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The Ribeirinhos are a traditional rural population in the Amazon rainforest, who live near rivers. Their main activities are fishing and farming on a small scale, for their own use. They usually live in pile dwelling and travel by motor boats called voadeiras. [1]
- ‘Theirs by Right’: Resistance and Political Awareness
- A Change of Strategy
- An Unprecedented Victory
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Since the 1970s, well before Alcoa’s arrival, the ribeirinhos, encouraged by the Catholic nuns, had mobilized to defend their territory against illegal logging as described in Lindomar de Souza’s doctoral thesis. One local woman told him about an act of resistance in 1999: “We gathered in boats and canoes and slept on the beach, waiting for barges ...
It seemed ACORJUVE faced near-impossible odds of success, given its lack of support in the town of Juruti along with the power of the government. In 2006, Alcoa was authorized to press ahead with the mine and start work at the site. That’s when the desperate association decided it had no option but to stop trying to halt the mine and to negotiate w...
“We set up our tents and resisted for nine days and nine nights,” remembers Coelho. The protesters grew scared when the police attacked, but spirits stayed high. “People wrote poems, put on plays, made up songs about our struggle. This gave us strength to put up with the rain and the hunger,” recalls Sister Nilma. Just as ACORJUVE had hoped, this r...
The ribeirinhos are traditional riverine settlers who live on the Amazon River's south bank. In 2009, they blocked a road to protest against Alcoa, a mining company that threatened their land and livelihoods. Their action led to a historic agreement that recognized their collective land rights and compensated them for the mine's impacts.
Dec 22, 2020 · Negotiating with Norte Energia, the consortium that built and runs Belo Monte, they gained the right to establish a collectively owned Ribeirinho Territory beside the Belo Monte reservoir.
Feb 11, 2024 · Saiba o que são os povos ribeirinhos, comunidades tradicionais que vivem às margens de rios, lagos e igarapés. Conheça sua cultura, sua relação com a natureza e sua importância socioambiental para o Brasil.
Ribeirinho é um habitante tradicional das margens dos rios, que vive com as condições oferecidas pela própria natureza, adaptando-se aos períodos das chuvas, que têm em sua cultura, a pesca artesanal como principal atividade de sobrevivência, mas também podem praticar cultivo de pequenos roçados, extrativismo vegetal e, [6] mais ...
Mar 3, 2022 · Today, according to the Middle Xingu Residents Association (AMOMEX), 51 ribeirinho (riverine) families live in the extractive reserve. They live and generate life. A glance at the satellite says...
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the ribeirinho. The identity and resource use practices of the Amazonian floodplain peasant, the ribeirinho, has developed through centuries of interactions with the rivers and forests in the floodplains, informed by a diverse cultural heritage of indigenous people, Luso-Brazilians, and Afro-Brazilians. Ribeirinhos are populations that live
