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When Clayton Thomas-Muller, a Cree organiser from Canada, sat on a panel at Rio+20 to announce a campaign to prevent Shell Oil from drilling in the Arctic, he was accompanied by billionaire Sir Richard Branson, Kumi Naidoo of Greenpeace International, and actress Lucy Lawless, (perhaps better known as Xena,Warrior Princess).
‘Resisting environmental destruction on indigenous lands is a movement of the Inupiak, Iliut, Gwich’in, Dene, Inuit, Tlingit, Yupik and Athabascan tribes, who have risen up to challenge the fossil fuel industry and demand our rights to an environment that is conducive to subsistence,’ he began.
Of the people on the panel, Thomas-Muller was the only one directly impacted by the issue. Yet, amidst the Hollywood glare, he was not the one to whom the media flocked.
After the media scrum followed the stars away, Thomas-Muller, in long black ponytail and t-shirt bearing the logo of his organisation, the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), told me, ‘The Greenpeace campaign is good, but it’s a symbolic campaign. What’s really going to make a difference is Alaska natives, Inuit living in Canada, strong social movement organising, civil disobedience, and the assertion of sovereignty by the people of the circumpolar regions who have taken care of the Arctic for the last 12,000 years.’
His point reflects one of the principles ceaselessly voiced by IEN and other groups that adhere to the tenets of environmental justice: ‘We speak for ourselves.’
Even in his opening statement, one imagines that Thomas-Muller felt compelled to list the Peoples of the Canadian Arctic to at least invoke their presence at a summit at which they were nowhere present. Unfortunately, Rio+20, like other global summits of this nature, is largely inaccessible to the people, and the Peoples, who are at once most impacted by socio-environmental destruction and most central to the struggle against it.
At Rio Centro, the vast conference center where Rio+20 took place last week, the food court was adorned with artful photos of Amazonian natives with bare chests and ceremonial paint and feathers scenically situated in their natural habitats. But nowhere in the conference were such people visible in flesh and blood.
Indeed, when 400 Indigenous representatives arrived en masse from the nearby Kari-Oca encampment to deliver a declaration to UN officials, they were rebuffed by Brazilian military police and prevented entrance by UN officials.
Only a handful of the Indigenous delegates were allowed to enter the summit grounds. When they did, it was far and away the most powerful statement in a week dominated by vague calls for “protecting our future,” a concerted push by governments and corporations for an ill-defined “green economy”, and widespread celebration of “public-private partnerships” that will bring ‘sustained and sustainable economic growth’.
At that ceremonial entrance, Lakota Chief Orville Looking-Horse in full war-bonnet, Windel Bolinget of the Igorot people in the Philippines, Mexican Nahua-Otomi native Berenice Sanchez of the Global Alliance Against REDD, Tom Goldtooth of the Indigenous Environmental Network, and Marcos Terrena, an indigenous leader from Brazil, came shaking rattles and ululating cries of war. The band of native warriors from many tribes was quickly and constantly swarmed by media and delegates alike. Everyone wanted a photograph of the procession, for their mother if not for their editor.
At a pre-arranged place in one of the outdoor areas of the summit, the Indigenous leaders presented the newly minted Declaration of Kari-Oca II to UN Director for Sustainable Development Nikhil Seth, and Gilberto Carvalho, the Chief Minister to the Presidency of Brazil. The two officials acted with grace and diplomacy. What else could they do?
After the hand-off of the document, Alberto Saldamando, Zapotec-Chicano, and the legal counsel for IEN, noted that, ‘The significance of this event was underscored by the flight of a condor overhead as the declaration was handed off.’
The Declaration of Kari-Oca, agreed to by over 500 grassroots Indigenous Peoples from many nations, is by far the strongest, clearest, and most purposeful statement made at Rio+20, and is worth quoting at length:
‘We see the goals of UNCSD Rio+20, the “Green Economy” and its premise that the world can only ‘save’ nature by commodifying its life-giving capacities as a continuation of the colonialism that Indigenous Peoples and our Mother Earth have faced and resisted for 520 years.’
‘Since Rio 1992,’ the Declaration states, ‘we as Indigenous Peoples see that colonisation has become the very basis of the globalisation of trade and the dominant capitalist global economy. The exploitation and plunder of the world’s ecosystems and biodiversity, as well as the violations of the inherent rights of Indigenous Peoples that depend on them, have intensified. Our rights to self-determination, to our own governance and own self-determined development, our inherent rights to our lands, territories and resources are increasingly and alarmingly under attack by the collaboration of governments and transnational corporations. Indigenous activists and leaders defending their territories continue to suffer repression, militarisation, including assassination, imprisonment, harassment and vilification as “terrorists.” The violation of our collective rights faces the same impunity. Forced relocation or assimilation assault our future generations, cultures, languages, spiritual ways and relationship to the earth, economically and politically.’
