Soliradity to the fight for survival in Peruvian Amazon

Three songs by Sepultura about struggle for survival and Human Rights all over the world, dedicated to peruvian indigenous people for their fight to death to protect their land from invasive capitalism. From Palestine to Amazonian territory, the violent authority is the same, supporting destructive and predatory economical policies against local societies and natural environment







Peru is witnessing violent clashes between indigenous groups desperately trying to protect the Amazon and the government, which has pushed through legislation allowing intensive mining, logging, and large scale farming in the rainforest.

If the government and extractive industries have their way, the Peruvian rainforest and its people will suffer massive devastation, with disastrous consequences for the global climate.

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Petition to the President of Peru, Alan Garcia:
We urge you to immediately cease the forceful suppression of indigenous protests, to suspend laws that open up the Amazon to extractive industries, and to engage in a genuine dialogue with indigenous groups to end the conflict and address their legitimate demands and rights.

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Album: “Roorback” by Sepultura (2003)

Urge

Revolting manner of handling power
Perpetrating lies and misery
Fifty years of progress in five
People living only to survive

The child is suffering a mother's deadly dream
I'm fed up to see them being mistreated
I'm always feeling like i'm being cheated
No honest meanings the way i'm treated

Multi racial society
Degradation of liberty
Urban warfare at all levels
Politicians rethinking his measures

I'm deep inside
A sea of mud
The underground
South of the world

Can't control my urge
Rule my urge
Can't control my urge
Ruled by urge

Between the shacks and arid soil
The concrete jungle with trees of steel
Between the millions confronting faces
Confusing crowds with distant traces

Soldiers out there drug dealing
Warriors of the raw feelings
Side line control trespassing over
Dictating rules and committing the crimes

I'm deep inside
A sea of mud
The underground
South of the world

Can't control my urge
Rule my urge
Can't control my urge
Ruled by urge


Pictures of life in a third world country: Huge antithesis of social classes, social violence, poverty, drugs, children’s deaths, favellas beside concrete skyscrapers, loss of human rights, dignity and security.


Activist

Our pulse to resist
Moves our cultural resistance
I'm living this life
Inside a civil tribe demised
Improve my old mind
Breaking all rules absorbing what I may find

Our manner to protect
Destroys what's left for protection
Believing in symbols
The church will fool our souls
Prove you my role
Acting against undesired control

Don't fear your left
Don't trust your right
Activist

Our way of seeing progress
Making us walk towards repression
Disturbing our peace
In the name of self defense
Being felt by all
Our violent taste for the humans fall

Don't fear your left
Don't trust your right
Activist


Independent activism away from unreliable political parties and church against the loss of their land great misery indigenous people are forced to live in favour of multinational corporations. All over the world and especially in Latin America indigenous people and tribes struggle against the invaders for timber, mines, ranching, and now for GMO and biofuel agriculture. The new madness, the biofuel plants demand great occupation of agricultural land and so enhance food crisis especially in the poor countries.

You can hear some songs from this album in youtube:
Come back alive
The rift
Corrupted

Album: "Νation" by Sepultura ( 2001)

One Man Army

Your Green Is For Money
My Green Is For Land
Shut Off My Eyes
Clog Up My Ears
Cut Off My Tongue
You'll Still Hear Me Coming

My Blood Is Thicker
My Pain Will Rise
Boycott My Ideas
Fueled With The Hate I Feel
Infiltrated With The Lies
That You're Feeding Me

One Man Army

Our Strength's Your Weakness
Our Truth's Your Lies
Shut Off My Eyes
Clog Up My Ears
Cut Off My Tongue
You'll Still Hear Me Coming

Surrounded By Mistrust
Trapped In Your Mind
All You Hear Is - What You Fear And
All You Fear Is - What You Don't Know
All You Know Is - What You See
And What You See Won't Last Forever

One Man Army

Our Truth Will Echo And Echo Forever
Tormenting You Forever And Ever

You'll Still Hear Me Coming Through To You

Boycott My Ideas
Fueled With The Hate I Feel
Infiltrated With The Lies
That You're Feeding Me

One Man And I'm Coming For You


A song that refers generally in the hidden power of the masses through unity. The first two verses that we have chosen as our blog favourite motto (see the right column) leads us to interprete the song as a threat of mass awake of repressed or displaced indigenous people in rainforests. But it could be a motto for general used by eco-activists when in unity they face or confront politics and policies based on greed that destroy environment and life quality.


