“The mother of Brazil is Indigenous, even though the country is prouder of its European father who treats it like a bastard child. Its roots are Indigenous, come from the ancestral people who wear a story, who write their culture, their prayers, and their struggles on their skin. I will never understand the foreign nationalism…
Author: Maria Fernanda Gebara
The Yanomami are Life
Many centuries ago the Yanomami already said that the Earth was blue, covered by a fragile layer of blue, which should be treated with great care. But we had to hear it from the Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin to believe it, much later. When Davi Kopenawa Yanomami was young he warned us of the danger…
A sight of relief at COP 27: Brazil is Back!
“Brazil is Back!”, said president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at COP 27 in Egypt. Although I am truly happy with the result of the Brazilian elections – the main reason for hope during COP 27 – I have been struggling with what to say about it. I don’t want to be a downer, but…
On the invisible wars
Since 2019 the world is at war with coronavirus and its variants. A war with an invisible enemy. Coronavirus has gained all the attention with its unprecedented coronation, but how many other unseeing wars are happening that have a great impact to the world’s population? We are already experiencing the consequences of the Ukraine war….
Battling for life
Pay attention! The most important protest on Earth is happening right now. Indigenous peoples from Brazil are marching to defend their lands. This will guarantee everyone’s right to the future.
Why we should learn how to listen to other than human beings?
Last month, part of the world witnessed a remarkable solar eclipse. Thanks to scientific knowledge, we now know that this is an astronomical phenomenon involving different celestial bodies – sun, moon and earth –, quantifiable and predictable by astronomy. But for many centuries, before astronomy became a science, such phenomenon was observed and interpreted in…