Amazon under attack

The ancestral homeland of Brazil’s Indigenous Tupinamba people is under threat from greedy corporate logging interests. The Tupinamba have a sure-fire plan to save their lands, but they need your help today to pull it off. Will you chip in to protect their Amazon homeland and way of life? [Tupinamba child] Donating just takes a moment -- use Paypal or your card. [Donate $1 now]( {NAME}, For 500 years, Brazil’s Indigenous Tupinamba people have fought for their land -- but the threats they face now could finally overwhelm them. On top of out-of-control mining and slash-and-burn agriculture on their ancestral lands, now a mega-logging company wants to clear-cut hundreds of acres of Amazon rainforest to make a quick buck. There's only one way the Tupinamba can stop this -- if they can file a legal claim to their land with the federal government. That means they'll be traveling across their territory, painstakingly marking the borders of their land, kilometer by kilometer -- the only way they can ensure their land has a chance at being protected. But to do it they need to raise funds urgently to pay for provisions, GPS equipment, boats to make the weeks-long journey along their borders and campaigning to protect ancestral lands. They’re setting off in just a few days -- and they need your help right now to make it. Donating just takes a moment -- use Paypal or your card. [Will you chip in $1 to protect Indigenous lands from corporate greed?]( In a just world, the Tupinamba people could turn to their government to uphold their land claims and defend them against illegal corporate incursions. However, the pro-corporate, right-wing administration of Jair Bolsonaro has declared an all-out assault on Indigenous land rights in the Amazon, and logging, mining, and destructive agriculture have run rampant as a result. Faced with this challenge, the Tupinamba people are taking the protection of their land into their own hands. They’re heading out deep into the forest to mark out their territory and lay claim to the land with the federal government. This is time-consuming, tedious, and very expensive work -- but you can help make it possible, {NAME}. Can you chip in today to fund their expedition to map their territory and defend their homeland? Donating just takes a moment -- use Paypal or your card. [Yes, I’ll chip in $1 in solidarity with the Tupinamba people’s fight for their lands.]( We know we can win this fight because you’ve done it before. SumOfUs members like you donated to support Indigenous peoples in Canada fighting to protect their lands from wide-scale spraying of the toxic pesticide glyphosate, and together, we won. With your donation today, you can help the Tupinamba people achieve a massive victory in their fight to preserve their lands for future generations to come. Claiming their boundary lines will force the government to recognize their claims -- but it’s only possible with your support. Donating just takes a moment -- use Paypal or your card. [Chip in $1 to stand up for Indigenous rights and defend the Tupinamba’s native lands.]( Thanks for all that you do, Will, Danny and the team at SumOfUs --------------------------------------------------------------- More information: [Hands Off the Amazon!]( The Society for Threatened Peoples, retrieved 28 July 2020 [Brazil's Bolsonaro moves to free mining, hydro dams on indigenous lands]( Reuters, 5 February 2020 [Brazil indigenous protest new gov’t moves on their lands]( Associated Press, 5 February 2020 *** This campaign is run in partnership with [the Society for Threatened Peoples]( Photo credit: Thomaz Marcondes Garcia Pedro SumOfUs is a worldwide movement of people like you, working together to hold corporations accountable for their actions and forge a new, sustainable path for our global economy. This email was sent to {EMAIL}. | [Unsubscribe](