[-empyre-] AMAZON IS BURNING

Thu Jan 23 22:47:35 AEDT 2020

Hi empire!
I told you I would invite you come to the Task Force for indigenous Health
- Mutirão Pataxó.
MUTIRÃO OF INDIGENOUS HEALTH – PATAXÓ, VILLAGE PARÁ, CARAIVA, SOUTH OF
BAHIA/BRAZIL !! May 19-24, 2020
https://tecnoxamanismo.wordpress.com/2020/01/10/mutirao-of-indigenous-health-pataxo-village-para-caraiva-south-of-bahia-may-19-24-2020/

The Pataxó people will make a MUTIRÃO for the construction of two health
posts in the village of Pará: a Traditional Indigenous Healing House and a
Medical Health Service Post. You can be part of it.

Full text in English:

https://tecnoxamanismo.wordpress.com/2020/01/10/mutirao-of-indigenous-health-pataxo-village-para-caraiva-south-of-bahia-may-19-24-2020/

Full text in Franch:

https://tecnoxamanismo.wordpress.com/2020/01/23/chantier-collectif-pour-la-sante-autochtone-pataxo-village-para-caraiva-sud-de-bahia-19-24-mai-2020/

thank you

kisses

fabi.

On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 at 17:41, margaretha haughwout <
margaretha.anne.haughwout at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Thanks to everyone dedicated to sharing important information and news on
> this thread. Its been a rich few weeks -- I hope we can return to this
> crisis and get updates from Brazil in coming months on -empyre-.
>
> M
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> On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 1:25 AM isabelle arvers <iarvers at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Gisela,
>>
>> Reading your post about the US Influence in Latin America made me think
>> about a book published by the Judge Eva Joly about France influence in
>> Africa, where she explains the France Afrique system, that looks very
>> similar to what you describe. Here is a little extract of her book "La
>> Force qui nous manque", "tyrants are friends that France has placed in
>> power and whose protects their wealth and influence through its extensive
>> networks of corruption; in exchange they look after the interests and
>> resources of French companies who have come to dig the soil. All this
>> beautiful world has an interest in that nothing, ever, stimulates neither
>> the institutions nor the economy of the countries."
>>
>> How could we support and link different activist's movements throughout
>> different continents?
>>
>> Isabelle
>> [image:
>> http://www.isabellearvers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/animLogo.gif]
>> <http://www.isabellearvers.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/animLogo.gif>
>> Isabelle Arvers
>> Curator, art critic and artist
>> Wattsap: +33 661 998 386
>> http://www.isabellearvers.com
>> Director of Kareron www.kareron.com
>> https://www.facebook.com/ArtGamesWorldTour
>> twitter: @zabarvers
>> instagram.com/zabarvers
>> youtube.com/zabarvers
>> https://vimeo.com/isabellearvers
>> Skype ID: iarvers
>>
>>
>> Le mar. 24 sept. 2019 à 07:03, Gisela Domschke <gdomschke at gmail.com> a
>> écrit :
>>
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>>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I've been following the thread, and the reflections presented are of
>>> great interest. Following the article published by The Intercept, mentioned
>>> by Lucia Agra, about Bolsonaro's plans for the Amazon area, I believe it's
>>> important to highlight its connection to the permanent strategic objectives
>>> of the United States for Latin America, as pointed by ambassador Samuel
>>> Pinheiro Guimarães:
>>>
>>> 1. to prevent state or alliance of states from reducing US influence in
>>> the region; 2. to broaden its cultural / ideological influence on the
>>> communication systems of each state; 3. to incorporate all the economies of
>>> the region into the American economy; 4. to disarm the states of the
>>> region; 5. to maintain the regional policy coordination and alignment
>>> system; 6. to prevent the presence, especially military, of adversary
>>> powers in the region; 7. to punish states that contradict the principles of
>>> American hegemonic leadership; 8. toprevent the development of autonomous
>>> industries in advanced areas; 9. to weaken the states of the region; 10. to
>>> elect political leaders favorable to US goals.
>>>
>>> Those are United States' objectives for Latin America in general, but
>>> apply in particular to Brazil, the main state in the region by size of