Sepulnation

A Nation Built On Sweat
A Nation Built On Blood
A Nation Built On Dreams

Before The Tongues Are Mute
Before They Hide The Truth
We'll Be The Ones Who Speak

A Nation - A Nation
A Struggle - A Struggle
A Weapon - A Weapon
Our Music!!!
One Mantra - One Mantra
One Prayer- One Prayer
One Belief - One Belief
All Gods!!!

We See Without Our Eyes
We Walk Without A Path
We Fight With Unity

Search For A Better Way
Change What's Been Done Before
Make Our Own History

Rise Up, Rise Up
Resistance Won't Be Stopped
Rise Up, Rise Up
Sepulnation

Rise, Rise
Corruption Undisguised
Rise, Rise
Sepulnation

Confronting With Our Minds
Destroying All The Lies
Unmasked By Purity

Burning The Eyes Of Greed
No Fear, No Disbelief
Our Faith Is Your Misery

A Nation - A Nation
A Struggle - A Struggle
A Weapon - A Weapon
Our Music!!!
One Mantra - One Mantra
One Prayer- One Prayer
One Belief - One Belief
All Gods!!!

Rise Up, Rise Up
Resistance Won't Be Stopped
Rise Up, Rise Up
Sepulnation

Rise, Rise
Corruption Undisguised
Rise, Rise
Sepulnation

One Nation Above All
Founded On Our Faith



Border Wars

Where Am I To Go? What Do I Have To Do?
Borders All Around Me, There's No Chance For
A Choice
Born In This World In A War Stricken Land
I Will Do What I Have To Do And Go Where I Can

The Walls That We Build We Are Taking Them
Down
Imaginary Lines Of Corruption And Greed
The Walls That We Build We Are Taking Them
Down
Overpopulation Isn't Just An Excuse

Searching For A Place Where I Can Have My Own
Rights
Everywhere Around Me There's Death In The Air
I Wanna Find A Way To Make A Change In My Life
I Will Do What I Have To Do And Fight Till The
End

The Walls That We Build We Are Taking Them
Down
Imaginary Lines That Won't Allow Us To Live
The Walls That We Build We Are Taking Them
Down
Denying All The Rules And All Their Abuse

No, No - It Won't Be This Way
No, No - Can't Be Their Way
Pride, Pride - They Won't Blur Our Pride
I, I - Must Stay Alive

Looking For The Ground To Build A Home That Is
Safe
They Make The Planet Small And They Have No
Control
Everywhere You Go They Have An Eye On Your
Steps
I Will Run Where I Have To Run And Hide Where I
Can

The Walls That We Build We Are Taking Them
Down
Exploring Different Fields So We Grow In Our
Hearts
The Walls That We Build We Are Taking Them
Down
Exploiting All The Lies To Defend Our Own Kind

No, No - It Won't Be This Way
No, No - Can't Be Their Way
Pride, Pride - They Won't Blur Our Pride
I, I - Must Stay Alive

Border Wars

One More Crime
Crossing Lines
Trapped Inside
State Of Mind
Never Blind
Fate Untied

No, No - It Won't Be This Way
No, No - Can't Be Their Way
Pride, Pride - They Won't Blur Our Pride
I, I - Must Stay Alive

Border Wars

One More Crime
Crossing Lines
Trapped Inside
State Of Mind
Never Blind
Fate Untied



Who Must Die?

Who Decides Who Lives In This World?
Who Decides Who Dies In This World?
More Efficient Ways Of Execution
This Is Not A Type Of Resolution
Who Dares To Throw The First Rock?
Who Believes In Justice Being Done?
More Efficient Ways To Confess
We Got To Know The Truth No Less

Premeditated, Calculated, Precise
Created Cases Based On Races
Exchanging Life For Lies

Who Denies The Right To Defend?
Who Decides What Crime Is A Sin?
This Is Not A Way To Convict
It's Just Another Way To Conflict
Who Provides The Time For A Chance?
What Case Will Fall In Wrong Hands?
More Efficient Ways To Confess
We Got To Know The Truth No Less

