brasil void network voidbrasil.blogspot.com voidnetwork brasil portugal Rio De Janeiro Baia trance Amazon | Void Network https://voidnetwork.gr/tag/brasil-void-network-voidbrasil-blogspot-com-voidnetwork-brasil-portugal-rio-de-janeiro-baia-trance-amazon/ Theory. Utopia. Empathy. Ephemeral arts - EST. 1990 - ATHENS LONDON NEW YORK Thu, 10 Jan 2019 00:07:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://voidnetwork.gr/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/cropped-logo-150x150.jpg brasil void network voidbrasil.blogspot.com voidnetwork brasil portugal Rio De Janeiro Baia trance Amazon | Void Network https://voidnetwork.gr/tag/brasil-void-network-voidbrasil-blogspot-com-voidnetwork-brasil-portugal-rio-de-janeiro-baia-trance-amazon/ 32 32 The uncontacted tribes of Brazil face genocide under Jair Bolsonaro – by Fiona Watson https://voidnetwork.gr/2019/01/10/uncontacted-tribes-brazil-face-genocide-jair-bolsonaro-fiona-watson/ Thu, 10 Jan 2019 00:07:13 +0000 https://voidnetwork.gr/?p=16826 Brazil’s indigenous peoples, already targeted by loggers, face a powerful foe in the new president. We must protect them!   Οn 1 January, Jair Bolsonaro will be sworn in as Brazil’s 38th president. He has expressed open disdain for the indigenous peoples of Brazil, and it is no exaggeration to say that some of the world’s most unique and diverse tribes are facing annihilation. Genocide is defined by the UN as “the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”. Large-scale mass genocides rightly receive global attention, yet countless others go unreported and unpunished because the victims number

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An ‘epidemic’ of goldminers have illegally invaded the territory of the Yanomami people to pillage its riches, bringing disease and death to the tribe.’ Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

 

Οn 1 January, Jair Bolsonaro will be sworn in as Brazil’s 38th president. He has expressed open disdain for the indigenous peoples of Brazil, and it is no exaggeration to say that some of the world’s most unique and diverse tribes are facing annihilation. Genocide is defined by the UN as “the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”. Large-scale mass genocides rightly receive global attention, yet countless others go unreported and unpunished because the victims number only a few hundred, or even a few dozen.

Right now, deep in the Amazon rainforest, a small tribe of survivors is on the run. They are the Kawahiva, an uncontacted tribe of just a few dozen people, the victims of waves of horrific attacks which have pushed them to the brink of extinction. We know almost nothing about them, except that they are fleeing chainsaws in a region with the highest rate of deforestation in the Amazon. Brazil’s first ever investigation into the genocide of an uncontacted tribe was launched in 2005, and 29 people suspected of involvement in killing Kawahiva were detained but later released, including a former state governor and a senior policeman. The case stalled for lack of evidence.

The Kawahiva’s territory lies near the town of Colniza, one of the most violent areas in Brazil, where 90% of income is from illegal logging. Survival International, the global movement fighting for the rights of tribal people, has recently called for increased police protection for the team responsible for protecting the Kawahiva’s land. FUNAI, Brazil’s Indian Affairs Department, has been prevented from properly carrying out its work in the area due to violence from illegal loggers and ranchers, leaving the tribe exposed.

Preventing a genocide of uncontacted people is not a priority for Bolsonaro. He once said: “There is no indigenous territory where there aren’t minerals. Gold, tin and magnesium are in these lands, especially in the Amazon, the richest area in the world. I’m not getting into this nonsense of defending land for Indians.”

Indigenous peoples are frequently regarded as obstacles to the advance of agribusiness, extractive industries, roads and dams. As more rainforest is invaded and destroyed in the name of economic “progress” and personal profit, uncontacted tribes become targets – massacred over resources because greedy outsiders know they can literally get away with murder. These are silent, invisible genocides, with few if any witnesses. The news often only emerges months, if not years, later.

