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About Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

I'm a French artist living near Paris. From 1968 to 1973 I studied at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, then at the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, California, for my BFA. My work for many decades has been informed and inspired by time spent with indigenous communities. Various study trips devoted to the exploration of techniques and natural pigments took me originally to the Dogon of Mali, West Africa, and subsequently to Yanomami communities in Venezuela and Brazil. Over many years, during the winters, I studied the techniques of traditional Bogolan painting. Hand woven fabric is dyed with boiled bark from the Wolo tree or crushed leaves from other trees, then painted with mud from the Niger river which oxidizes in contact with the dye. Through the Dogon and the Yanomami, my interest in the multiplicity of techniques and supports for aesthetic expression influenced my artistic practice. The voyages to the Amazon Rainforest have informed several series of paintings created while living among the Yanomami. The support used is roughly woven canvas prepared with acrylic medium then textured with a mixture of sand from the river bank and lava. This supple canvas is then rolled and transported on expeditions into the forest. They are then painted using a mixture of acrylic colors and Achiote and Genipap, the vegetal pigments used by the Yanomami for their ritual body paintings and on practical and shamanic implements. My concern for the ongoing devastation of the Amazon Rainforest has inspired my films and installation projects. Since 2005, I've created a perfomance and film project - Fire Sculpture - to bring urgent attention to Rainforest issues. To protest against the continuing destruction, I've publicly set fire to my totemic sculptures. These burning sculptures symbolize the degradation of nature and the annihilation of indigenous cultures that depend on the forest for their survival.

Corte Interamericana debe ponerse al día con los estándares internacionales sobre el derecho a la libre determinación Indígena — Justicia en las Américas

Daniel Cerqueira* En los próximos meses la Corte Interamericana (Corte IDH) decidirá un caso más en su amplio repertorio de precedentes relacionados con la concesión de megaproyectos en territorios Indígenas, en el cual confluyen actos de violencia, corrupción y daños ambientales. El … Continue reading →

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Mennonite colony builds bridge, clears forest in Bolivian protected areas! – (Me: acting like traditional colonialists – exploit people and land for themselves with no concern for conservation of Indigenous peoples’ future) — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

Source: Mennonite colony builds bridge, clears forest in Bolivian protected areas Mennonite colony builds bridge, clears forest in Bolivian protected areas – (Me: acting like traditional colonialists – exploit people and land for themselves with no concern for conservation of indigenous … Continue reading →

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« Basta ! Il governo di Jair Bolsonaro ha mantenuto la sua promessa: non ha delimitato un millimetro di terre Indigene, vuole distruggere la foresta e legalizzare l’estrazione dell’oro e l’accaparramento di terre nei territori Indigeni. Siamo mobilitati: la nostra LOTTA è per LA VITA! »

« I diritti fondiari dei popoli Indigeni sono originali, precedono le leggi non Indigene e sono riaffermati nella Costituzione federale. È compito del governo brasiliano riconoscerli delimitando e proteggendo le terre Indigene! » Ancora una volta, la Corte Suprema del Brasile … Continue reading →

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Climate: No More Excuses! — Grouse Beater

A land arid, inhospitable, the end of days Another in our Climate Crisis articles, this by three past distinguished secretaries of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), an assembly that established an international environmental treaty to combat … Continue reading →

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Que são os responsáveis pela proteção dos povos indígenas e do meio ambiente — Existe Guarani em São Paulo

As autoridades brasileiras precisam adotar medidas para prevenir e proteger os territórios indígenas de incursões de agentes ilegais, “inclusive pelo fortalecimento dos órgãos governamentais responsáveis pela proteção dos povos indígenas e do meio ambiente (Funai e Ibama)”, cobrou a ONU. … Continue reading →

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« Basta ! El gobierno de Jair Bolsonaro ha cumplido su promesa: no ha demarcado ni un milímetro de tierras Indígenas, quiere destruir la selva y legalizar la extracción de oro y el acaparamiento de tierras en territorios Indígenas. ¡Nos movilizamos: nuestra LUCHA es por la VIDA! »

« Los derechos territoriales de los pueblos indígenas son originales, anteriores a las leyes no Indígenas y están reafirmados en la Constitución Federal. ¡Es el papel del gobierno brasileño reconocerlos delimitando y protegiendo las Tierras Indígenas! » Una vez más, la … Continue reading →

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The Food Shortage Solution in Your Own Backyard! — HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Human Wrongs Watch By Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service* While the global food systems we depend on come under increasing strain, there’s a solution to the growing crisis that most North Americans can find in … Continue reading →

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Câmara de Povos Indígenas do MPF lamenta mortes de indigenista e de jornalista e reafirma compromisso de defesa dos direitos das populações originárias — Ecoamazônia

Em nota, colegiado alerta para acirramento da violência na região do Vale do Javari (AM) e das ameaças a defensores de direitos humanos A Câmara de Povos Indígenas e Comunidades Tradicionais do Ministério Público Federal (6ªCCR/MPF), por seus membros e … Continue reading →

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« BASTA! O governo Jair Bolsonaro prometeu e cumpriu: não demarcou um milímetro de terra Indígena, quer PASSAR a boiada e correr com os PLs da mineração e o garimpo e da grilagem. Estamos e mobilizados: nossa LUTA é pela VIDA! »

« Os direitos territoriais dos povos Indígenas são originários, existem antes das leis não Indígenas, e estão reafirmados na Constituição Federal. Cabe ao governo apenas reconhecê-los demarcando e Protegendo as Terras Indígenas! » Mais uma vez, o Supremo Tribunal Federal adiou indefinidamente … Continue reading →

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Social media can support environmental movements – but not in the way you might think! — Geography Directions

By Doug Specht, University of Westminster and Anastasia Kavada, University of Westminster This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. In the heady days of the early 2010s, social media was the … Continue reading →

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