Murder - In The First Degree
Murder - It's Only Revenge
Murder - Why , Why
Are We So Righteous To Declare That One Must
Die

Premeditated, Calculated, Precise
Created Cases Based On Races
Exchanging Life For Lies

Murder - In The First Degree
Murder - It's Only Revenge
Murder - Why , Why
Are We So Righteous To Declare That One Must
Die

Examples Being Made, In A Way Creating An
Endless Cycle Of Violence
Have We Become What We've Hated Most About
Ourselves?
When Mistakes Are Being Made, Who Is Going To
Be The One To Blame?
Who Is Gonna Pay That Final Price?

Who Will Pay The Final Price?
Are We So Righteous To Declare That One Must
Die?



Politricks

So You Want A Nation?
Your Very Own Nation
Push The Machine Aside
Many Have Tried

We Have Always Been There
We Will Always Be There
Making Sure You Need Us
And Feed Us

We Got The Money
We Got The Power
We Got The Guns
We Got Tv

You Are Our Livestock
We Make You Love It
Slave And Dream For Escape
But Scared To Death Of Change

Want To Hear My Speech?
Want To Share My Thoughts?
Protest! Protest!

...Come Now
Is It Worth The Hassle?
Worth All Your Precious Time?
You'll Grow Old, You'll Give Up

We Farm You
We Milk You
Your Energy's For Us To Drain
Office, Sweatshop, Plantation, The Same

I Know We Can Survive Our Choice
I Know We Can Be What We Want To Be
I Know We Can Survive
I Know We Will Survive

The Only Game We Know
We Must Have More And More
Make More, Take More
Control More

You Are Our Marketplace
Not A Community
No Subcommandante Ski-Mask
Will Lead You To No Promised Land

Want To Hear My Speech?
Want To Share My Thoughts?

Protest! Protest!


Sepultura's album "Nation" talks about the consequences of the creation of Nations. Cheated by visions of independence and social and racial equality, peace, etc that were turned quickly to lies, a once free and multicultural territory is enclosed by borders and forced to adopt a uniform culture of "progress" (urbanization and industrialization), or to be eliminated or reduced to a repressed b-class ethnic minority. Nationalistic ideologies (one state, one nation/culture/race: verses: created cases based on races in song who muast die) are still a cause of many local wars and conflicts, not only in Third World where cultural diversity is strong, but even in Europe.

The cause of such a historical evolution was the new exploitative economical system that has prevailed since 19th century, Capitalism, that replaced the oldest multicultural imperiums in Europe and is behind the fake independence of states of the previous colonies in Africa, Latin Amecica, Asia and Pacific territories.

The songs Sepulnation and Border wars talk about cheated people by falsified dreams who they contributed (even giving their blood in wars of independence, or in border wars) to creation of nations and then they were persecuted of put aside in misery.

The song Who muast die acuses the "right" to kill in the name of a nation or an ideology by authorities and generally the capital punishment.

The song Politricks (lyrics by Jello Biafra) talks about the uniform culture of progress (urbanization, industrialization, consumerism) multicultural people are forced to adopt and submit (generally by uniform education and language to impose and enstablish the uniform nationalistic ideals) in order to be easily manipulated by economical elites and authorities.

you can hear some songs from this album in youtube

Sepulnation

Border Wars

One man Army

Album: “Against” by Sepultura (1998)

Old Earth

We gamble with life fighting tribes after tribes
Colors and races misplaced in the spaces
We're falling, we're crawling, we're crying, denying

Heavy rain shaking ground, no roots will be found
Hate from my mother, the limits of mankind
We're lying, we're dying, destroying

The earth is rotting, the earth is rotting
Rot old old earth
The earth is growing, it keeps on growing
Rot old old earth

Believing in gods and spirits that can save us
Shout to the skies and disturbing the peace
We're rioting, we're shouting, we're killing, denying

Involved in our minds but not by our own actions
Consume all the wealth, there's no hope for redemption
We're burning, we're cutting, destroying

Can you feel? Can you feel it leave!
The earth is rotting, the earth is rotting
Rot old old earth
The earth is growing, it keeps on growing
Rot old old earth


