Hello everyone and welcome to the
Hammer Museum.
I'm Claudia Bestor.
I'm the director of public programs
at the Hammer and I'm very, very
pleased to welcome you all to
tonight's program.
Co-Presented by Artists for
Amazonia.
Tonight, we're addressing the urgent
need to immediately do everything
we can to protect protect the Amazon
rainforest from reaching an
ecological tipping point, a
point at which the Amazon could
become so deforested during
due to oil drilling, mega
dams, mining and farming
that there's no possibility of
recovery.
The consequences of such destruction
are too dire to imagine.
We cannot allow this to happen.
We're very honored to have leaders
from four Amazonian indigenous
tribes with us here tonight to help
guide us on the right path away from
this dark prospect.
Tuntiak Katan (Shuar) of the show
people.
Toya Elcio Manchineri
(Manchineri) people.
Domingo Powers of the Uchiha.
People.
And Nimmo and Keita
of the Warrior People.
Before we begin the program.
I want to say that we are all right
now on Tongva land,
and we're honored to have an elder
from the Tongva Nation here with us
tonight.
Grandmother Gloria Arenas is a
civil rights advocate and a
grassroots community organizer
in the 1960s.
Grandmother Gloria was a member of
the American Indian Movement and of
the Brown Berets of Los Angeles.
In 1968, she took part in
Martin Luther King Jr.
Poor People's March on Washington.
And to this day, she also advocates
for women's rights, access to
health care, and ending poverty
as an elder of the Tongva nation.
She fights to protect Mother Earth,
the waters, sacred sites
and the land.
Please join me.
In welcoming Grandma Gloria.
Me either.
Hello, people.
Thank you for being here tonight.
We're here today.
And I'm very honored to say that
we're here for the Amazon people,
for our relatives that are visiting
from their country.
And we had a lovely meeting a little
while ago and
we promised to hear from each
others. And you will hear from us
and I will expect you to support
and be involved with
what we come up with.
I just want to do a small prayer.
Not much.
If you have your way
of praying,
then just do so in your mind.
But I'm going to share my words.
My name is Gloria Arroyo, and this I
am a tongva elder Chicana,
and I've been around for
a long time.
So thank you so much.
So,
grandfather, grandmother.
Spirits of the four directions,
ancestors of the land.
Please hear my words today.
Please bring our guests and
make them feel comfortable here
today. Everybody that is sitting
here, I wish you peace
and good journey throughout the day
in the evening.
I pray for all are for their kids.
Some of them are in trouble.
I pray for our winged ones.
Some of them are in trouble.
Some of our mammals and
our sea people,
they're in trouble.
Their waters are in trouble.
Mother Earth is in trouble.
I ask you to offer prayers
of healing for our lands, our
air, the food we're eating.
Let's learn how to grow our own
creator. Give us that energy and
focus to do that creator.
I ask this in a very humble way.
Creator. I also ask for the children
who are suffering.
We need to protect them a little bit
more, a lot more.
We need to remove the guns
from our neighborhoods.
I hope and also
creator I ask in a very good way,
in a humble way, that
the fires lay down in our lands
because they're destroying so much.
But maybe it needs cleansing.
So we have to think of those things
creator and we ask this in a good
way.
I ask for protection of our
elders.
Please always check on the elders,
make sure they're okay because they
don't like to ask for things.
Creator, we know this.
So just be a good
person and take food.
Take something for them to drink,
you know, just make sure they're
comfortable. Do they really need
anything? Creator Ask this in
a good and humble way.
Creator asks us that
our children will be healthy,
will be safe.
We have to stop the violence
in this world. Creator.
I I'm praying with that so
strongly.
It puts me in tears to see what's
happening to our children.
So I ask these things in a good way
and ask for your safety throughout
this day and that whatever your
journey is and whatever your
prayers are, that they be answered
a whole nation.
Gemma, thank you so much.
This is my brother,
my grandson, actually, Nick.
And he's been dragging my body
around all day.
It's my pleasure.
Okay. Good.
Thank you, Grandmother Gloria.
And now I'd like to introduce the
director of Artists for Amazonia
John Quigley.
John is.
An artist.
Activist and producer with
a long commitment for protecting
nature and future generations,
which he manifests through frontline
treatment blockades, advocating
at the United Nations and in the
halls of Congress, and creating
large scale installations and
landscapes around the world.
Please join me in welcoming John
Quigley.
To have a
look at all you beautiful people.
This is moving to me
and Grandmother Gloria is prayer
and to see any time
a group of people gather
with a pure intent.
And a belief that
another world is possible.
That the darkness that
appears to be.
So present these days is
not the reality that
we need to accept.
For me, it's a very moving moment
to gather with all of you tonight
and especially having these
incredible indigenous leaders here.
And I want to thank
Claudia, who moved proverbial
mountains to make this happen
on the eve of the Summit of the
Americas, recognizing that it was
an important political moment.
And I was reflecting that it's a
very different experience than 24
years ago, where I was hauled off in
handcuffs for shutting down
this building with a group of
other activists protesting
Accidental
Atos. It was there and
there were probably several others
here who were there.
And, you know, that
was activism.
And this is activism.
And there are different forms,
but at the heart of it it's the same
thread that
we believe that we can make a
difference and that
we believe that if we see an
injustice
that we can do something
about it. We can take action.
And so I also want to acknowledge
Andrea Bowers, a dear friend of
mine who has a big exhibition here
of her work, and
she's focused on supporting activist
movements around the world her
entire career.
And that opens, I believe, June
19th. And she's the reason why we're
here tonight.
Just a little bit.
Yeah, please. For Andrea.
Thank you.
Just a little bit about artists for
Amazonia.
In August of 2019,
a massive fire episode in the Amazon
shocked the world.
And a toast to Leila, who you'll
hear from later.
They reached out and and
invited myself
and Julia Jay Posen to create
artists for Amazonia
and build a bridge
between artists and cultural
influencers and
the frontline indigenous guardians
of the forests and all of the
campaigns that they were working on.
And in that time, we've been blessed
to do a lot of work together.
And one of our first strategies
was to create a founding circle
of professionals and artists
from the entertainment industry, and
that circle has now grown to over
100 people. Many of you are here
tonight, and like anyone who is on
the founding circle or on the host
committee for tonight's event,
please stand up right now.
There's too many of you for me to
name individually.
Let's give them a big hand.
Thank you all.
They created this event.
This was not publicly promoted.
This is basically a private
invitation event.
I know there's a public program, but
most of you here
came at the invitation of a friend.
And what we believe
or I'll speak for myself is
that the Amazon
is a central
player in the climate
story.
If we lose the Amazon,
we will descend into climate chaos.
And what
I'm hoping is that this circle
that we've created tonight
will expand.
You'll hear a lot about the science,
a lot from the indigenous leaders.
But at the core of it, it's about
taking action.
And as we expand the circle, I hope
that some movement tonight,
you make an internal decision.
To say that you're going to do
something for the Amazon in some
way, shape or form.
If that happens, we will have been
wildly successful.
So with that, I'd love for us
to see a video that was created
by a couple founding circle members
Kit Thomas and Teyana David
that will bring us back into the
beauty and the spirit
of the rainforest for a moment.
And I think you'll appreciate the
narration by
by none other than Morgan Freeman.
