URGENT UPDATE
Soon after we sent the email below, we got the
heartbreaking news that Livia’s mother, Creuza, had been found dead, her body
lying by the side of the highway. She’d fought for years, tirelessly and
bravely, to get justice for her people – and had received many death threats.
The Guarani are fully behind this appeal. Their determination in the
face of these horrors is inspirational. We won’t let them down.
Dispossession. Personified.
This is Livia, next to her house.
Fifty years ago the ground
she’s standing on was lush forest. Then the invaders came. Gradually her people,
the Guarani, have been pushed to the side. Literally – the side of a highway.
Her sister, nephew and uncle have been killed on the road. She has no
clean water or health care. The forest, which her people looked after for
thousands of years, is gone, so they can’t gather medicinal plants, or teach
their children to hunt and fish. Little surprise that they have one of the
highest suicide rates in the world.
Please
donate and give Livia a chance to return to her land → When her
community protests, they’re attacked. Ranchers and police bulldoze their shacks.
Their leaders are shot.
Her people have lived like this for twenty years. Thousands more are in
similar conditions.
We think this is an outrage. We’re doing everything
we can to get justice for Livia, so she has a chance of a better future.
We’ve been lobbying, publicizing, protesting and campaigning with the
Guarani for decades as they fight to survive. They told us: “We want to thank
you for your support – we thank you from the bottom of our hearts.”
But
we can’t do it without your help. We don’t take money from governments or big
corporations, so we rely entirely on people like you.
Please
make a donation today → From Livia, and from all of us at Survival,
thank you.
Best wishes,
Stephen Corry
Director P.S. Survival is the only organization
championing tribal peoples like the Guarani around the world. Our work is
preventing their annihilation. Please help us. Your
monthly
donation allows us to keep fighting this urgent and horrific humanitarian
crisis.
Survival International USA, PO Box 26345,
San Francisco, CA 94126 Survival International, 6 Charterhouse
Buildings, London EC1M 7ET, UK
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Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2017 9:05 PM
Subject: TRAGIC UPDATE Fwd: Death by the roadside – an urgent
appeal
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