11/28/2023 – BRAZIL – Say NO to corporate dumping and pollution! Our friends at Amigos da Terra/Brasil are supporting the Mbya Guarani community of Cantagalo, Viamão against a landfill project threatening the health of the Gravataí River and Guaíba River basins. The landfill is being proposed by a company under the umbrella of the Vital Queiroz Galvão Group – a natural gas and oil company in Brazil. Since 2018, residents and environmentalists have united in the “No to the Landfill, No to the Dump” movement, opposing the Montes Verdes Farm landfill. They cite the disastrous effects it would have on the indigenous Mbya Guarani community’s agriculture, forests, and water.
In a recent speech, local geologist Marcelo Santos, denounced the landfill project:
“We are fighting for the betterment of life, of the air we breathe, of the earth we breathe today. We don’t want that [landfill] to happen. We don’t just talk about the trash we see. We have sources from many parts, they kill the birds, the wild animals that we see little of today, that we no longer have… And today the white people claim the land is theirs and they’ll do as they please. Who gave birth to the earth, who gave birth to the tree, created the earth so that they may say that the earth is theirs? Why is it written there that the land is sold and you can put trash in it?”
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This movement is one of the many campaigns of community-led resistance against corporate and government environmental abuses that is supported by Amigos da Terra/Brasil!
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