Indigenous peoples make national mobilization and ask for resumption of trial of the Temporal Landmark in the STF

Indigenous people watching the STF session outside the Supreme Court (Andressa Zumpano/Articulação das Pastorais do Campo)

June 23, 2022

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Marcela Leiros – From Amazon Agency

BRASILIA (DF) – Indigenous people and employees of the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) are holding this Thursday, 23, acts in Brasilia (DF) and in the capital of São Paulo asking the Supreme Court to continue the trial of the Temporal Landmark. In the federal capital, the demonstration is scheduled for 2 pm, in front of the STF. In São Paulo, the Assis Chateaubriand São Paulo Art Museum (MASP) is the point where protesters will meet from 18h.

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The national mobilization is organized by the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (Apib). The demonstrators will also ask for justice for the licensed employee of the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI), Bruno Araújo Pereira, and the british journalist Dominic Mark Phillips, “Dom Phillips”, killed in the Javari Valley, and demand the departure of the president of FUNAI, Marcelo Xavier.

Announcement of the demonstration in São Paulo (Reproduction/Instagram)

Since Monday 20th , about 150 indigenous people from six ethnic groups have been participating in events in Brasília: the Xokleng (SC), Guarani Kaiowá (MS), Tupinambá (BA), Taurepang, Macuxi and Wapichana peoples are present. Meetings were held with members of Congress and with the National Council of Justice (CNJ).

The Temporal Landmark

On June 2, Minister Luiz Fux, President of the STF, removed from the Court’s trial agenda the continuity of the trial on the application of the so-called Temporal Landmark thesis in the demarcation of indigenous lands in the country. The hearing was scheduled to resume on June 23. No new date has been set.

If the Temporal Landmark is approved, the ethnic groups will only be able to claim the demarcation of lands already occupied by them before the enactment of the 1988 Constitution.

The trial began in 2020 and, so far, the rapporteur of the case, Justice Luiz Edson Fachin, has spoken out against the application of the Temporal Landmark. Justice Nunes Marques, on the other hand, voted in favor. The trial was interrupted on September 15, after Justice Alexandre de Moraes asked for access to the case, that is, to postpone the vote.

Funai on strike

Also this Thursday, 23, the Funai workers are holding a Unified National Strike Act in Brasilia. The national strike was decided on Friday, 17, in an Extraordinary National Plenary Meeting promoted by the Confederation of Workers in the Federal Public Service (Condsf/Fenadsef), the National Association of Funai Workers (Ansef) and the Associated Indigenists (INA). In a statement, the employees call for “no more drops of blood to be shed”, referring to the attacks against journalist Dom Phillips and indigenist Bruno Pereira.

“We fight for the investigations to reach the broad chain of organized crime, installed in Vale do Javari and so that we never again have to go through a similar situation, which requires the immediate protection of our indigenous colleagues, the indigenous peoples and their leaders, organizations and territories”, the workers highlight in the letter.

“For this, we need to put an end to the current anti-indigenous management installed in the National Indian Foundation and gather our forces to structure minimum working and security conditions for the execution of our institutional mission to promote and protect the rights of Indigenous Peoples”, continue the employees in the document. (See below)

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