Sacrificed Their Lives To Save The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmazonRainforest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmazonRainforest</span></a></p><p>by Jana Gregorio <br>July 31 2020</p><p>"According to reports, on average, one activist has been killed in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Brazil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Brazil</span></a> every week since 2002. Most of the killings happened in remote areas of the Amazon. </p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChicoMendes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChicoMendes</span></a> was a labor leader and activist who fought against the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/deforestation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deforestation</span></a> of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmazonRainforest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmazonRainforest</span></a>. In 1988, Mendes was shot and killed in front of his house by a cattle rancher named Darcy Alves.</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NazildoDosSantosBrito" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NazildoDosSantosBrito</span></a> was an anti-<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PalmOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PalmOil</span></a> campaigner. In 2018, Brito was shot and killed, but none of his possessions were missing. Rights groups say he was killed due to his activism in the Amazon.</p><p>"Maxciel Pereira dos Santos was a defender of Brazil’s Indigenous people. In 2019, he was killed execution-style in front of his family members.</p><p>"For decades, the Amazon Rainforest has been the target of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CattleRanchers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CattleRanchers</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/farmers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>farmers</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/loggers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>loggers</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/miners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>miners</span></a> who seek to take the forest’s land and natural resources. Over the past 50 years, about 17% of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed."</p><p><a href="https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/10-people-who-died-to-save-the-amazon.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">worldatlas.com/articles/10-peo</span><span class="invisible">ple-who-died-to-save-the-amazon.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DirectAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DirectAction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterProtectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterProtectors</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ForestDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ForestDefenders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateJustice</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EcoActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EcoActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Censorship</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRightsViolations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRightsViolations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtractiveMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtractiveMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenistasAssociados" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenistasAssociados</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeople</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EarthDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EarthDefenders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SouthAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LatinAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LatinAmerica</span></a></p>
anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖<p>OUR CHILDREN'S RIVER </p><p>My name is Nixon, and I'm an A'i Cofán filmmaker, artist, and member of the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Sinangoe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sinangoe</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/IndigenousGuard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousGuard</span></a>.</p><p>You might be wondering what that means: an Indigenous guard. To understand it better, allow me to take you on a journey into my ancestral territory in the Upper <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Amazon</span></a>, a land of dense <a href="https://mas.to/tags/forests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>forests</span></a> and towering trees, crossed by surging <a href="https://mas.to/tags/rivers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rivers</span></a>. A land preyed on by <a href="https://mas.to/tags/loggers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>loggers</span></a> and <a href="https://mas.to/tags/miners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>miners</span></a>.</p><p>1/6</p><p><a href="https://amazonfrontlines.org/maps/sinangoe-territory/?utm_source=Amazon+Frontlines&amp;utm_campaign=8292fb74e9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_Our_Childrens_River&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_df6926ddb5-8292fb74e9-194032584" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amazonfrontlines.org/maps/sina</span><span class="invisible">ngoe-territory/?utm_source=Amazon+Frontlines&amp;utm_campaign=8292fb74e9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_Our_Childrens_River&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_df6926ddb5-8292fb74e9-194032584</span></a></p>
C Silva ❌ 👑<p>Look, a little dead thing on the forest floor <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/squirrel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>squirrel</span></a> ? The <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/loggers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>loggers</span></a> chose prime nesting season to remove the redwoods and leave a holy mess behind <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/sonomacounty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sonomacounty</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/occidental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>occidental</span></a></p>