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LIVE
“... live for a time where
the death mills are built.
come navigate, with the people, through the song
of the flutes of exterminated indians,
the beat of the black drums
of angelim tree, and dance;
come bleed the rubber tree
with Chico Mendes’ hands;
Text: Pedro Tierra
come navigate with the people
the veins of the continent,
where the fire turns the green into charcoal.
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where deserts are invented, where metals are boiled
and lunar craters are abandoned.
where the unknown is destroyed.
this is the last place on earth where humanity
still can build a common destiny.
or give up.”
IMAGINE
... In these tragic times,
A magic moment where all the peoples – from all the tribes, places, hopes and
dreams – come together to reflect on and celebrate the future of better days for
the forests of Brazil and the world.
... A special place where all the hopes – all the ideas, proposals, innovative social
technologies, public policy and the private sector best practices – will be shared to
defend a greener and healthier planet for present and future generations.
... An unusual opportunity you can’t miss – during three full days -- to get to know,
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mingle, share and learn the ways of life, traditional knowledge, cultures, alternatives
and perspectives of the peoples which defend, live, struggle and work in the heart
of Brazil’s forests.
YOU ARE AT THE NATIONAL MEETING OF THE PEOPLES OF THE FORESTS.
WELCOME!
A GREEN SCREAM THAT WALKS
Francisco. Chico. Chico Mendes.
Rubber tree, rubber tapper , plantation.
A Legion of men and dreams.
Green breaking through green.
A knife awake in the memory
Of water, rock and wood.
Of men?
The kapok tree, the rubber tree,
Text: Pedro Tierra
The rock of Mount Roraima,
The blood that mines the trees
On the plantations of Xapuri ask:
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Where walks the exiled shadow of Chico
Mendes?
Organizer of the strong winds
That brought down the fences,
All the fences of the earth...
Chico: a green scream that doesn’t cease.
In memory of Chico Mendes,
Rubber tapper leader murdered
in Acre
December 22, 1988,
and all the other leaders who fell
defending the Brazilian forests
and their peoples.
OUR FORESTS
... Brazil has 4.7 million square kilometers of forests, in six biomes: the
Amazon, the dry Caatinga, the Cerrado savannah, the southern Pampas,
the Atlantic Forest, the mudflats and the Pantanal wetland. That is, 55% of
Brazil’s land is still covered by its forests.
... Our forests are guardians to 14% of the planet’s biodiversity and 11.2%
of its sweet water. Today, our forests generate great wealth, economic and
extractive products adding up to 4% of our GDP.
... Standing, our forests:
- sequester the atmosphere’s carbon
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- balance the earth’s climate
- embrace our rivers
- support diverse life
- give a home and sustain our peoples.
IT IS STILL TIME TO SAVE OUR PLANET
BY KEEPING OUR FORESTS ALIVE!
OUR PEOPLES
Millions of our men and women live and work in our forests.
Our forests are inhabited by our indigenous peoples, our descendents from Africa,
our riverdwellers, our fishermen and women, our rubber tappers, our farm workers
and dozens of other extractivist peoples who’s way of life is an instrument to guard
Brazil’s forests.
There are cities in the heart of our forests with various vocations and activities, where
many millions of jobs have been created. Viable economies are being germinated in
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our forests which are socially just and environmentally sustainable.
WE, THE PEOPLES
OF THE FORESTS
WANT
... to keep our forests standing and so avoid the announced tragedies
coming from climate changes and a hotter planet...
... to participate in building a sustainable development model with
more riches generated from a socio-environmental accelerated growth
plan to use and protect our forests...
... to fight and end poverty and plant in the heart of Brazil’s society our
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example of living in harmony with the forests that hold our dreams and
produce our livelihood.
THE ALLIANCE OF THE
PEOPLES OF THE FOREST
The Alliance of the Peoples of the Forest was born in Acre twenty years ago in
1987, from the coming together of indigenous peoples with rubber tapper and
other extractivist leaders of the Brazilian Amazon. After many separate struggles,
we came to understand how important it was to work together to defend the
preservation of the Amazon forest for us and our future generations.
Today, the Alliance of the Peoples of the Forest return to our historic march,
coordinated by three of Brazil’s and the Amazon’s largest social networks: the
Coordination of the Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon – COIAB,
the National Rubber Tapper Council – CNS, founded by Chico Mendes, and the
Amazon Working Group – GTA. Together, these three entities represent more
than a thousand grassroots organizations and social movements in the Amazon
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and the other Brazilian forests.
In memory of Chico Mendes – during these almost 20 years of his abrupt
departure – and of the many other leaders who lost their lives defending our
forests and peoples – now the Alliance of the Peoples of the Forest are pleased
to invite the world’s citizens, institutions and entities of national and international
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solidarity, governmental, private and non-governmental organizations and social
movements to participate in this huge socio-environmental forum for Brazil’s
Forests: The Second National Meeting of the Peoples of the Forests.
THE SECOND NATIONAL MEETING
OF THE PEOPLES OF THE FORESTS
SEEKS
To plant knowledge to cause the destiny of Brazil’s forests
to meet again with the hopeful hearts of those who struggle
and work for sustaining life on our planet earth.
To generate dialogues among our peoples, societies,
corporations and governments to help increase the flow of
water needed to reinvent the elements of our development
model, to become socially just, economically viable and
To expand our alliances to cause to bud in the Amazon, the
Caatinga, the Cerrado, the mudflats, the Atlantic forest, the
Pampas and the Pantanal – in what remains of our forests –
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environmentally sustainable.
for present and future generations.
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the geography of reason towards keeping our forests alive
PROGRAM
Opening ceremony – Brasília National Theatre
Themes for Debate: Climate, Socio-environmental accelerated growth plan,
poverty reduction.