While the declaration will bear no political significance within the United Nations, this is beside the point. As Alberto Saldamando told me, ‘What they are doing here in the UN is to create more markets, and the fact is, the only resources that remain on this planet are on Indigenous Peoples’ lands. This is not a matter of words, it’s a matter of survival. What you see before you is a gathering of people who are under attack.’
Of course, the exclusion of native Peoples from the UN process comes as no surprise; this is, after all, the United Nations, not the United Peoples, and it is the nation-state itself that bears responsibility for five centuries of genocide.
So, amidst our common rubber-necking at the “failure of Rio,” the weak and bland final text, and the so-called crisis of multilateralism, (not to mention the crisis of capitalism and the crisis of global governance), it is worth remembering the Peoples whose very existence is erased, de facto, by the United Nations process – and upon whom the stewardship of the earth’s remaining resources largely depends.
Jeff Conant for red pepper
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When Clayton Thomas-Muller, a Cree organiser from Canada, sat on a panel at Rio+20 to announce a campaign to prevent Shell Oil from drilling in the Arctic, he was accompanied by billionaire Sir Richard Branson, Kumi Naidoo of Greenpeace International, and actress Lucy Lawless, (perhaps better known as Xena,Warrior Princess).
‘Resisting environmental destruction on indigenous lands is a movement of the Inupiak, Iliut, Gwich’in, Dene, Inuit, Tlingit, Yupik and Athabascan tribes, who have risen up to challenge the fossil fuel industry and demand our rights to an environment that is conducive to subsistence,’ he began.
Of the people on the panel, Thomas-Muller was the only one directly impacted by the issue. Yet, amidst the Hollywood glare, he was not the one to whom the media flocked.
After the media scrum followed the stars away, Thomas-Muller, in long black ponytail and t-shirt bearing the logo of his organisation, the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), told me, ‘The Greenpeace campaign is good, but it’s a symbolic campaign. What’s really going to make a difference is Alaska natives, Inuit living in Canada, strong social movement organising, civil disobedience, and the assertion of sovereignty by the people of the circumpolar regions who have taken care of the Arctic for the last 12,000 years.’
His point reflects one of the principles ceaselessly voiced by IEN and other groups that adhere to the tenets of environmental justice: ‘We speak for ourselves.’
Even in his opening statement, one imagines that Thomas-Muller felt compelled to list the Peoples of the Canadian Arctic to at least invoke their presence at a summit at which they were nowhere present. Unfortunately, Rio+20, like other global summits of this nature, is largely inaccessible to the people, and the Peoples, who are at once most impacted by socio-environmental destruction and most central to the struggle against it.
At Rio Centro, the vast conference center where Rio+20 took place last week, the food court was adorned with artful photos of Amazonian natives with bare chests and ceremonial paint and feathers scenically situated in their natural habitats. But nowhere in the conference were such people visible in flesh and blood.
Indeed, when 400 Indigenous representatives arrived en masse from the nearby Kari-Oca encampment to deliver a declaration to UN officials, they were rebuffed by Brazilian military police and prevented entrance by UN officials.
Only a handful of the Indigenous delegates were allowed to enter the summit grounds. When they did, it was far and away the most powerful statement in a week dominated by vague calls for “protecting our future,” a concerted push by governments and corporations for an ill-defined “green economy”, and widespread celebration of “public-private partnerships” that will bring ‘sustained and sustainable economic growth’.
At that ceremonial entrance, Lakota Chief Orville Looking-Horse in full war-bonnet, Windel Bolinget of the Igorot people in the Philippines, Mexican Nahua-Otomi native Berenice Sanchez of the Global Alliance Against REDD, Tom Goldtooth of the Indigenous Environmental Network, and Marcos Terrena, an indigenous leader from Brazil, came shaking rattles and ululating cries of war. The band of native warriors from many tribes was quickly and constantly swarmed by media and delegates alike. Everyone wanted a photograph of the procession, for their mother if not for their editor.
At a pre-arranged place in one of the outdoor areas of the summit, the Indigenous leaders presented the newly minted Declaration of Kari-Oca II to UN Director for Sustainable Development Nikhil Seth, and Gilberto Carvalho, the Chief Minister to the Presidency of Brazil. The two officials acted with grace and diplomacy. What else could they do?
After the hand-off of the document, Alberto Saldamando, Zapotec-Chicano, and the legal counsel for IEN, noted that, ‘The significance of this event was underscored by the flight of a condor overhead as the declaration was handed off.’
