#PL2903

[markruffalo]

Please watch this important message from The Guardians of the Amazon who are about to lose the Amazon to logging, mining, and agribusiness. This is a global call to action! #PL2903 #NoMarcoTemporal Sign the Petition: www.change.org/p/to-federal-authorities-of-brazil-to-protect-the-territorial-rights-of-indigenous-peoples

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Brazil’s Indigenous territory bill spells trouble for the Amazon

To safeguard the world’s largest rainforest, President Lula must survive a conservative whiplash

Brazil’s stewardship of the world’s largest tropical forest has long ignited acrimony. If frontier enthusiasts see billions of trees as speed bumps to wealth and progress, the Amazon’s defenders counter that neither is possible without a standing rainforest and the people who tend to it. They point to the global cooling service the Amazon renders by keeping all that carbon cached under the canopy.

So whenever Brasília shifts its Amazon policy, the blowback is swift and global. Such is the case of Constitutional bill PL490, which would reset the rules for delimiting Indigenous territory.

The amendment would overrule ancestral claims by native communities to lands their forefathers inhabited for centuries. Last month, the lower house greenlighted the measure. Should the upper house also endorse the bill (renamed PL2903), the new limits for designations would be the lands any group effectively occupied in 1988 - the year Brazil published its latest constitution. 

Brazil’s Indigenous peoples and their supporters immediately cried foul, denouncing the bill as a maneuver to legalize land theft. Artists, public intellectuals and screen idols from Cannes to Hollywood joined the protest.

Back home, louder voices prevailed: the country’s powerful farmers, ranchers and mining lobbies.

Indeed, even as left-wing president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took office on January 1, promising to halt destruction in the world’s biggest rainforest, Brazil’s political center of gravity had already shifted beneath him. 

Today, Lula’s remit is not just to thwart environmental criminals and stop the flow of dirty money that enables them. As a new study by the Igarapé Institute shows, his government must also navigate a more hostile, predatory political class that puts pork and patronage ahead of forests. 

Continue reading.

[jasmineiros]

DIREITOS INDÍGENAS NÃO SÃO NEGOCIÁVEIS

Por 43 votos a 21, a maioria dos senadores acabou de rasgar a Constituição Federal e passar por cima da decisão do Supremo Tribunal Federal, que declarou o Marco Temporal INCONSTITUCIONAL na semana passada. Isso é gravíssimo!

Para além do Marco Temporal, que ameaça terras demarcadas e torna quase impossível novas demarcações, o projeto inclui, ainda, a remoção forçada de indígenas de suas terras, a implementação de bases militares, rodovias, usinas e elétricas em terras indígenas e o contato forçado com povos isolados. Tudo isso sem necessidade de consulta prévia às comunidades ou à própria Funai...

Agora, o presidente Lula tem 15 dias úteis para vetar ou sancionar o PL 2903. Entre em marcotemporalnao.org.br e envie AGORA um e-mail para Lula pedindo que VETE o PL2903/23.

INDIGENOUS RIGHTS ARE NOT NEGOTIABLE

By a vote of 43 to 21, the majority of senators have just torn up the Federal Constitution and ignored the Supreme Federal Court's decision, which declared the Temporal Framework UNCONSTITUTIONAL last week. This is extremely serious!

Beyond the Temporal Framework, which threatens demarcated lands and makes new demarcations nearly impossible, the project also includes the forced removal of indigenous people from their lands, the establishment of military bases, highways, power plants, and electrical facilities on indigenous lands, and forced contact with isolated peoples. All of this without the need for prior consultation with the communities or even Funai itself...

Now, President Lula has 15 business days to veto or sanction PL 2903. Visit marcotemporalnao.org.br and send an email to Lula RIGHT NOW, urging him to VETO PL2903/23.

Link para a petição para o Presidente Lula vetar a PL2903/23 // Link to the petition for President Lula to veto PL2903/23

Marco Temporal Não

OBS: The link is in Brazilian Portuguese but you can sign if you choose the option "estrangeiro" in "estado".

[akindplace]

I'm seeing an ad show up on tumblr for a petition titled, "We need everyone's help right now to protect the rainforest and Indigenous People" talking about a recent bill in Brazil allowing the government to take over protected Indigenous tribal lands - but can't tell if it's legit or not & am hesitant to click on the links. Have you heard of anything to back this up or not? (If not, no worries & if this is obnoxious to ask, many apologies!)

The bill is legit. It is PL 490, which was renamed to PL2903 and it’s being pushed by agricultural oligarchs here, in an attempt to take over indigenous people’s lands, by saying the land is not legally theirs if they weren’t in possession of it when a new constitution was made in 1988. Basically, it’s a new loophole they are trying to explore. Large landowners stealing land from indigenous people or anyone that owns less land and therefore has less power is nothing new, and a lot of powerful people in this country got their lands by forcing their owners out with extreme violence. Those indigenous communities are suffering a lot of violence in the Amazon from companies that extract wood and cause a lot a destruction to the forest, because they want even more land to explore. There are accusations of genocide to the government of Bolsonaro because they allegedly knew all this violence was being committed and allowed it to carry on. And before anyone says it, it doesn’t really benefit the economy to give land to these oligarchs: the wood is illegal most times, they pocket the profits, don’t pay taxes, it is ruining the forest; the deforested land is used to produce soy that is exported, and it’s not being used to produce food for the country. Worse of all, they are killing people for all the profit. Bolsonaro is no longer in power and is in the process of receiving charges for corruption, but he still has a lot of allies in the senate. Again, this is the same former far-right president informally accused of being behind an attempted coup that happened in the beginning of 2023, after he lost elections.

I must warn anyone that the violence being committed to indigenous populations is a huge human rights violation, and it might be triggering to to some to know the details. And if you research what is being done to them, please do so at your own discretion. It’s absolutely disgusting.

Unfortunately I don’t know if any petitions can work, but putting international pressure on the government is important so it can be held accountable.

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SALSA Statement Against Brazil’s Proposed Law PL2903/2023 formerly #490/2007 (6-27-21) — Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

Indigenous peoples protesting Law 490 in Brasilia 2021 Happening Again and Again…next: August 30, 2023 – SALSA Statement Condemning Brazil’s Proposed…SALSA Statement Against Brazil’s Proposed Law PL2903/2023 formerly #490/2007 (6-27-21) — Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America