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00:07We only exist because the Earth lets us live.
00:12It gives us life.
00:14There's nothing else that gives us life.
00:17That's why we call it Mother Earth.
00:20And my father used to say to me,
00:21you can't die.
00:23You have to escape.
00:25If they want to kill you, let them kill your brothers.
00:27You run away to tell you a story.
00:30Our hearts cry.
00:34Our minds get sad
00:37when we see our forest
00:42sleeping standing up
00:44and the dawn lying down, destroyed.
00:50Because the big businessmen work night and day
00:57to defeat us.
01:00Because we had an indigenous name
01:01and when we registered in 1979,
01:04Cartolho didn't accept our indigenous name
01:07because we weren't Christians.
01:10We weren't part of this Brazil.
01:14Modernity is synonymous with social ruin.
01:18It's not murder, it's not femicide,
01:22it's not pollution,
01:24it's not an isolated part of a bad development.
01:27It's what development produces.
01:30Development produces material wealth for a few
01:33and total ruin for the rest.
01:36The pandemic can kill some,
01:39but this mistake can kill everyone.
01:42This mistake.
01:44This mistake of thinking that we can perpetuate
01:47a way of being in the world by eating the world.
01:54The same way you bring down a mountain
01:56and produce ore and produce iron and steel,
01:59you produce war and kill people.
02:02It's a choice.
02:04We could have chosen something else.
02:06We could have chosen, for example,
02:09not to go out there killing everything.
02:12If you don't leave this land,
02:14we'll tie you up on the plane,
02:16throw your family in the middle of the river,
02:19put fish to eat you.
02:22We'll kill you.
02:23This land is not yours, my father said, this land is mine.
02:26Only our firm resistance can prevent this tragedy
02:54from being irreversible for the indigenous peoples
03:00and for planetary life.
03:05The future is ancestral.
03:09It's everything that has already existed.
03:11It's not what's there somewhere.
03:13It's what's here.
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