Please go with the video.
This is what nature does.
If she is left alone for 50 million
years.
She produces a rainforest.
The most complex and diverse
ecosystem on Earth.
While covering only 4% of the
Earth's land surface,
the Amazon rainforest is home
to nearly half of the world's
plant and animal species.
This vast forest stabilizes
the global climate, moderating
temperatures, absorbing rainfall
and releasing vital currents of
moisture into the air.
It is said that the forest gives
up her secrets slowly and only
to those who come to her
in reverence and respect.
The Indigenous people of the
tropical forests have evolved a rich
and.
Complex relationship.
With the natural world
for thousands of years.
These people have lived as an
integral thread in
this.
Miraculous.
And fragile weave of
life.
So it's my
great pleasure to introduce our
host for the evening.
She is a force of nature,
an actress and an activist.
And
I.
I so appreciate calling her
a friend. She's one of our founding
circle members.
Please welcome to the stage Scottie
Thompson.
Hi, everybody.
It is such an honor
to be here tonight with
this incredible gathering
of human beings.
And thank you all for being
here.
Thank you, John, for all the work
that you do and everyone at
Artists for Amazonia.
I feel so lucky that I got to be a
part of this group
and witness the work that these
activists and
indigenous leaders and artists
have been doing these last few
years. And it's so nice to finally
be in physical form with
everyone, not just on Zoom.
And it's just been.
So incredibly inspiring
to witness the tireless
efforts of everyone involved.
And I assume
you all care about this a lot,
as much as I do, because it's sort
of the heart
and lungs of our earth.
And without that, we don't
really have much
else to live for or with.
So it's a pretty incredible
program tonight.
And we're
all here together
for a
common cause that we all believe
in, in turning this tipping point
that we're at right now into a
turning point for
our forest, for the climate
and for the earth in general.
And we're going to witness our
first video here is about
the 80 by 2025
initiative.
And Amazonian indigenous
organizations representing 511
nations and allies
have united in calling for a global
pact for the permanent protection
of 80% of the Amazon
by 2025.
And it is an urgent measure to
avert rapid and catastrophic
consequences for our climate.
The Amazonia for life.
80% protection by 2025
initiative is led by
the coordinator of Indigenous
Organizations of the Amazon River
Basin or Coca,
and it is backed with data driven
science by the Amazonian network
of geo referenced socio
environmental information,
our ASG.
And they've put together
this incredible video.
So we're going to take a moment to
watch this. And you can please play
the video now.
Thank you.
Your be.
You.
Oh.
Wow.
It's really amazing to see
what these indigenous communities
are doing. They're a small,
small in number, but so massive.
And their effect on the earth.
And it's so humbling
to.
See the work that they're doing and
to have some of these leaders here
tonight
and in in 2021,
the 80 by 25 campaign
secured a historic victory
at the IUCN meeting.
It's a it was a gathering of the
global scientific community and
nation state representatives that
takes place every four years.
And the initiative became
the first Indigenous authored
motion ever approved by the
governments of the world
at the IUCN.
So it's pretty impressive.
And with
scientists and Indigenous leadership
aligned behind this
80 by 2025 goal, nearly
a thousand NGOs have endorsed
it now, and artists
and cultural influencers are
amplifying the call.
So we have a special message
from our friend Ziggy Marley.
He is amplifying the call
himself. And we can play that
video now for his.
If you don't know your past, you
don't know your future.
The Indigenous people of Amazonia
have lived in balance with the
rainforest for centuries.
They play a critical role in its
protection as land stewards.
Our collective future requires that
we listen to the indigenous voices
on the front lines, along with no
definitive science.
Amazonian governments and world
leaders must protect 80%
of the Amazon by 2025
to avert a tipping point of
ecological collapse.
The next generations are counting on
us to plan wisely for the future
and protect the vital organs of our
planet.
Let's be tomorrow, people.
For all our children.
It's now or never.
Please stand with us.
Uh, thank you, Ziggy.
So, for our first panel, I
would love to invite to the stage.
Tuntiak Katan (Shuar) and
Leila Salazar-Lopez
Tech is a Schwab
from the Ecuadorian
Amazon.
He is vice coordinator
of Cueca, the coordinating
body of indigenous peoples of the
Amazon basin, representing
over 500 indigenous nations,
including 66
uncontacted groups living in
voluntary isolation across
nine countries.
He is also the general coordinator
of the Global Alliance of
Territorial Communities, formed by
four international indigenous
organizations.
And Leila Salazar-Lopez
is Chicana, originally from San
Diego. Since 2015,
she has been the executive director
of Amazon Watch
Wahoo.
And for the last 25 years she
has been and continues to be a
passionate defender of the Amazon
rainforest, indigenous and women's
rights and climate justice.
And now I'm going to come over there
to join you.
Yeah. But
it's so nice to have you here.
Thank you so much.
I it's.
Yes.
Which is gracious.
Thank you very much.
So, can you tell us more about
this 80 by 2025
initiative?
How it came back came
about not back.
We want to move forward.
Not backwards.
So.
A lot of those Van
Gogh gatherings. De La Amazonia.
Katrina.
Hello, everyone.
I'm coming from the Ecuadoran
Amazon.
Let me see if you are chained to
many single
Nazi
burka, Los Pueblos, Indigenous
Gay Bibi Mas de la amazonia
in La Quinta Masonic Other no
basis.
It was born because the indigenous
peoples that live in the Amazon,
across the Amazon, in the nine
countries.
Experimental, almost ancestral
cousin La Amazonia.
So Casa de la Amazonia
is about this tremendous.
We realized that our home,
the Amazon, your home,
the Amazon was being destroyed.
El Corazon del Mundo.
El Mundo del Mundo.
Astoundingly.
The heart of the world, the
lungs of the world was
in danger.
Doyle as industrious, extractive,
extractives.
Instapundit enables
others to really love reals
less. Gutierrez
lost the ritual that is Boxing Day
in a source territorios.
It was Gobiernos
de la Amazonia, a stunning
beauty and no mas de natal
paradise de la Naturaleza Los
Territories.
And all of the the extractive
industries were moving forward
with their plans to destroy
to destroy our rivers, to destroy
our lands, our territories, our
cultures and
the governments, our governments.
We're continuing to invest,
to destroy.
It also agreed to De La Selva
agreed to de los Ninos,
a little la la Comunidad de las
Mujeres Castile, as commonly as
no Estaba Siena's good child
leader is de la Comunidad
is Esteban Perisic
assassin Carlos Los
Movimientos Indigenas
Estaban Siendo criminal is house.
So the cry of the forest from
indigenous peoples was not being
heard.
The cry of the peoples, of
the women, of the children was not
being heard, and our leaders were
being persecuted and criminalized
and even killed.
Whereas on the most money political
powers pocket
not just animals.
Reindeer go into an interesting
interaction. This woman was more
preoccupied as a congresswoman.
The elders put the heat, as we say
in I am bitter
at the seed, only there isn't a
moon. No kiss was compromised
was the papel.
So the compromise was climatic.
So solution is Palace's
not even a salvar
la Amazonia.
No one salvar la salud
e la vida planeta.
So we were very, very worried.
A Very concerned.
And so we went to the IUCN
Congress last fall.
