[WSMDiscuss] Global Assembly on the Amazon from Friday 17th of July, to Sunday the 19th of July.

[gustave massiah]

*GLOBAL ASSEMBLY FOR THE AMAZON*
*virtually from Friday 17th of July, to Sunday the 19^th of July. *


*The Global Assembly for the Amazon will be held virtually from Friday 
17th of July, to Sunday the 19^th of July. The first part of the 
Assembly, July 17th, is being organized by COICA, the main indigenous 
federation in the Amazon basin, with affiliated organizations in each of 
the nine Amazonian countries. This first day will be mostly centered on 
participation by indigenous peoples and organizations from the region. *

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*On Saturday 18^th and Sunday 19^th of July the Assembly will start at 
3:00 p.m. in Ecuador, Colombia and Peru, 4:00 p.m. in Bolivia, Chile, 
Paraguay, Guyana and Venezuela, and 5:00 p.m. in Brazil-Sao Paolo, 
French Guyana and Suriname. Each of these two days we will have a 
two-and-a-half-hour session and will have simultaneous translation into 
Spanish, Portuguese, English and French. *

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*To participate in this process and receive the respective Zoom link you 
must fill out the following form **https://forms.gle/UbPArHEebwV9jxG99***

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*The First Global Assembly for the Amazon will also be broadcast 
by**https://www.facebook.com/asambleamazonica/**and 
**https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5uRVxQWBKbtyYZXj4_8Zkg***

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*Link to the Assembly program: 
**https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x0SXoEfCi4GeUs_OS_ZYFFlrqMw1a3J3LyeIl_eCpCM/edit?usp=sharing*

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*More information and contact: **asambleamazonica at gmail.com 
<mailto:asambleamazonica at gmail.com>***

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*/Self-convened/*

*/First Global Assembly for the Amazon/*

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/Against ethnocide, ecocide and extractivism in the Amazon/

/which is aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic/

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The Amazon is being flooded with death in its communities, villages, 
towns and cities. The COVID-19 is raging with the so-called "forest 
peoples" who are suffering from centuries of exploitation, extractivism, 
racism and ethnocide. This region, which is essential to the stability 
of the Earth's ecosystem, is experiencing accelerated terricide and 
ethnocide.

The causes of the deterioration of the Amazon are agro-industrial 
corporations, monocultures, the planting of transgenic seeds, 
agro-fuels, legal and illegal mining, the extraction and spillage of 
hydrocarbons, bio-piracy, hydroelectric and waterway mega-projects, 
poorly planned transmission lines and highways, international financial 
organizations and their loans and investments, drug trafficking and 
organized crime.

The governments of the North and the South, both neoliberal and 
progressive, encourage extractivism in different ways, weakening the 
Amazon on a social and ecological level. Now, under the title of 
"reactivating the economy to get out of the COVID-19 crisis", the 
governments of the region are flexibilizing environmental, indigenous 
and social legal provisions to further promote extractivism.

*The destruction of the Amazon brings us closer to the precipice and the 
climatic hecatomb. Without a living Amazon, there will be no future for 
humanity.*

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Many are fighting and resisting in the face of this destruction. The 
women of the Amazon are the most threatened and at the same time the 
most creative and resistant in the defense of their bodies-territories.

The challenges are very great and unity in diversity is urgent and 
unavoidable, with the protagonism of the original peoples, guardians of 
ancestry and Good Living.

Faced with this reality, movements, collectives, networks, activists and 
organizations of indigenous peoples, quilombolas, riverine people, 
siringueros (rubberes), caboclos, marrons, peasants, artists, religious 
groups, defenders of nature, communicators, academics, women, youth and 
inhabitants of the Amazonian cities, we self-call ourselves in the First 
Global Assembly for the Amazon that will take place virtually from July 
17 to and July 19.

Our objective is to articulate an alliance at the service of existing 
platforms and campaigns, to strengthen our actions and impact in the 
defense of human rights, the rights of indigenous peoples and the rights 
of nature. We seek to build a spiral process of cycles of 
assemblies/actions in order to add wills, reach consensus on common 
objectives and agree on mobilization initiatives around proposals that 
emerge from the debate and consensus.

To this end, Saturday’s meeting will be dedicated to reflect and debate 
the problems of the countries and the pan-Amazon region, and on Sunday 
we will discuss proposals for action and enrich three campaigns that we 
are building:

1.Global campaign to address the serious impacts of the Covid-19 on 
indigenous populations, afro-descendants and the entire Amazon.

2.Global campaigns to boycott products, companies, investments, 
government policies, trade agreements and extractive industries that 
destroy the Amazon.

3.Global mobilization days to stop ethnocide, ecocide and extractivism, 
and to save the Amazon which is essential to face climate change.

The Global Assembly for the Amazon will be held virtually from Friday 
17th of July, to Sunday the 19^th of July. The first part of the 
Assembly, July 17th, is being organized by COICA, the main indigenous 
federation in the Amazon basin, with affiliated organizations in each of 
the nine Amazonian countries. This first day will be mostly centered on 
participation by indigenous peoples and organizations from the region.

On Saturday 18^th and Sunday 19^th of July the Assembly will start at 
3:00 p.m. in Ecuador, Colombia and Peru, 4:00 p.m. in Bolivia, Chile, 
Paraguay, Guyana and Venezuela, and 5:00 p.m. in Brazil-Sao Paolo, 
French Guyana and Suriname. Each of these two days we will have a 
two-and-a-half-hour session and will have simultaneous translation into 
Spanish, Portuguese, English and French.

To participate in this process and receive the respective Zoom link you 
must fill out the following form https://forms.gle/UbPArHEebwV9jxG99

The First Global Assembly for the Amazon will also be broadcast 
byhttps://www.facebook.com/asambleamazonica/and 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5uRVxQWBKbtyYZXj4_8Zkg

Link to the Assembly program: 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x0SXoEfCi4GeUs_OS_ZYFFlrqMw1a3J3LyeIl_eCpCM/edit?usp=sharing

More information and contact: asambleamazonica at gmail.com 
<mailto:asambleamazonica at gmail.com>

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*In order to ensure a healthy humanity for now and in the future, you 
need living amazon communities and forests.*

To subscribe the self-convened call https://forms.gle/QP4V7BE3cR8FWLt77

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