Brazilian police stop Indians from storming Congress

[Zorro]

Source: Reuters

Brazilian police used pepper spray to stop hundreds of protesting Indians from storming Congress on Wednesday, clamping down on the second day of indigenous rights marches.

Tribes across Brazil blocked highways and occupied government offices to oppose what they see as a steady undermining of their rights to ancestral lands by farmers supported by politicians in disputes that have occasionally turned violent.

"We have lost lots of land and they want to take away what we have left," said Mayalú Txucarramae, a young Kayapó leader from the Xingú reservation in Mato Grosso state, one of about 1,000 indigenous demonstrators camped out in front of Congress.

Indians wearing headdresses and body paint and carrying spears, bows and arrows expressed their anger in war dances outside ministry buildings in Brazil's capital and then tried to invade Congress, before being stopped by police.

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[SunSeeker]

1. Early South American Europeans have a lot of blood on their hands.

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Just like early North American Europeans do. The genocide of Native Americans is a horrific history that is rarely even acknowledged. The Europeans tried to enslave them, but when they died of diseases given them by the Europeans or committed suicide (particularly in Haiti) or ran away to their deaths rather than be enslaved, the Europeans turned to the African slave trade. That created yet another horrific history.

I imagine the crackdown on these tribes' dissent will get more and more violent in Brazil, as the World Cup games draw near. Can't have a bad photo op, dontcha know.

[Zorra]

2. Solidarity with the indigenous peoples of South America.

Fucking greedy capitalist imperialist planet killing murdering thieves won't stop until they kill everything.