>>> territory, natural resources, population, geographical location. Also,
>>> since President Lula's election in 2003, Brazilian domestic and foreign
>>> policy has opposed, albeit not systematically, some of America's strategic
>>> goals.
>>>
>>> From this new situation in Brazil-United States relations and the
>>> growing popularity of President Lula, the American strategy was:
>>> · To mobilize the mass media in Brazil against government policies;
>>> · Under the Brazil-United States judicial cooperation agreement, to
>>> initiate *Operation Lava Jato* that would facilitate the achievement of
>>> the US strategic objectives in particular 2, 8, 9 and 10, listed above;
>>> · To initiate the political process of preparing impeachment of
>>> President Dilma Rousseff;
>>> · Directly and indirectly finance the formation of the MBL and *Vem pra
>>> Rua* groups (popular anti-Lula movements)
>>>
>>> The main objective of *Operation Lava Jato* was not the fight against
>>> corruption, but to prevent the election of President Lula in 2018.
>>> “Corruption” was countered by *Operation Lava Jato*, headed by Sérgio
>>> Moro, a lower court judge who had the connivance and even the cooperation
>>> of members of the High Courts and the mainstream press for a highly
>>> unorthodox and illegal procedural conduct. All the illegal aspects of his
>>> conduct have widely been unveiled by the secret files published by The
>>> Intercept. However, no action has been taken so far by the High Courts to
>>> revert this situation.
>>>
>>> The United States of America has achieved its main strategic objective:
>>> to elect political leaders favorable to US goals. And with Bolsonaro's
>>> government they are achieving all the other goals listed above.
>>>
>>> Besides the great films suggested by Fabi, I'd also add to the list the
>>> recently launched "Bacurau", by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano
>>> Dornelles. The film received the Jury Prize at Cannes 2019, and represents
>>> a strong allegory about local resistancy in the present situation (
>>> https://www.indiewire.com/2019/05/kleber-mendonca-filho-bacurau-brazilian-government-lawsuit-1202145457/
>>> ).
>>>
>>> On the topic of local resistancy, I'd like to mention the relevance of
>>> indigenous actions.
>>>
>>> Gisela
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 at 13:53, Shu Lea Cheang <shulea at earthlink.net>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> dear Oliver
>>>>
>>>> indeed, i never read about this connection you made here with HIV
>>>> virus. I have myself done a scifi cyherpunk film about HIV virus mutation
>>>> in the future. (http://fluidthemovie.com).
>>>>
>>>> "The rich biodiversity of primary forests might start resisting in
>>>> completely unanticipated and catastrophic ways."
>>>> This warning is alarming.
>>>>
>>>> AMAZON continues burning... just want to mention as we enter into the
>>>> 4th week of our sejour here in -empyre-, but feel free to continue the
>>>> AMAZON IS BURNING thread...
>>>> closely watched.
>>>>
>>>> thanks lots
>>>>
>>>> sl
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 23.09.19 18:33, Dean Wilson wrote:
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for this razor sharp contribution to the slowly expanding
>>>> awareness of what living beings innately understand. Hasn’t the rich
>>>> biodiversity of primary forests been resisting in unanticipated and
>>>> catastrophic ways for centuries? Are we not witnessing accelerated and
>>>> conflated natural disasters? Not long from today, the word Sargassum, for
>>>> example, may refer to phenomena that presently have no explicit meaning in
>>>> the mode of empirical observation:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> DW
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 10:36 AM Oliver Kellhammer <
>>>> okellhammer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
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>>>>> The multispecies resistance can cut both ways once primary ecosystems
>>>>> are parsed up with roads and exposed to globalized trade flows. Freed from
>>>>> their predators or other ecologies of containment, some of the more protean
>>>>> species will take this as an opportunity to explore new habitats, and with
>>>>> viruses and microbes, that can be super bad news.