Amazonia.br (Expo), Art, Music, Cinema
Sustainable Business Fair: Arts, Crafts and other forest products
Tents of the Peoples of the Forests, Thematic and Partner Institution Tents
Spaces for Gourmet, Environmental Education, Culture and Leisure
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Closing Party with the best music of the Amazon, of other forests and of Brazil
SPACES
The place where Brazil will embrace the struggle for the lives of its peoples and forests will be:
In the heart of the Cerrado, at the center of national power, in the country’s national theatre and
Governments, socially and environmentally responsible corporations, foundations, NGOs and
national and international cooperation organizations.
In these spaces, thousands of men and women will participate and mobilize along with the
peoples of the forest, their partner institutions, networks, social movements to celebrate our
common wealth: the nature and humanity of our forests.
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In the tents of the States, Biomes and Forest Peoples, sponsored by the Federal and State
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other public spaces in Brasília, graciously granted by the Federal District Government.
PARTICIPANTS
• 1,000 representatives of traditional peoples of the forests
• 1,000 participants of social and youth movement organizations
• 1,000 public school children – from the Federal District and surrounding areas
•1,000 members of social, educational, cultural and environmental NGOs
• 1,000 representatives of private corporations and public institutions
For a total public estimated at more than 10,000.
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• 5,000 other Brazilian and world citizens
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•500 national and international special guests
PARTNERS
IT IS ESSENTIAL...
That you come with your knowledge, story and brand
to help build a web of hope for a humanity that can still
design its own common destiny at this national meeting of
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forest peoples.
CARBON NEUTRAL
The Second National Meeting of the Peoples of the
Forests is a carbon neutral space. The greenhouse
gases emitted at the meeting will be carefully
calculated and neutralized by planting trees in
Brasilia, especially in degraded areas around
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springs and forests.
PARTNERS
COLLEGIATE COORDINATION
Jecinaldo Barbosa Cabral
COIAB
Júlio Barbosa de Aquino
CNS
Adilson Vieira
GTA
the National Rubber Tapper Council – CNS, founded by Chico Mendes,
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and the Amazon Working Group – GTA.
COIAB
COIAB
The Coordination of the Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon
– COIAB is an indigenous organization established April 19, 1989 by the
leaders of the indigenous organizations themselves. COIAB is the result of the
indigenous peoples’ political struggle to recognize and exercise their rights,
given the social and political change after the 1988 constitution, favorable to
indigenous rights. As the highest level of the Brazilian Amazon’s indigenous
organizations, it brings together 75 organizations and 165 indigenous
peoples, to support and monitor new organizations and expand and build
the indigenous movement. COIAB is active in 31 regions in the 9 states of
the legal Amazon: Amazonas, Acre, Amapá, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Pará,
Rondônia, Roraima and Tocantins, where over 200 thousand Indians live, or
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approximately 60% of the officially recognized indigenous population.
Jecinaldo Barbosa Cabral
Avenue Ayrão 235, Quarter : Presidente Vargas
Cep: 69025-290 - Manaus - Amazonas
Telephone : +55 xx 61 3233-0749 Fax: +55 xx 61 3233-0209
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Coordinator :
CNS
CNS
The National Rubber Tapper Council – CNS is a national organization which
represents agro-extractivist workers, organized in Associations, Co-operatives
and Unions. Its deliberative council consists of 27 women and men leaders
from different extractivist segments in all the nine states of the Amazon: Rubber
tappers, harvesters of Brazil nuts, babaçu nuts, açaí and cupuaçu, piaçaba
fibres, agroforest project members, extractors of oils and medicinal plants,
fishermen and women, together in the struggle for a better quality of life
through the sustainable use of the forest’s natural resources and the right to
their land. The CNS’s goal is to organize the peoples of the forest, both by
denouncing the negative effects of development upon the environment and
Coordinator :
Júlio Barbosa de Aquino
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by defending more and better regional and national public policies.
GTA
GTA
The Amazon Working Group Network – GTA Network was created right
after the ECO-92 (UNCED) conference, to defend the Brazilian Amazon. It
is made up of 18 regional collectives which act in nine Amazon states – half
of Brazil’s territory. The GTA coordinates more than 600 organizations of
fishermen and women, rubber tappers, family farmers, indigenous peoples,
babaçu nut crackers, riverdwellers, Afro-descendent communities, Brazil
nut gatherers, environmentalists, researchers, community radios, human
rights and advisory NGOs, etc. During its 15 years of struggle, the GTA
Network has worked defending the sustainable development of the
Amazon. The GTA proposes to generate more knowledge about the
forest, its climate and biodiversity to build economic alternatives which
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can produce and distribute wealth without destroying Brazil’s forests.
Adilson Vieira
SAIS - Canteiro Central do Metrô,
Lot 8, Shed 1 - CEP 70610-000
Brasília-DF - Phone/Fax +55 xx 61 346-7048
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Coordinator :
PRODUCTION
COLLEGIATE COORDINATION
Jecinaldo Barbosa Cabral
COIAB
Júlio Barbosa de Aquino
CNS
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Adilson Vieira
GTA
Executive Producer
Sandra Santos
Graphic Design
EXTREMA Comunicação
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Volunteer Committee (in formation): Bento Viana (Photos), Cintia Leandro Anatter (Logistics), Pedro Tierra (Poetry),
Paulo Moutinho (Research), Pedro Ivo (Mobilization), Zezé Weiss (Text) e Warã (Indigenous photo).
Forest Citizen Honor Committee (in formation): space reserved to honor persons who have performed relevant
services in defense of Brazilian forests and their peoples in the last 20 years.