{"id":30997,"date":"2017-12-05T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=30997"},"modified":"2021-02-17T16:33:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T21:33:58","slug":"yanomami-discuss-grassroots-leadership-in-the-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2017\/12\/05\/yanomami-discuss-grassroots-leadership-in-the-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Yanomami Discuss Grassroots Leadership in the Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Yanomami\"<\/a>
Prof. Julie Klinger with Floriza da Cruz Pinto and Maria de Jesus Lima.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University hosted members of the Yanomami, a linguistic family of approximately 30,000 people in Brazil and Venezuela, on December 4, 2017 for conversations about women’s leadership in sustainable development in the Amazon.<\/span><\/p>\n

Floriza da Cruz Pinto,\u00a0a Yanomami indigenous woman native to Maturac\u00e1 village who is the founder\u00a0and current president of\u00a0the Yanomami women\u2019s organization<\/span>\u00a0Kumirayoma\u00a0that represents communities located along the Cauaburis River,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Maria de Jesus Lima, a Yanomami indigenous woman native to Maturac\u00e1 village who is a senior member of the council of elders of Kumirayoma, were hosted by the Pardee School for several discussions throughout the day.<\/p>\n

Da Cruz Pinto\u00a0<\/span>and de\u00a0Jesus Lima\u00a0<\/span>were joined by Marina Vieira,\u00a0a biologist and consultant with the Pro-Yanomami campaign within the NGO\u00a0Instituto Socioambiental, for a panel entitled “Women\u2019s Leadership in Sustainable Development: A Conversation With Indigenous Leaders and NGO Activists From the Brazilian Amazon.” The discussion was moderated and translated in part from Portuguese by Klinger.<\/p>\n

“Today the paradise where we live is under threat. There are threats coming from many different directions, including from the Brazilian government. The government has all of these laws, but the purpose of the laws is supposedly to protect the people who are born, live and die there. The government itself is undermining its own laws,” da\u00a0Cruz Pinto said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Beyond the Headlines @BUPardeeSchool<\/a>, or BtH, series at the Pardee School continued with a conversation with international award-winning science journalist Marcelo Leite on\u00a0environmental and scientific journalism in the Amazon during perilous times. Leite is a science reporter and columnist for one of Brazil’s most\u00a0prominent newspapers, Folha de S\u00e3o Paulo<\/em>. He writes on scientific, environmental, and related political topics in Brazil and internationally. The conversation was moderated by Klinger.<\/span><\/p>\n

Leite said he believes science journalism, and specifically journalism focusing on the Amazon region, is socially relevant not only for Brazil but for the world because of importance of global issues like carbon sequestration and climate change. He discussed in detail a story he worked on focusing on\u00a0the Yaripo Ecotourism Project — a new initiative by the Yanomami that provides guided expeditions to Pico da Neblina, the highest point in Brazil.<\/p>\n

Leite and\u00a0Vieira<\/span>\u00a0subsequently joined da Cruz Pinto<\/span> and de Jesus Lima<\/span> for a discussion entitled “Grassroots Leaders Forum: Sustainable Development in the Amazon,” which was moderated by Klinger.<\/p>\n

“The government doesn’t provide basic health or education assistance like its supposed to according to the law,” da Cruz Pinto said. “If you travel outside our territory and read the newspapers, you get the story that they are in fact providing this health and education assistance when they are not. When you read in the newspapers that the government is doing all of these things to protect indigenous people, these are in fact lies.”<\/span><\/p>\n

De Jesus Lima and da Cruz Pinto were also hosted as part of the\u00a0the Policy Leaders Forum series\u00a0at the Pardee School that\u00a0brings senior international policy makers to Boston University for important policy conversations with faculty and students. Guests included faculty and experts from across Boston University.\u00a0Previous speakers in the\u00a0series have included\u00a0Senator Daniel Coats<\/a>, the United States Director for National Intelligence;\u00a0Dr. Rukakana Rugunda<\/a>, Prime Minister of Uganda;\u00a0Steve Beshear<\/a>, the former Governor of Kentucky;\u00a0Dr. Woo Yoon-keun<\/a>, Secretary General on the\u00a0National Assembly of South Korea; and\u00a0Senator Sheldon Whitehouse<\/a>\u00a0(D-RI).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Pardee School hosted members of the Yanomami, a linguistic family of approximately 30,000 people in Brazil and Venezuela. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11789,8411],"tags":[9860,8466,8906,10535,10536,10501],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30997"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31060,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30997\/revisions\/31060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}