Bolsonaro’s Brazilian Congress is about to vote on a new law that will
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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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, SumOfUS 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,
Flora, Sondhya and the rest of the team at SumOfUs


[ [link removed] ]Firing arrows, indigenous people in Brazil protest bill curtailing land
rights Reuters, 16/06/2021
[ [link removed] ]Brazil police use teargas and rubber bullets against indigenous
protesters The Guardian, 22/06/2021
[ [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), 23/06/2021 

 

 

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