Boycott

Urban war, cracked-up child
Painted in blood on concrete walls
Carbonic gas, cancer land
What do I care? What do I care?
Is he prepared? Can he face that?
He must handle the truth of real demands

Strike Boycott

Armed and ill, psycho kill
There's no ground holding my feet up
Trained to serve but I steal
What do I care? What do I care?
Protect society who pays me shit
It's south of the world, no justice sire

Strike Boycott

Stressful mind, fucked up life
I know the end can be suicide
Suicide, suicide
What do I care? What do I care?
Boycott the trigger and you'll have no feedback
Boycott the force that kept the sick in their beds

I'll boycott the trigger and you'll have no feedback
With hands tied, I can't receive what I need

Reserve no honor
Reserve no pride

Strike Boycott


Two songs about the destruction of tribal cultures in Latin America and the throwing of indigenous people in downgrading suburbs in big cities where they suffer from unemployment, diseases, alcoholism, increase of criminality, mental disorders, suicide. The only solution is the fight for their rights and reclaiming their lands.

You can hear some songs from this album in youtube:

Rumors
Choke
Against

Album: Roots by Sepultura (1996)

Roots Bloody Roots

Roots Bloody Roots (x3)

I, Believe in our fate
We don't need to fake
It's all we wanna be
Watch me freeeaaak !!

I say, We're growing every day
Getting stronger in every way
I'll take you to a place
Where we shall find our

Roots Bloody Roots (x4)

Rain, Bring me the strength
To get to another day
and all I want to see
Set us free

Why Can't you see
Can't you feel, This is real

I pray, We don't need to change
Our ways to be saved
That all we wanna be
Watch us freak


Attitude

One week of struggling
On the real world is..
So you can see !!!

Feel your soul and...
Shape your mind to warfare
It's all for real

Live your life
Not the way they taught you
Do what you feel !

Survive the jungle
Give me blood
Give me Pain
These scars won't heal

What were you thinking
What a wonderful world !!!
You're full of shit

Leave it behind
They don't care if you cry
All is left is pain

Can you take it ? (x4)

The only way
To get away
Kill your pride
Attitude

I won't take it (x4)

So in the end
I want to see some respect
( I said )
You better show some respect
( I said )
Attitude and respect


Cut-Throat

Telling lies right into your face
Grab your soul and make a disgrace
Make you believe you're bigger than life
No one cares if you'll live or die

Waiting for the moment to strike
To take possession to take your heart
Turn your part into a farse
Without respect, without regret

Cut-Thoat (x6)

You promise this and promise all
Deep inside nothing at all
In a war of filth and greed
We don't need none of this shit

All I say that will survive
We know what's true, we know what's right
We're going through this till the end
And I know you're not my friend

Cut-Thoat – (x6) Fuck !

To give in - no fucking way
To give in - no way

So don't tell us it can't be done
Putting down what you don't know
Money isn't our god
Integrity will free our soul

Enslavement pathetic
Ignorant corporations


Breed Apart

Creepy crawl
On concrete and dust
Asphalt jungle
Piles of crust

Non sense thoughts
Inside the mind
What really means
What I want ?

Open up your mind
And go your own way

Straight old thoughts
To force you down
Raping rape
Breed apart

Open up your mind
And go your own way


Ambush

Screaming
For more justice
Amazonia burns
Can you hear them ?

I'll fight
To save another day
So join us
And we'll make them leave this land

Threatening
To kill how we feel
(but) if we stop them it'll be worth dying for

When you go down motherfucker !
When you go down fighting !!
...
Why ? Why ? WHY ?


Endangered Species

Life !!
The struggle to survive
Crawling, raging
Feed the hate inside

Are we going to see another day ?
Are we going to make it all the way ?
Are we going to see the light of day ?
Are we going to make it till the end ?

Rise !!
Bad moon rise
Another war, another crime
End in sight

Bleak !!
Why & what the fuck ?!?
Shut your mouth, shut your mind, this the way
You're just another prey

Is that what we've became ??

RISE ! [8x]

Are we going to see another day ?
Are we going to make it all the way ?
Are we going to see the light of day ?
Are we going to make it till the end ?

Endangered Species [3 x]
Is that what we've became ??