We went to the leaders of the world
to face them
and their false solutions and
all of their words and
their empty promises on paper.
And because these we know
that these promises
weren't going to solve the problems
that we were facing.
But it's really him was nowhere
and Esperanza
nowhere strenuous de los Ninos
kind of strenuous de las mujeres.
It was on, but it was in La
Amazonia.
It gave you an entire planet and
title Parisian be Thomas
the name was yeah el momentum
I order the proper here
a login to proceed to that Amazonia
and this is.
So we said don't play with our hope
and dreams the dreams of our women
and our men and our children
and all of our planet and all of
humanity.
Now is the time
to protect the Amazon.
And so we put together this
call to say protect 80%
of the Amazon by 2025.
In is.
This isn't done.
Says this the Marzia in Francia.
It must be needle in between,
though.
At least it is Mondale's
adolescence here that
I thought as personas are.
Masonic was not Masonic because
indigenous non-indigenous
give them what they want as an
opportunity to be the
work. Totally.
Ponderously put the hymnal Amazonia.
Nurse Davida then want us all
now put on the other.
We the poor as a campus are
appalled to hear it.
Pissarro said action is concreteness
or 1020 single noise or
lamenting conceptual or 1020
cinco is not real
cake, is it? Illustrator is in La
Comunidad is Como La Conservancy
La Restoration de los
Territories Granados el Impulso
Iniciativa las Mujeres El Impulso
de las initiative has little hope in
this. His vision,
the innovation in Proteccion
de la Naturaleza de los territory.
So since Marseilles, we have
been nonstop
with our call.
We have gone to the global
community.
We have invited the world.
All of society.
Indigenous peoples.
Non-Indigenous peoples.
To.
Follow this call to take
this opportunity, because we have
this opportunity at this time
to protect life.
We have concrete solutions
and we need real action.
We need real action in our
territories, in our communities.
We need real action for the
future of our
planet.
And we have these solutions.
We have conservation.
We have restoration.
We have indigenous people's
solutions.
Aura and Marco,
they look cool as Americans.
Our guest is the star
of Little America.
Let him be Thomas alone.
My Lord, is the decision.
Is this president?
This case was decision.
As I understand sound.
Francis Kessel's decision
is akka semper
operative here.
Los Pueblos, la cultural
de la Amazonia Larios
la biodiversity that
brought the futuro de la money that
is proteger la
Amazonia.
So here on the eve of the Summit
of the Americas, we invite
the decision makers, those
government leaders that
will be meeting next week
to protect.
To protect the people, to protect
biodiversity, to protect the rivers,
to protect life, and
to not fall into these false
solutions.
Now is the time.
This is our opportunity now
to protect our life and our future.
Boris Conklin You
see it as the conversation
grow in bitter
ghettos of
Rameau's ancestors, Corazon, as
Abrahamson was lamenting.
Restore our aimlessness remained the
minister's, Almas.
It compromised us
to those.
Those whom us.
Told Nosotros on raising Buhari's
daughter leaders millennials
are the CDA Basta, basta
they matar alas
comunidades basta
the song Ras al Amazonia
Basta the export x
importer aka
the California Petroleos
de la Amazonia Kanak
Akala Song Bolos Indigenas
de la Amazonia
Group.
I don't need to translate that.
You guys got that right.
So to conclude, I
invite us all to open
our hearts, open our
hearts and open our minds
to restore
our hearts and our minds
and all of us to
commit as men, as women, as
children. For all of us to commit.
To do this.
We demand that they stop
killing us.
They stop killing our communities.
They start. Stop taking the blood
of our ancestors.
Because that oil
that is coming from our lands.
That is our blood.
And we call we make the call
to stop, explore,
stop exporting
the blood of the Amazon to
California.
You're not.
Give us the Lego
image responsibility.
Paul came knocking
really hard and only
got all the traction.
I mean, he
associates.
Ginsburg I see it in this one.
Eikenberry The glamor
case here, Olmstead is working
on the huddle against the planetary
driller.
Perkins They hang on the mast on the
other three, the.
Case zero Birkin Bacchanal.
Proto hero La Vidal
Planeta is on the vanguard of
climate warriors when those
sentiments may seem to take
responsibility.
Isla Sadler, boss.
But I cannot deny them both policies
and lack of money that in opposing
the need to either seriously
look that or something else that he
thought you poor
does allocate this
there as true puritan moment to
indicate that Amazonia.
Una vez mas
de proteccao muslim was on the
agenda.
But the hammer Mr. Avila brought
the hammers sauce Venus e
la vida to our planet, watching
it as.
All right. So I want to
just end by saying I feel
very obligated and I feel
responsible
and I don't want to leave a toxic
legacy for my children or
our children.
I feel accountable.
To our children, to our future
generations, because they will
ask us, what did you do?
What did you do to stop this
destruction?
What did you do to stop this?
They will ask us.
So I feel very responsible.
To all.
I feel responsible for that question
and I feel responsible for all of
our people that I represent,
all of those who are not able to
be here tonight, who are able to
travel here and
from Quaker, from our organize
organizing body, from our governing
body, which I represent.
I want to once again say we
are here to protect life.
We are here to protect humanity.
And we're here to protect our
planet.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for your
beautiful words.
So, yes,
good to have you here.
To give voice to your people,
your communities, your
organizations.
It's it's pretty
profound.
So, so, so grateful
to have you with us.
Thank you very much.
I am very happy.
Yes, thank you.
So that's it.
Thank you so much.
So
in August of
2019, as John referred
to earlier, we all
witnessed the fires
in the Amazon and they were not
accidental.
They were all intentionally set
for and to pave the way for
industrial development.
And since then, the distraught
deforestation and destruction has
doubled under the administration
of President Bolsonaro.
Yeah.
Ha!
Nice noise.
So indigenous and forest peoples
have faced devastating losses due to
these attacks.
And of course it's all
been augmented by the COVID crisis.
In response, they have
organized the largest mobilizations
of indigenous peoples defending
rights, lives and territories
in Brazil's history,
and I am honored to welcome
some of the key players in that
effort.
We have Toya Elko.
My Sherry is a man, Sherry from
the State of Acre in the
Brazilian Amazon.
Okay. Oh, excuse me.
State of accuracy.
The one I didn't double check.
He is the political advisor of Koya,
which is the coordinating body
of indigenous peoples of the
Brazilian Amazon and
the Coordinator of Territories and
Natural Resources for Cueca
and Paula Vargas is
the Brazil Program Director
for Amazon Watch.
And for more than 20 years, she
has worked for social movements and
grassroots organizations in
Brazil and the United States.
And as a member of the U.S.
Network for Defend Democracy in
Brazil, she's denounced threats to
human rights and to the Amazon
Rainforest and indigenous peoples,
organizing rallies in alliance with
other organizations and activists
and fighting for climate justice.
So please welcome
to the stage.
I'm very impressed with
the many hats that these
indigenous leaders wear in
their lives.
It's.
Awe inspiring.
So thank you.
Hi. How are you?
Good to see you.
So
Brazil, like the like the
United States here is is
facing many challenges to
human rights,
indigenous rights
and the environment and democracy.
Can you share the latest
and what you
as indigenous peoples are doing to
resist these attacks and restore
your rights?
