um thank you the place foreign in the accident s hello um [Music] foreign foreign [Music] foreign [Music] you know okay good evening everybody thank you for joining
us today it's uh Friday night I think which is uh great to see you all here ready to learn
or be with us so thank you so much um we're here to celebrate titulia we're here to celebrate
art we're here to celebrate activism and all people working in these Realms with us um
today I'm joined by two amazing art invests we call them people
that work with in art
and activism um chaturia's work is really centered around the idea of hope hope in these
times of transformation hoping these really turbulent times um because it's something
that we all really do need to hold on to I don't know if anyone else is going through
some particularly turbulent times at the moment or follows any astrology but apparently there's
lots of alignments going on that that is uh shaking us all um so first and foremost we
want you all to feel really comfo
rtable with us joined in with us part of the family with
us on stage and with that Felipe has brought you a really special gift and so we'd like
you to all close your eyes we're going to enter a water form of meditation and just
be and enjoy for a few minutes [Music] [Music] [Music] oh yeah [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] people it's hard to talk after that um thank you
Felipe so that just gonna present you for the paper virus um wonderful Soul Works in
many different art worlds as well
as academic worlds as well as weaving worlds and um he's
a Chilean from the city with many many roots many indigenous routes as well so it's really
um interesting to talk to him about his perspectives of indigenous wisdoms and Indigenous communities
and and what's happened in Chile over the past 30 odd years in his life um but we're
going to before that be offered another gift from another our other panelists Lucy Martins
who is um another artifist filmmaker who has been touring the world and de
dicating her
life to following indigenous communities elders and wisdom Keepers and so has got a profoundly
deep perspective on how people relate to the world whilst being fully interconnected with
the world and part of the world and part of nature Lucy's offering is a film that she
made called 12 elders and we're going to get a trailer of this and this is also another
meditation the whole film was made as a meditation so close your eyes again but don't because
you've got to watch the film but e
njoy this second meditation for you foreign [Music] huge unique positions [Music] for example foreign [Music] [Music] come like so I don't know [Music] foreign [Laughter] [Music] thank you so I think we'll
start with you and the sounds of nature um I can we put the
presentation the pictures please thank you so um yeah it's I was saying earlier it's
just really I was really really moved uh this afternoon I was really very emotional and
uh yeah it's really um not just in a way because we are where
we are but also and I'm looking
at Angela because and also Sega as well because it's uh yeah it's it's a whole lifetime I
think to like we were saying earlier was said a couple of weeks ago it took me 50 years
to get here and uh yeah and I think it's it's sort of like it's a great honor to be here
and just show a little bit of our work and uh and our collaborations and I think I am
yeah I'm a latinx activist and artist and uh yeah and I just got a few few images to
show you um and this is somet
hing this is some is is uh sort of a few years ago um my
friend Michelle who's now deceased and I were part of this collaboration around and looking
at the Statics of like indigenous futurism and stuff so just wanted to kind of pay her
a little homage and uh and this idea of like yeah indigenous people remind that we are
from the Earth [Music] um and this is Angela's work which I sort of screenshot and stole
from her or borrow from her and this is yeah this is Chile this is uh um 2019 and uh uh
yeah it was a moment where young uh women led the uprising and the Revolution and the
change and it was and it was uh yeah and it was a fast very self-organized very inspiring
movement and I think if countries like Chile can do it or Bolivia is sort of like it has
become like a sport for us change the government change the system and I think and anywhere
it can happen this is just a picture from the newspaper under here in the far right
in the corner looking quite angry and I'm just 19 and and w
e were working with the uh
these two sisters nicolasa and we were part of this um yeah movement to um help create space and sort of like yeah change change the way things are there's
so much racism still there so much inequality and so much yeah systemic oppression and and
I was thinking uh just like I I Greta or Vanessa or all the kind of these young activists I
get it it's like yeah you feel Invincible when you're young and you have no fear and
uh and I think it's so important uh today to yeah
just to um connect with that Source
in a ways everywhere um and this is just some quick pictures from from some of the communities
where where I've been where I have worked this is a mapuche territory in the South near
temuko it was occupy by the Air Force and then reclaimed back by the indigenous people
so they build an altar and I told him and they did a ceremony and and it was this really
strange mix between like Protestant and Indigenous resistance and it's just it's just so fascinating
bec
ause things are not sort of like clear-cut as we imagine um and this is I don't know
like 15 years ago or something and the photographer is my friend Fred he's a French photographer
and this is one of the ceremonies and some of the in terms of the Sacred activism in
terms of the forms and we're going to be talking about this at the end because we were doing
something in Egypt in a couple of weeks but just the sense of like this is the technology
this is the stories this is this is the the power
in a way the ceremony the prayer the
togetherness the being able to follow being able to to cry and to fall apart and but also
being able to celebrate that we have this beautiful life um and uh yeah this is just some when I first
came to UK I was feeling like very displaced I was feeling like totally lost and so I was
I started to do some like uh just sort of like a little interventions and I just want
to share this one because when I was coming here also um and and I've been sort of like
prepar
ing this presentation for a few weeks and uh um yeah just this connection of how
uh we can unfuck art and how art can become an instrument and a tool for yeah uh social
transformation and and kind of awareness and not a tool in the hands of capitalism um and this is a project I was involved last
year in Greater Manchester and and this question of epistemic Justice right uh White dominant
world you see the end of the world very near and uh we don't really see a way out we we
feel really stuck and
there's so many other worldviews there's so many other stories and
epistemologists are uh so to telling us different stories and this is this is all people uh
like us in the diaspora [Music] this and it's been great that we have so many different
names to talk about but it's based sort of like this human connection that we need more
that we we are kind of craving and this is just a collaboration I was doing with my friend
Chris and just in terms of connecting with the land here in the UK and an
d the sort of
the Ley lines and the stories of the land and uh um yeah it's something we don't need
to go to the Jungle we don't need to go to the Andes or to maputiland to one map over
it's sort of right here right where we are we have this incredible River we have this
incredible Sky we have this incredible world and unless we take care of it we are we're
really screwed and and I'm nearly at the end of this slides and this is something uh that
we published just uh recently last week or so and
it's and it's an article and it's sort
of like is sort of an evolution of the static that I was mentioning at the beginning and
just this question of like we have the Western mind and the Savage mind if you like oh we
have the Wild and uh so the mechanistic worldviews and they don't have to necessarily be in in
contradiction but they can be in juxtaposition they can be they can be Synergy and symbiosis
and it's up to us and uh and this is one of the indigenous leaders in compartmental in
Brazil
this weekend we have some incredible important elections uh in Brazil uh second
round and uh yeah and this is an area I've been working a lot and and uh in in Brazil
