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Augustus 2019
Dear Community, Grandmother Maria Alice is sending a message of peace and awareness for what is going on in her country, Brazil, and asks for your prayers at this crucial time. PRAYERS FOR THE WAJÃPI PEOPLE I come here today, as a member of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, to bring my prayers on behalf of the Wajãpi People, for the protection, integrity and safeguarding of their human rights, for the care of their children, elders and women, and for the support of their brave warriors in the exercise of their mission as guardians of their people. On July 27/2019, after allies around the world began spreading the following news, late in the afternoon, FUNAI (the National Indian Foundation, is the Brazilian government body that establishes and carries out policies relating to indigenous peoples) representatives arrived. And yesterday morning, a group of federal police arrived on indigenous land to arrest the invaders. We do not know yet what the result of this operation was. What we do know is that, since this news began to spread internationally, in various parts of Brazil and around the world, ceremonies and prayers have arisen, praying to the Great Spirit for the Wajãpi people. What is confirmed is that we must always be alert, supportive and active within the stream of faith in peace and good, for the protection of our peoples, our rights, and our Mother Earth. We are aware that the procedures of invasion of indigenous lands is not an isolated fact in Brazil today. In various demarcated and inhabited territories, these invasions have been succeeding, accompanied murders that remain unsolved. We will continue to appeal to our Creator for the protection and integrity of our peoples. We will follow our solidarity current of warning and disclosure. Let’s pray for the warriors that were forced to leave their peoples and go into the spirit world. May Creator give them a good place and take good care of them. Let us thank God for this protection given to the Wajãpi people today, as we always do, for the water, the land, the forests, the animals, the fruits, and all of life. For all our relations. Grandmother Maria Alice Campos Freire, Brazil UPDATE ON THE INVASION OF THE WAJÍPI INDIGENOUS LAND We, from the Wajãpi Village Council - Apina want to disclose the information about the invasion of the Wajãpi Indigenous Land. On Monday, 07/22, in the late afternoon, Chief Emyra Wajãpi was shot dead in the region of his village Waseity, near the village Mariry. No one of the Wajãpi tribe witnessed this brutal and violent murder. Chief Emyra Wajãpi body was discovered the next morning and the news of his death was disseminated to all the villages (Tuesday 23rd). In the following days, relatives examined the homicide site and found traces and other signs that his death was caused by non-indigenous people from outside the indigenous land. On Friday, the 26th, the Wajãpi from the Yvytotõ village, which is in the same region, found a group of armed non-Indians on the outskirts of the village and warned the other villages by radio. That night, the invaders entered the village and settled in one of the houses, threatening the residents. The next day, the Yvytotõ residents fled in fear to another village in the same region (Mariry village). On the evening of the 26th, we informed Funai and the MPF about the invasion and asked for the PF to take action. Between Friday night and Saturday morning, residents of Karapijuty village spotted an intruder near their village. On Saturday, the 27th, we started spreading the word to our allies in an attempt to hasten the coming of the Federal Police. A group of wajãpi warriors from other regions of the Indigenous Land went to the Mariry region to support the local residents until the Federal Police arrived. On the 27th afternoon, Funai representatives arrived at TIW and went to Jakare village to interview relatives of the dead chief. Funai representatives returned to Macapá to summon the Federal Police. The wajãpi warriors stood guard near the place where the invaders are located and in the villages that are used as the exit from the Indigenous Land. During the night, gunfire was heard in the Jakare village area near BR 210 where there were no Wajãpi. On the morning of the 28th, a group of federal and BOPE police arrived at TIW and went to the scene to arrest the invaders. That is what we know so far. When we have more information, we will compile another document for disclosure. Aramirã Desk - Wajãpi Indigenous Land, July 28, 2019 Share Tweet Forward Add us to your address book |
Vrede, Harmonie, Schoonheid, Liefde en Overvloed voor Allen
november 2018
A CHOICE FOR PEACE AWARENESS
As a woman, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother my choice is for peace, for life and for the respect of all lives.
At this moment, I share this message to all who can hear me, and to Brazilians in particular.
We are facing a serious scenario that challenges the inner harmony of people, both personally and socially. The beliefs and convictions, and the physical, emotional and mental stability of people are in jeopardy. We are facing threats and counter- information. In the media there is no longer any control over the truth of what is being reported. What is going on is referred to as a democratic process, but that is not what we are seeing. There is a violent power, connected with international groups' interests and greed that is creating an obscure atmosphere that is trying to manipulate our choice. Most simple people are confused, believing in false news and in false promises. They are frightened and disoriented.
At this point we are challenged to make a choice and this choice will define the future of our nation and our people, for our children and for nature. It will even influence the whole world. We need to be really aware. We cannot act under pressure or impulse. We must meditate seriously within ourselves, within the inner temple of our hearts. Do we want weapons? Do we want torture? Do we want inequality? Will we condone racial persecution? Or do we want peace and freedom? Is it possible that guns, torture and brutality can serve to bring us peace? I think history has already proved to us that the answer is NO. The more weapons, the more suffering, the more hate, the more revenge, the greater the consequences for everyone. Why should we believe in the illusion that a weapon gives us power when we can believe in the power of love of a brother and sisterhood?
Whatever spiritual path we choose to follow, we learn that we are all in the likeness of the same Creator. That the light that shines in me also shines in every being of Creation. When this light is given the opportunity to shine in each one, it is then that we will know freedom.
Freedom teaches us the responsibility of our choice. If we are free and we choose evil, we will reap the fruit of this action. If we choose weapons, one day we will be hit by them. If we choose the destruction of the Amazon, we will be responsible for the drought all over the planet, not to mention the extinction of thousands of animal lives and plant species that hold great medicinal power. If we choose to withdraw the right of the indigenous peoples to their lands we will be annihilating the guardians of life and the natural richness of our planet; even more, we will be diminishing our roots and our ancestry.
When our choice affects the collective, then our responsibility is even greater. We must step with calmness and maturity for if we act impulsively we can fail. The
question is, do we choose peace or violence? In this moment we are being confronted with such a choice. Such is the gravity of our situation. If we choose to be neutral we are deceiving ourselves. Neutrality here is an illusion. The one who thinks he is being neutral is also responsible for the result of the collective choice. This choice seems political, but it is not. A deeper and more decisive choice is at hand. Are we going to choose to be human or are we going to negate our humanness? If we are human, we need to embrace our diversity, those who are most alike and those who are different. Everyone has the same right. Therefore, if our choice affects the rights and freedom of the other, our rights and freedom will also be affected.
Time now puts us before a great opportunity to develop and grow our consciousness. We must act with awareness. Not react. Do not act on impulse or by pressure.
My awareness as a mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, teaches me to act with love. With love and respect. We are all different, yet in all of us there is a longing for good, a longing for peace. Sometimes the disappointments that we go through in life create calluses in our feelings, and that may create reactive behaviors. We become rigid and disconnected from the original longing of our heart. But if we are calm, and if we learn to deepen the yearning for the child that dwells in each of us, surely we will find the choice for peace, happiness, freedom and respect for the beauty of nature and all of life.
I invite all of you to unite now around this great alliance for good, for brother and sisterhood, for respect for our lives, with all their differences, and be a pillar and instrument for love.
MAY ALL BECOME AWAKENED IN PEACE AWARENESS!!! Grandmother Maria Alice Campos Freire, Brazil
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