But.
One witness told us.
He told the grand jury.
Presenter Key energy for us
will be.
Poco contested the Brazil
como spoils in June and Abbas
Amazonian connecting Brazil retain
their fended off great.
So good night to
all of you, women and men.
It's a pleasure to be here and to be
able to share a little bit of the
context and the situation in the
Amazon and also how
the indigenous peoples have been
resisting and defending
their territories in lives.
For a large protest song.
Dodgy data to dispose
in June. They just did great.
And Amazonia.
Net
Significa.
Net Trabajar.
The moon to.
Their sole provider suspected that
Primero crashed on the property.
Some of you may know.
So to talk about indigenous
peoples rights and
the work we do, it's a complex
issue that involves many
different areas and aspects.
And one of them is our understanding
about development
work.
It was posed in general.
No Vivian had done one that
nobody saw.
Because indigenous people did all
leave inside of our dome.
They do not live alone.
Okay. Contessa accomplished because
they were all political positions
when you Delila interferon
now Amazonian.
Now what happens for you?
Since here in the U.S.
with the politics of the U.S.,
it interferes in the Amazon.
In town and that Cedar
Key todos nice poor
somos
como Yemen Pontiac you follow
necessarily to the last post on
those days months.
E trabaja para keeper.
Sam was a more dire, conscientious.
At the school we had no interest but
I suppose that parabola
on my political did this involving
mental neck ki
all ye O0 monopoly
me. Now now all you make
also not to radicalization,
but I paga I give
that do he it Yiddish
popular some cutaways must bob.
So as
his brother to check has said
just now it's important for us
to be united and
together, to try
to change cautious and to try
to change the minds.
To think that for improve
and to promote development,
you have to start exploring,
extracting and
in a way to this only to benefit
to reach people in the world.
Further, my protest zone thus
flourished because
of the Propia Amazonia,
a la Paz primero bello
fortaleza meant to.
Near the border
near Darwin is also Seattle.
The spouse Kelly Visa.
Casa Contrario.
The Amazonia will flourish
the stroke. Because the wound.
Lucy Acaba.
So in that sense, when we were
talking about protecting or
defending the Amazon,
the only way of doing this is trying
to strengthen the organizations
and the ways of life
and the cultures of those that
leaves there and for ages
are doing this work.
Book Your agenda is
flourish think the book issues
poverty engine.
So why is that?
So far we have forces standing
is because they are indigenous
peoples.
Easier?
Nowhere, just Kosova
ZEW.
Yes, Podemos provides scientific
damage.
And this is not just like
words is not an empty talk that
can be proved by the science.
Is used by easy skills,
adding how many
more efficacy to us.
So keep Poseidon Planet
Abortion. Tenemos Jack Symantec
Global.
Families all coming get them
a house they thought is ingenious
enough out of
career unindicted coconspirators
on.
Images box.
So in that sense, if we really,
really want to stop global warming
and start protecting the forests,
they had the solution.
So the way of doing this is to
fight and really start giving
total and we call it demarcating
indigenous rights as like giving
them the rights to their lands.
It's work with like restoration
and reforesting and also creating
parks images.
Last time I saw them in Korea on
my Nova Scotia
music store.
Stories public.
And more. We do need
to start inspiring
a new conscience and public
leaders care for.
Now we see that those.
Niki Rome conduziu
this jingle that's on us.
And also start preparing
to new generations of leaders
toward take care
and will pave the future
of our world.
Sit down. Ski von
Hayek. When you see.
We follow?
The card that he's using was a bit
during the lockout.
To really build
build new seats and they will know
how to recognize
and to respect the differences
and values and cultures of
different regions.
What are key possums there's
involved here?
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also Bayview V Jack Kodo.
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digest locations in Siberia.
So that each one of those
groups, each one of us could find
and really be able to develop our
own ways of life according
to our mind,
our regions and our
cultures.
Known for them as mice
and quantum falls in
the. You know, in the.
I say that your nose is convenient?
Yes.
Venue can
a solo guitar proved
to E Jorgensen also me
if Ichiban Suki Sabi.
A key piece
of key subject.
Key is
meant to save people's lives.
Therefore, we cannot accept any
model solutions or proposals
or projects that, just like for
us, readymade and all
defined and just like throw
into our laps as if those
were solutions that serves us.
But we are the ones
that know what can really serves
us.
Uh, no.
Brazil.
Last year, a famous, momentous
moment was born but
never give concrete
stamps. Why does this passes?
They're not democracy
parties, but the parties pursuing
the programs and they're
devalued is a song
that's espousing it.
And I thought, Oh man, she told
this programmers forum
at a cabaret
about a past sound espousing DNA.
And.
Now, of course, there are so many
programmers legit
political.
So not a long time ago we have
evolved and we have been
able to develop programs,
public policies and create
spaces where the indigenous
people were able to participate in
a very
participate in a way that
theirs was a forum where we
could make decisions.
But nowadays with the new
government, all those are spaces
to a basic councils.
And also secretariat like
secretariat had disappeared
with the new government.
Or shit that was ongoing when.
Can only a spate of either.
Today we have a government that
would not respect life.
Cannot has paid a visit to the
spouse India and I cannot hesitate
to view the genuine game.
They do not respect indigenous lives
but also do not respect any
other.
Life, can no better for familiar.
And do not respect any family or
the families.
Live like here
our family, the male nor his
paterfamilias.
He says he is there to respect
the real family, but that is
not respecting the family, what he
does.
Don't end that saga now.
He was posing.
Gianna Najat todo
el mundo.
That person
doesn't now see mobilized.
Now. Gene damage.
Conspiracy replications.
Possums that
modifica.
They're going to see
the koala.
So how would you rate
the spouse in? You also mentioned
the Brazilian Amazon to the
the Amazon going to do
was coincidence.
And that's why we as indigenous
people are here to try to mobilize
people, but also not only indigenous
people to get together in trying to
work together and
change the situation, but we are not
talking about only indigenous people
from the Amazon is.
We are here also because we need
to work together with indigenous
people for the entire world.
Yes. A moment to your village.
Guillermo, mate, the most important.
You are confident
towards us now and also
supposing you told us.
They do socialize.
That is one.
There is the province,
but I salute.
So that's why you're here, to try
to invite everyone, not
only the indigenous peoples of
this land, but everyone,
the elders that women
that you've to participate
in this fight.
But.
For kids Opal,
Anita and my Rangel.
They took the nice summer spot inch.
Because the planet is a big
village and we are all
relatives.
Don't seal social media
a2 A2 two to
occur. My wife has switched that
couple.
So in that sense.
Some squid that are not sarcasm.
And this is if we like, they
put some dirty in our bed.
Like your house will be dirty here.
So it doesn't matter where it comes.
We need to take care of our house
and is a common house.
A lot of TV show.
Finales are just energy generous
enough to.
Hey, we need to know flightglobal
and had those the disposals
you appropriate to cope with that
document. The weight of
regard to
contribute a key regard.
And so to
to conclude, do you want to invite
all of you here to
participate in the People's
Summit for Democracy?
There is a parallel event that
happens from the eighth until the
10th, and TOIA is
one of the speakers on the ninth at
1 p.m.
and so he's really will be happy
to meet you all there so we can talk
more and to say that he's very happy
and grateful to be here and he hope
that he has collaborated in some
way and somehow if this
night. Thank you very much.
