This Wednesday the third edition of the Indigenous Women’s March will take place in Brasilia, a movement that brings together women from different parts of the country and the world, who, in addition to the country, fight for gender equality, the defense of rights and the preservation of culture fight demarcation.
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Participants in the movement carried signs that read: “No to violence against women in the jungle” and “Now demarcation for the indigenous peoples of Brazil.”
This year the theme is “Biomas Women Defending Biodiversity Through Ancestral Roots.” The meeting began at the Ibero-American Cultural Center, formerly Funarte, from where the group began the march to the Explanada dos Ministerios, where it arrived before the National Congress.
Five thousand indigenous women singing and praying in different languages are voices that intertwine all Brazilian biomes to alert the world to the climate emergency.
Here are the Kaiapó women: pic.twitter.com/cgKHVRClPl
– Nacho Lemus (@LemusteleSUR)
September 13, 2023
By participating in the event, Federal Representative Célia
“Here in the National Congress they want to decide about our lives. We are here, thousands of women, to say that our legal security lies in food and territorial security. We are the women who resist with the power of song,” she said.
On the National Day of Unity, we begin the third Indigenous Women’s March in Brasília! We want to differentiate, we want to direct our struggle and our reforestation of the spirit and the mulherization of politics.
Women’s biomes in March! #marchadasmulheresindigenas pic.twitter.com/I35T3A019Z
— Célia Xakriabá (@celiaxakriaba)
September 11, 2023
For her part, the Secretary of the Indigenous Peoples of Ceará, Juliana Alves of the Jenipapo-Kanindé people, emphasized the importance of unity in the struggle: “Our organization must be strengthened every day. We will only be able to ensure that public policies reach our areas if we continue to fight together to ensure that these policies are delivered. We must unite more every day while respecting the diversity of our country. “
According to the organizers of the meeting, representatives of the 26 Brazilian states will take part in the event, as well as indigenous women from Peru, the United States, Malaysia, Russia and New Zealand.
The meeting is sponsored by the National Articulation of Indigenous Women Warriors of Ancestry (Anmiga) and will take place in the Ibero-American cultural axis in the central region of the federal capital.