with indigenous leaders and Indigenous comedies and this is just some of the experiments I've
been doing with like Ai and kind of like this is a machine to plot uh Ley lines and this
is sort of like an imaginary machine uh and that's it thank you so much [Applause] thank
you so much Felipe I have a million questions to pose but I've
been informed we don't have
much time left so let's try and go over to Lucy and then we can play um you've been wandering
the world learning being experiencing ceremonying um with many different cultures and so I'd
love to know for you what it is and how what it what it is for you the differences between
how we're living let's say in London and how people who really connected to the land who
are indigenous who are keeping wisdoms live and what it is we can learn from to start
reconnecting and r
elating in a way with the world and ourselves that is more aligned with
these transformative times yeah thank you I think one of the main themes of all the
12 Elders which were all very interconnected because if you look at primordial wisdom it's
actually all the same across the world and across all cultures and one of the main themes
was that we actually completely disconnected from the sacred and the spiritual and we're
like so much in the material that we're out of balance and that's where ac
tually all the
the problems start so if we bring that back into balance that means bringing back certain
values and protocols and and principles and the way we are a with ourselves and then with
everything outside of ourselves so I think this film um which I did together with with
the foundation I work with called Lucia Foundation was a huge um initiation myself because I
was not really into the spiritual world I was not really into yeah believing much about
indigenous wisdoms and was kind of an
outsider and maybe not really feeling it but I think
going on that journey and then actually really being broken down and um and being shown these
different wisdoms and Elders who were more more powerful the more one actually met them
because they really yeah you meet a certain presence um which I had not met before and
I think they just kind of can see through you and you just have to get straight so I
think the kogi for example who live in the Sierra Nevada in Colombia they taught me somethin
g
really really profound that um you know everything starts with your thoughts and I'm someone
who can be so negative about myself and I thought okay it can be you know just against
me no one will know but they said with your own thoughts you're already polluting the
Earth because they the Earth sucks everything up so it really really starts with yourself
and um and if you look at all these universal laws and principles and and the holistic way
of of living and being how all these indigenous who
are connected to their lineage it means
looking at the world and everything in a very holistic way and that's what we don't do anymore
we just look at the problems and the Solutions in a more disconnected way we are living in a in a kind of individual
mindset world at the moment and actually as you're saying it being interconnected is the
key isn't it to know and I think a lot of in indigenous communities see themselves as
being the blade of grass as well as the blade of grass being ourselves u
m I'm wondering
if Felipe you have anything to say on that in in the sense of what we can do to be more
interconnected even maybe in a city or wherever we are in the world like what it what it we've
got these taboos on what it means to be spiritual right and and more and more people are becoming
more and more spiritual and aware of how important it is to connect with themselves what what
are the entry points how do people get into it how can we start to connect you cannot no um it's a really ser
ious sort
of audience I'm like we dare you try it it makes everyone so quiet um I think it's just yeah it's like it's like
a construct I think this question of sacredness and profound like the difference between sacred
and unsacred it's just a construct in our mind I think and and I think it's part of
the problem in a way and how we want to Define it there's some wonderful books like braiding
sweet grass and and in a way Angela who's coming straight after us is going to be yeah
talking about tha
t this question of yeah the this whole thing is sacred indigenous people
in many many cultures around the world our ancestors they didn't even have a word for
sacred it was everything was part of this incredible whole um I think it's just super
simple it's like I was just earlier at my friend's place and we went to the to the roof
of her building just a few blocks down there and we were just connecting with the sun and
sort of saying yo son thank you so much so it doesn't have to be like uh yeah
to Solem
no to kind of like up your own you know I mean it can be something very simple and I
think within and I think particularly and I will finish because I'm aware of time but
I think this is the UK has been so colonized as a kind of epicenter of colonialism is sort
of like has been sort of wiped out the sort of the heart the soul and part of our our
kind of job today is to really nurture that and and when we did a couple of weeks ago
this ceremony and Rachel with Cecilia vikunya down there
by the turbine Hall there were
so many people and it was just so awesome man I think it's like we don't really need
many excuses to celebrate and it's and I think it's just about being authentic and and and
just playful it's like see it as a it's a celebration it's it's a ceremony whatever
and then in it and it's good for you it's like it's a healthy thing to do um yeah so
in these times of Hope look inwards um look outwards look at the birds look at nature
it's all around you um and be part of
the be part of the mission going forwards because
the transformation is now um would anybody like to ask any questions yes sir at the front please introduce yourself you'll be hearing
from me after about just to egg the questions um is to you and to the audience are there
any Chileans here any latinx can I put is there anything you'd like we
want it's your space having Cecilia here as well is there anything you wanted to add or
say wow why did I raise my hand um it I think if anything I want to
add well
I I think um as a as a person from the global South one thing that I can say is that we
know so much about the global North and the global North doesn't know [ __ ] about us
um so if you wanna [Applause] and if you really um want if you I also think that like another
thing that I always I have lots of conversations with Felipe I'm like privileged enough to
know him personally and one conversation we had recently is that people are panicking
about Refugee crisis right now just wait unti
l climate disasters start to get a lot worse
we are coming everyone is coming to wherever is safe and it doesn't matter like well you
do have to stop it now or we have to deal with the consequences um so yeah just care
about each other and uh yeah learn about other places that you don't really know anything
yet thank you and affordable scenario there was another question at the back yes
yes so you you mentioned the height thank you
so much you mentioned earlier earlier something about um Egypt s
omething you're doing there
in in relation to indigenous peoples you know cop 26 is 27 sorry it's coming up in the next
week or so and in Egypt which is a militarized state where indigenous peoples are doing an
enormous effort to be able to be there to represent their communities um in such a time
of incredible uncertainty and crisis um and it feels like every week we're living yet
another historical event what what how do you how can we support what what what kind
of um how are you bringing kin
d of the Sacred and the wisdom and the connection that you
have with indigenous peoples into interaction and Into Climate action thanks Isabella that
was a trick question but um I was I was writing an article the other day and I was thinking
like things are so complicated at the moment we definitely need prayer and we definitely
need this sort of like super power uh cultivation and uh yeah and I think uh Sophie's gonna
and all three we are going to Egypt and a couple of other people here as well
um cop
27 and there is a whole shebang is very chaotic he's beautiful it's uh human is uh yeah and
we are trying to meet uh I wouldn't say halfway but this there's definitely like a need to
meet our uh uh relatives from the south from Africa from um from the Middle East and uh
yeah and Sophie's been working her ass off and it's like and I'm so proud of you Sophie
because like yeah hello well first of all please everybody come