You too.
Thank you so much.
Thank you for your words.
Thank you, father.
Um.
Wow.
Um.
Stealing, Mike.
So.
Now to move on to
another area
of vital importance is
the Sacred Headwaters Initiative.
It is one of the world's largest
indigenous led forest protection
efforts, and it seeks to
permanently protect an area the size
of Oregon and
the headwaters of the mighty Amazon
River. It is an alliance of
30 indigenous nations
in Ecuador and Peru, working to
permanently protect 86 million
acres of rainforest.
So please welcome
Domingo Paz and
Atossa Soltani
through.
You've got to just
stop.
So Domingo is
an actual Indigenous
leader from Ecuador and the
Territory's
Coordinator for the Amazon Sacred
Headwaters Initiative for
Contenir,
the Indigenous Federation of
the Ecuadorian Amazon.
And he has been instrumental in
uniting Indigenous nations of this
region in an alliance to permanently
protect these headwaters, which
is one of the most biodiverse
regions in the Amazon.
Atossa Soltani is the director
of Global Strategy for the Amazon
Sacred Headwaters Initiative.
She is also the founder and board
president of Amazon Watch
and served as the organization's
first executive director for 18
years.
Wahu And in
response to the Amazon fires in
2019, she helped
co-found Artists for Amazonia.
Thank you, both of you.
Oh, yeah.
That helps.
Domingo.
Your alliance of 30
indigenous nations has been tapping
into indigenous ancestral
knowledge to map the
transition from a destructive
to a life affirming wellbeing
economy, which
is a beautiful
concept.
When we return.
So tell us about this historic
alliance.
And the bio regional plan to
save this area.
How did it all start?
And how can this effort be a model
for ecological transition elsewhere
in the Amazon and the world
for the.
Well, as much as I thought those
yesterdays
are, they simply met.
I mean, they are thoughtless,
organized, others are against
others.
Good evening to everyone who's here.
And I first want to give my
great thanks to all of the
organizers, men and women
who are organized this evening.
That being year, I got others here.
A person that has important this
can see the Mr. Salgado's
lives.
And I also want to thank some key
people who've been our allies.
Come.
LA companero.
Layla like Layla.
Link is that podcast with Chandler.
And Lynn.
Twist those.
Myself. Caving Kevin.
Then being close to him
is the great Cadillac of Inhaler
Company and Nemo.
And the directors of Koi,
Coca Cola, B and Nemo
from conveniently.
A customer's angle
printed those moon dust laws,
indigenous chemist
said of either particulars.
Yeah, those jig and a steady
thirtieths eaten
being lost decade Cardiff
way to ANC though Mr.
said yes. But on the strategic the
columnist remains adamant.
MUNDO We've all been bridges.
We as indigenous leaders are bridges
between ourselves and our
communities and our
in the Amazon and our
allies, like the ones here gathered
tonight, are our bridges to the
to the rest of the world to
bring our message.
And leprechaun to many importantly
Casey, commercial companero
Pontiac El Jamal.
Although they told the last national
leaders extend pissing equator
only nationally as indigenous
El Clamor LAPD though
nasty is that in this city you
are going to suck it out of US
territories. The La Vida.
The like to accept
the call.
The the cry of
the 11 indigenous nations
of the Ecuadorian Amazon
is what gave birth
to this important initiative,
which is the Amazon Sacred
Headwaters Initiative.
Territories for Life.
Is the program Malcolm Yang saw in
the company Kung
Alianza Kung
I They say Peru is song
miembro sauce use the Quaker
miracle on stage seven
is that it's Rio Grande the quake
at in another basis it must
rank this the programa interlocked
or spaces between this better awake
whether song true international
U.S.
entry Peru Ecuador
Peru protects young without
permanently train to sing communion
big daddy.
So as you heard
concerning I began this initiative,
it was the call of the Indigenous
nations and together
with the indigenous peoples of Ida
CEP, which are the Peruvian
indigenous nations of the Peruvian
Amazon.
And we the Amazon is huge.
So we decided to start
somewhere. And where we started was
in the headwaters in Ecuador.
In Peru, we are 30 nations
working to protect an area
that's 35 million hectares
or 86 million acres.
Remember, Paso is a sit lac
where the entry was indigenous
that gather based in a similar
problem of Brazil, Peru, Colombia
told us we must brings
up. Rivera said it will Garang
Alianza inter los indigenous
para logo coming that hunters
better they enter this alliance
attending an important December
Sierra Leone suddenly well
international then there was Alianza
and the well international but
I get all those say I must
participate Thomas
of this is here on this fundamental
but I still get angry at.
So we started with just forming the
alliance among our own indigenous
people. So we walk together, united
with a shared vision, and
we began this through Quaker,
Quaker ideas, up and company.
And through that we began to
seek global allies.
We started making alliances with
the rest of the world.
And in this really great
aspiration that we have in this
very big, challenging goal
that we've set to permanently
protect this massive area.
Let's go into Kombucha Alegria that
convening Ecuador's outermost todos
in need was in Peru.
Long while that we are Portugal
territory Peru.
And as we get on the part of
Sistemas that are Hong Kong won't
come into it.
I mean, animals, foundations.
This allows a keystone person that
has music lovers.
Come on Amazon, watch
us sit. Nostalgia answer.
I see the Fondazione
Alianza, but I see them as Alianza.
Yes, our thanks to Mando
Masa and the his mass
person us not to rallies but it's
a quantum vehicle as
outer space is just a thank
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bill Samantha and take it
and the la familia.
And so we began
in Ecuador we've been united
indigenous peoples have managed to
be completely united in Peru.
We're still working on unification
because the territory is so vast.
But we began and this alliance
and then we counted on the support
of allies like Amazon Watch, like
Pachamama Alliance.
And everywhere I go, we're growing
this alliance. Every time I travel,
I see that the family that we have
is growing and that more and more
allies are joining.
More Anglos are joining this effort.
Lego this staggering Alianza
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participation this year
is Serbia's muertes on Brasov
in this the Toilers Nationale de
Peru Ecuador 80 seconds
is the Plan Bureau Journal.
So after we united around the shared
vision of permanently protecting
this area, we move to the next step,
which was creating the bi regional
plan.
The my original plan aimed
to create the fundamental
technical scientific basis
for how we were going to protect
this area.
For this reason, we
brought together experts,
people who are basically technical
experts, environmental experts, but
together with our elders and with
our wisdom wise women
and men and our own
ancestrally.
Ancestral knowledge to create
a path forward.
Exposed to in lock
step proponent of quake
or 10% or
the they consider us young
as today when Cinco
is the plan B original by said
action. This Anglos Territorios,
Peru, Ecuador, Ian Blair
and the rest of the La Amazonia
put together is to integrate the
algunas in his education
and premiere Punto redo sees
lowercase la extraction better
clearer concentrate anglo
c'est la conservation and
the location la restoration
limpia is a blunder manageable
risk at that lower years eso
is that they enter this step
the oh no they lost his or
trust important decision further.
We're not done.
Of further.
So once we
began to pull together this plan,
it was a plan of action
in the territories.
It had many components.