An Album that is dedicated to the Amazon tribes that struggle for keeping their lands and traditional way of life against the deforestation and the invasion of any kind of corporations, ranchers, miners, loggers, developmental projects, etc. All traditional rainforest people suffer from loss of habitat and are forced to a meaningless hard life of unemployment, alcoholism, prostitution and exploitation in urban environments. We deal with such issues in their previous album Chaos AD, song “Kaiowas”. Let’s now see the situation of many other South American tribes, beside Guarani-Kaiowas, that face displacement, diseases and loss of their roots and their sometimes bloody struggle against the invaders.

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Yanomami: Invasions and Death
The dimension of the problem caused by the illegal presence of prospectors in Yanomami lands can be better understood from the indigenous people's perspective: the mere presence of a single foreigner can mean the spread of plague, and widespread death. For the Yanomami, the lack of immunity to ailments introduced by miners, the rise in cases of malaria, and their dependence on natural resources poisoned by mining activities has predictably resulted in numerous deaths. In addition, the lawless atmosphere of the mining camps has been characterized by prostitution and gun violence.
Over 1,000 gold-miners are now working illegally on Yanomami land, transmitting deadly diseases like malaria and polluting the rivers and forest with mercury. Cattle ranchers are invading and deforesting the eastern fringe of their land. Yanomami health is suffering and critical medical care is not reaching them because of corruption and incompetence in Brazil’s National Health Foundation (FUNASA). The Brazilian congress is currently debating a bill which, if approved, will permit large-scale mining in indigenous territories. This will be extremely harmful to the Yanomami and other remote tribes in Brazil. The Yanomami have not been properly consulted about their views and have little access to independent information about the impacts of mining. (Survival international)

Nambikwara: Loggers and Miners Attack
The Nambikwara people became known internationally when Brazil's military government decided to build a road from Cuiaba to the western outpost of Porto Velho in the heavily colonized state of Rondonia. Yet again, uncontrolled colonization brought epidemics, violence and death, this time upon the Nambikwara. They were relocated, and decimated. The few that remained fought to return to their traditional territory, and in 1990, the government finally registered 67,420 hectares as the Sarare indigenous area. …In addition, the mining camps had spread venereal diseases and malaria throughout the area.

Macuxi: Disappointment
Twenty five years ago, Jacir José Macuxi and a few other prominent Macuxi initiated the struggle to demarcate their 1.6 million hectare territory (Raposa/Serra do Sol) in northern Brazil, on the torrid savannas of the Venezuelan border area in the state of Roraima. There too, gold miners and ranchers had taken hold and were spreading Falciparum malaria, a deadly strain of the disease that was steadily killing off the people. "Many people fell sick," says de Souza. "My wife was one of them, and she died." In 1995, the government even proposed to build a dam inside the area. Then, backed by state government leaders, the invaders of Raposa Serra do Sol voted to form a new municipality inside the indigenous area.
“Since Lula came into office, things have only gotten worse for us," said Jacir Jose de Souza, a Macuxi Indian chief who is also director of the Roraima Indigenous Council. "He's deceitful, very unreliable. He's worse than the last government because he says one thing and does another." (NY Times)

Parakana: The Mahogany Battle
Indian territories in the Amazon are often the last repositories of precious woods and other natural resources. Knowing this, illegal loggers do much of their work on Indian lands. For the Parakana people, who inhabit the Apyterewa indigenous area in southern Pará state, particularly for youths, contact with loggers has translated into dependency, alcoholism, and exploitation as the result of the illegal smuggling of mahogany. Six months ago, the Brazilian state issued a federal decree that imposed strict restrictions on the logging of mahogany. But the Amazon is big, and the enforcement of such legislation daunting. …The Parakana Indians, however, have organized to help federal agencies in the task of curbing invasions and preventing the exploitation of the hardwood. In 1993, they destroyed machines and other tools of the Perachi timber company as a means to intimidate invaders. This timber company, one of the largest in the region, defied the public powers by illegally exporting mahogany and, in the process, devastated 5,000 hectares of indigenous territory to open pasture areas.
"Tens of thousands of tons of Peruvian mahogany are imported into the US for luxury dining room tables, household trimmings and automobile dashboards," Ari Hershowitz, of the Natural Resources Defence Council (NRDC), said. "But Americans have no idea that buying mahogany contributes to the destruction of the rainforest and threatens the people who live there. People are dying - it is a crisis right now."(Common Dreams org)

You can hear some songs from this album in youtube
Roots Bloody Roots
Ratamahatta
Attitude

Biotech Is Godzilla by Sepultura, Album: Chaos AD (1993)-part 3

Rio Summit, '92
Street people kidnapped
Hid from view
To save the earth
Our rulers met
Some had other
Secret plans

No... No... No... No...

