PLANT is a catalyst for indigenous communities and smallholder farmers to speak for themselves, their eco-systems and Seed & Food Sovereignty, instead of others speaking for them.
PLANT works with partners in Brazilian Amazonia and in sub-Saharan Africa.
“Human and Earth Rights mirror the faces of the vulnerable;
They are a discomfort to the powerful;
They are continuously translated into policy by the struggles of the excluded;
They bring justice closer to our world, our common home . . .” PLANT
NEW! Stop the Exploitation of Amazonian Peoples and Their Land!
2019 is the UN International Year of Indigenous Languages, more than half of which are currently endangered. The critical risks confronting indigenous peoples hold up a mirror to encroachment tactics, often couched in a “development ideology” which commodifies the environment and, in so doing, overrides the wisdom of ancient cultures bonded to a living and spiritually imbued milieu.
PLANT’s message to the Vatican Synod on Amazonia addresses just one of these major risks, namely, the reduction of ancient and unique eco-systems to merely “environmental services” for carbon trading. The traditional peoples who are inseparable from these eco-systems, are expected to become enabling servants of such schemes. What is happening in the Amazonian Region is happening in every endangered eco-system on every continent where vulnerable peoples are most affected.
Our aim is to add 2,680 signatures to the statement -- a symbolic number, which corresponds to the estimated number of endangered indigenous languages worldwide.
Please join us in this effort of solidarity with our Amazonian sisters and brothers!
English Version of the Statement with resources Here
Sign On to the Statement in English Here
Em Português Aqui
Por favor, espalhe e assine a mensagem para o Sínodo Aqui
January 28th, 2019
Global Launch of the International Year of
Indigenous Languages
LANGUAGE IS PIVOTAL IN THE AREAS OF HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION, GOOD GOVERNANCE, PEACE BUILDING, RECONCILIATION, AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
“Of the almost 7,000 existing languages, the majority have been created and are spoken by indigenous peoples who represent the greater part of the world’s cultural diversity. Yet many of these languages are disappearing at an alarming rate, as the communities speaking them are confronted with assimilation, enforced relocation, educational disadvantage, poverty, illiteracy, migration and other forms of discrimination and human rights violations" https://en.iyil2019.org/role-of-language/
PLANT (Partners for the Land & Agricultural Needs of Traditional Peoples)
E-mail: plantpartners@gmail.com
PO Box 276 • Shepherdstown, WV 25443, USA
Tel. 304 876 2288
Manaus-Centro, Amazonas 69020-030, BRASIL
PLANT is a USA 501(c)(3) non-profit organization