It primarily
first it was to stop the
destruction, reduce the extraction,
reduce the amount of damage,
but also it had as a central
theme education,
also conservation,
restoration, the cleaning
of the river systems,
the restoration of river systems,
and to make sure that there's not
waste being dumped into the rivers
and the clean and the restoration
of ecosystems that are along these
critical ecosystems and their
connectivity.
And
most importantly, Parana, Citrus,
Cuenca Sagrada as well.
And turn not at that but
on the citrus as on laboratorio
vivo or hospital bed
of the but on the citrus is
this exactamente the parallel
transport transport of mushroom
Umana is said to
be will receive this in be
seamless kiss tongue a
border so cuenca Socorro that's no
solamente estamos our land of the
area, those are land to the local
travelers. UCLA subsidiary
La Technologie Ancestral
medecine as alternatives
to Los Indigenous
Estamos Cigarets.
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Aviso de little covid diseno
states so Iran not tenemos
dinero pela nosotros tenemos cientos
de planters conquer mers
cortado la vida man to
say tenemos todo,
sir.
So we call this effort more
than anything. We call it the living
laboratory for
that transition, a live at
living hospital.
Because this initiative is not just
for the rivers, it's for the forest,
it's for the invisible.
It's for the life that's invisible
for this the living forest.
It's to bring also
the cultures than the ancestral
knowledge, the
plant medicines, the medicinal
plants to to
rescue and strengthen
the aspects of our culture, which is
the indigenous science,
the indigenous knowledge system of
our people, to bring that forward.
And, you know, we survived even
though we had no money and no
medicine, we survived COVID.
Thank thanks to all of
the remedies from
plants.
The plants healed us and the plants
kept us alive.
I will just add here my $0.02
that Domingo is an amazing
medicine man himself, making
incredible medicine that kept many
people alive.
People came to him from all over for
his remedies.
They learned of the ceremonies.
Like you're not here
is. A propaganda rally to India,
West said.
I don't want to self-promote myself
with propaganda, but one day I will.
Love it that much.
As Muhammad is savviest, savviest,
veteran, this time being gay took a
risk at that in which
the video essence of La Mujer or
Espero along morality in book
hero concluded as they went to
a nosotros
tenemos estate plan B original
key yes to compromise the
carry out the BARCO interest
el pueblo elbowing vivid
in cuando mas de Wimberly
economy at the neck is a train
wreck in narrative.
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diarrea para todos
no solo para or not dos personas
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means more the richer l weinberg
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is whose toe is to start upon
tanto conserve us young
esta masonic estamos
lando es como said
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theirs, lamented Ecuador.
Peru didn't Nick Citadelle
Amazonia look established
in the quake a SSL Punto
vinyl cassette.
To sum it up, there are many wise
women and men in the Amazon
and it's them.
You know, I could talk for hours
about what we're doing, but just to
speak caught short here because
time is of essence.
We have this original plan.
We have this idea that
the interest, the common interest of
all people is taking
care of that when we ve,
which is this philosophy of
indigenous wisdom that's about
well-being, collective well-being,
that that well-being be
the the goal of our economy,
that it be solidarities,
that will be that education be a
right available to all
that, that there'll be justice for
all. And that together we
walk. And in this walk,
the thinking on
being in of
not just for human beings, not not
only doing this for human life,
but for all life and for
all of all of creation,
both visible and invisible.
And that's why we are we
think that the Amazon is alive.
You know, it's not just about
protecting one corner of the Amazon.
The whole thing is a living system
is a living entity.
That's why we agree with Coca, the
80 by 25, because we have to
care for the whole of the body,
the whole of the Amazon as a living
system.
Kit Kato, concrete
megastar, Percocet,
case tongue, a key person that's
important to us.
I want to wrap up by saying
I know there's a lot.
Of really.
Important people.
Here.
More heroism.
But as.
Men.
And with this aura, they're showing
that.
It's time for action.
A, plan B to win that original.
But a complete is the
requisite.
This Knesset this billion
dollars.
To complete the bi regional plan,
we need a $19 billion.
Purchase on the 30th in
time. Most at large went
to it at all or simply said
use our archaic
with that last sale by Pedro Vivier
De La Salle Valparaiso rickety
on that grand embarrassing.
I lost territory.
I must certainly because no but
this through to see no but I
though that.
And that we need this great
solidarity from all from young
people from people who
are in business world in education
and communication to come together
because this is going to take all of
us to live off of
for us to be able to live well
from the forest without destroying
it. That is the big challenge that
we face. When we can do it,
we will take all of us.
And Ptosis
is that agnus citrus
malaysia?
El Companero Toda
is Taksim is the internal
citrus todos.
So Moscow responsables
indigenous indigenous
is or are they own that as
well. So coming that Hunter's
solar si bombers they had
one that Linda Esperanza para la
raza.
It's time for action and the action
will take all of us.
It takes us to unite and to do
this action, not just for the people
and the indigenous people in the
Amazon, but for all of the future
generations, so that we can live,
leave a world that's hopeful
and beautiful for future
generations.
Thank you.
Wow.
Burdening El Territorio
must put a center
in Manaus. The lost editorials in
D.A..
Is that a nicer man?
It's nice that I be there.
Nosotros, vamos a year cuidado
pero también.
They painted. It was fortress entra
todos tenemos aqui their estamos
sonya canas de la vida which
addresses.
And and and finally
majority of the forests that still
are intact are in indigenous
territories. We're doing everything
we can with our lives to defend
this area. But it takes all of
us, it takes all of us to join
together and to make this live
a beautiful world for the future.
Thank you.
Thank you
so much.
I could listen to you for hours, so
thank you for being here.
Thank you so.
Much.
I know.
Wow.
Very amazing words
and sentiments.
So last
year, Standard
Earth and Amazon Watch
released Linked Fates,
which is a groundbreaking,
groundbreaking investigative
report which
revealed that California
is the top consumer of
Amazon Oil.
In fact, one in seven
gallons pumped here in Southern
California comes from the Amazon.
So yeah,
this oil comes from the Orient,
which is in northern Ecuadorian,
Amazon and the Yasuni
National Park,
which is home to the Quechua and
Irani peoples.
And this year, Ecuador's president
Guillermo Lasso, has
plans to auction off more than 7.5
million acres of mostly roadless
rainforest for new oil exploration,
thanks to the growing demand for
Amazon crude.
And this NBC
special here shows California's
complicity in the Amazon's
destruction and shows the realities
of frontline communities,
the realities that the frontline
communities are facing as oil
extraction expands in their regions.
So you can please push back.
Deep inside the Ecuadorian
rainforest, Yasuni National
Park is home to some of the greatest
biodiversity on the planet,
a spectacular habitat teeming
with rare plants and wildlife.
The rivers that flow through here
help feed and sustain the entire
Amazon.
But this land is in danger because
underneath this spectacular area
lies another kind of treasure
oil.
Nimal Gaeta is a leader of
the indigenous one Ani people
who live inside this rainforest.
For them, the land and the
water are sacred.
Now, Guida says she is fighting
to save her home.
We were on we are fighting to
protect our land and our rivers
because the rainforest for us
is home.
It's our life, our pharmacy,
our everything.
Gigi does trying to block the oil
companies from expanding and moving
even deeper inside the rainforest.