Biotech
Biotech
Biotech
Say what?

Strip-mine the Amazon
Of cells of life itself
Gold rush for genes is on
Natives get nothing

Biotech
Biotech
Biotech
Is Godzilla

Mutations cooked in labs
Money-mad experiments
New food + medicine?
New germs + accidents!

Like Cubatao
World's most polluted town
Air melts your face
Deformed children all around

Bio-technology
Ain't what's so bad
Like all technology
It's in the wrong hands

Cut-throat corporations
Don't give a damn
When lots of people die
From what they've made

Biotech
Biotech
Biotech
Is A.I.D.S.?

Stop!!!

The lyrics of this song were written by Jello Biafra of Dead Kennedys. It deals with the expansion of biotechnology companies and their social and environmental impacts. It also makes hints about the role of the science under the control of corporations. Let’s see things from the beginning, because the narration is quite interesting.

In the first verse there is sarcasm about the hypocrisy of luxurious environmental summits where pictures of poverty and misery must be hidden from view. Our leaders, those that are the only responsible for environmental destruction and world poverty didn’t want to see people’s problems at face. It’s not a surprise that no such summit has done anything important in order to reverse the environmental destruction, or to stop poverty.

But in reality, there are usually secret agendas to be dealt with, no matter what information reach mass media and TV channels. Many summits have to do with promoting business and making deals with multinational corporations for occupation of land and natural resources without asking the opinion or even caring about the participation of the mostly involved local people and tribes.

Exotic plants with medicinal substances were stolen, mines for ore-deposits cause deforestation but natives get nothing except their displacement and cultural destruction. Then, these stolen traditional medicine substances were treated chemically in order to be patented by corporations and sold at high prices, that poor people (ironically, the native tribes once only holders of traditional herbal medicine) can’t afford them.Genes by exotic species are used in order to create the so-called Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO), a huge experiment with unknown consequences to environment, health and societies. Money-mad experiments with monsters-organisms designed only for profitable purposes and not for increasing food supplies. Biotech-Corporations like Monsanto design GMO-crops to be resistant in chemical pesticides that are produced and sold by them. Other GMO-crops are designed to produce pesticides by themselves. There is no concern about the nightmarish threat of release such genes to the environment and the forever pollution of normal (conventional or organic) crops. Their only concern is to increase their profits by taking all world food production under their control, enslaving farmers under binding contracts and completely destroying local traditional agriculture which has survived for thousands of years.The song also makes a statement that biotech is not bad per se, the only problem is that is in the wrong hands. That’s a very interesting question about the nature and form of science. Strict Marxism would say that GMO are good, but the profits and benefits must be shared to the people and not to the corporation. So science is good no matter what the object of research is. But these objects are determined by the interests of those who control science. So the GMO research under public control would be something quite different: for example, Biotechnology is also to cross plants by natural methods, biotechnology is to keep and use local varieties of seeds resistant to various climates, etc. The scientific discipline of production of organisms by direct modifications in the level of genes and DNA in order to satisfy certain and transient needs or purposes is something absolutely risky to our level of knowledge, so is bad science per se, no matter if an hypothetical social revolution expropriates corporations’ property and patents and share it to the public. People under true democratic constitutions would choose alternative and sustainable scientific methods to share equally the goods, not such risky ones.

Medicine also, today based in chemistry, would be completely different if it was not controlled by multinational corporations. We see that they stole exotic plants for the chemical treatment, extraction and isolation of the pure substance that considered the healing factor. Such a procedure usually produces toxic medicines and antibiotics with many side-effects to the patients. But that’s the only way to produce patents and something profitable. Original therapeutic practices, where the healing substances are in minute concentrations and in mutual interaction inside herbs, were ignored, like traditional no-drug medicine as well. Under public democratic control, any kind of alternative and friendly to the patient healing method would be developed, so the discipline of medicine would be quite different in many terms. It’s not only an issue of expropriating Bayer, or La Roche property and patents and give their toxic antibiotics with side-effects to the poor, because chemical-based medicine is not the only existing healing method. Its an issue of radical transformation of the discipline under a more democratic and ecological society.