to Egypt we're trying to start something really beautiful we're talki
ng about connecting on
the panel and it is all about connecting and relating and coming together as a community
um Egypt cop 27 is happening there by the way they call Egypt a military and U.N State
they don't like being called just a military state so um yeah cop 27 is happening there
um it's a pivotal moment every year we know this it's politicians and scientists coming
together to make laws for the future and promises for the future that I think a lot of people
in the Arts world and in the gl
obal South and all around the world are pretty upset
about because they're not Progressive enough and they're not moving fast enough and that's
not on the necessarily on the politician's shoulders it's just we've got to make radical
change and we've got to make it now and it's not happening fast enough um so last year's
cop will happened in Glasgow which brought together a lot of amazing human beings in
the cultural sector and it really was um this we're calling the the New Movement culture
cop
um and it's a movement for everybody to join into by the way this is this is a really
a collective let's let's make change together um and it kind of stemmed from many years
of different companies working in the cultural sector wanting to do things in in the the
climate sector and now we're doing it in a big way at Cup this year it's called culture
cup we're going to be in the Blue Zone we're going to be in the green zone we're going
to be all over Charmin we're actually hosting a big celebratio
n in the desert in the Sinai
desert very very close to where Moses was handed his Ten Commandments um but all of
our focus is around bringing people from around the world into the Forefront of the political
conversations into the the eyes and for politicians to witness what's going on on the Forefront
around the world Lucy has been championing um the side from the um Elders wisdom Keepers
and Indigenous communities we've got celebrations we've got ceremonies happening um for the
core crew for ev
erybody coming for our guests and it's really it's it's a moment to really
put our feet in the sand feel the Earth and come together through prayer through catharsis
falling back in love with the world finding ways to come together to fall back in love
with the world whilst acting and through artifism so thank you Tate for having us here to be
able to talk about this opportunity and please get in touch if you want to be part of something
that we hope will be a big family of people wanting to mak
e change um and we have the
assembly on the 31st which is going to be online and it's going to be translated to
simultaneously um and yeah you can join register online we have
already a few hundred people coming culture Corp assembly and you can find the links in
whatever our Social Media stuff so the online assembly is the kind of starting point to
ask the questions of what culture can do to make change and we're inviting all culture
makers or humans that want to be part of this to join us onli
ne this Monday and then we
will be live in Egypt over cop do we have time for Lucy to explain what's happening
with the um wisdom Keepers in Egypt or should we you got one minute you can do it what I said earlier but um you know having
Ceremonies for ourselves but also for the Earth and really kind of praying for the Earth
and and that's why all these wisdom Keepers and Indigenous elders and the indigenous youth
are also coming in because they really still have that holistic view that we have ki
nd
of Forgotten and also looking at culture as a much bigger thing because culture is everything
it's the way we are with each other it's our biodiversity it's it's the way we behave it's
the values we put in it's it's everything so I think really reminding that we have to
yeah be very careful of every step we do of every thought we think and and put in a lot
of Joy because that's super important right now we just need lots of joy and celebration
so Culture Club culture cup to bring hope and Tru
th uh thank you everyone thank you
for the pay thank you so much thank you audience [Applause] uh you have a half an hour break so go mingle
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uh yes thank you for coming
to the second um the second talk um here after we had a wonderful one with um Felipe Lucy
and Sophie and I'm absolutely delighted to have um Angela Camacho here the Bonita Chola
so can everyone give her a clap just to warm us up laughs [Applause] um so Angela is a
very special person and yeah amazing person I think and she's an artist she's also a domestic
worker as well and she's an ancestor in the making and a bruja is that correct I tried I tried so um obviously t
his is um
this talk is linked into the work of Cecilia of vucuna and this is very important for the
latinx community and it's such a powerful piece and as we heard earlier when um we came
for the ritual to launch this where Cecilia took us around and she said this was 50 years
in the making for her to have this exhibition so it's important I'm from I'm a trustee of
Earth percent which is a charity in the music industry trying to get all that money that
the music industry says they have show off
that they have and to put that towards institutions
organizations and people to make the climate better because we're extracting money and
we're extracting resources from the Earth to make these profits we should put it back
when we're degrading it so that's what um my role is um with a percent and this is a
platform when this opportunity came about is to highlight um people individual um indigen
especially indigenous voices people who are real true artists whether they are doing it
fully fully
nine to five or or not but really rooted in community and everything and especially
to have Cecilia as um as a latinx and as a and how she puts feminist voices forward so
it's important now a chance to show off the work of Angela Bonita chola thank you so um so it was a little little
journey I had to go through two people to find you Angela isn't that correct yes because
I don't reply emails you know like my grandma teach me well so I don't talk to strangers
but I tend not to reply emails open m
y email or DMS or like if if I don't know you or you
don't know my inner circle other people that I work with I just don't don't go outside
my community to do work my work is for my community and by my community so it doesn't
make any sense to go outside of that yeah absolutely and um to the people to blame for
me getting to Angela one of them here Farah Ahmed here so thank you and Angela Chan I'm
not sure whether she's here yet but those are the two individuals and I think that's
very important
um to have that connection and so most people will know this um Instagram
page as you can see there's um quite a few followers there so you set this up when you
set this up like why did you set it up just for fun or the account and I've been in social
media especially IG um yeah started like a journal so it was a private account for like
a long time so I will just Journal there and as part of like my mental health and I write
somewhere like my experience as a micron and documented single mom so
Wireless excoriation
and like all like random stuff so I would just take pictures and like ride there and
just put my heart there and with the time like other friends that they work with like
youth Latins use or like migrant youth or like incarceration survival like domestic
abuse they will tell me oh can you just you know let this person in your IG I just send
them so they can see like you know how they can analyze um those traumas and like how
to like pass by that and maybe three years ago I
opened the account and because a lot
of friends ask me like usually really open I usually reopen it and make it like a public
and at that time I started doing like collage as well as a medium like just to like do things
and just to Archive to create an archive of like land Defenders and Indigenous like Warriors
and because we didn't have that here in Europe in the global North and there is a big community
that I need that kind of archive Milestones are following me in IG so I was like yeah
I'm g
onna teach you something and then he vlogged me about whatever and randomly he
was like oh my God you know what and I I was very cool what you pause and this and that
and then he realized why and that he just didn't follow me so he doesn't follow me anymore
but whatever yes but that's why I start the account just to Archive to to have a beautiful
um like beautiful something beautiful like for us like this beautiful yeah so this is