The Declaration of Kari-Oca, agreed to by over 500 grassroots Indigenous Peoples from many nations, is by far the strongest, clearest, and most purposeful statement made at Rio+20, and is worth quoting at length:
‘We see the goals of UNCSD Rio+20, the “Green Economy” and its premise that the world can only ‘save’ nature by commodifying its life-giving capacities as a continuation of the colonialism that Indigenous Peoples and our Mother Earth have faced and resisted for 520 years.’
‘Since Rio 1992,’ the Declaration states, ‘we as Indigenous Peoples see that colonisation has become the very basis of the globalisation of trade and the dominant capitalist global economy. The exploitation and plunder of the world’s ecosystems and biodiversity, as well as the violations of the inherent rights of Indigenous Peoples that depend on them, have intensified. Our rights to self-determination, to our own governance and own self-determined development, our inherent rights to our lands, territories and resources are increasingly and alarmingly under attack by the collaboration of governments and transnational corporations. Indigenous activists and leaders defending their territories continue to suffer repression, militarisation, including assassination, imprisonment, harassment and vilification as “terrorists.” The violation of our collective rights faces the same impunity. Forced relocation or assimilation assault our future generations, cultures, languages, spiritual ways and relationship to the earth, economically and politically.’
While the declaration will bear no political significance within the United Nations, this is beside the point. As Alberto Saldamando told me, ‘What they are doing here in the UN is to create more markets, and the fact is, the only resources that remain on this planet are on Indigenous Peoples’ lands. This is not a matter of words, it’s a matter of survival. What you see before you is a gathering of people who are under attack.’
Of course, the exclusion of native Peoples from the UN process comes as no surprise; this is, after all, the United Nations, not the United Peoples, and it is the nation-state itself that bears responsibility for five centuries of genocide.
So, amidst our common rubber-necking at the “failure of Rio,” the weak and bland final text, and the so-called crisis of multilateralism, (not to mention the crisis of capitalism and the crisis of global governance), it is worth remembering the Peoples whose very existence is erased, de facto, by the United Nations process – and upon whom the stewardship of the earth’s remaining resources largely depends.
Jeff Conant for red pepper
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Quando Clayton Thomas-Muller, um
organizador Cree do Canadá, participou de um painel na Rio +20 para anunciar
uma campanha para impedir que a Shell Oil de perfuração no Ártico, ele foi
acompanhado pelo bilionário Sir Richard Branson, Kumi Naidoo, do Greenpeace
International, e atriz Lucy Lawless, (talvez mais conhecido como Xena, a
Princesa Guerreira).
"Resistindo à destruição ambiental
em terras indígenas é um movimento da Inupiak, Iliut, Gwich'in, Dene, Inuit,
Tlingit, Yupik e tribos Athabascan, que têm se levantado para desafiar a
indústria de combustíveis fósseis e exigir os nossos direitos a um ambiente que
é propício para a subsistência ", começou ele.
Das pessoas do painel, Thomas-Muller foi
o único diretamente impactados pelo problema. No entanto, em meio ao brilho de
Hollywood, ele não foi o único a quem a mídia se reuniram.
Após o scrum dos meios seguida as
estrelas de distância, Thomas-Muller, em rabo de cavalo preto longo e t-shirt
com o logotipo de sua organização, a Rede Ambiental theIndigenous (IEN), me
disse: 'A campanha do Greenpeace é bom, mas é uma campanha simbólica . O que
realmente vai fazer a diferença é os nativos do Alasca, Inuit vivem no Canadá,
forte movimento social organizar, desobediência civil, e à afirmação da
soberania pelo povo das regiões circumpolares que tomaram conta do Ártico
durante os últimos 12.000 anos. "
Seu ponto reflete um dos princípios
incessantemente manifestadas pelo IEN e outros grupos que aderem aos princípios
de justiça ambiental: ". Nós falamos para nós mesmos '
Mesmo em seu discurso de abertura,
imagina-se que Thomas-Muller sentiram obrigados a listar os povos do Ártico
canadense para, pelo menos, invocar a sua presença em uma cúpula na qual eles
não estavam presentes. Infelizmente, o Rio +20, assim como outras cúpulas
mundiais desta natureza, é em grande parte inacessível ao povo, e dos Povos,
que são uma vez mais impactado pela destruição sócio-ambiental e mais central
para a luta contra ele.
No Rio Centro, o centro de conferências
onde vasta Rio +20 aconteceu na semana passada, a praça de alimentação foi
adornado com fotos astutos de índios na Amazônia com peitos nus e pintura
cerimonial e penas scenically situados em seus habitats naturais. Mas em nenhum
lugar da conferência foram essas pessoas visíveis na carne e no sangue.
