{"id":19767,"date":"2015-10-29T08:01:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T15:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/protest-erupts-during-world-indigenous-games-in-brazil\/"},"modified":"2015-10-29T08:01:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T15:01:15","slug":"protest-erupts-during-world-indigenous-games-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/protest-erupts-during-world-indigenous-games-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest erupts during World Indigenous Games in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PALMAS, Brazil \u2014<\/strong> A noisy demonstration broke out Wednesday during the 100-meter dash competition at the World Indigenous Games, forcing a premature end to the day\u2019s events at what organizers have described as the indigenous Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters, a boisterous crowd made up mostly of native Brazilians in traditional dress, were outraged over a land demarcation proposal that they say would be catastrophic for Brazil\u2019s 300 or so surviving tribes.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed constitutional amendment would transfer the right to demarcate indigenous lands from the executive branch to Brazil\u2019s Congress, which is heavily influenced by the big agriculture lobby that has fought against indigenous reserves.<\/p>\n<p>A committee in the Chamber of Deputies approved the proposal late Tuesday, though it must get through the full lower house and Senate, then be signed by President Dilma Rousseff to become law.<\/p>\n<p>Brandishing handwritten banners against the proposal, around 100 demonstrators breezed past security guards onto the floor of the sporting arena in Palmas. Hundreds of others ran to join the group as spectators cheered them on.<\/p>\n<p>The announcer initially ignored the mass of protesters \u2014 although, dressed in feathers body paint, with some brandishing spears or bows and arrows, they proved impossible to ignore.<\/p>\n<p>Narube Werreria, a young woman from the Karaja nation, scrambled up into the VIP area and seized the microphone to deliver a heated attack on the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we were here at the games, they were there in Congress plotting to steal our lands,\u201d she yelled. \u201cSoon, there will be no more indigenous peoples, no more forest, no more animals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe travelled a long way to be here, so it is a bit disappointing,\u201d said  Panamanian Cesar Cires, whose Ngabe-Bugle people were among those whose games were cancelled. \u201cBut we as indigenous people understand our Brazilian brothers\u2019 plight. Next time, we\u2019ll join the protest, too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALMAS, Brazil \u2014 A noisy demonstration broke out Wednesday during the 100-meter dash competition at the World Indigenous Games, forcing a premature end to the day\u2019s events at what organizers have described as the indigenous Olympics. The protesters, a boisterous crowd made up mostly of native Brazilians in traditional dress, were outraged over a land [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":19768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[65],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-19767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-nation-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19767"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}