Facing Defunding, Indigenous Cultural Workers Say They Cannot Be Suppressed
The proposed elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities threatens Indigenous libraries and arts programs."...My name is Nemonte Nenquimo -- I’m a Waorani woman, a mother, and an Earth defender from the Amazon.
Right now, the Ecuadorian government is trying to quietly auction 8 million acres of pristine rainforest to oil companies..."
#IndigenousCultures & #ClimateAction
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"Photographer Juno Gemes has spent the last 50 years documenting Aboriginal Australian culture and the fight for justice, from the sands of the Tanami Desert to the carpeted corridors of Parliament House in Canberra
Her book Until Justice Comes: Fifty Years of The Movement for Indigenous Rights. Photographs 1970-2024 is published by Upswell Publishing in #Australia ..."
Photographer Juno Gemes has spent the last 50 years documenting Aboriginal culture and the fight for justice, from the sands of the Tanami Desert to the carpeted corridors of Parliament HouseWarning: this gallery has images of people who are now deceased
> “The modernity project does not define humanity. #Humanity is much older. It’s too late for modernity to succeed but it’s not too late for humanity to succeed.” Here he turns to #indigenousCultures: “For hundreds of thousands of years, they survived and did quite well without causing the sixth #massExtinction.”
“There isn’t a single Indigenous package,” he says. “Each is tuned to its [particular local] #environment, and they vary a lot. But they have #common elements: humility, only taking what you need from the environment, and the belief that we can learn a lot from our ‘our brothers and sisters,’ that is, the other animals and plants who have been around for much longer than us.”
WALC Confluence 3 is hosted by Sylvie Marchand (FR) and Lionel Camburet (FR) of Gigacircus, and their guest artist is Gustavo Alvarez. Gustavo Alvarez, is a performer and an anthropologist, at the heart of great number of collective events and meetings, stimulating artists to resist and go beyond their passion!
WALC Confluence 3 is hosted by Sylvie Marchand (FR) and Lionel Camburet (FR) of Gigacircus, and their guest artist is Gustavo Alvarez. Gustavo Alvarez, is a performer and an anthropologist, at the heart of great number of collective events and meetings, stimulating artists to resist and go beyond their passion!