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Hello,
we are very glad that we can invite you to a videoconference with a comrade from Brazil.
Rafael is connected with the Amazon Libertatrian Culture Center (CCLA), the Brazilian Anarchist Coordination (CAB) and is working as a professor and researcher in the field of Geography – to understand from which point of view he will talk. The Comrade is based in Santarém and has been researching and collaborating with Indigenous peoples in Pará – a state in the Brazilian Amazon.
In the presentation we will talk about how that collaboration looks like but mainly about the struggle of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon in the face of the advance of capitalism.
The region is the main corridor for Brazil’s grain and beef exports, and there are enormous threats from the expansion of soy agribusiness, cattle ranching and mining over the territories of Indigenous people. In addition, Lula’s Brazilian government currently wants to privatize several rivers in the Amazon, turning them into waterways for export and privileging multinationals such as the American company Cargill.
As forms of resistance, Indigenous people have occupied Cargill ports, blocked highways, and carried 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 also some visual impressions.And there will be the oportunity to have questions as a conversation with the comrade as far as the tecnical limitations of an videoconference allows it.
The event will be in English and we try to provide a whisper translation if there should be people who don’t feel comfortable to follow the conversation in this lenguage.
The event will take place at the 17.04.2026, from 19:00pm and in „HaMo“ ( Merseburgerstraße 88b ).
We organize it as part of an series of several events around the International Day of Peasant Struggles which exist since 30 years already and has it’s roots in the murder of 21 landless workers by the Military Police in Brazil back in 1996 cause they had occupied a piece of land.
Initiative Grüne Gewerke (IGG) Leipzig.
https://gruene-gewerke.fau.org/
Veranstaltende Gruppe: IGG
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