um Angela's um page here and as you can see so when you just said
oh I just started doing
collages that's it was me I'd have a cereal box and some glue but look at this how did
you come up with this idea and why collage as opposed to say I know you did some videos
so why why this well I guess because I couldn't sit down on a table and do collage with paper
I work full time as a domestic worker and I have back in the day all the hustles at
the top of that so I I couldn't sit down like I need to work I work as a nanny and so I'm
always on the move so it needs t
o be on my phone so all those collages are done in my
phone there is no like you know I never had a computer until like two years ago because
someone gave me one and like you know like I'm broke so like most of migrants and single
moms like whatever I wasn't documented for several years as well so all those collage
are done in my phone with two or three free apps I don't do I don't even know what's the
name of this fancy fancy like design like programs or whatever like but yeah I just
by the top
of that when I was doing a lot of organizing in relation with the global
sub and civilis in the front line uh I will send like complicated images that friends
will help me to do in computers and they will go like wow we cannot use that image because
the you know it's a it's very heavy for my phone so I cannot even open it so the teaching
was that know everyone has you know access to like Fast Wi-Fi no one has especially in
the global South I like to like new phones or whatever iPhone you is now
so I have you
have to be like very light image it needs to be impact you have like you know you need
to be like catchy something that we always talk in the organizers like circles back home
it's like you know like the right wing is very fast it's very like capitalism imperialism
is very like fast to create image fast to like all the and it's very catchy and beautiful
but then we don't have the access we don't know how to do that or like we just don't
don't have the equipment to the resources so
the idea of starting to do collages in
my phone with free apps it was just to do that to start creating that narrative that
is going to be catchy this is when I like attract Youth and like new people just to
start doing you know Social Work especially social justice climate Justice and all the
justice that we need and a couple of times when I went to Latin America I teach like
different groups how to do this collage and how they can use the phone to edit and this
and that that's amazing and it
has it's been noted it's been noticed and noted and if we
look at this this is city city of the city women of London and it was um Emma Watson
and Reni Edo Lodge and if any of you any of you from the latinx community if you just
made some noise so what stop is that the Bonita troller which
one does that relate to there we go yeah so we had um Angela here so for elephant and
Castle um because I think it's a it's a really interesting thing with how you can use um
how you can use these different so
someone might look and it's like very pretty so on
the surface okay I like it because it's pretty but having had this wonderful conversation
when we when we met um a few weekends ago and then you were talking about what's behind
all of these images and what's deeper and it's it's interesting this so these are a
few things which I picked out so there's there's information Behind These images [Laughter]
[Music] so what's this so again so if like this post or this picture okay another thing
that I
've been doing a lot is like I translate um resources and most of these resources they
are in English sometimes strangely yes so this is the auto translate because I can't
speak oh no oh no but no like yeah this is in English yes but I translate a lot of like
resources to Spanish so we can like you know spread this information in Latin America and
for Latin Latin American people that speaks Spanish yeah I just yeah that's why I do my
evaluation okay well done and then what's fascinating as well
is again it's it's also
a celebration isn't it so and this is this is my picture which I thought this represents
a celebration of this what you made your collage I think so the collages go back to remember
pictures of my grandma and my grandma regalia all her life like this is my regalia part
and but you know because I'm not Fuller I don't wear this clothes every day like my
grandma she raised me and I remember her pictures and she didn't have very happy pictures when
she was with her regalia sh
e was very humble she was very humble regalia and the only two
pictures that she has back home because before she migrated they know they were they weren't
pretty and when I was a child I remember that I was very ashamed and embarrassed of my indigenous
Legacy the Legacy that I grew up with like you know in the back patio will my grandma
and Auntie will talk catch while I would like that they will cook the traditional dishes
and the music and all the celebrations we were like still follow the in
digenous calendar
and like all this all that so one of the things when I started doing the the collage the first
pictures it was me and it was my one of my cousins here and it was my grandma and the
intention behind that was to create an archive when my ancestors they were beautiful so like
just to like yellow just thinking in the future like thinking in my soul my great-grandchildren
like Jesus hi Teresa okay [Music] um it was just that it's
just like you know like just normally I say yes I'm a
n ancestor in the making so it's
just that they go like three four generations and I want to have an archive that is going
to be beautiful I don't want my great great grandchildren to look at a picture of me and
go like oh my gosh she looks so sad like I want my kids to look up to something that
is beautiful and it's glorious and it's you know like great so that's why I started to
put all the flowers and all the colors and I'm a very colorful person anyways I guess
that's you know in in my jeans
as well my people is very colorful so those those is
what how I started this and again like you know at home in my phone I'm going to work
at five in the morning or so and yeah [Applause] that's beautiful so yeah there's the family
side and then also there's the the amplification um I think we skipped to slow but anyway yeah
amplification of this yes one of the the work that I've been doing and that we've been doing
loads of like lettings and people of like the indigenous they asked for in the
whole
Global north um it's just like we Amplified and that we support uh and we resist for life
from the diaspora and and one of the things that we've been doing is just that I like
just amplify the voices Amplified what's going on like sadly and not sadly version is part
of the whole like white supremacy system like that not inform the global North or the diasporas
in the global North uh us like migrants they ask for us in the global North like what's
going on in the global South because if we
disconnect for that knowledge We're not gonna
go on boat we don't want to go and care we don't wanna and then you know the machine
will keep going and going and going like this weekend like it's gonna be like the election
in Brazil and we all want bolsonaro out of course and yeah but the the see and you will
like don't think that it's important or not like some people don't realize when you are
in the diaspora like how important the migrant boat is like there is a lot of homosexuals
exiled like
there is like a big community of Exile people like a lot a big like the
percentage of that that boat is very very important and one of the things that the whole
system does is not feed us the right information so we don't vote and we don't care and you
know the machine keeps going and keeps going so part of the work not only me because the
page I don't know how no one because everyone has the password like there
is time maybe like 100 people in the account like you know for like Ecuador Colombia
Bolivia
like people just take cover or do lives and they just send me a DMO you know what I'm
gonna be in the page this week okay cool and like okay and but that's the idea the idea
was three years ago well we didn't have presence in in social media as indigenous people just
to create platforms just to create a spaces where we can do these things we can do Amplified
and it's not only like just to amplify information is it is it was about well to about care because
a lot of people in the global
South in the front lines and a lot of compass they just
don't sometimes they feel they're not being seen from people in the global North like
