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Brazilian state of Amazonas enters the most serious phase of COVID-19
January 14, 2021The coronavirus pandemic in Amazonas state has reached the highest level in Brazil's color-coded severity rankings system.
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TV’s forgotten: Indigenous and working-class series
December 21, 2020Few series on television focus either on the Earth’s first inhabitants, the Indigenous, now mostly quartered in slums across the world, or on workers, their lives, and daily concerns. We’ll be discussing the series Mystery Road,...
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Davi Kopenawa, Yanomami leader and shaman, elected to Brazilian Academy of Sciences
December 21, 2020From December 2018 to April 2019, the Yanomami people were the subject of an extraordinary exhibition in São Paulo, The Yanomami Struggle, by photographer Claudia Andujar and the Moreira Sales Institute [IMS] which presented the Yanomamis’...
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Indigenous people block Trans-Amazon Highway protesting industrial drought
December 2, 2020In 2020, the Middle Xingu region suffered one of the most severe droughts of the past 50 years.
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The shaman’s message: An urgent cry from the Amazon
November 20, 2020The entire world knows by now how urgently the Amazon rainforest needs protection from the ravages of destruction, deforestation, Western invasion and settlement.
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