John,
Former Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro's supporters in Congress and their
agribusiness allies are celebrating.
They won the votes to override President Lula's veto of a horrible law
speeding up the destruction of the Amazon and expelling more than a
million Indigenous people from their homes.
Now these same rightwing lawmakers are lining up their next set of attacks
aimed at erasing more protections for Indigenous land rights – but we can
stop this!
A new battle is underway between Bolsonaro-loving lawmakers and Brazil's
Supreme Court. With your help we can double down on our efforts to support
local Indigenous groups leading this fight – and take back the Amazon. Can
you chip in to save the Amazon and its people?
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[ [link removed] ]An Indigenous woman takes part in a demonstration against the
legislation on Indigenous territories, in Brasília.
John,
Brazil’s lawmakers are on the verge of passing a terrifying new law that
will rip open the heart of the Amazon for industrialisation – and expel
more than a million Indigenous people from their homes.
It needs to pass the Senate first…and we have a plan to stop it for good.
Brazil’s powerful agricultural lobby has spared no cost to push this
dangerous law through. And by keeping their shady lobbying in the shadows,
they’ve given politicians cover to vote for this outrageously inhumane
bill.
If we quickly raise the funds, we can launch an all-out push to make it
too costly for politicians to pass the law. It’s going to take polling,
investigations, legal tactics, media, and ads for this to work – can you
help save the Amazon and its people?
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It’s a death sentence for the Amazon and the Indigenous communities that
call it home. Bill number 490 passed Brazil’s conservative lower house of
Congress days ago, and we’re all still in shock.
If passed, it would give the government the right to ‘reclaim’ land from
Indigenous communities, invalidating their claims to their land if they
can’t prove they physically lived there on a specific day in 1988. And it
would open the floodgates to new roads, dams, and mines on protected
Indigenous lands.
The bill goes to Brazil’s Senate next. If it passes there, Brazilian
President Lula could still veto it – but with enough support from
Congress, they could override his veto!
That’s why it’s so important that we make the bill so toxic that
politicians won’t want to risk supporting it. First, we’ll hire a
researcher to expose the companies behind the bill and trace where the
dirty lobbying money is going. Then, we’ll be launching hard-hitting
campaigns, commissioning polls, and calling out politicians by name all
over the media to expose what’s happening. If we raise enough, we’ll hire
lawyers and push this fight into the international arena.
Can you help make this important work possible by chipping in just the
cost of a cup of coffee to help protect the Amazon and its people?
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We’ve fought and stopped dangerous bills from becoming laws before. It
won’t be easy, but together we can stop this bill before it’s too late –
and fight to protect rainforests and the communities that guard them.
Thanks for all that you do,
Yasmin and the Ekō team
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More information:
[ [link removed] ]Brazil’s Congress overrides president’s veto to reinstate legislation
threatening Indigenous rights, Associated Press, 14 December 2023.
[ [link removed] ]Outrage as Brazil law threatening Indigenous lands advances in
congress, The Guardian, 31 May 2023.
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