>>>>> When the rainforest of equatorial Africa started getting fragmented by
>>>>> resource extraction,  there arose the set of perfect conditions to allow
>>>>> HIV to jump from its simian to human hosts - the bushmeat trade,
>>>>> long-distance trucking, roadside sex trade workers, systemic poverty and
>>>>> displacement. The result was an epidemic for which the world was completely
>>>>> unprepared. I remember in the '80s (along with many others) trying to piece
>>>>> together the epidemiology of how it was that friends in Toronto were dying
>>>>> by the score of illness completely unknown a few years before. Who would
>>>>> have guessed that it stemmed from roadbuilding, mining and logging in the
>>>>> vast watersheds of the Congo?
>>>>> The rich biodiversity of primary forests might start resisting in
>>>>> completely unanticipated and catastrophic ways.
>>>>>
>>>>> O.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 1:38 PM margaretha haughwout <
>>>>> margaretha.anne.haughwout at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
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>>>>>> Good morning -empyre-,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And yes thank you so much Lucio for this insight, and for the link.
>>>>>> It is very important. I believe I found the English version:
>>>>>> https://theintercept.com/2019/09/20/amazon-brazil-army-bolsanaro/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It does seem like it all starts with the roads. The roads introduce
>>>>>> new species in the area as they get made, possibilities for logging come
>>>>>> about. New edge effects are created and microclimates emerge that allow for
>>>>>> a greater chance of fires, ultimately directing the landscape away from
>>>>>> rainforest and toward savannah where the plantationocene can take hold --
>>>>>> radically depleting species diversity and introducing new species that also
>>>>>> exhaust the soil (cattle deplete nutrients in the pastures). The roads are
>>>>>> resource frontiers, and also involve the process of 'making cheap' -- a
>>>>>> process Jason Moore describes (and who is referenced by Escher in another
>>>>>> thread). Perhaps we can pick up the epistemological question again in the
>>>>>> future -- the question of distance, speed, and totalizing views (yes,
>>>>>> creating the 'we' vision).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On the ground, I am so interested in the foreign species that travel
>>>>>> along these roads -- how invasive plant species *sometimes* give big ag
>>>>>> grief and can often remediate the landscape, reintroducing nutrients and re
>>>>>> texturing the soil, sometimes so the more native species can move back in
>>>>>> (Oliver has many examples of this happening in North America) . I'd love to
>>>>>> learn what plants could do such things along these new roads in Brazil.
>>>>>> Also interested in species that help fight big ag in alliance with humans.
>>>>>> In Argentina for example anti gmo activists throw amaranth into fields (a
>>>>>> superweed, a spinach, a grain): PDF:
>>>>>> https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article-pdf/9/2/204/517303/204beilin.pdf
>>>>>> (also see
>>>>>> https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/rethinking-a-weed-the-truth-about-amaranth)
>>>>>> A big shout out to multispecies resistance.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -M
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> beforebefore.net
>>>>>> --
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 2:19 PM Sergio Basbaum <sbasbaum at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>> Thank you Lucio, for this account
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> s
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 1:24 PM Lucio Agra <lucioagra at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>> Hi, everybody.
>>>>>>>> I've been lurking until now, following the discussion and
>>>>>>>> preferably trying to do not interfere.  Margaretha, though, has put a good
>>>>>>>> point here.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Today I waked up with a message sent by a colleague  through Whats
>>>>>>>> Up, with a link to The Intercept ,where a young brazilian journalist, from
>>>>>>>> their crew, grabbed some information about the plans that the Govern - and
>>>>>>>> particularly the Army - have been preparing concerning Amazon area. The