the news is not like Crossing they like that immediatica well whatever like there is a barrier with
the news so like sometimes you know whatever marches they do whatever things they do whatever
protesters do they use the thing the news I think cross that barrier and again because
it fits the whole machine the same thing that if it happens here it happens i
n the Lower
South you know the same people owns the newspapers the media and everything so it's a whole Monopoly
of information so one of the the work that that's the page is to start just to create
that curious world you know you know what I see you I mean I'm very very far far away
but here there is a whole community that we actually see you and that feeling of care
that we can give each other is is one of the pillar of how we organize as well yeah and
actually so this was still in the celebra
te because it's all interlinked these words I
just pick some words because I had to make something pretty for Angela but so this is
in the amplification as well so there's there's this okay now as for the cup again like celebrating
different leaders and like putting the voice out what was going on in the cup 25 and that
was you know the whole thing is as well just to like give information to use here and to
the community here to know who is this people to know what's happening and in a fast way
in a catchy way and that's Helena hawolinga from Ecuador fantastic so I mean we've seen
this side of it and for one artist that should be enough but there's more and we've got a
little video as well where um not only are you good with the the images you've also got
oh God I didn't edit the video that's okay I don't know you can't do it oh but yeah so
these this is um your poetry would you say it's your words we'll just play it is [Music] foreign foreign tejos pasos [Music] foreign [Music] so yea
h um I mean there's so much you could talk about
that but I put um collaborative um wisdom in the same way because how we say okay even
there's something you said to me in terms of where you reclaim sovereignty so obviously
now we're in London but then it doesn't mean that there should be a disconnect if you're
currently just in the global North and then people and again not to put up a barrier so
yeah what would you say about the collaboration here do you want me to answer you or do you
want th
e true of why I made that video what do people want history stories okay I'm gonna
like reply what you say but yeah I truly believe that I'm the extension of my territory directly
sovereignty with my only personal existence I'm not white in Latin America there is why
people lots of them and like Wherever I Go people will ask me where I'm from here in
the global North or when I'm back home to they will go like what yeah you're from here
you go yeah well from here my family's been here for 500 yea
rs but it's nothing I can
do about I try very hard to be white very very hard it didn't work out in Latin America
I was like I really want to be why it's not working anyways so like but then yeah but
and then just I just understood we like with like knowing um how do you say compa in English
sorry camarada comrade okay um because I mean I
love cameras back home online because we know like you know it's organizing I just learned
with them with that like in a way that we share knowledge and unders
tand that I'm the
extension of my territory and I don't work the work that I do is like how is over there
like I work for where I'm from but I'm here so like it's that's why sometimes I feel so
awkward in these spaces um or why I never leave my community and all my work is only
for my community by Community my community and the reality of them what I made that is
because I want the money and like not for me this was three years ago this was three
years ago so Bolivian uprising we lost democracy
in a Flink and the monument is more it was
just down socialist movement and with Eva Morales our first indigenous president elected
democratically in the whole of Ayala which is now Latin America and Ariana Guzman is
a social leader she's one yeah she's a socialist a very well known one of the first person
that put the war out or was happening in Bolivia because it happened very quick in like 48
Hours it was just like yeah military coup and she was literally running for her life
and we need mone
y so another friend I don't know if he's here Carlos was doing something
in some Fancy Pants University some art stuff and he was like look we I need to create this
and I was like hola you have money it's like yeah I need money I was like okay what what
for like well like I don't know what I'm gonna do but I need money how much money is this
is money oh that's good money Okay cool so it's like we're gonna send it back to Bolivia
for like the resistance I'm like okay cool what are you gonna do I
don't know like how
big is the space it's very big okay good I'm gonna do a video on projection and that's
it like cheap easy and then I because in Latin America there is a whole networking of resistance
which people might think that it doesn't exist but always Invisalign or whatever because
of the media blockage that we have that barrier but it's very well organized it's just like
amazingly well organized in every single corner like we are organizing and even though that
organizing it goes acro
ss borders because resistance has no borders so like even here
we are organizing to support back in abayala so I call a friend I call another friend you
know what I need a camera I'm gonna do this I'm gonna write some poetry I write something
at your appointment I don't know maybe yeah it looks like I need to be one and it was
very beautiful because at the same time some camera some people I was filming from Argentina
was in Bolivia with Adriana so they agreed to work for free so Adriana can get
the coins
and then some other people was somewhere in I don't know somewhere in Africa I don't remember
which country and they were like yeah we can edit too cool and then a lot of people came
together and the sound and this and that other people feel me here and they go how are we
gonna do it I don't know I think they will be like a general me walking in different
territories and I talk a little bit with her over the phone and she was like what do you
want to do I'm gonna write this and and th
en you know you're gonna be in your in your territory
so she was in the mountains at that time and I'm going to be in my territory and then when
I was explaining this to the people who was filming they were like oh my God what territory
over this London is my territory under this city even though that we are in the belly
of the Beast like there is a territory to defend and where I work and where I am I am
the station I'm the extension of DIY Ayala so on based on that that came that video that
we
we sorted out this in one week because we want the money and then we just send the
money back to Rihanna she could pay rent like and you know we're all happy and that was
it that was what happened [Applause] I will there are a few more videos which I'll just
run through and then we'll go to a q a um and so at this point what I'd say is in terms
of what I do in terms of um lifting up different um voices well people of color across the
board and actually Angela was in um wretched of the Australia
n wretched of the Earth again
which is talking about this cross community cross community thing so it's you know in
Latin communities African and of course everywhere Asia is bringing everyone together um and
the one thing which I would say is we need to see like art like this we need to hear
stories about this and we need to give the people money to do this like real money I'm
not talking to chump change where it's like all right here's a couple hundred pounds or
something because the whole wor
ld needs to hear these stories and it doesn't it shouldn't
rest on people to have to run around to pull it together imagine how rich are we we would
be if galleries such as here and museums everywhere else we could see all of this because this
is what's happening in real time and it's back to what Felipe said is as well when you're
talking about sacred or talk about indigenous it's not just historical looking back it's
what's happening now and what tools which in what you're using Angela and dif
ferent
tools so I'll just flip through these things this is like this app that you made IG put it down because IG doesn't like me
but we've got it here for you it was just again like a way of like um amplifying what's
going on and to use like you know like the the youth like resources because politicize
like young people is key to the social movement so I with a lot of friends and a lot of people
