URGENT: Chief Raoni and the Kayapo under attack!

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Take Action Now!   Send a letter to FUNAI President Marcio Meira demanding he take immediate action!   TAKE ACTION

A shocking crisis unfolded last week on the Kapot Nhinore ancestral territories of the Kayapo people in the Xingu River Basin in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso – the birthplace of legendary Kayapo Chief Raoni.   Crooked ranchers and illegal settlers have sent armed thugs to try to intimidate Kayapo and Juruna communities in attempts to encroach upon their lands. However, rather than being intimidated, armed Kayapo warriors have gathered in a nearby village, heightening the specter of violence and bloodshed. Yet legendary Chief Raoni and his people want to avoid violent confrontation at all cost. He has called for support from people around the world to pressure the Brazilian government to respect their rights and protect their lands.   For several years, Marcio Meira, the President of the Brazilian government’s National Indigenous Foundation (FUNAI), has assured the Kayapo that this land would be demarcated as an indigenous territory, but the Kayapo have only seen broken promises and persistent threats to their territory, including land invasions, illegal fishing and logging activities. To make matters worse, government-sanctioned repression has begun: Recent reports have emerged that rather than disarm armed thugs, local police have badly beaten two indigenous Juruna men peacefully demonstrating the land invasions before themselves being driven away by Kayapo warriors.   These tragic events follow an alarming and growing pattern of violations of the rights of indigenous peoples aided and abetted by the Brazilian government, such as its illegal and authoritarian decision to proceed with the disastrous Belo Monte dam on the Xingu River. As is their determined way, the Kayapo have chosen to defend their rights and their land but they need your support today.   Take action now! Send a letter to the President of FUNAI Marcio Meira demanding he act swiftly to restore order and honor his promise to demarcate the Kapot Nhinore territory!   The threat to territory is not a simply an affront to the integrity of the protected areas, forests and rivers, that the Kayapo steward, it’s an affront to their enduring physical and cultural survival. Land is life, and the loss of these lands is paramount to a condemnation of cultural disintegration.

About Laura

I am a starseed, possibly from the Pleiadies or Andromeda. I am on this journey since age 3, so.. for 35 years.. and i am doing spiritual group work for over 15 years also. I enjoy poetry, music, nature, animals, joking, having fun, listening to spirit. I have connected with many star beings, from various worlds, humanoid or not. Connections happen while awake or in dream like state. Shall we expand our consciousness together.

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4 Comments on “URGENT: Chief Raoni and the Kayapo under attack!”

1. Annabelle Alexander-Muir

   February 14, 2012

   

   I for onesupport the Chief and his people…we’ve had an ‘elegant sufficiency’ of this stuff….and it is now on a WORLD STAGE and we’re ALL in the ‘front row’….but I urge you not to meet this with RAGE…STOICISM? Absolutely,…stand our ground, tell them to ‘naff off’ these ‘types’ have stolen far too much already. It was easier when they were ‘cloaked in anonymity’…but we can TRACE them now….TURN THE TABLES. DEMAND RIGHTS..STAND TOGETHER….and remind these individuals that we….OUTNUMBER THEM!! Prayers for EQUITABLE RESOLUTION are what I send. Go gently all, Belle

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