Amazing and Charming. These two words reveal a little of what was the cultural presentation of the group Sons de Beira based in Porto Velho (Rondonia, Brazil), which brightened the closing night (23/09) of the IV International Seminar “Agrocultural Frontiers in the Amazon: Contested Stories, Emerging Cultures and National Territorialities”, […]
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- September 18, 2019
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The Agrocultures International Network invites scholars researchers, students, policy makers, activists and other experts to send their abstracts for the colloquium that will be held in the University of Oxford on 30 January – 02 February 2020 (with the option to continue until 02 Feb, depending on the number of […]
- September 17, 2019
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Published on The Guardian, 2 Sep 2019, at: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/02/amazon-destruction-earth-brazilian-kayapo-people?CMP=share_btn_link You destroy our lands, poison the planet and sow death, because you are lost. And soon it will be too late to change For many years we, the indigenous leaders and peoples of the Amazon, have been warning you, our brothers who […]
- September 15, 2019
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SEE ALSO an interview with Cacique Raoni at: https://www.channel4.com/news/amazon-tribal-chief-world-must-do-more-to-save-the-amazon-rainforest https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-environment-raoni/brazils-amazon-chief-raoni-tapped-for-2020-nobel-peace-prize-nomination-idUSKBN1VZ0FH BRASILIA (Reuters) – A group of Brazilian anthropologists and environmentalists has put forward Chief Raoni Metuktire of the Kayapó tribe as a candidate for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for a lifetime of work protecting the Amazon rainforest. Raoni, an […]
- September 15, 2019
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Anthony Boadle Um grupo de antropologistas e ambientalistas do Brasil propôs a indicação do líder indígena Raoni Metuktire, do povo Caiapó, como candidato ao prêmio Nobel da Paz de 2020 por seu trabalho voltado para a proteção da Floresta Amazônica. Raoni, ícone dos povos indígenas da Amazônia, tornou-se internacionalmente conhecido […]