 

Jair Bolsonaro himself has declared ‘It’s a shame that the Brazilian cavalry wasn’t as efficient as the Americans, who exterminated the Indians.’’ Photograph Evaristo SaAFPGetty Images

The UN convention on genocide came into force 70 years ago, yet entire tribes continue to be exterminated by the dominant society in order to steal their land and resources. Symbolic of this is the “last of his tribe”, a lone man living in a patch of forest in Brazil’s western Amazon region. We know nothing about him except that he rejects all contact, and survived waves of attacks carried out in the 1970s and 80s against his people and his neighbours, the Akuntsu tribe – of whom just four survive. No one has ever been prosecuted for these genocides. This impervious mentality harks back to the wild west of the 18th and 19th centuries, when Native Americans in the US were slaughtered by the colonists. Indeed, Bolsonaro himself has declared: “It’s a shame that the Brazilian cavalry wasn’t as efficient as the Americans, who exterminated the Indians.”

The majority of the world’s 100 or so uncontacted tribes live in the Brazilian Amazon. They are aware of the outside world, use and adapt outside goods for their own purposes and may engage sporadically with contacted tribes nearby. Their hunter-gatherer lifestyles require vast and acute botanical and zoological knowledge. With this unique understanding of sustainable living, they protect some of the largest and most biodiverse forests on Earth.

Uncontacted people make homes, love their families, tend the landscape, and, like any of us, want to live well and in peace. Where their rights are respected they continue to thrive, but all face catastrophe unless their land is protected.

The largest area of primary rainforest under indigenous control is the Yanomami territory, which straddles part of the Brazilian border with Venezuela. It is home to around 32,000 Yanomami, including some groups who are uncontacted. A “epidemic” of goldminers have illegally invaded the territory to pillage its riches, bringing disease and death to the tribe.

In May, Yanomami reported that two uncontacted members of the tribe had been murdered by miners. FUNAI had closed its protection post in the area due to a lack of funds and, while prosecutors have ordered the post to be reopened, the authorities have not yet investigated the killings.

Bolsonaro opposed the creation of the Yanomami territory in the 1980s, calling it a “crime against the motherland”, and a “scandal”. He affirmed his beliefs in 2017, saying he regarded the creation of the reserve as “high treason”, and there are murmurs that this is an area already in the crosshairs of the new administration.

‘Damares Alves, Brazil’s new human rights minister, has already questioned Brazil’s landmark policy to respect tribes’ choice to remain uncontacted.’ Photograph Sergio LimaAFPGetty Images

Bolsonaro intends to take FUNAI out of the justice ministry and into a newly created ministry for women, family and human rights. This is a move sure to weaken the department’s efficacy and clout – it has already been undermined by huge budget cuts. Bolsonaro has appointed Damares Alves as the new minister, an evangelical preacher and congressional aide who co-founded Atini, a controversial group that evangelises in indigenous communities and is subject to an investigation by public prosecutors for inciting racial hatred against indigenous peoples.

After her appointment, she immediately questioned Brazil’s landmark policy to respect uncontacted tribes’ choice to remain uncontacted: “We are going to bring them to the forefront, not because they are uncontacted, but because they are forgotten and left to the care of NGOs. It is the state which will take care of these uncontacted people.” This is Bolsonaro-speak for forcing contact in order to open up and plunder their lands. Bolsonaro’s transition team has already announced that a task force will review the boundaries of a large indigenous territory in the northern Amazon, Raposa-Serra do Sol.

“We are afraid of a new genocide against the indigenous population and we are not going to wait for it to happen. We will resist. We will defend our territories, and our lives,” said Sônia Guajajara, a leader of Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil, which represents more than 300 Brazilian indigenous peoples.

Tribes are mobilising themselves to protect their territories using satellite technology and drones to monitor invasions. In the Araribóia reserve in Maranhão state, a group of men from the same tribe as Sônia, the Guajajara, have embarked on a desperate struggle to protect the forests they share with several dozen uncontacted Awá. A spokesman from these “Guardians of the Amazon” explains: “Our forest is being invaded by illegal loggers, right now. It’s an emergency. We patrol, we find the loggers, we destroy their equipment and we send them away. We constantly receive death threats from the logging gangs. But we continue, as our forest is our life. Our uncontacted Awá relatives also live in the forest. They cannot survive if it’s destroyed. As long as we live, we will fight for the uncontacted Indians, for all of us, and for nature.”

