Fridays For Future Brasil is a movement to face the COVID-19 crisis in traditional communities in the Amazon. Access the website here.
Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, indigenous peoples and traditional communities have suffered even more from social isolation, the presence of mining and people from outside these communities, and the impact of the disease on their people. Several actions were taken to ensure the integrity of their lands and support these populations. Discover some of them here.
A study was also carried out on mobilization and vaccination campaigns for indigenous peoples .
Fridays For Future Brasil is a movement to face the COVID-19 crisis in traditional communities in the Amazon. Access the website here.
On January 14, 2021, several videos of health professionals, especially in Manaus-AM, exploded on social media, denouncing the lack of oxygen pumps in hospitals. Several patients died because they did not have access to equipment, not only those contaminated with Covid-19, but also other diseases, for example, there is great concern about premature babies who depend on receiving oxygen. As a result, several protest calls emerged from different social groups.
Webinar “Black and indigenous lives and Covid-19”, held on June 18, 2020 and organized by Ciência na Rua in partnership with Rede CoVida and Agência Bori. Researchers, activists and communicators committed to the struggle against structural racism in Brazilian society and aggression against indigenous peoples participated: Rosane Borges, from the University of São Paulo (USP), Emanuelle Goes, from Cidacs-Fiocruz, Daniel Munduruku, from the KUA Institute , Ana Carolina da Hora, computer scientist and creator of the Ogunhe Podcast, and Gilberto Caetano, editor and screenwriter, of Diálogos Afrurbanos. Watch here.
This live broadcast the debate table on “Problems of access to justice for indigenous peoples in the field of COVID-19”, which was part of the webinar “Exchange of experiences for the protection of indigenous defenders against COVID-19”, organized by Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica (COICA). The initiative is part of COICA's project to train indigenous defenders and was carried out on July 16, 2020. See here .
Quilombola Selma Dealdina, from the National Coordination for the Articulation of Rural Black Communities and Quilombolas (Conaq), and the former Deputy Attorney General of the Republic, Deborah Duprat, talked about the topic “Inequalities: Quilombola Communities Facing the Pandemic”, on the day June 14, 2020. The moderation was in charge of Katia Maia, executive director of Oxfam Brazil. Access here.
The Dialogues at USP program, held on May 22, 2020, discussed the topic “indigenous populations in the pandemic” online. The following guests participated: Marcello Rollemberg (journalist), Marcos Wesley (advisor at Instituto Socioambiental – ISA) and Marta Rosa (professor at USP). Access here.
How has the pandemic impacted urban quilombos in Rio de Janeiro? How important are these spaces to preserve memory and as tools of resistance? These were some of the questions discussed in the live held on May 5, 2020 with leaders of the five urban quilombos in Rio de Janeiro, who also spoke about the situation of their territories in times of a pandemic: Luiz Sacopã (Quilombo Sacopã); Adilson Almeida (Quilombo do Camorim); Gizele Mesquita Martins (Quilombo Cafundá Astrogilda); Bárbara Guerra (Quilombo de Marambaia). Access here.
On September 16, 2020, Fiocruz promoted a live with the theme "Indigenous health in a time of pandemic". The event was attended by Rita Bacuri, Carmem Pankararu, João Paulo Tukano, Fabiane Santos. Access here.
The Covid-19 Observatory in Quilombos is an online platform that gathers epidemiological data on the new coronavirus pandemic among quilombolas from all over Brazil. The monitoring, carried out by the National Coordination of Articulation of Rural Black Quilombola Communities (Conaq) and by the Socio-Environmental Institute (ISA), presents monitored, confirmed cases and deaths resulting from Covid-19 among quilombolas.
The Observatory was launched in a live, held on May 28, 2020, with the participation of Jurema Werneck, Milene Maia and Sandra Andrade. Access here.
On June 17, 2020, sociologist Paulo Ramos, coordinator of the Reconexão Periferias project, spoke with Leila Borari, coordinator of the Association of Suraras do Tapajós Indigenous Women, about the pandemic and indigenous peoples. Access here.
Sonia Guajajara, one of the most important Brazilian indigenous leaders today, spoke on August 7, 2020 with reporters André Barrocal and Felipe Milanez, about the struggles of indigenous peoples against the new coronavirus pandemic. In that conversation, she linked the challenges faced in the context of the pandemic to the attacks perpetrated by the government of Jair Bolsonaro on the rights of indigenous peoples. Access here.
The Association of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB) held a “live in solidarity” on December 1, 2020, with the theme “Indigenous Women on the Move”. The live featured Ana Paula Sabino, Hamangai Pataxó and Indiana Petsirei O Dumhive, among others. Access here.
The coronavirus has had even more devastating effects on quilombola communities, where health services are lacking and lethality is high. To give visibility to this situation and discuss ways out, activists and organizations made several lives. In one of the first lives, organized on June 4, 2020, CONAQ's executive secretary, Selma Dealdiana, and jurist Deborah Duprat address the topic, with support from Oxfam Brasil. Watch here .
The UNEAfro organization and 12 other partners, including quilombola support networks and the Franciscan Solidarity Service, distributed basic food baskets and hygiene kits in outskirts and quilombos. They are also guaranteeing a minimum income for teachers, students and coordinators of community courses. On the campaign it is possible to find detailed information on the steps, the accountability of the resources already collected and also access the vakinha online.
We , women from the periphery” , an independent journalistic collective, formed by journalists living in different peripheral regions of the city of São Paulo, is engaged in the fight against COVID-19. The collective's website houses a variety of analyzes that highlight how the pandemic unevenly affects the periphery, such as the risks of exclusion from distance learning, the limits of access to cultural goods, the use of public transport and a special series on Environmental Racism: indigenous and quilombola women in protecting their people against COVID-19.
The Popular Memory of the Pandemic is a project for recording and disseminating reports on popular experiences in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. The website was developed by Plataforma Dhesca Brasil and there it is possible to navigate through the memories of individuals and groups, who narrate their experiences and strategies for coping with the pandemic.
In addition to browsing through the memories available on the website, you can also participate in the Popular Memory of the Pandemic us your report . Sharing your experience can be a way to safeguard heritage, strengthen resistance in the present and build the foundations for the future.