Na verdade, quando 400 representantes
indígenas chegaram em massa a partir do acampamento Kari-Oca próximo para
entregar uma declaração aos funcionários da ONU, eles foram impedidos pela
polícia militar brasileira e impediu a entrada de funcionários da ONU.
Apenas um punhado dos delegados
indígenas foram autorizados a entrar os fundamentos da cúpula. Quando o
fizeram, foi de longe a mais poderosa declaração em uma semana dominada por
vagos apelos para "proteger nosso futuro", um esforço concertado de
governos e corporações para uma mal definida "economia verde", e celebração
generalizada de "público -privadas "que trarão" crescimento
econômico sustentado e sustentável ".
Nessa entrada cerimonial, Lakota Chefe
Orville Olhando cavalo em plena guerra-Bonnet, Windel Bolinget do povo Igorot
nas Filipinas, México Nahua-Otomi nativa Berenice Sanchez da Aliança Global
Contra o REDD, Tom Goldtooth da Rede Ambiental Indígena, e Marcos Terrena, um
líder indígena do Brasil, veio sacudir chocalhos e ululante gritos de guerra. O
bando de guerreiros nativos de muitas tribos foi rápida e constantemente
cercado de mídia e os delegados da mesma forma. Todo mundo queria uma foto da
procissão, para a sua mãe, se não para o seu editor.
Em um lugar pré-estabelecido em uma das
áreas ao ar livre da cimeira, os líderes indígenas apresentaram a Declaração de
recém-formados da Kari-Oca II para Diretor das Nações Unidas para o
Desenvolvimento Sustentável Nikhil Seth, e Gilberto Carvalho, o ministro-chefe
da Presidência do Brasil . Os dois funcionários agiu com cortesia e diplomacia.
O que mais poderiam fazer?
Após o hand-off do documento, Alberto
Saldamando, Zapotec-Chicano, e ao defensor para IEN, observou que, "A
importância deste evento foi ressaltada pelo vôo de um condor sobrecarga como a
declaração foi entregue."
A Declaração de Kari-Oca, acordado por
mais de 500 povos indígenas de base de muitas nações, é de longe a mais forte
declaração, mais clara e mais proposital feita na Rio +20, e vale a pena citar
por extenso:
"Nós vemos as metas de CNUDS Rio
+20, a" Economia Verde "e sua premissa de que o mundo só pode
'salvar' a natureza por sua mercantilização vivificante capacidades como uma
continuação do colonialismo que os povos indígenas e nossa Mãe Terra tem
enfrentado e resistiu por 520 anos. "
"Desde o Rio 1992," a Declaração
afirma, "nós, como Povos Indígenas ver que a colonização tornou-se o
próprio fundamento da globalização do comércio e da economia capitalista global
dominante. A exploração e pilhagem dos ecossistemas do mundo e da
biodiversidade, bem como as violações dos direitos inerentes dos Povos
Indígenas que deles dependem, têm se intensificado. Nossos direitos à
autodeterminação, à nossa própria governação e do desenvolvimento
auto-determinado, os nossos direitos inerentes às nossas terras, territórios e
recursos são cada vez mais e de forma alarmante sob o ataque com a colaboração
de governos e corporações transnacionais. Ativistas e líderes indígenas
defendem seus territórios continuam a sofrer militarização, repressão,
incluindo assassinato, prisão, assédio e difamação como
"terroristas". A violação dos nossos direitos coletivos enfrenta a
mesma impunidade. Deslocamento forçado ou agressão assimilação nossas futuras
gerações, culturas, línguas, formas espirituais e relação com a terra,
econômica e politicamente. "
Embora a declaração não terá qualquer
significado político no âmbito das Nações Unidas, este é o ponto. Como Alberto
Saldamando me disse: 'O que eles estão fazendo aqui na ONU é criar mais
mercados, eo fato é que os únicos recursos que restam no planeta estão em
terras dos povos indígenas. Esta não é uma questão de palavras, é uma questão
de sobrevivência. O que se vê diante de você é uma reunião de pessoas que estão
sob ataque. "
Claro, a exclusão dos povos nativos do
processo da ONU vem como nenhuma surpresa, o que é, afinal, as Nações Unidas, e
não dos Povos Unidos, e é o próprio estado-nação que tem a responsabilidade de
cinco séculos de genocídio.
Então, em meio a nossa comum borracha
carícias em "fracasso do Rio", o texto fraco e sem graça final, eo
chamada crise do multilateralismo, (para não mencionar a crise do capitalismo
ea crise da governança global), é Vale lembrar dos Povos, cuja própria
existência é apagada, de facto, pelo processo das Nações Unidas - e sobre quem
a gestão dos recursos restantes do planeta depende muito.
Jeff Conant da red pepper
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