As we work to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Indigenous activists across North and South America continue to defend the lands and waters, and to protect their communities from extraction and the pandemic. The climate crisis is not paused while we battle COVID-19, and we must support and learn from those at the front line of the struggle for climate justice.
The Esperanza Project is proud to partner with Voices of Amerikua, 350.org Guadalajara and the director of The Condor and the Eagle to bring you an online screening of this epic award-winning documentary. The film, called “one of the best new climate documentaries” by EcoWatch Magazine, follows four Indigenous leaders embarking on a transcontinental adventure from the Canadian boreal forests to the heart of the Amazon jungle to document the Indigenous struggle to protect the land and water.
Join us on Wednesday, July 1, for the online film screening and a lively discussion afterwards, with updates from the front lines of many Indigenous struggles across North and South America. We will hear from the inspiring protagonists of the film, as well as other land defenders from across Turtle Island, including Bertha Zúñiga Cáceres, the daughter of Honduran environmental martyr Bertha Cáceres.
The online screening is through a sliding scale donation. Please give as generously as you can as this money will be used to support the participating groups with their urgently needed, indigenous-led climate and environmental justice efforts. The proceeds of this film will be divided between the groups and communities of Bertha Zuñiga Cáceres, Honduras (COPINH, promoting environmental justice and solidarity, and justice for environmental martyr Berta Cáceres); Patricia Gualinga, Ecuador (Sarayaku community of the Amazon, currently dealing with a devastating Covid-19 outbreak and virtually no government support); Moira Millán, Argentina, cofounder and coordinator of the Movement of Indigenous Women for Good Living and the People’s Movement Against Terricide; and Yudith Nieto, Houston/Louisiana (Another Gulf is Possible and the BanchaLenguas Language Justice Collective). Read on for more info….
Date: Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Time: 5 PM Pacific/ 6 PM Mountain/ 7 PM Central/ 8 PM Eastern/ 9 PM Atlantic
Cost: By donation. Suggested donation is $10-$100. Donate here.
Registration:https://event.webinarjam.com/register/93/xyg1yuw9?fbclid=IwAR2pNe5jKZJ3jXlmHROc8ifD1JtxQkKNG1QB2xx41WST7XrL7knai_kGnHU
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PATRICIA GUALINGA
She has played an important role in the fight for indigenous rights. Gualinga is a spokeswoman for many environmental projects. Gualinga works to protect the Kichwa People of Sarayaku community from human rights violations resulting from oil extraction projects by Chinese companies on their land. She is a spokesperson for the indigenous-led proposal ‘Kawsak Sacha’, or ‘Living Forest’, that calls for legal protection of the Ecuadorian Amazon.
 BERTHA ZUNIGA CACERES
She is a social activist from Honduras of Lenca descent. She is the daughter of social leader Berta Cáceres, murdered in 2016. When Zúñiga Cáceres was three, her mother founded COPINH, with her father as one of the original members. The organization is dedicated to the defense of the rights of the Lenca people and the defense of the environment, two of her mother’s great passions, along with combatting sexual discrimination and the oppression of women and LGBT communities, all issues Berta Cáceres saw as interconnected.
 MOIRA MILLAN
She is a Mapuche weychafe and activist from Argentina, one of the leaders of the indigenous ancestral lands recovery movement and the founder in 2000 of the Lof Pillán Mahuiza community. In 2012, she began a series of meetings with women from different indigenous communities of Argentina, actions that were consolidated in 2015 with the formation of the Movement of Indigenous Women for Good Living, representing 36 native nations, and of which Moira is coordinator. This same movement organized and convened the peoples of the world in the Peoples Against Terricide Climate Camp, where the Peoples Against Terricide Movement emerged.
 YUDITH NIETO
Film Protagonist. Yudith is a Mexican-American artist, organizer and language justice worker originally based in Houston, Texas, where she advocated for the sacrifice zone of Manchester on the east end of Houston’s refinery district, in collaboration with Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services (t.e.j.a.s). Now she enjoys the Louisiana bayous as part of the core leadership circle for Another Gulf Is Possible. She’s worked with frontline communities across the country to create, develop and amplify community-led media around just transition stories, artbuilds in solidarity with intersectional movements for a decolonized direct-action approach.
 CLEMENT GUERRA
Film Co-Director / Film Impact Producer / France |
