Cultural Survival

08/22/2026

08/21/2026

Mining arrived in , , with promises of development and opportunities, but it also brought environmental degradation, river pollution, and health risks.
In 2025, the financed the project “The Voice of Mamasa, Mamasa Bersuara” by radio, a platform for dialogue and accountability among mining companies.
Learn more about their work at:
Orari Lokal Surabaya
https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/mamasa-speaks-defending-our-land-through-community-radio

08/21/2026

From Cultural Survival, we join and stand in solidarity with the XII FOSPA 2026 march, alongside Indigenous Peoples, organizations, and Amazon defenders who are raising their voices to protect their territories, their rights, and life itself. The Amazon must be defended! 🌿✊🏽

08/21/2026

From Cultural Survival, we join and stand in solidarity with the XII FOSPA 2026 march, alongside Indigenous Peoples, organizations, and Amazon defenders who are raising their voices to protect their territories, their rights, and life itself. The Amazon must be defended! 🌿✊🏽
📢 XII FOSPA POLITICAL DECLARATION

The document delivered to the Pastaza Provincial Government brings together the voices, demands, proposals, and visions of the peoples, Indigenous nations, organizations, and communities of the Pan-Amazon region. It is a political expression of those who defend their territories and, through resistance and autonomy, build alternatives to extractivism, dispossession, and the multiple forms of violence that threaten life.

The Declaration reaffirms that the Amazon is not a sacrifice zone or a reserve of resources: it is a living territory, home to peoples who have the right to decide their own present and future.

What was built during this XII FOSPA is also a commitment: to strengthen struggles, build alliances, and advance collective action for social, environmental, economic, and climate justice.

🌿 Because defending the Amazon means defending life. Because there is no possible future without its peoples and their territories.

🌎 We continue walking together toward a free, living Amazon where rights are respected!

08/21/2026

Six years ago, the Kansas City Chiefs acknowledged that Native-themed headdresses and face/body paint had no place at Arrowhead Stadium. Yet the broader issue of Native American imagery in sports persists.

We’re asking supporters to help draw attention to this contradiction and continue the conversation about why Native American imagery should no longer be used as sports mascots.

Visit bravestatl.com to learn more.

08/20/2026

🌿🗣 Weaving governance from the territories to defend Nature.

Within the framework of the XII Pan-Amazonian Social Forum (FOSPA) in Puyo, Ecuador, our executive director Aimee Robertson participated as a panelist in the session “Weaving Indigenous Governance for the Rights of Nature,” a dialogue organized by GARN (Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature) dedicated to strengthening political advocacy, intergenerational leadership, and solutions that arise from the territories themselves for the defense of nature.

08/20/2026

🌿 ✊ Cultural Survival is actively participating in the 2026 Pan-Amazonian Social Forum (FOSPA), a space that brings together delegations from different territories and countries across the Amazon Basin in Puyo, Ecuador, to engage in dialogue, coordinate actions, and strengthen the defense of the Amazon and the rights of Indigenous Peoples. 🌎

For Cultural Survival, FOSPA also represents an important opportunity to listen, learn, and exchange knowledge, as well as to come together and strengthen our relationships with organizations and partners with whom we work to defend the territories, cultures, languages, and self-determination of Indigenous Peoples.

During these days, our agenda includes participation in thematic spaces, panels, gatherings, dialogues, and coordination spaces, as well as meetings with partners and allies from different territories. These exchanges are part of Cultural Survival’s commitment and Strategic Plan, which recognizes that alliances built from the territories and Indigenous Peoples’ leadership are essential to advancing toward a more just and sustainable future.

08/19/2026

🌿 ✊ The Voice of the Waorani People from FOSPA 2026 🌍
Mima Tega, leader of Justice and Indigenous Rights for the Waorani Nationality of Ecuador (NAWE), speaks from the 12th Pan-Amazonian Social Forum (FOSPA).

The Waorani people arrive at this gathering with clear demands to defend their territory, their rights, and their self-determination. Among them is the immediate implementation of the Yasuní Popular Consultation, which has remained unfulfilled for three years.

From the Ecuadorian Amazon, Mima Tega shares the voice of her people and sends a powerful message to the Ecuadorian government and the world: the territories and rights of Indigenous peoples must be respected.

08/19/2026

Through funding from 's , the Union of Indigenous Peoples for Peace and Endogenous Development (UPADE) promotes training and community communication initiatives aimed at documenting, raising awareness about, and actively protecting the future of communities in the face of the impacts of illegal mining and human rights violations.
Learn more at: https://www.culturalsurvival.org/es/node/15326