Indigenous Women are Fighting to Save the Amazon

Brut America

"Our fight isn't only for the Waorani people, but for all nationalities, and the world that is breathing the air." Meet the indigenous women leading the fight to save the Amazon rainforest.

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00:00The struggle we are fighting is not only for the people of Boron,

00:03but for all nationalities and the world.

00:06We are breathing the air.

00:09Long live the people! Long live the people!

00:28That is why I am fighting so that my daughter can see this healthy jungle,

00:33this free jungle and clean water.

00:37For us, the Cojones, or all the indigenous people,

00:41without territory we cannot live.

00:45Our territory is our life.

00:48Therefore, we will continue to fight.

01:01The way we have our culture, our language,

01:05our way of life, we have taken care of it.

01:08We have protected our territory.

01:10And we have lived for years, for years, for centuries, for centuries.

01:14We have kept our territory clean without destroying it.

01:17And now what is happening, capitalism and the government,

01:21economy, technology, what is it doing?

01:23It is destroying, it is destroying our life, our way of life.

01:35We are not alone.

01:46We also went there with the purpose of telling the women

01:51that we are not alone, we are all here.

01:54Long live the Cojones! Long live the Cojones!

01:58As a woman, as a Waurani, I have also gone to Brazil

02:02to accompany this struggle, to shout, to pronounce to the world,

02:06look at the government, how it is happening.

02:08The same way our Ecuadorian government wanted to sell us our territory without consultation.

02:13And now the same is happening to the comrades in Brazil.

02:18Bolsonaro has to be aware and look,

02:22Bolsonaro, where are you breathing from?

02:24So, where are you breathing from?

02:26And Bolsonaro has to think about that,

02:28not only to take advantage of the industry,

02:31but also little by little what is happening in Brazil

02:35and what is being destroyed,

02:37what is being destroyed,

02:39what is being destroyed,

02:41what is being destroyed,

02:43little by little what is happening in Brazil

02:46and is destroying the oxygen.

02:48It is very painful to feel and see

02:52so much death of many animals,

02:55so much death of many trees,

02:58as they said, it is the lung of the world.

03:13Our victory against the Ecuadorian government,

03:34that meant that we must win against the government,

03:39against the oil company.

03:43We will never be silent as Amazonian women,

03:58we will continue to speak,

04:00we will continue to pronounce,

04:02we will continue to speak our voices that they must respect.

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