Free Land Camp takes over Brazil’s capital to fight for indigenous rights

After two years of happening online due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Acampamento Terra Livre 2022 (Free Land Camp) begun in Brasilia. The camp will last until April 14th. The Indigenous People of Brazil Network (Apib), one of the organizers, estimates that the meeting will gather about 8,000 indigenous people, with representatives of more than 150 different ethnic groups of Brazil.

The focus of the mobilization is on confronting the anti-indigenous agenda of the Bolsonaro government and the “death projects” in Congress. Among the priority agendas are the fight against the bill 191/2020, which authorizes the exploitation of indigenous lands, bill 6.299/2002, known as the “poison package”, which makes more flexible the use of pesticides in the country, bill 2.633/2020 and bill 510/2021, on the regularization of illegal land occupations, and bill 3.729/2004, which changes the rules for environmental licensing of enterprises in Brazil.

On Apib’s website it is possible to check the full schedule of the meeting, and contribute with donations.