that we're trying to create resources we just thought like you know what like we're gonna
do this wh
at do you think yeah we need to do this they go like oh maybe we tick tock
yeah I'm not gonna though you're gonna do Tick Tock I'm too old for that but yeah that
we do a lot of filters and with the help of all the like uh camera rides and yeah one
of the filters I used to go like two million people using it or something like that so
I was like oh that's cute so it can be fun as well um then empowerment which you've touched
upon as well before again kids workshop so I'm just wondering 2016. that'
s because exactly you've been doing
the exactly but your star that's why we have to have this stuff over here you did your
homework yeah and more recently okay that's in United voices of the world
that's um Workers Union most of them cleaners but they have like all across like different
like kind of jobs and I'm doing this do you want to know the true okay this is always
two or three stories um the truth is like I need money I need money for my Visa I'm
gonna apply my Visa in May it's a ton of m
oney like yeah like this day is pushing me to poverty
and to pay something necessary but anyways um we apply for these other fancy thing like
for some like our president something like that and because I need that money so I actually
put in Instagram I mean so like transparency with money is very important and ski with
my community because I'm doing work with Community knowledge so when I get paid by institutions
I go like you know what they're gonna pay me this amount but I need to keep it beca
use
I need the money for my Visa this time sometimes I can pay people that helps me or like you
know like redistribute that money but when I went to talk to the people the woman of
the Union I explained everything that we're gonna do and the idea is just to create a
space where like it's intergenerational so like all the ladies of the Union can learn
to solve people exercise and having a space you know a warm Pace where we can have like
care winter is coming it's cold so and there is no spaces i
n our community for them so
we're just doing sewing I can pitch sewing so when I apply for this um residency that
they pick me for this residency I fooled them to pick me which is cool because I need I
never apply for anything but I went to the union to ask them like you know like you know
like can we do this with you it's important because it was something to do with elephant
and Castle The Residency and like how to rehabitate some fancy War to rehabit the elephant and
Castle have Latin America
and it was very cool it's a very cool um thing so when I went
to the union um the woman's in the union they went straight like you know like you know like these are like women from the
Wario you know it's not like you know you need to give me something like why are you
gonna get you somebody you know what yeah you know I know and I'm gonna get some money
but I need it for me and this is what's going on and I can give you a workshops I can I
believe that it should be when you work with Community
knowledge and it should be like
a republic City I need to give something back if I'm gonna take something because that's
what I did and that's why we agree to do a session of workshops like four workshops and
because I have a lot of fun anyways I go like you know what I'm gonna do this every month
because it's so cool and if we put music and like we just learn to sew in most of the woman
that they join they have their own dancing groups almost chip just was there um what
means was there so ther
e are all all these warm and they had their own dancing group
so the idea is to create to create which I don't know how to say that something like that what she say yeah creates
a community well I create a community by a place where you can go and saw because I don't
know no one I don't know like back home everyone has a sewing machine everyone has to stop
here people don't do that so I thought like this is something that we can set up in different
spaces in the community and yeah that's that th
at happens every Saturday now so um we we've definitely run over um but
I again we we needed to hear this it's fantastic what you're doing you know as a as an individual
as an ancestor in the making and also for the community um now and as an artist because
this is Art this is all the same way as the Instagram is here people need to see this
you know and people need to make sure the the money and the funding and the sport goes
to people to do this to you know to do stuff which when I watch it it
enriches my life
which is fantastic so it's just been massive privilege to yeah just to talk to you uh just
now and um we've got time for one question [Music] is there one is there one question Hi how can American Community is doing in terms of
being united here in the UK that's a very hard question because we're not very United
to be honest we're still like in the you know bus of like nationalism which is very understandable
and we come from a very Colonial setting from back home but I do see
that there is a lot
of work that a lot of people in the community has been doing for like several years several
25 30 35 years even more to unify us as a whole and and that work is finally showing
up and you will see now when like there is uprises in Latin America and we need to go
and do a march here we need to go and do a picket here you will see for example when
it was the uprising for Colombia and there were a lot of Bolivian people there because
I will go with my aunties and cousins and stu
ff like that and people from everywhere
so after I like Decades of work we are standing to like understand that we are a whole territory
with no borders and like we need to Herman arnos and renosotres foreign [Applause] thank
you and how do you think we can achieve that okay I was like yeah I finished let's go home
hey how no no like that it's been happening like I think so like as a gold Latin American
Community if you just bought Latin American community in whatever social media that you
can r
each you will have like an Auntie or an uncle or a prima or someone organizing
something I will say to achieve is just to make yourself active like go and organize
whatever it is to be honest as long as you can talk about politics and politicize yourself
is an organist it's like a way of organizing you can just you know like do some something
to cook in your house and I just start talking about politics and then slowly you go like
oh are you unionized it's like no you know okay cool usually you'
re in a union or simple
things I always ask it's just like oh my God yeah like you are I don't know like from Ecuador
yes are you involved to vote you'll both you know
like and stuff like that like very simple things and you can just activate other people
like yourself thank you thank you very much for all of you
for coming to attend this thank you for the question um and thank you for your presence
everyone here and it's been absolute pleasure to have um Angela Camacho the Bonita Chola
here and
next time because there's one there's one interesting point
in terms of a discourse which which we have is when we talk about decolonizing spaces
when we look at museums and Galleries and other things where there's been in bronzes
all this stuff which was taken stolen from other places to fill up space other different
spaces across this country and across the global North and people say oh why why why
shouldn't we send them back well you should because it's stolen so send it back but then
we ha
ve stuff right here when you look at all of this why is this not this is our history
you know this is our history we're both in London this is what's living and breathing
next time I see you Angela I want to see this actually in the gallery spaces somewhere that's
what we should give people the money to do this and this is what we should have here
to bring some sort of unity here and to hear these stories and everything so yeah I'll
see you in a gallery somewhere thank you Angela Camacho La Boni
ta chola thank you [Music] um [Music] thank you very much thank you happy birthday thank you hello [Music] foreign hahaha excuse me um foreign remember [Music] foreign foreign foreign foreign foreign foreign was a learning about it yeah so if you know it is now I wanted the same get the drink yeah um I thought about it it's kind of fair enough
really yeah you know it's not um foreign crew here yeah because you've got three three years is your is your oh you don't have an iPhone I
was going to sa
y because sometimes if someone messages that's weird Lauren sorry Sarah please I knew your name that's