>>>>>>>> militaries basically reedited an ancient doctrine about security on the
>>>>>>>> Amazon frontier. Among several conspiration theories involving the
>>>>>>>> construction of an independent country for Yanomoanis in collaboration with
>>>>>>>> Venezuela, and other klind of misconception there is an intention to get
>>>>>>>> around ancient plans of roads construction in the region. There is already
>>>>>>>> a road that connects Cuiabá (in the middle of the country) to Santarem. Up
>>>>>>>> to this place, there begins the region known as Calha Norte, which was
>>>>>>>> involved in disputes and projects since Military Dictatorship in the 70s
>>>>>>>> and 80s. It gave raise to a rumorous situation that involved, in the past,
>>>>>>>> some militaires and empresarios. Well, here they come again, projecting the
>>>>>>>> occupation of Indigenous areas with mining and people brought from other
>>>>>>>> parts of the country, with the aim to avoid a supposed "invasion" of
>>>>>>>> Chinese immigrants that also supposedly have benn growing in Suriname.
>>>>>>>> Several detais, including a presentation with maps and some audio
>>>>>>>> registering the meetings done in the state of Pará, were disclosed by
>>>>>>>> Intercept. The material is astonishing even to those of us who were born
>>>>>>>> and in Brazil and to all that live here.
>>>>>>>> Now I  arrive to the important point Margaretha sustained in her
>>>>>>>> commentaries. The roads we see in the map, part of it, probably represent
>>>>>>>> these efforts to open ways up to North Amazon, a place, as an specialst
>>>>>>>> heard by Intercept says, so isolated that does not demand concerns on
>>>>>>>> fronteer security. There is indeed a plan to occupy Amazon with roads and
>>>>>>>> it is really important for some *tactical* reasons: first, because
>>>>>>>> it increases petrol and cars lobby, second because it was one of the main
>>>>>>>> politics of Dictatorship in the 70s, through the absurd project of
>>>>>>>> TransAmazonica road. Nowaday it seems to be a reedition of ancient
>>>>>>>> positions susteinad by  some falcons from the Army.
>>>>>>>> If, from one side, says Margaretha, perhaps the world get
>>>>>>>> information that constructs a "we vision" (from the standpoint of the ones
>>>>>>>> who did not suffer colonization directly - "seeing from afar") , on the
>>>>>>>> other there is an analogous situation concerning people that live in  in
>>>>>>>> southwest or south parts of the Country, which means also "seeing from
>>>>>>>> afar". Nevertheless, the same network has been making it possible to have
>>>>>>>> fast access to such an information as it was disclosed by journalist
>>>>>>>> Tatiana Dias through Intercept today. Intercept uses the same Network that
>>>>>>>> can either reinforce distances, either eliminate them. To use a cliché,
>>>>>>>> information is a crucial tool to this very moment.
>>>>>>>> Link to the story (I'm afraid it is only in Portuguese):
>>>>>>>> https://theintercept.com/2019/09/19/plano-bolsonaro-paranoia-amazonia/
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Best
>>>>>>>> Lucio Agra
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Em sex, 20 de set de 2019 às 11:13, margaretha haughwout <
>>>>>>>> margaretha.anne.haughwout at gmail.com> escreveu:
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>> Dear All,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hope your day of CLIMATE STRIKE! brings new energy and fresh
>>>>>>>>> beginnings to the struggle.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Fabi thank you for your posts so full of energy and for a vision
>>>>>>>>> of agroecology. I share your inspiration for this set of cultivation
>>>>>>>>> practices, and worry deeply about the ways it can be taken up by
>>>>>>>>> capital.... But perhaps as you suggest it is a way out, a tear on the edges
>>>>>>>>> of modernity (Eduardo Gudynas argues the way out of modernity will be
>>>>>>>>> determined by Latin America....)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I have another question for you Fabi and for Dan. One of the
>>>>>>>>> striking things about the arial images of the Amazon, are the fishbone
>>>>>>>>> patterns we see as roads get developed. We can actually see the metabolic
>>>>>>>>> pathways of capitalism in these patterns. But I'm wondering about the ways
>>>>>>>>> 'we' see the Amazon from afar -- the technologies we use, and how they