Solidarity with the indigenous peoples of Brazil can change the world in their favour. Survival International was founded 50 years ago, following the publication of Norman Lewis’s article Genocide in the Sunday Times in 1969, which revealed some of the atrocities suffered by Brazil’s indigenous peoples last century. We are the only organisation fighting worldwide to stop the extermination of uncontacted tribes. Now, more than ever, we must mobilise our collective power to expose and put an end to these hidden genocides.

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• Fiona Watson is director of research and advocacy at Survival International

source: The Guardian 

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]]> “REPORT Message from the Riots in Brasil” from Void Network / Rio De Janeiro section https://voidnetwork.gr/2013/06/18/report-message-from-the-riots-in-brasil-from-void-network-rio-de-janeiro-section/ https://voidnetwork.gr/2013/06/18/report-message-from-the-riots-in-brasil-from-void-network-rio-de-janeiro-section/#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:31:00 +0000 https://voidnetwork.gr/2013/06/18/report-message-from-the-riots-in-brasil-from-void-network-rio-de-janeiro-section/ Hello from Void Network / RIO DE JANEIRO / BRASIL guys! The people of Brasil finaly took the decisions to participate in the global protests AGAINST CAPITALISM AND GOVERNMENTS when the police used so much violence and really abused brutaly kids in the streets… What happened in 13th in Rio was massive! We reached 10000 people in the streets and all the media was there, the journalists freaked out completely, this was totaly unexpected and it was great… All these people revolting for all these hundreds of reasons! We stayed until the end….and the weird thing is that after the first

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Hello from Void Network / RIO DE JANEIRO / BRASIL guys!


The people of Brasil finaly took the decisions to participate in the global protests AGAINST CAPITALISM AND GOVERNMENTS when the police used so much violence and really abused brutaly kids in the streets…
What happened in 13th in Rio was massive! We reached 10000 people in the streets and all the media was there, the journalists freaked out completely, this was totaly unexpected and it was great…
All these people revolting for all these hundreds of reasons!
We stayed until the end….and the weird thing is that after the first tear gas bomb, the hole crowd disapeared, everyone completely panic, even though it was a lot more safe then the Greek marches we have been, a lot less police, and total chaos…
We was wondering here with Void Network / Brasil about references for strategy….videos are easier for us to learn, we need it big time, we are growing big here, is amazing, and we will be present more and more, already meeting people doing staff around the corner….more and more people interested in creating…could you give us some practical references of what to do now that is becoming bigger and bigger and how we can fight back the tear gas? 
Hope so, is trully beautifull all this chaos and the people waking up so big.
Lot’s of love!!
When We Fight we are Fighting for Our Lives!
We Won’t Live Like Slaves

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expect longer report from us during next days



second REPORT message 
from VOID NETWORK / RIO DE JANEIRO:

After that we found a manual for direct action that oriented us a lot in how to deal with things, but still needing some strategies, people are not so scared now, but everything are still very new, so we don’t really know what to do… We have been sugesting some barricades/shielding once we have not seen even one here yet…

We was wondering about actions that could be done in the hours of the protests. People wrote “Brasil” in the entrance of the Tiradentes Palace — Rio de Janeiro’s Legislative Assembly (ALERJ) building here after we told them about the impact of it when in Athens people wrote “RESIST” in the poles of the Academia building… People here are very open and ready to do amazing new things for first time in their lives!.

