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DESCRIPTION:COVID-19 IN THE AMAZON: STORIES FROM THE FRONT LINES\n\nNOVEMBER 24, 2020 @ 
 1:00 PM PT / 4:00 PM ET\n\nWEBINAR RSVP: 
 https://amazonemergencyfund.org/\n\nThis event will include a 30 minute 
 program followed by 30 minutes of Q&A. This on-the-ground reporting will 
 highlight how our fundraising efforts have provided critical support to 
 Indigenous peoples combating COVID-19, and how together we can (and must) 
 continue this work. \n\nSpeakers include: \n--Gregorio Mirabal, General 
 Coordinator, COICA\n--Atossa Soltani, Founder, Amazon Watch\n--Leila 
 Salazar-Lopez, Executive Director, Amazon Watch --Suzanne Pelletier, 
 Executive Director, Rainforest Foundation US\n--Tabea Casique, COICA. 
 \n_____________________________________________________________\n\nCOVID-19 
 IN THE AMAZON\n\nCOVID-19 IS QUICKLY SPREADING ACROSS THE AMAZON BASIN, 
 THREATENING THE LIVES AND THE FUTURE OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND TRADITIONAL 
 FOREST COMMUNITIES, THE GUARDIANS OF THE FOREST.\n\nAmazonian communities 
 face multiple threats as the pandemic spreads across the forest, including 
 increased violence, high levels of morbidity and mortality, a lack of 
 access to healthcare and protective equipment, food scarcity, lack of 
 income and environmental catastrophes including increased deforestation, 
 oil spills, fires and floods.\n\nFor over 500 years, indigenous peoples of 
 the Amazon and across the Americas have faced invasions and loss of their 
 ancestral territories, ethnic and socioeconomic discrimination, and the 
 constant threat of physical and cultural extermination resulting in 
 displacement, disease and genocide.\n\nNow, indigenous peoples – 
 particularly the elders, wisdomkeepers and those living in voluntary 
 isolation – are gravely at risk by the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. 
 Traditional forest communities are similarly threatened, including riverine 
 communities, quilombolas, rubber-tappers and other populations who defend 
 the forest with their 
 lives.\n_____________________________________________________________\n\nABOUT: 
 The Amazon Emergency Fund (AEF)\n\nThe Amazon Emergency Fund (AEF) is a 
 newly-formed coalition of 30+ indigenous Amazonian federations and 
 non-governmental organizations working in partnership to deliver 
 humanitarian aid to communities impacted by the novel coronavirus in the 
 Amazon basin.\n\nWe work by combining resources and collaborating to direct 
 rapid response grants to indigenous and forest peoples and grassroots 
 organizations in the Amazon who have called the global community to show 
 our solidarity during this emergency. 
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 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/23/18838632.php
SUMMARY:COVID-19 in the Amazon: Stories from the Fronlines of Indigenous & Traditional Communities
LOCATION:Online event
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/23/18838632.php
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