By Katya Yegorov-Crate (CS Intern)
By Edson Krenak (Krenak, CS Staff)
On June 4, 2022, Bruno Araújo Pereira, 41, and Dom Phillips, 57, went missing from the Itacoaí River in the Vale do Javari region in the extreme west of the Amazon, on the border with Peru. On June 14, 2022, their bodies were found.
Learn about the struggles of Indigenous communities impacted by a new wave of extractivism for transition minerals such as copper, nickel, cobalt, and lithium, which are key in battery development for electric vehicles and other technologies. We hear from activists and community leaders about what a Just Transition to the green economy should look like and how Indigenous Peoples’ rights are central to shifting investment portfolios towards net zero.
Moderator: Kate Finn (Osage), Executive Director, First Peoples Worldwide
Content Note: The content discussed below, and/or some of the web pages we link to, contain text and images documenting physical violence against Maasai people.
Content Note: The content discussed below, and/or some of the web pages we link to, contain text and images documenting physical violence against Maasai people.
By Katya Yegorov-Crate (CS Intern)
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are headquartered on Massachusett land, in Cambridge, MA, and we thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.