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| Watch video on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/puebloactionalliance Watch on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mjAU15CwEZ4 The Atomic Bomb and Resource Extraction: New Mexico Pueblos at Brazil Climate Summit Demand U.S. Reparations "New Mexico, the state that we come from, was the testing ground for the first atomic bomb and that reality is devastating knowing that the natural resources that come from our ancestral lands have devastated communities across the globe." -- Julia Bernal, Sandia Pueblo, Pueblo Action Alliance By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Nov. 14, 2025 BELEM, Brazil -- Julia Bernal, Sandia Pueblo, with the Pueblo Action Alliance, spoke of the devastation to her Pueblo homelands, and the debt owed to the both the global south, and Indigenous Peoples in the United States, during the U.N. climate summit COP30, now underway in Brazil. "In New Mexico, we are experiencing devastation to our ancestral homeland because of oil and gas, and fracking, and uranium mining," Bernal said. "We have been a neocolony for the military industrial complex of the United States." "While as Indigenous Peoples we are demanding reparations for our own people, we are also internationalists, and are demanding that the United States also pay its debt to the global south, and all of the destruction that the U.S. has done through the imperial fascist regime." Bernal said that the conversations from her homelands in the Pueblos are being brought to this international gathering, to demand reparations for the global south and for Indigenous Peoples in the United States impacted by resource extraction. "New Mexico, the state that we come from, was the testing ground for the first atomic bomb and that reality is devastating knowing that the natural resources that come from our ancestral lands have devastated communities across the globe -- so that's why we as Indigenous peoples of the United States are going to continue organizing through grassroots and popular movements."  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4_NV2U8X48Indigenous Block COP30 on Friday Novara Media reports that Indigenous protesters blocked the entrance to the climate summit on Friday, demanding an end to fossil fuel extraction, logging and mining in the Amazon rainforest. "Delegates stood in long queues to enter the summit compound – and were forced to use side entrances – as dozens of activists staged a sit-in, which went ahead peacefully following an earlier incident in which activists stormed the summit and scuffled with security." Indigenous campaigners have criticised president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for allowing new oil drilling to go ahead at the mouth of the Amazon river, despite his pledge that Cop30 would be “inspired by indigenous peoples.” An umbrella group of indigenous authorities across Brazil released a joint statement before the summit demanding leaders "declare indigenous territories as exclusion zones from extractive activities.” Indigenous Peoples stormed the climate summit demanding action "We Can't Eat Money"  |
Dozens of Indigenous protesters forced their way into the 30th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) on Tuesday evening after hundreds of people participated in a march to the venue.
“We can’t eat money,” said Gilmar, an Indigenous leader from the Tupinamba community near the lower reaches of the Tapajos River in Brazil, who uses only one name, referring to the emphasis on climate finance at many of the meetings during the ongoing summit.
“We want our lands free from agribusiness, oil exploration, illegal miners and illegal loggers.”
“We can’t eat money,” said Gilmar, an Indigenous leader from the Tupinamba community near the lower reaches of the Tapajos River in Brazil, who uses only one name, referring to the emphasis on climate finance at many of the meetings during the ongoing summit.
“We want our lands free from agribusiness, oil exploration, illegal miners and illegal loggers.”
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Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Outnumber Climate Delegates, Except for BrazilMore than 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists have been granted access to the Cop30 climate negotiations in Belém, significantly outnumbering every single country’s delegation apart from the host Brazil, the Guardian reports.
The 1,602 fossil fuel lobbyists identified include 148 with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC); 60 with the International Emissions Trading Association (Ieta), including delegates from oil and gas giants ExxonMobil, BP and TotalEnergies; and 41 with the Brazilian National Confederation of Industry (BNCI).
Several big polluters from the global north invited fossil fuel representatives to join their official delegations including France, which brought 22 industry delegates including the CEO of TotalEnergies, and Norway, whose group included six senior executives from its national oil and gas giant Equinor.
Overall, only Brazil, with 3,805 delegates, has a bigger presence than oil, gas and coal interests.
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