{"id":28078,"date":"2020-06-06T15:24:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T05:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=28078"},"modified":"2020-06-06T15:24:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T05:24:28","slug":"join-the-call-for-a-moratorium-on-the-invasion-and-destruction-of-amazonian-indigenous-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=28078","title":{"rendered":"Join the Call for a Moratorium on the Invasion and Destruction of Amazonian Indigenous Lands!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/join-the-call-for-a-moratorium.jpg\" alt=\"Moratorium\" class=\"wp-image-28080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/join-the-call-for-a-moratorium.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/join-the-call-for-a-moratorium-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/join-the-call-for-a-moratorium-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>A huge funeral procession is carried out in front of the Brazilian Congress by 3000 indigenous people from Acampamento Terra Livre (Free Land Camp), one of the largest mobilisation groups of indigenous people in Brazil. \nThey delivered 200 black mock coffins: &#8220;They are our relatives, murdered by old-fashioned public policies carried out by congressmen that don&#8217;t respect our Constitution&#8221;, explains S\u00f4nia Guajajara, indigenous leader.\n\nThe coffins were placed on the water and on the lawn in front of the entrance of the Brazilian Congress building, together with a 25 x 5 meter message reading in Portuguese &#8220;Demarca\u00e7\u00e3o J\u00e1!&#8221; (Demarcation Now!). Only  few minutes later, the police responded with tear gas, violently scattering the peaceful indigenous protest.\nUm gigantesco cortejo f\u00fanebre tomou conta da Esplanada dos Minist\u00e9rios na tarde desta ter\u00e7a-feira, dia 25. Cerca de tr\u00eas mil ind\u00edgenas do Acampamento Terra Livre (ATL) \u2013 uma das maiores mobiliza\u00e7\u00f5es de povos origin\u00e1rios do Brasil \u2013 carregaram, em uma longa fila, aproximadamente 200 caix\u00f5es negros at\u00e9 o Congresso Nacional. \n\u201cS\u00e3o nossos parentes assassinados pelas pol\u00edticas retr\u00f3gradas de parlamentares que n\u00e3o respeitam a Constitui\u00e7\u00e3o Federal\u201d, explica a lideran\u00e7a S\u00f4nia Guajajara.\n\nOs caix\u00f5es foram dispostos no espelho d\u2019\u00e1gua e no gramado do Congresso ao lado de um banner de 25&#215;5 metros com a mensagem \u201cDemarca\u00e7\u00e3o J\u00e1!\u201d. Poucos minutos depois, a Pol\u00edcia Militar respondeu com bombas de g\u00e1s, dispersando violentamente o protesto pac\u00edfico dos ind\u00edgenas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> I signed. Love you to join me in helping these people. <br>Our &#8220;culture&#8221; is supposed to be &#8220;more advanced&#8221; yet ours hurts theirs. <br>I don&#8217;t see that as being more advanced. <br>Technologically maybe so, but far less humane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amazonwatch.org\/take-action\/join-the-call-for-a-moratorium\">https:\/\/amazonwatch.org\/take-action\/join-the-call-for-a-moratorium<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I signed. Love you to join me in helping these people. Our &#8220;culture&#8221; is supposed to be &#8220;more advanced&#8221; yet ours hurts theirs. I don&#8217;t see that as being more advanced. Technologically maybe so, but far less humane. https:\/\/amazonwatch.org\/take-action\/join-the-call-for-a-moratorium<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28081,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28078\/revisions\/28081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}