all right quickly do I talk into no I just I'm thinking oh interesting I did not do that don't worry
it's because I've gotten it because I'm on my own so it's not a conversation so I've
got notes [Music] because it's just because we have one but
why would you want to use it because she's got notes as well so to hold their mouths
just because I'm on my own it's not a conversations I have to have
no but if you think this is
better I'll find a way first otherwise we could have gotten your mindset
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evening my name is Sarah Schenker and I am a campaigner at survival International which
is th
e global movement for tribal peoples we work with tribal and Indigenous peoples
around the world fighting for their land rights and for their survival um thanks so much to
the Tate and to Cecilia vicuna for inviting us to be a part of this amazing project and
it's great to see so many of you here and hello also to those of you who are watching
online and for the next half an hour we're going to go on a journey around Brazil we
are going to zoom in on some of the amazing ways of indigenous people
s in Brazil and some
of the lessons that we must all learn from them and also the fierce challenges they face
these are challenges that we all need to combat alongside them it's one of the most urgent
fights of our time and through this journey we're going to be accompanied by five indigenous
people from Brazil and these are people who are on the front line of that fight um the
videos that we're going to see are part of survival's tribal voice project which provides
a platform and encourages ind
igenous people around the world to speak out to an international
audience in many languages and to ensure Global visibility that visibility is Step number
one in the fight for their land rights and step number two is of course using that attention
once people's eyes and ears and hearts have been opened using that attention and turning
into real action and since survival was founded in 1969 we've seen time and again the international
public opinion is by far the best Force for lasting change to m
ake the world a better
place for indigenous peoples um the indigenous people of Brazil are of course Brazil's first
peoples there are around a million indigenous people in Brazil today and they make up more
than 300 different peoples including more than a hundred uncontacted tribes who avoid
all contact with Outsiders and they're all over the country in all of Brazil's biomes
including the Amazon rainforest the sehadu scrub Forest the Atlantic forest and also
there are thousands of indigenous pe
ople living in urban areas in Brazil their lands are supposed
to be demarcated that means that the government is supposed to officially map them out identify
them and recognize them for the exclusive use of indigenous peoples that's written into
Brazil's Constitution and of course before colonization the whole country was inhabited
by indigenous peoples exclusively today 14 of the land is demarcated as indigenous territories
and there are lots of indigenous lands that aren't yet demarcated as we
're soon going
to see of course indigenous peoples in Brazil and globally are the best guardians of their
land um they've been expertly molding and looking after that land for Millennia and
as a result indigenous territories are the most biodiverse places on Earth indigenous
peoples are protecting 80 percent of our planet's biodiversity and they are by far our best
allies in the fight against climate change so in Brazil and Beyond the best and the cheapest
way to ensure that that biodiversity ca
n continue to thrive is to uphold indigenous land rights
and also to reject Colonial conservation projects like nature-based Solutions including carbon
credits and the 30 by 30 plan which is a proposal to convert 30 percent of the earth's land
and seas into so-called protected areas by the year 2030 this would be the biggest land
grab in history these proposals are being pushed by governments and big conservation
organizations in clear violation of indigenous people's rights and in some parts of
the world
indigenous peoples are being evicted tortured and killed in the name of conservation so
back to Brazil and where their lands are kept free of Outsiders um indigenous territories
in some parts of Brazil and Beyond are islands of green surrounded by deforestation look
at Google Earth look at Brazil and zoom out so that you can see the whole face of the
Earth and you'll be able to see those islands of green there it's incredible and one of
those islands of green is the arari Boya indigen
ous territory in maranao state in northeastern
Brazil and now we're going to hear from our friend Olympus who lives there uh um okay yeah um [Music] okay foreign [Music] okay special as a vision um [Music] foreign Olympia was actually in Europe recently so
some of you may have seen him speaking at some of the events that we did together he
was on a quite a unique campaign tour and um in the video obviously he's outlined some
of the many ways in which indigenous peoples look after their lands and
they do that not
as a chore but as an intrinsic part of who they are and how they live and of course their
landsaties explained their lands provide everything that they need their food their medicine their
shelter and their spiritual center and so of course they deeply respect that land and
nurture it and Olympia is also an Amazon Guardian the Guardians are groups of indigenous people
who actively go and Patrol their forests and look for the loggers and evict them from those
territories and sen
d them away and across the country indigenous land protection initiatives
are evolving constantly and more and more of them are emerging and they wouldn't be
necessary if the Brazilian government was abiding by its own Constitution and keeping
Invaders out of these territories and also complying with international law but of course
that's not happening and instead indigenous territories are being stolen and destroyed
for logging Mining and agribusiness meaning in the name of big profit and the f
orests
and the lives of the people who live there are being destroyed this genocide is being
fueled by global markets of course and by the international demand for wood oil and
gas gold Etc and other Commodities and it's a global issue and we're all responsible for
stopping it and now we're going to hear from Clara guarani she lives in matogros De Soul
state in central western Brazil on the border with Paraguay and remember that that part
of South America the southern part of South America was o
nce inhabited by more than one
and a half million guarani people of different ethnic subgroups and they and the survivors
today call their land the tekoha which means the land without evil foreign foreign [Music] foreign foreign it's not psyches how important indigenous scene my side is foreign [Applause] when you travel around Clara's region you
see kilometers kilometers kilometers on end of um massive soil plantations and sugarcane
plantations and cattle ranches colossal cattle ranches and the
y're all on guarani land and
in the meantime the guarania living crammed into these tiny reserves and roadside camps
with really appalling living conditions no space to hunt or fish or plant obviously no
clean water um soaring rates of malnutrition and suicide as a result of the theft of that
land and some guarani people including Clara's family are living on Tiny patches of forest
that they have reoccupied from the ranches so tired and desperate of waiting for the
government to do its job and r
eturn the land to them they've actively decided to go back
to it and reoccupy parts of it and of course that often results in violence from the ranchers
who send their gunmen to attack the communities and kill their leaders and of course the current
Brazilian government the bolsonaro government is actively encouraging this land theft and
this violence president bolsonaro and his agribusiness allies declared war on indigenous
peoples the day they took office on the 1st of January 2019 and since t
hen indigenous
peoples have faced the most racist and anti-indigenous government since the military dictatorship
in Brazil the destruction of the Amazon rainforest and other biomes across Brazil has skyrocketed
under the bolsonaro government over the last three years the average rate of destruction
of forests was 11 400 and 405 square kilometers per year that's an area larger than the size
of Jamaica every year being destroyed and that rate is 75 percent higher than the average
of the previous 1
0 years and at the same time attacks on indigenous communities have soared
