Everyone is now making their way out of the hotel to go to our Brussels meetings!
Let's go!
Hello! How's it going? I'm Ginger from Guatemala
We're part of the communications team doing coverage of this tour.
We're community communicators.
In this tour through Europe we are going to be able to raise the profile of
to show what is actually happening with indigenous peoples in Brazil and the world.
We are in front of the European Union, we are taking some pictures with the sign, Guardians of the Forest.
After this we will have a meeting with a civil society group working on land tenure issues and environmental issues.
We are now in ACT Alliance.
ACT Alliance EU is a faith based European NGO organisation.
We have a special relationship with nature, we look after it, we protect it, we defend it, even with our own lives.
When our territories are threatened, this means that 24 hours a day
we make great mobilisations, great meetings, we occupy and we put ourselves in front of the bullets.
Whoever is a leader here does not know if they are going to be alive in the near future.
To live with this tension, to live with this worry, is to take our right to life, because we are not living, we are surviving, day by day.
When Patricia said 'I don't know that maybe tomorrow I will still live, or not.' I am really emotional, because it may happen.
This is all real and it happens every day.
We have now finished the conference at ACT Alliance.
The people here in Belgium very excited, the journalists,
the director of the organisation ACT Alliance was paying a lot of attention, asking a lot of questions.
Now we're all outside and heading back to get the bus.
Good morning! Today we start very early because we're going to meet members of the EU Parliament,
but the security is really high because there will be a ministerial meeting,
and, people said that President Trump is here, that's why we now have to go with the train, because our bus cannot go into the city.
So it's recording backwards, haha!
We're now heading up to the Parliament to speak to Members of Parliament from Europe.
You are my principal...
Actor!
Our advocacy is that, as large companies from Europe are in the American continent, where we are from, and in Asia,
so we have come to advocate to decision makers, how to make development more sustainable.
The feathers! The feathers are too heavy!
I won't go, too heavy!
I want to thank the presence of all the Parliamentarians who came to receive us.
The Guardians of the Forest are dying, and this program that the European Union has,
for the protection of the defenders of the Human Rights, must be strengthened.
We need something real, on the ground! We need real protection for our peoples!
We need no more killing of our leaders, we need no more criminalisation, many indigenous people are in jail for simply protecting their livelihoods and their territories.
We are the guardians responsible for the protection of Mother Earth.
Consequently, our way of life, naturally, is what guarantees life on this planet.
The relationship you have with the natural world is an inspiration to me when I am sitting in these boring committee rooms.
We expect the, as you say, linking our statements on Human Rights, with our trade agreements.
Putting ecocide and ecological crime within European laws, that would help precisely to judge
both the states and the multinationals who are behind these criminal acts.
That this effort also includes a way to demand the fulfilment of indigenous rights.
We're making the most of the Eurovision cameras!
Who are we?
Guardians of the Forest!
Ahoy!
Demarcation Now!
I was on Kula land, er, Guna land, I don't know which Island..
What do you think about the forests? Guna forests?
Oh I never went there.
Hello! We are the Guardians of the Forests!
We are not peoples of the sea, that's why we're kind of seasick..
We're going to London!
On the way to London.
To London.
Going to London.
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