But also for us, the
sounds of the rainforest and
wildlife are music representing
peace and harmony.
The oil companies that come to our
land to destroy it bring with them
so much noise that is not native
to the rainforest.
These oil and mineral companies are
destroying our land and they
leave only contamination, sickness
and death.
According to a new report by Amazon
Watch and Stand Earth in
2020, nearly two thirds
of oil from the Amazon went
to the United States and the vast
majority of that to one state in
particular.
California is the number one global
consumer of Amazon Oil.
One in every seven tanks of gas
or diesel pumped in Southern
California originates from
the Amazon, according to the report.
LAX is the biggest consumer of
jet fuel derived from the Amazon.
Roughly 1 billion gallons consumed
annually.
One in every six gallons of jet
fuel used for planes at LAX
is from the Amazon.
The latest science is telling us
that we can't even afford
to use from a climate perspective,
the oil no reserves.
Right. So this question of oil
expansion in the Yasuni and further
in other areas of Ecuador's, Amazon
is all in search of new oil
that we know that we can't afford to
burn. Ecuador is now the number one
source of foreign oil for
California. This is a country that's
about the size of Nevada, and they
are exporting more crude to
California than Saudi Arabia.
Back inside, Yasuni Nnimmo
believes there's still hope.
There is hope because the women of
the rainforest are rising up and
fighting these injustices.
We will protect our rainforest.
We are calling upon world leaders to
help defend our people and
our lands.
The rainforest is for everyone.
We will keep fighting.
We will never stop.
If I die, my children will continue
the fight.
That is.
Big reminder of the
interconnectedness of this all.
And I would like
to invite to the stage
now Nemo
ter and Lila
Nemo, who you just saw in the video,
is a Guarani
Indigenous woman leader
from the Ecuadorian Amazon, and
she is director of women's affairs
for convening a witch.
Convening, I think is the
Confederation of Indigenous Peoples
of the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Hi.
Thank you so much for being here.
She's called.
I am too. I'm freezing.
So,
first of all, thank you for your
work and your leadership to protect
the Yasuni just because.
Which is the most biologically
diverse terrestrial system
on our planet.
And.
Perhaps most importantly, home to
your people.
And uncontacted peoples.
Can you tell us more about your work
with any and with
Indigenous women to defend
Indigenous rights and territories
amidst the threats of continued
oil extraction?
Economic headaches and.
Allow me now Nemo
so that the warranty
when I left Alabama sunny
weather.
Hello. My name is Nemo.
I'm Warrior. Danny and I come from
the Ecuadorian Amazon.
An Nosotros
como pueblo indigenous el amazonia
is themselves and those
then through the letter said, well,
yes, honey, it's
not Rosa Romano.
No contact. That was a thing.
Listening to hillbilly
Don the sister before and
the La Petroleo E.
Constrained won't just blunt the
gas and dangerous territories.
Our peoples live in the Yasuni
Reserve and the National Park
and in the intangible zone.
It is an area set aside for
indigenous peoples and the
uncontacted peoples, the people who
are living in voluntary
isolation and
they are being threatened by
this continued oil extraction
and oil drilling on their territory.
No stress. Come on, Will.
Harris.
Estamos in the factories.
Directamente.
Of the contamination
of existing territory.
And we as women are directly
impacted by the contamination
of the oil extraction on our
territories.
But guess almost.
Let's get ESTAMOS and contact local
radio host
Carlos Montana's Conrad Reservoir.
Los Carlos Grande is that
spiritual and lustrous service?
Because we are the ones who are in
contact with the rivers, with the
water, with our children,
with our ancestors.
We are the ones who are in direct
contact.
Espresso is tricky,
but kick your rock terrace
sipping youth.
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alarm to the California
QVC thermostat company that is
equivalent. Let our leader look
estaba Santo
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patrol you give me an angle
Sangre Thanatos Romanos Indigenous
Yaki is to benefit.
And so that's why I'm here.
I'm here to share this
message, share our call,
and also to invite you,
the people of California, come and
visit us. Come to our territories
to see for yourself.
And I'm also here
to share a
call to the state of California,
to Governor Newsom specifically
to say that this oil
carries the blood of our people.
It carries the blood of our
land.
And for what?
For the benefit.
Of of development.
Maybe most schools this year, but
Russell's territory is the most
liberal exploitation patrol era.
Perkins elder sister.
The three syllable Masonic.
And we call for justice for
our communities, for our
territories. We want to stop this
extraction.
Yeah.
Just as for our territories.
Stop this extraction
now. And this is what we need to do
to protect the Amazon.
Am.
Okay. But I can tell at least three
of them. Abuela Assim, which is
simultaneous
as two, is a key in California
b, b and the second is the Egyptian
doing less if
we're a B
ruler, the key response
does commonly. That is to
put a letter Lozano's letters
bracket nosotros saregama
la lucha the nuestros abuela
porque.
But several
storia eran mikala lucha the
lost polo's indigenous kiwi
nosotros estamos deaf
the the quantum and the kombucha
is a para
salvatore the fender mostra
Amazonia.
So I want to share with you a little
bit about the story of my
grandmother, Uma.
She actually lived here in
California for five years.
And after five years,
she saw the reality of how
people lived here and returned
after five years.
And, you
know, we many of the indigenous
peoples here we are we
are here because we are defending
our lands.
We don't want this destruction to
continue.
What is contacting us to Abuela?
Poquito work, but came with
an intern that can either
get that on the V.A.
to me.
Well, if I
had a library material,
call me Pueblo or any
agent on your Atlas Clan
is a
Perkins Thomas.
But are they maternal translators?
Not me.
Pueblo is on
three walk and I'm we Guerrero
e you Matabeleland trailers
grant the Guerreros and three clan.
As he stole exterminate
doses, Manuela took
a residence to Territorios,
but only pueblos.
So de Uma, her grandmother
is a
matriarchal leader.
She is
very well known for her work
in uniting the clans
of the Guarani peoples.
Her the wild only peoples are known
as peoples
who in the past
would fight in between the different
clans.
And at times
they would kill each other.
And so her grandmother was
very instrumental in going back
to the communities, going
back to the to the lands
to unite the people.
SSA S.A., meanwhile
for contacting Michele
Coleman, Occidental
said Jose Lessig won the
Congressional Pole Award and.
My grandmother was the first
contact.
60 years ago.
So I am the second generation to
be contacted to 60
years ago.
In Nosotros armadillos ultimos
pueblos are masonic clothing and
obviously the contacts almost
accidental.
You're used to a key
piano capturing the
street Nostra Selva, but cannot
resell business structures as Nostra
Pharmacy.
So we are actually the last
people to have been contacted
in the Amazon.
And so I'm here to say stop
destroying the forests, stop
destroying our land, stop destroying
our market, our pharmacy.
Pork barrel state equatoria
or parallel gobernador
the California Muestra
Salva Barrel
Pareja, Sarah and Bowser
Patroller when I mean the
little bit of para nosotros as
much stronger and less ruckus.
And the Ecuadorian government
and the California government or the
state of California,
they just see our forest
as an oil well
or a gold mine.
But this is our home.
Mantras exist on solid indigenous
territories, indigenous
working nosotros but
nosotros La Selva SB
There is no stronger
Peraza.
