Environmental activists brought the legacy of Brazil’s Mariana dam disaster to the COP30 climate summit, demanding justice and stronger accountability for mining-related environmental damage. The 2015 collapse of the Samarco dam in Mariana, Minas Gerais, killed 19 people and unleashed toxic sludge that contaminated hundreds of kilometers of rivers and communities.
At COP30, campaigners displayed banners and art installations symbolizing the ongoing impact on affected families and ecosystems, urging world leaders to take concrete action on industrial accountability and environmental restoration.
00:00Throughout the COP, throughout the entire struggle against the people, we will stand in solidarity.
00:18The reparations agreement signed a year ago, which the Brazilian government, the state, can effectively
00:24Punish without reparation.
00:26Their pain is our pain.
00:28Their strength is our strength.
00:32Fight for the future.
00:36Good morning to everyone.
00:38We are from the movement against dams.
00:41The Vale Mining Company is very present in Brazil, and indeed, throughout the world.
00:46So we are also in this fight to say that it is important for the affected communities to participate in the reparations processes,
00:53to participate in decisions about the environment.
00:57It is the affected communities that live in the most protected areas and are most susceptible to damage that need to be the actual agents of environmental actions.
01:07These are the people who will actually be able to protect the environment.
01:10We will reverse this logic of economic power deciding on the environment, because until now Vale and other companies have not shown anything, nothing to do in relation to environmental issues.
01:19Everything is for them.
01:20Everything is for them.
01:21The reparation of violated rights, environmental issues have become just a big business.
01:25It wasn't an accident.
01:27It wasn't an accident.
01:28The river kills, the fish kill, and it kills people.
01:32The river kills, the fish kill, and it kills people.
01:36Unity.
01:38A decade without reparations that those affected are suffering.
01:43The first of these is the punishment of the companies.
01:47Nobody.
01:48Companies and individuals no longer answer in a criminal process, and the impunity of.
01:53Their pain is our pain.
01:56Their strength is our strength.
01:58Their strength is our strength.
02:00Fight for the future.
02:02Fight for the future.
02:03Our revolution.
02:05It is our revolution.
02:06They.
02:07Will no longer drown us.
02:09In the sea of mud of their lies.
02:11In the sea of mud of their lies.
02:13It is necessary to talk about a just energy transition.
02:18One that is not an energy transition decided by the big companies that will do business with it.
02:22But rather from the populations.
02:24From the people.
02:25A just transition that respects the rights of workers.
02:28Respects the rights of the population.
02:30That puts people, life, and people at the center of this process.
02:35None of this was done in 10 years.
02:37And it's important that people are at the center.
02:39Since it's been 10 years of struggle.
02:41And there will continue to be many more years of struggle.
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