11/17/2021
Posted • Listen to Nina Gualinga’s powerful speech at COP26!
“We have to acknowledge the role of Indigenous Women in this fight, we have to acknowledge the work of indigenous women when it comes to keeping fossil fuels in the ground, protecting forests, protecting waters, and protecting our future generations.
The Climate Crisis, the Extractive Violence and the violence against women especially Indigenous Women is interconnected. It is based on the same idea that women and the earth are objects for exploitation. It is the same type of objectification thinking you can profit off of us you and can harm us and get away with it.
But WE are not going to allow that.”
On November 9th .blaney and many other Indigenous women held an action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) outside the COP26.
Across the United States and Canada thousands of Indigenous women have gone missing or/and been murdered. Indigenous women are murdered at a rate 10 times the national average. Due to decades of systemic racism within law enforcement most of these crimes go unpunished.
Indigenous women in Latinamerica face similar issues, specially indigenous woman land defenders standing up against big extractive industries. Extractivism and violence against indigenous women are connected.
Earlier this year my dear friend and Maria Taant, shuar land defender and part of was killed when returning from an event where together with other women we received a recognition for our work in defense of the Amazon and indigenous women’s rights.
Maria always walked with her sacred songs to protect the rest of us. I miss her. I sing this song to honor and keep her fight and memory alive.
Justice for Maria Taant and all stolen sisters!
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