We can say exactly the same concerning nuclear energy. The impacts of its use are huge and irreversible, so such a discipline (central distribution of nuclear energy supply) would not exist if people take life in their hands and seek for a variety of alternative energy supplies friendly to environment and society. But greed and need for political control and power promoted such scientific discipline and related inventions and no matter the terrible impacts of nuclear accidents and other issues (nuclear waste disposal), nuclear lobby today fights back.

In the end, the song wonders if these monstrous experiments have caused accidentally the spreading of deadly viruses like AIDS.

You can hear this song in youtube

Kaiowas by Sepultura, Album: Chaos AD (1993)-part 2

This instrumental song is inspired by a Brasilian Indian tribe called "Kaiowas", who live in the rain forest. They committed mass suicide as a protest against the government, who was trying to take away their land and beliefs.

We can’t check the accuracy of this event as it is stated in this album, but it’s true that this tribe has the highest rate of suicides among all the displaced indigenous people in Amazon basin, especially in the period this instrumental song has been released (see bar chart below, click on it to enlarge).Also, being always in despair, these rainforest people have used occasionally the threat of mass suicide as mean of non-violent form of political pressure in order to save their culture and their lands. Let’s see some facts about this pround tribe:


Wikipedia
Guarani-Kaiowá are an indigenous people of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul. They inhabit an area of tropical rainforest. This was declared a reservation in October 2004. Marcos Verón, a leader of this people was beaten to death in 2003.
The Guarani sub-groups have different ways of social organisation, but they share a religion which sees the land as very important. When invaders occupy the Guarani land, the Guarani feel as if their religion is offended, and when they lose their land to intruders they have too little land to sustain their traditional life, based on fishing hunting and farming.
….Today their land is stolen by loggers and miners. The Guarani are forced to leave their land and seek work on plantations, where they work as underpaid labourers. The Guarani of Mato Grosso do Sul are desperately campaigning to protect their land which is crucial for their survival.

Survival-International: Guarani Suicide Epidemic
Despair decimates the Guarani population

Once 1.5 million Guarani occupied a homeland of forests and plains totalling some 135,000 square miles in four South American countries. Today the 30,000 in Brazil are squeezed onto tiny patches of land surrounded by cattle ranches and vast fields of soya and sugar cane. For a people with such a strong emotional connection to the land, this has been incredibly traumatic: the Guarani in Brazil now suffer an epidemic of suicides unequalled in South America.

In the 15 years to 2000, over 300 Guarani killed themselves, mostly children and young adults. The youngest was Luciane Ortiz, aged just nine. For such a profoundly spiritual people, the theft and destruction of their land has been overwhelming.

'The Guarani are committing suicide because we have no land. We don't have space any more. In the old days, we were free, now we are no longer free. So our young people look around them and think there is nothing left and wonder how they can live. They sit down and think, they forget, they lose themselves and then commit suicide.'
Rosalino Ortiz, Guarani woman

'Suicides occur among young people because they are nostalgic for the past. Young people are nostalgic for the beautiful forests, they want to eat fruits from the forest, they want to go out and find honey, they want to use natural remedies from the forest. In Dourados where there have been most suicides a young person told me he didn't want to live anymore because there was no reason to carry on living - there is no hunting, no fishing, and the water is polluted.'
Amilton Lopes, Guarani man

Brazzil.com
Guarani-Kaiowa:
Despair and Suicide
Perhaps the starkest example of the crisis of Indian lands in Brazil is the case of the Guarani-Kaiowa territory in the southern state of Mato Grosso do Sul, where over the past decade, over 300 Indians have taken their own lives in despair. Poverty, expulsion from traditional territories in recurrent disputes with wealthy ranchers, and the overpopulation of the remaining lands are the main factors leading this unique people to slow extinction. Today, over 22,500 Guarani-Kaiowas are pressed into a fraction of their original territory . 22 recognized areas near Dourados, a city on the Paraguayan border. In one village called Bororo, 3,700 are packed into 3,600 hectares, a veritable death sentence for a people accustomed to utilizing vast expanses of land for their sustenance.

