EARTH DAY: When you choose the Earth, you choose Indigenous women. When you choose Indigenous women

EARTH DAY: When you choose the Earth, you choose Indigenous women. When you choose Indigenous women, you choose the Earth.
Published: 21 April 2022

On Earth Day and every day, we RISE for the Bodies of All Women, Girls & the Earth. This year we spotlight indigenous women of ANMIGA – The National Articulation of Indigenous Women Ancestrality Warriors – who come from all biomes across Brazil. These women have deep knowledge about their lands and have preserved their ancestral traditions. They are united in their struggle to guarantee the rights and lives of the indigenous people of the Amazon. Their call to action must urgently be heard:

“When you choose the Earth, you choose Indigenous women. When you choose Indigenous women, you choose the Earth.”

“ANMIGA is composed of indigenous women, originally from the Earth. We know that the root of Brazil comes from us, from the womb of the Earth and from our ancestors. The Mother of Brazil is Indigenous. Brazil never existed and will never exist without us. We understand the importance of political articulation of water-women in constant movement in the stream of struggles. We are the seeds of our ancestors, those who even before the social movement existed already had the traditional and ancestral movement that strengthens us and is present in our territorial body, reflected in our biomes, in our waters and in the seeds that paint, adorn and feed our bodies. We are because our ancestors were. Indigenous women have always been present in movements: whether in more local movements or at the national level. Women in the communities: midwives, medicine women, shamans, leaders and cacicas. Since the 1980s until today.

Before contact with non-Indigenous peoples, we Indigenous Peoples had our unique way of living and surviving for millennia, which underwent transformations after the arrival of others within our territories. Since then, we have relied on the partnership of non-Indigenous people to preserve and access our rights, sometimes fleeing, sometimes silencing us, sometimes violating our own ways of life, but always resisting. We, indigenous women, gathered and united in the ancestral diversity of our Peoples, are the seed of resistance, wisdom and mastery of the millennial traditional knowledge inherited from our elders, and in respect for them and for those who will come, we will always defend our diverse traditions and cultures practiced in our territories. We have our own indigenous science strengthened in our spiritualities, which unites us in the same purpose: to live in harmony and to practice living well and a good living in our own way.” – ANMIGA

Take Action this Earth Day & RISE for the Indigenous Women of the Amazon:

OCCUPY social media, SHARE the campaign widely across all social platforms
SHARE the stories of Celia Xakriabá, Sônia Guajajara, Eunice Kerexu and tag them
SUPPORT ANMIGA and the women of the Amazon who are Keeping the Earth Alive
Celia Xakriabá – @celia.xakriaba
Sônia Guajajara – @guajajarasonia
Eunice Kerexu – @anmiga


https://www.onebillionrising.org/48505/earth-day-when-you-choose-the-earth-you-choose-indigenous-women-when-you-choose-indigenous-women-you-choose-the-earth/