Act draws attention to projects that threaten the environment

An immense and inflatable terrestrial globe appeared this Sunday (18) on Avenida Paulista, in São Paulo, to draw the population’s attention to several projects that have been approved or are being processed by the National Congress and that may threaten the original populations and the environment. . Among them, the one that deals with the timeframe, which establishes that the places occupied by traditional peoples until October 5, 1988, the date of promulgation of the Constitution, will be considered indigenous lands. The act was promoted by institutions and environmental organizations and took hundreds of people to Avenida Paulista. With posters remembering the deaths of journalist Dom Phillips and indigenist Bruno Pereira, as well as banners and masks of the president of the Chamber of Deputies, Arthur Lira, and animals, the demonstrators took a walk against the time frame and asked for urgent solutions to the climate crisis. Demonstration in defense of the environment on Avenida Paulista – Photo Paulo Pinto/Agência Brasil The demonstration also took place in other capitals such as Belo Horizonte, Florianópolis, Brasília and Rio de Janeiro. “It is important that we give an answer both to the Chamber [dos Deputados] as for the Senate of what we want in relation to the environment. This new government is based on several proposals regarding environmental protection and climate protection, but these things will not go ahead if we do not support these decisions and show that this is also a demand from society”, said Aldrey Riechel, from Friends of the Terra and the Forestry Code Observatory, in an interview with Agência Brasil. According to her, the world’s population has already been observing the risks of not thinking about a green and sustainable economy. “We already see extreme situations in big cities and we need to start mitigating and not impacting more [o meio ambiente]. And this transition from a devastating economy to a green economy will only happen if everyone starts to act together and think collectively”, he argues. Whoever agrees that collective action by society is needed is Yakuy Tupinambá, from the Tupinambá people of Olivença, in the south of Bahia, in the region of Ilhéus. For her, this Sunday’s act is important to draw attention to the problems that end up affecting the entire Brazilian population, not just the original peoples. “I have said that the Brazilian people lack politicization. And politicization raises the level of consciousness. A collective awareness of belonging to the place where you were born and where you grew up is missing. Those who belong, take care. But those who don’t have it, just explore. This fight against this dismantling of environmental laws does not only affect indigenous peoples or Brazilians. It affects the entire planet, after all, Mother Earth is a big uterus. And this awareness needs to be awakened in each individual, of their belonging in this living organism that is Mother Earth”, she highlighted. Demonstration in defense of the environment on Avenida Paulista – Photo Paulo Pinto/Agência Brasil For Yakuy Tupinambá, the establishment of the time frame, approved by the Chamber, is unconstitutional. “The timeframe wasn’t even supposed to exist. When one thinks of the legal system of the Brazilian State, it is unconstitutional. This is yet another narrative that has been put forward by the colonialist mentality to usurp what remains of this territory,” she said. “We remain resisting. This timeframe should be reversed, it was us [povos originários] that we should say that you came later”, he adds. Yakuy took advantage of the event in São Paulo to also promote the proposal to build a philosophical school for indigenous peoples. The idea would be, for example, that schools could take students to experiences and exchanges with the indigenous population. “Our proposal contemplates the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. The proposal is for a living, organic school to sow. Our target audience is children and youth. It would be living learning, through the exchange of knowledge, reconnection with Mother Earth and decolonization. They [crianças e jovens] they would do experiences and workshops”, he explained.

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