>>>>>>>>> themselves are implicated in colonial histories and colonial futures that
>>>>>>>>> have us leaving earth -- could you comment. How do you use these mapping
>>>>>>>>> and satellite technologies in your own practice?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> In solidarity,
>>>>>>>>> -M
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>> beforebefore.net
>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 1:21 PM Dean Wilson <dean at sundialforum.org>
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> A lurker here ... thanks for the thread. "A thousand years ago"
>>>>>>>>>> indeed. Even an eight year interval under the present exploding plastic
>>>>>>>>>> inevitable airborne toxic event is a lost slave ship of failure. Pankaj
>>>>>>>>>> Mishra's book review of David French scraped the bulbous lard of privilege
>>>>>>>>>> and rummaged around thusly back in the day (2011):
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/a-curzon-without-an-empire/270145
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> "Even stranger gaps exist in *India*, which, though subtitled *An
>>>>>>>>>> Intimate Biography of 1.2 Billion People*, finds no place for
>>>>>>>>>> the nearly 800 million Indians who still depend on agriculture for a
>>>>>>>>>> living. The quiet catastrophe in rural areas—the collapse of water tables,
>>>>>>>>>> spiralling debt, the poisoning of cultivable land, and tens of thousands of
>>>>>>>>>> farmer suicides—is absent from *India*. French does talk to one
>>>>>>>>>> man with a farming background at length; but the latter turns out to be an
>>>>>>>>>> upwardly mobile adivasi at a Californian-style vineyard owned by Sula
>>>>>>>>>> Wines. Claiming that Mahadev Kolis “normally prefer” Chenin Blanc and
>>>>>>>>>> Madeira, he leads French into upbeat speculation about the “democratisation
>>>>>>>>>> of wine-drinking” in India."
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Parasamgate bodhi svaha.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> DW
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>>>>> empyre forum
>>>>>>>>> empyre at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au
>>>>>>>>> http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> *Lucio Agra*
>>>>>>>> Prof. Adjunto • CECULT/UFRB
>>>>>>>> Centro de Cultura Linguagens e Tecnologias Aplicadas
>>>>>>>> <https://ufrb.edu.br/cecult/>
>>>>>>>> http://contemporaryperformance.org/profile/LucioAgra
>>>>>>>> Se vc tem urgência de falar comigo, me ligue no celular! É mais
>>>>>>>> rápido!
>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>>>> empyre forum
>>>>>>>> empyre at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au
>>>>>>>> http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> -- Prof. Dr. Sérgio Roclaw Basbaum
>>>>>>> -- Pós-Graduação Tec.da Inteligência e Design Digital - TIDD (PUC-SP)
>>>>>>> -- Coordenador Pós-Graduação em Música e Imagem (FASM)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -- http://soundcloud.com/sergiobasbaum
>>>>>>> -- http://soundcloud.com/pantharei
>>>>>>> <https://soundcloud.com/pantharei>
>>>>>>> -- [:a.cinema:] <http://acinemaperformance.blogspot.com.br/>
>>>>>>> ...sai dessa fila, vem pra roda festejar..
>>>>>>> <http://soundcloud.com/sergiobasbaum/choror-bye-bye>
>>>>>>> -- a.cinema <http://acinemaperformance.blogspot.com>
>>>>>>> -- pantharei_tube
>>>>>>> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXlPdYtxV5bj5uAQwXC-M_Q>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> B'H'
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "Do mesmo modo como a percepção da coisa me abre ao ser, realizando
>>>>>>> a síntese paradoxal de uma infinidade de aspectos perspectivos, a percepção
>>>>>>> do outro funda a moralidade (...)"
>>>>>>> Maurice Merleau-Ponty
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> _______________________________________________
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>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>> empyre forum
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>>>>>
>>>>> --
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>>>>>
>>>>> _______________________________________________
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>>>> --
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>>>>
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