Our Mission
Indigenous peoples of the Amazon Basin, where pervasive resource extraction has accelerated the spread of COVID-19, are calling for the nine Amazonian countries to apply a moratorium on extractive activities to stop the “ecocide, ethnicide and terricide,” as was declared at the first World Assembly for the Amazon in July 2020. Indigenous communities are the first line of defense for the Amazon rainforest, and we all depend on their efforts to protect it. In Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guyana and Suriname, Indigenous nations are working together to confront an immense array of threats caused by unconstrained extraction in their territories— toxic contamination, raging fires, loss of territory and biodiversity, climate change, and, now, infection.
The fight for a moratorium on extraction will not be won from the top down; Indigenous peoples can’t wait for governments to mandate an end to all extraction on their lands. Instead, Indigenous communities are launching and winning unprecedented campaigns to guard their rights and territories, amounting to millions of acres of Amazon rainforest saved and our global climate protected. You can see the power of the Indigenous movement in recent groundbreaking wins across the world— from the victory at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access Pipeline to the Waorani victory against oil drilling in the Pastaza region of Ecuador. However, governments and corporations are continuing to exploit the world’s resources at alarming rates with great risk to Indigenous peoples.
“The government just announced that they are going to drill for more oil in our territories as if it was THEIR home, but they never consulted us and they don’t have our permission,” said Waorani elder Memo Ahua.
OUR LAND OUR RIGHTS – AMAZON & WORLD
OUR BODY OUR RIGHTS – PLANNED PARENTHOOD
OUR HEALTH OUR RIGHTS – HUMANITY
“We’ve come to the Court with respect to ask, why haven’t you called a hearing for this case yet? If this Court doesn’t act, we will act on our own as our ancestors did to defend our territories.”
As Memo and Indigenous peoples throughout the Amazon continue to resist Lasso’s extractivist agenda, they need your support in protecting the planet’s most important rainforest. Stand behind Indigenous peoples by signing their letter to the Constitutional Court, and by making a donationto secure on the ground resources for our Indigenous partners’ fight ahead.
Stay tuned for more information soon. https://www.amazonfrontlines.org/chronicles/our-territories-our-decision/
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Demonstrators hold a sign reading ”My body is inviolable” as they take part in a sit-in staged by the ‘No Vax’ movement in San Giovanni Square, downtown Rome, Italy, 24 February 2018. The ‘No Vax’ anti-vaccination movement claims that vaccines are harmful. ANSA/RICCARDO ANTIMIANI
