Amazon Archives - Writers Rebel https://writersrebel.com/tag/amazon/ Fri, 08 Apr 2022 19:18:55 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.6 https://i0.wp.com/writersrebel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/index-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Amazon Archives - Writers Rebel https://writersrebel.com/tag/amazon/ 32 32 184391167 The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman | Davi Kopenawa & Bruce Albert https://writersrebel.com/the-falling-sky-words-of-a-yanomami-shaman/ Tue, 22 Mar 2022 14:51:49 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=4065   [...]

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]]> 4065 Ver: Entrevista con Defensora Amazónica Alexandra NarváezBeth Pitts https://writersrebel.com/ver-entrevista-con-defensora-amazonica-alexandra-narvaez/ Thu, 24 Jun 2021 07:00:08 +0000 https://writersrebel.com/?p=3066     Beth Pitts entrevista a Alexandra Narváez, una defensora indígena Kofán de la región norte de la Amazonía del Ecuador. La comunidad de Alexandra, Sinangoe, es famosa por ganar una batalla legal histórica contra la minería de oro en 2018, que protegió mas que 30.000 hectáreas de selva primaria megabiodiverso y las cabeceras de [...]

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]]> 3066 Read: Hope in the Amazon: Interview with Jimmy Piaguaje https://writersrebel.com/read-interview-with-jimmy-piaguaje/ Thu, 12 Nov 2020 08:16:05 +0000 http://writersrebel.com/?p=2201 Jimmy Piaguaje is a young indigenous Siekopai defender from Siekoya Remolino, a community of 53 families living on the banks of the Aguarico River in the northeastern Ecuadorian Amazon region. The Siekopai (which means multicoloured people) are renowned for their shamanic acumen and knowledge of medicinal plants, with uses for over 1,000 different plants. According [...]

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]]> 2201 Read: Voice of the Living Forest: Interview with Indigenous Resistance Leader José Gualinga https://writersrebel.com/voice-of-the-living-forest-interview-with-indigenous-resistance-leader-jose-gualinga/ Thu, 08 Oct 2020 07:09:42 +0000 http://writersrebel.com/?p=1887 José Gualinga is a leader of the Native People of Sarayaku, an indigenous Kichwa group with 1400 inhabitants living in a remote part of Ecuador’s southern Amazon. Known for their defence of the rights of nature and indigenous peoples, the Sarayaku call themselves the People of Noon, referring to an ancient prophecy of their ancestors [...]

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]]> 1887 Read: Tear Gas or Tea? A Very English ArrestBeth Pitts https://writersrebel.com/tear-gas-or-tea/ Thu, 02 Jul 2020 07:40:53 +0000 http://writersrebel.com/?p=1164   As I lay in the middle of the road outside Downing Street, surrounded by police, awaiting my imminent arrest, I looked up at a cloudless blue sky. It felt like a sign that the rain had finally stopped and, as I enjoyed the sun on my face, one of London’s famous parakeets flew overhead. [...]

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