Morgen am Samstag den 16.05.2026 schalten wir uns im Projekt 31 (An den Rampen 31) dem Vortrag online zu. Kommt rum, es wird interessant.
Um 18 Uhr ist das Haus offen
Um 19 Uhr geht’s los
Das meeting wird auf Englisch gehalten
Worte zum Inhalt:
Rafael is connected with the Amazon Liberation Culture Center (CCLA), the Brazilian Anarchist Coordination (GAB) and is working as a professor and researcher on the field of geography – to understand which point of view he will talk from.
The comrade is based in Santerém and has been researching and collaborating with indigenous peoples in Péra – a state in the brazilian Amazon.
In the presentation he will talk about how that collaboration looks like and about the struggle of indigenous peoples in the Amazon in the face of advancing capitalism.
The region is the Main corridor for Brazil’s grain an beef exports, and there are enormous threats from the Expansion of soy agribusiness, castle ranching and mining over tge territories of Indigenous people. In addition, Lula’s Brazilian government currently wants to privatise several rivers in the Amazon, turning them into waterways for Export and priveleging multinationals sich as the American company Cargill.
As a from of resistance, Indigenous people have occupied Cargill ports, blocked highways, and carrier out self-demarcations. Meaning they do not wait for the state to demarcate their territories.
They carry out the demarcation autonomously.
We will have pictures from the spot to give you some visual impressions. And there will be the opportunity to ask questions and have a conversation with the comerade, as far as the technical limitations of a videoconverence allow it.
Danke an die Initiative Grüne Gewerke Leipzig fürs ins Leben rufen dieser Veranstaltung, die ein Teil einer Reihe zum Anlass des Internationalen Bauernkampftages, der seit dem Mord an 21 landlosen Arbeitern durch die militär Polizei in Brasilien 1996 besteht, weil sie ein Stück Land besetzt haben.
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