Celebration of 25 Years of Resistance and Good Living Forum 2024
Foot of the Mountain Village, Easter Mountain, Southern Bahia August 17-20, 2024
On August 19, 2024, we will celebrate 25 years of resistance in the reclaiming of Easter Mountain, the Pataxó Indigenous Territory of Barra Velha.
But this year, in the midst of the crises in Brazil’s biomes – the Amazon, the Atlantic, the Caatinga, the Cerrado, the Pampa and the Pantanal – we invite the 307 original peoples of Brazil and their allies to enter the Monument of 524 Years of Resistance of the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil, to take part in a Good Living Forum.
Last year, for the first time in Brazil’s history, we had a Ministry of Indigenous Peoples in the Federal Government. Minister Sônia Guajajara entered the Medicinal Garden in the center of the Monument and was embraced by 500 Pataxó, in the name of the country’s 307 Original Peoples. She transformed Brazil’s imaginary!
But we are still under threat! On July 10, the Agribusiness Caucus tabled PEC 48/2023 (the former PL490) in the Senate to approve the ‘Temporal Framework’. The vote was postponed, but it will encourage violence against nature.
With eyes burning and throats swollen by droughts, fires and toxic suffocation, we cry our warning:
This ‘Ecocide’, caused by agribusiness, is the
imaginary of the end of the world!
In this serious context, the Council of Chiefs invites relatives, associations, solidarity organisations, managers and parliamentarians to celebrate 524 years of formation at the University of the Forest of Monte Pascoal.
Come and bring seeds and seedlings of healing and hope. From August 17th to 20th, let’s replant Indigenous Brazil together, protected by Rights of Nature and a law that defines Ecocide as a crime!
Bring your bow and arrow, maraca and seeds to the original parliament, let’s dance our ritual, show our unity against the ‘Temporal Framework’ and demand Demarcation of Indigenous Territories, to help heal our wounded memory. In this way, we will be reclaiming Brazil and its ancestral consciousness!
Cacique Licuri Pataxó
Foot of the Mountain Village Council of Chiefs of Easter Mountain
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