The Associated Press (08-26-1998)
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) _ Members of an Indian group in Brazil are threatening to commit mass suicide if authorities evict them from what they claim is their ancestral land, an Indian rights group said Wednesday.

About 100 Guarani-Kaiowa Indians occupied a ranch Tuesday in southwestern Mato Grosso do Sul State, 1,115 miles southwest of Brasilia, the capital. They say they will take their own lives if authorities try to dislodge them.

``Suicide has always been an option of the Guarani-Kaiowas,'' said Nereu Schnaider, of the Indian Missionary Council. ``They say the land belongs to them because their ancestors once occupied it.''
The 27,000-member tribe, one of the largest in Brazil, once held 40 percent
of Mato Grosso do Sul state. Today they occupy just 1 percent of the
140,000-square-mile state.

FIAN
Guarani Kaiowa – Malnutrition is killing indigenous children
For this people, the land where they live – the Tekohá – means “the place where we realize our way of being”, a social political space. In the early 20th century the Guarani-Kaiowás were enclosed in very small demarcated indigenous lands. Until the 70´s they were able to migrate to and find refuge in non-occupied lands. But with the progressive occupation of large extensions of the land in the region, including river banks, with the capital intensive production of soy beans, this space was progressively reduced. Since then, more and more indigenous families were forced into the limited demarcated land, seriously reducing their capacity to provide for themselves in terms of food, clean water, fuel for food production, medicinal herbs and increasingly worse sanitation conditions. In the 90`s a severe increase in the rate of suicides was observed as well as those of alcoholism.
In 2007, 76 indigenous people were assassinated in Brazil, out of them 48 were Guarani Kaiowas from Mato Grosso do Sul. Since 2005, 53 Guarani-Kaiowá children died of malnutrition, and presently there at least 600 others who present signs of malnutrition. The homicides, suicides, alcoholism, and malnutrition deaths are strongly linked to the limited extensions of land presently occupied by the Guaranis in Mato Grosso do Sul, and to their struggle against it.

Infoshop
Ιndians Invade Brazilian Ranches
Tuesday, 30 of December 2003

Thousands of indigenous Indians have invaded several farms close to Brazil's border with Paraguay in an attempt to reclaim ancestral land. Brazilian police said the members of the Guarani and Kaiowa peoples appeared with painted faces and bearing traditional weapons.
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Brazil's National Indian Foundation (Funai) says all the ranches are in an area covering traditional lands belonging to the two closely related tribes. The Indians have long been at odds with farmers who have moved into the area and now use the land for large-scale cattle-ranching.

Two great live performances of “Kaiowas” by Sepultura in Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ0eIlu6pTQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=larahPkCwcE

Album: Chaos A.D. by Sepultura (1993) part 1

Slave New World
Face - The enemy
Stare - Inside you
Control - Your thoughts
Destroy - Destroy 'em all

You censor what we breathe
Prejudice with no belief
Senseless violence all around
Who is it, that keeps us down

Once all free tribes
Chained down led lives
Blood boils inside me
We're not slaves, we're free

Face - The enemy
Stare - Inside you
Control - Your thoughts
Destroy - Destroy 'em all



Nomad

Travelling through the time
Moving slowly in the sand
Knowledge is the weapon
Against the hunger in the land

Solitude met herself
Lessons from the primal step
Memories from an ending life
Liars can't stop the tribes

Nomad, Nomad, Nomad, Nomad

Brother is the son of rape
The blood that once unites
Wanna choose the way they die
Look inside their minds(echoes in the)

Actual tribe no longer sounds
The ancient teaching failed
Movement of my culture
My beliefs have no more tales

Who are you to criticize
To judge and burn the tribes
The world will be extinct
And your flesh will rot with mine

Nomad, Nomad, Nomad, Nomad


Two songs with rage and anger about the occupation of land and cultural destruction of indigenous people in America and everywhere else in the planet, the main theme of the Brazilian Sepultura’s songs.

You can hear these songs in youtube:

Nomad

Slave new world


and the videoclips of the most famous songs from this great album:

Refuse/Resist

Territory