This is how it started the march of the 13th of June 2013:
We heard all over the place that the police was been really violent to the students in the streets. We heard that it was a huge intervention of the police in the university campus and they were very brutal and arrested the students. Then we could feel the danger of the repression and decided to go and have a close look to what really was going on, took our cameras and went.
Arriving at the meeting point, the atmosphere was vibrant, young beautifull kids all around the place…there was maybe two dozens police officers for a crowd of what was told to be 10000 people . 
6pm, the concentration was just about to start marching..
Looking back, behind the crowd, the scene was one of the most touching things of that night ; a group of students coming from school, they were 16 years old kids, a bunch of maybe 30 of them marching and shouting together for Freedom and Brazil, it was an incredible feeling… then the march started, people were so powerfully engaged, all together screaming to the rest of Brazil to come together to the streets such a young crowd, stunning. We marched together around the block, in the designed “allowed” area and everything was nice and lovely, there was no police nowhere… 
After returning to the initial meeting point of the march, the people decided to take over the main road of the center of town. That’s when the police sent the first tear gas, and total panic happened, and all those people went nuts, and ran away…The whole crowd after that became maybe a bunch of 50 people, slowly building up again, but after an hour there watching the police dealing with the people (tiny “string” of  maybe 7 people holding arms together, and another little bunch here and there in the corners)  the police started gathering too big, so we decided walk away  to other possible meeting points. In our walk in the streets, we meet more youngsters, we were intimidated and provoked quiet a few times by different police cars and motor bikes. On the way back home police threatened us many times in body expression and faces, but as we was a small group of people we did not reacted back so they letted us alone at that night. …
In the bus back home we met a new bunch of people from where I leave really young and motivated.

We were chanting things like ” The People Woke up” and ” Reality is Hard”, “Globo Supported the Dictatorship” (“Globo” is our main tv channel, a massive empire that is now falling as well…), and our favourite is ” Come, Come,Come to The Streets Come” and “Against the Raisings”…

The next days the protests were really confrontational, police was throwing tear gas even inside the tube stations before people get to the meeting points…

So we went to the last big manifestation ( last monday) 17/03, with masks and vinegar for the tear gas, a loud instrument for music bang bang and first aid kit to help people survive and fight back…In the way already thousands of people were going to the manifestation with us, young students one more time.
This time we were massive, we were a never ending crowd of people, people in the offices of the city throwing strings of paper from the offices windows, making a rain of white paper above the crowd that was delighted with the office people flashing the lights inside the rooms participating with us. Everyone Woke up, everyone Realised, everyone said: Fuck you! That’s Enough! 
So many people, so much power, but at this time, when they thrown tear gas, the people were screaming out loud ” Do not run!” “Keep calm!” so we stayed together for many more hours, banging things, making noise, being loud…lot’s of people stealing from small shops, and a few cars went burned. 
The movement wants to take over the the Tiradentes Palace — Rio de Janeiro’s Legislative Assembly (ALERJ) building where there was some police inside. They were throwing stones and bombs in the doors of the building, and at some point, the police handed a white flag from inside one of the windows… the crowd went hysterical, but the worse is about to come, when we were all celebrating our achievement, from the same window plastic bullets were shot on the back of the kids…. in our backs after hanging white flag…Everybody went realy crazy!

And for a moment we spoke as one, we shout slow and calmly as ONE voice out loud “WE ARE ASKING FOR THE POLICE TO LEAVE THE BUILDING” it happened in a very organic way, and we spoke as one, and under that power dear friends, UNITY was born, and we could feel in our cells the bond we have to each other, and the power we can have TOGETHER.

People were hurt from the bullets and the crowd diminished, fire fighter trucks started driving thru the crowd to pic up the police from the building… After that there was a proper war that has been established there, the situation went nuts, friends are hurt, and the agenda of the police is really scary. 

After some hours we decided to leave home before things went too nuts… it was all looking too strange… so we decided to walk away. We were about 6 blocks away from the protest when we saw a whole bunch of special police entering the ally way with their weapons on hand… they shot our direction a couple of times… we walked another 10 blocks away to the bus stop, and a police car went after us, and thrown a tear gas just by the bus stop… the young people freaked out of course. 

We went back home happy and whole and safe, and many were saying “Today was the best day of my life”. That was a day for history. 
And we will be there again, and again, and again, and we will not stop.

Three people got shot from real weapons (not allowed here for the protests), one is in life danger.

People saw the tear gas was thrown on us was outdated, witch means even more chemical reactions from people.
But we are gonna stand there until the end.
Much love, and we will try do more analysis when we can.
Hope this text helps somehow, this is all we can remember

Void Network / Rio DE Janiero

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