as have the numbers of killings of indigenous people on the front line and their allies
and those killed in recent months and years include Paulo Paulo and Janelle de guajajara
Amazon Guardians Vito Fernandez guarani who was killed by military police in the Guapo
e Massacre and marsu Moreira guarani who was killed soon after um in the north of the Brazilian Amazon near
the Venezuelan border the indigenous expert Bruno Per
eira and the British journalist Dom
Phillips and so many others will always remember them all and will push for their Killers to
be brought to Justice and will continue for what they and we believe in which is a world
where indigenous peoples are respected as the Contemporary societies that they are and
their lands protected so that they can survive and thrive and live in the way that they choose and one of the most horrific forms of invasion
of indigenous territories in Brazil is for illegal mi
ning um it's happening on the lands
of the anomami people the kayapoor the munduruku and many other peoples across the country
and let's now watch a video of Alessandra munduruku pajama is [Music] Brazil foreign foreign foreign extremely determined and I mean she's received
so many death threats her house has been raided but she says she's not going to stop fighting
because she and her people can't depend on any government to adequately protect their
territories um and as well as having to confr
ont the shocking impacts of illegal mining and
also the severe health problems that that brings Alessandra and others are also having
to fight on another level they're having to Lobby against the mining Bill the mining bill
in Brazil some of you may have heard about it it's one of the many extremely dangerous
draft bills and Constitutional Amendments at the bolsonaro government has been trying
desperately to push through and this mining bill would open up indigenous territories
to large-scale mi
ning including by multinational companies and it would be devastating for
indigenous territories Nationwide so survival is campaigning alongside indigenous peoples
against the mining bill against all of these other dangerous proposals and plans and later
on you'll see how you can join as well of all the indigenous peoples threatened by
Mining and the other forms of land theft uncontacted tribes stand to lose the most whole peoples
could be wiped out they're the most vulnerable peoples on the pla
net and they can be decimated
by disease to which they have no resistance or by violence at the hands of Outsiders this
has happened too many times the last time that it happened was recently a few months
ago a man in the tanaru Indigenous territory who was the last survivor of his people who
had been massacred by Invaders he died he was known as the last of his tribe so with
his death was the end of that people we don't know their name he is a symbol of this genocide
and also a symbol of resist
ance of uncontacted tribes who are so determined to live uncontacted
they show very clearly that that's what they want and when their lands are protected from
Outsiders they can survive and thrive and that's what's got to happen to prevent this
from happening again to prevent other uncontacted tribes from being completely wiped out so
now we're going to watch a video that I filmed with our friend Hita pilip Kura here on the
edge of her people's territory in hondonia state in the western Brazilia
n Amazon Rita
is a survivor of numerous massacres in which many of her relatives were killed almost all
of her relatives were killed actually she does now have contact with non-indigenous
people but her brother and her nephew are uncontacted in the forest foreign [Music] foreign I don't know foreign Hanton Montana foreign indigenous territory is actually one of the
territories which has not yet been demarcated and ins instead it's got what they call a
land protection order on it which is an emer
gency mechanism that funai the indigenous Affairs
Department of the Brazilian government can use to keep Invaders out in theory of indigenous
territories where uncontacted tribes live if they haven't yet been demarcated as per
the full system uh and the problem is one of many problems for these seven territories
with these land protection orders in Brazil is that the bolsonaro government has been
desperately trying to rip up these orders and has the backing of local politicians including
Zakia M
ourinho and others who are really fiercely anti-indigenous and want to completely open
up these territories which would of course mean the end for the people who live there
and so together with allies in Brazil we've been campaigning intensively for more than
a year now for these land protection orders to be upheld and renewed when they expire
and Against All Odds we have succeeded in pushing the Brazilian government to renew
these orders but there's a long way to go obviously that's one step th
e next step is
to make sure the Invaders are actually kept out of the territories and to fully demarcate
them as the Constitution um obliges so yeah so of course indigenous peoples have been
fighting back against all of this since the Europeans invaded and colonized the Americas
over 500 years ago and they remind us every day that they won't stop now and as well as
the forest Guardians and many other indigenous land defense initiatives that are happening
and that are led by indigenous people on
the front line on their lands on top of that of
course the indigenous movement is also resisting on a national level and as you know on Sunday
Brazilians will vote in the second round of the presidential election whose result will
be incredibly important for indigenous peoples especially uncontacted tribes it's a really
really tense moment um obviously uncontacted people don't know that there's a man called
bolsonaro they don't know that there's a man called Lula but the difference between the
t
wo could have an existential impact for them and during this election we've seen an unprecedented
number of indigenous candidates running for positions in Congress as some of you may have
seen and Sonia guajajara and Celia here were elected as Congress women so there'll be an
important force in terms of bringing the indigenous land rights question to the center of political
debate in Brasilia and let's now hear from Celia this is a video filmed at the accompamento
Teja Libre the free Land Camp i
ndigenous protest in Brasilia in April 2019 so just a few months
after bolsonaro came into power because [Music] it is [Music] [Applause] foreign people around Brazil are calling for more
support from people around the world and you can join them I'd encourage everybody to join
them it works from the demarcation of the Yanomami territory that I mentioned before
in Northern Brazil which is the largest forested indigenous territory in the world to the eviction
of thousands of illegal loggers from
the AWA indigenous territory in maranao state in the
northeastern Brazilian Amazon and the stopping the halting of dangerous laws and proposals
that the bolsonaro government and other governments have been trying to push through we we see
constantly that Brazilian and international public opinion and pressure succeed time and
again so I invite you to scan this QR code if you'd like um and join the global campaign
to stop Brazil's genocide and allow uncontacted tribes to survive you'll see on the
web page
that there are so many different types of actions that you can take you can spread indigenous
people's own demands and join our urgent campaign actions and make a donation for indigenous
peoples land Protection work and all sorts of other things that you can do as well so
please do join the survival of indigenous peoples and of our shared Planet depends on
it thank you so much thank you all right thanks everyone I'm told we have
time for one question if anybody has one question oh sorr
y oh sorry I no okay change of plan
no questions right no so thank you very much um Sarah for that firm
survival International and I want to thank everybody uh for coming here the Tate uh climate
Arts activism talks with Earth percent you can find out more about Earth percent at earthperscent.org
and to all the speakers um Felipe viveros Lucy Martins hosts by Sophie snap Angela Camacho
um La bodita Chola and then here um we have sir from survival International here talking
so yeah thank you ever
ybody and do take a chance to look at Cecilia vikunya's um installation
in turbine Hall which is what we're linking this all to and using art to raise indigenous
feminists voices across the world so thank you everyone thank you
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