Screening of ‘Brazil Tupinambá’ in support of the Brazilian National Indigenous Mobilization
In the last 4 years, the struggle of indigenous communities in Brazil have been intensified in the face of the genocidal actions carried out by the current Brazilian government. Bolsonaro’s policies have been promoting death, ethnocide, ecocide and genocide of indigenous communities and protected areas. Brazil is living in its most destructive period of the last 34 years of democracy in the country. Filmhuis Cavia alongside the Collective Amsterdam For Democracy in Brazil – in response and solidarity to this tragic situation – is organizing two screenings that aim to raise funds for the participation of the Tupinambá de Olivença indigenous community from Ilhéus, South of Bahia, in a large protest taking place in mid-June in Brasília. This historical protest aims to bring together several indigenous communities against the necropolitics of the Brazilian government.
On the 4th and 12th of June at 20:00, we will be screening at Filmhuis Cavia in Amsterdam, the documentary ‘Brasil Tupinambá’ (Celene Fonseca, 2022, 55min). Five hundred years after the arrival of Portuguese colonial rule, the Tupinambás reaffirmed an identity that seemed lost, in order to regain their own territory and emerge from subalternity in modern day Brazil. The documentary portrays their history, struggles and conquests throughout this process. A virtual Q&A will follow with Cacique Ramon Tupinambá. All ticket sales will be reverted to donations.
Below is a direct message from the Tupinambás de Olivença to the international community.
” From 18th to 30th June, we, Tupinambás de Olivença from the South of Bahia, will need to join the other native peoples of Brazil in the country’s capital, in order to continue our journey of struggle against the threat of dispossession of our territory due to a newly proposed bill in the Brazilian Supreme Court, the ‘Marco Temporal’.
The ‘Marco Temporal’ is a legal bill proposal that defends a change in the policy of demarcation of indigenous lands in Brazil. According to this thesis, only the indigenous people who were already occupying their lands at the time of the promulgation of the Federal Constitution, on October 5, 1988, can claim the right to their land. This does not take into account the internal migration and forced displacement of indigenous communities over the last decades, thus being part of a ruralists and landowners’ strategy to stop the advance of indigenous territories’ demarcation in Brazil.
We cannot stand still in the face of something so serious. In view of this, indigenous peoples and organizations from all regions of Brazil will be mobilized and vigilant from June 18th to 30th in Brasília. The Xokleng, Kaingang and Guarani peoples of the Xokleng La Klaño Indigenous Land, of the State of Santa Catarina, are the focus of this process, considered by the Supreme Court in 2020 as a case that if approved, will serve as the basis for all others.
To be able to attend this very important protest, and join our forces against this criminal bill, we need everyone’s support to guarantee the rental of two buses with a value of approximately EUR 11,000.00.
We thank you for your support!!! Below is our PayPal information for donations. “
PayPal – nadiakauatupinamba@gmail.com
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