Brazil's law makers just passed a bill that will open up Indigenous lands
to predatory mining and logging companies.

This horrifying plan, cooked up two years ago by ex-President, Jair
Bolsonaro, will banish Indigenous communities from their ancestral lands
and destroy massive areas of fragile rainforest.

Any day now Brazil's Senate will vote on this nightmare plan, and it could
become law - but if we act quickly we have a chance of stopping it.
Brazil's lawmakers care about their international reputation, so if
there's a massive global outcry they'll think twice about backing this
bill.

 Let's stand in solidarity with Indigenous communities and protect these
precious lands. Sign the petition and share far and wide. Let's make it
impossible for Brazil's lawmakers to ignore our call.

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Brazilian Congress could pass a law that would force Indigenous tribes
from their lands and open up the heart of the Amazon for exploitation by
industrial meat and timber. 

Sign your name against this legalised genocide:

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Original petition:

 

John,

Bolsonaro allies in Congress want to pass a new law to open up the heart
of the Amazon to devastating industrial projects, and legalise the
expulsion of isolated indigenous tribes from their ancestral lands. 

He’s pushing draft bill 490/2007 -- that will basically legalise genocide
-- and it will be voted on in Congress any day now. 

But there is hope. Even the greediest politicians are worried about their
image, and we can use that to support the Indigenous activists fighting
this new law. 

Let's show the Brazilian Congress that people from all over the world are
against the genocide of indigenous people, and destruction of the Amazon
-- our pressure could tip the balance. 

Add your name now and join 6,000 SumOfUs members in Brazil already
fighting this:

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MPs of Brazil: vote against genocide and reject Bill 490/2007

One of the most obscene demands in this Bill -- a provision designed to
ensure isolated tribes will be expelled from their homes -- is the
obligation for them to present evidence they inhabited their lands before
the enactment of the 1988 Brazilian Constitution. 

For people who have lived without contact with colonial culture’s laws and
record-keeping, this is, by definition, impossible to comply with. The
game is of course stacked in favour of the industrial meat and timber
corporations. 

Indigenous warriors simply fighting for their right to exist have been
protesting for days in Brasilia -- and have been viciously attacked by the
police with rubber bullets and tear gas.

Let’s join them to help prevent the erasure of the original peoples of the
Amazon and destruction of its vital forests. 

Sign now to create such enormous global pressure against this genocide
bill that even Bolsonaro can’t ignore it:

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MPs of Brazil: vote against genocide and reject Bill 490/2007

Together, Ekō members can stop even the greediest of executives and
politicians in their tracks. Our pressure works. We have already secured
important victories against some of the world's biggest companies --
Apple, Amazon and Facebook. Let's now join in solidarity with the
Indigenous peoples of the Amazon against the powerful industrial meat and
timber corporations influencing Bolsonaro. #PL490NO.



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Thanks for all that you do,
Vicky, Flora and the rest of the team at Ekō


[ [link removed] ]Outrage as Brazil law threatening Indigenous lands advances in
congress Guardian 31st May, 2023.

[ [link removed] ]Firing arrows, indigenous people in Brazil protest bill curtailing land
rights Reuters, 16th June, 2021

[ [link removed] ]Brazil police use teargas and rubber bullets against indigenous
protesters The Guardian, 22nd June, 2021

[ [link removed] ]Members of the ruralist caucus and allies to President Bolsonaro
approve bill that paves the way for a new indigenous genocide Articulation
of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB), 23rd June, 2021

 

 

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