I want your mother.
Ella's home announcing a special
KABC thermostat company the second
going to get them
at all. I can tell you that as
Mondelez owner
yeah.
For ourselves.
Planeta Continental polos
indigenous.
Until the last indigenous person
is alive.
Until the very last one.
We will resist.
We will defend our home.
And I want to make a special
call out to the young people.
Come and visit us.
Come and know our reality.
And I want to say to the leaders.
That its time for stand with
indigenous peoples to defend the
Amazon to defend our home our
our shared home.
Mm hmm.
Okay.
Mientras Hoy estamos and tells
us to leave that as a key,
not wrestle with us.
Siendo this true either stumble
as the Thaddeus does through either
bolts and press as let us
mistrust our policies.
Diciendo. This truism
is to contaminate.
Look, we are mass gathers
in a manner that I must petrolheads
and I trust company that this knows
that their system will be the
but as estamos aqui and must be
a the we religious
but compensatory containment
policy indigenous.
As we are here,
all of our leaders here, as we are
here. Our forest is being
destroyed.
The trees are falling,
the rivers are contaminated.
Their oil spills every day.
The soil is dying.
So that's why we are
here.
But I know citrus and petroleum
knows when to throw.
But I know that Russell Petroleum is
worth a
contamination.
And for me, that is the only kind of
sister company that is.
For us, oil is not development.
It is death.
It's sickness.
It's contamination.
And it's death.
Am.
It doesn't even matter if they're
the thumb being digging a
cornerstone of the company that is
in Beta Perkins or solar powered
energy with the petroleum gas
attached to the company that
opposes most other simple and
elemental is published in the Atlas
V Implementers l to raise more
community addresses.
So to conclude, this is my message.
I want you to know our reality.
Come visit us.
We cannot do this alone.
We. We have to find other ways.
We have community tourism.
So we want you to visit.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
And you can still
losing my sash.
You can stay up here.
We're going to invite all of the
leaders on stage
as a final thank you all for being
here.
Thank you for all of your work.
I am in
awe.
Some sobering ideas
and words up here, but also a lot of
hope to have everyone here.
I think we have Grandma
Gloria coming back on stage.
I certainly.
Think.
So now you all
have lots of information
to absorb.
And the question is, what do you do
with all of this? So Lila
can tell us a little bit about
what we can do as a call to action
up here.
Move over, Gloria.
Our native relatives
from Tongva
to Moche.
Please join us as well.
Grandma. Grandmother,
our grandmothers in front
respect our elders.
So everyone here?
Yes, sister.
We had a beautiful meeting
in in
us as our friends
and sisters from Tonga
territory reminded us.
This is not the way that
we would do it and
we would normally do this, or we
should do this in a good way.
In ceremony, with days
of food and ceremony
and lots of time to get to know each
other.
But we live in this restricted time
and we're grateful for this time.
We're so grateful for this
time that we're together.
People traveled for days.
I just traveled from San Francisco,
but Toia traveled for three days to
be here.
Nimmo Domingo
to Antioch. They traveled all night.
To be here last night.
So I just want you to know that
they made lots of sacrifices.
Grandma Gloria made a sacrifice to
be here.
Just her mama.
Yeah.
Toria.
I mean, everyone made
a sacrifice to be here.
You made a sacrifice to be here.
So thank you so much
for being here.
And I want to invite you all
to join this call.
To join this prophecy, as
we were saying earlier,
of the uniting of the Eagle,
the North and the condor of
the South to join the prophecy
of the women.
We're bringing back the women
leadership.
And of course, we have to do this
with our brothers.
We have to do this together in
balance, not
in this patriarchal way
that has polluted our our minds.
Right.
We have to do it in a different way.
And we're calling everyone
to action.
You saw the action up here.
To end California's
complicity in the destruction of
the Amazon.
That oil is the blood of
our mother and
it is being stolen
and it's being brought here.
Against our will.
And it's polluting our people
here in refineries here.
So we have to stop that.
We all have to be responsible
for that. So we have to call on
Governor Newsom today.
There is actions right outside the
door. When you leave, you grab one
of those.
You all have a cell phone.
I know you do.
And I want you to take a picture of
that.
QR code and write to Governor
Newsom.
Today and share that with all your
friends.
And on Monday, I want you to come
out to the Sheraton and
join us all.
At 8 a.m.
in a rally and at night in a
vigil and a prayer.
And on Tuesday in a prayer at
Cabrillo Beach.
And all through the week be
following US and the People Summit
by following Amazon Watch and stand
and artist from us online.
And all of us.
Because we're going to be doing
everything that we can.
To stop this and protect
our children. My children are here.
Your children are here or out
there, and we have to protect
our children.
So join us.
Join us.
Okay.
Thank you.
I want to thank the
artist from us, Sonia.
All of you who helped put this event
together in record time.
I want to thank Don
and Julia for
coordinating us.
I know it was madness,
Claudia, for dealing with us.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for
opening this space for us.
And we're going to end with just
in a good way.
We have to end with a song.
Okay.
Just a couple more minutes.
I know we're over time, but just a
couple more minutes.
Thank you.
I'm not.
Gonna.
Lie.
To a man I.
Love and hate
myself for.
Yeah, I.
Oh,
that.
You want to make
demarcation now?
Land back
part.
That part? Yep.
Okay.
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connection coyote.
Was going to hike our minute.
The Hobbit, dammit.
Now Yahoo! Jessica Jessica
that on.
And my niece here, my niece,
Sarah Coyote.
This is my daughter Jessa.
We want to send you home in a good
way. We welcomed our visitors.
Come our visitors,
and we stand with them.
We know what it's like to
have oil being pulled
from our earth mother here on our
lands.
We know that there are oil
rigs in our ocean
and matter.
And what they do have spills
all the time.
And we know that we need that
beautiful rainforests, that
it affects every one of
us.
So today we're going to send you
home. What, the Tonga song
Yam. One minute
it's talking about that we're going
home.
But it also, even though
we we separate
and we go home and we rest,
we know that we're only divided
by space, but
that we are always connected
and that we stand together
in unity.
I know it's hard to believe how much
this is not affecting us because we
don't see it happening in our own
yard.
But right now in Bakersfield,
California, there are 21
wells that were supposed to be
capped off but were not capped off.
They were left alone and they are.
Leaking right now.
This is a we problem.
We need to stop thinking like
keeping up.
With the Kardashians and start
thinking like the indigenous peoples
and protect the next seven
generations. The time is.
Now.
We're going to have.
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yum on them.
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hey, come on and
big. Jump on
them.
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Yeah, I'm on them
here. I'm on them.
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yum on them.
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yum one.
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Hey, yum, yum,
yum.
On in.
Your morning.
Yum on in
your morning.
I was going to thank you all.
For coming out here.
Tonight to be with us and to support
our relatives.
And may we send them off in a good
way with our hearts open and
our minds.
Open and know that this
is the time.
Now.
And may you all go well at the of
Amy.
May you make it.
To your home.
Destination tonight.
Safely and find your homes.
The way that you left it tonight.
A wish going to her.
Thank you all for being here
tonight. Just a friendly reminder
will be out in the courtyard
for some mingling and the
museum closes at ten in the garage
at 10:00 as well.
So just be aware
of that.