Brasilia, London, Atalaia do Norte, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Belém and Campinas are organising events in memory of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips

On the 5th, indigenist Bruno Pereira and journalist Dom Phillips will be remembered in various places in Brazil and around the world with tributes, debates and rituals. The date marks one year since their murders in Atalaia do Norte, Amazonas, in the Vale do Javari region. All the events will echo the demands for justice, so that the crimes do not go unpunished and will also to honour their struggle to preserve the Amazon and promote indigenous rights, at a time when retrograde forces in Brazil's National Congress are trying to pass bills which will destroy legal protections for the environment and indigenous peoples. 

In Brasilia, the event will take place at the Maloca* in the University of Brasilia (UNB) at 4pm and is expected to be attended by Bruno and Dom's family members, executive and legislative authorities, trade unions, civil servants, artists and indigenous leaders - who will already be gathered in the capital to mobilise for the Supreme Court's ruling on the Marco Temporal*. The event will be broadcast on Instagram by the Union of Indigenous Peoples of the Javari Valley (Univaja).

In London, Dom Phillips' family and lawyer Carolina Santana, legal advisor to the Observatory of Isolated Indigenous Peoples (Opi), the indigenous organisation founded by Bruno Pereira, will take part in a debate. The purpose of the event is to honour the lives and work of the two and to discuss the current situation in the Javari Valley, one year after the murders. The event is organised by Brazil Matters. 

In Atalaia do Norte, the Univaja Vigilance Team (EVU), with which Bruno was working when he was murdered, will make an expedition to the crime scene, which will be marked with crosses and where a ritual will be performed. At Univaja's headquarters, in the urban area of the municipality, the Kanamari people will honour Bruno and Dom from 9am. Events are also planned in Belém, where Bruno lived, in Rio de Janeiro and Salvador, the cities where Dom lived, and in Campinas.

*Maloca - Maloca is a large ancestral dwelling used by indigenous people of the Amazon - at UNB it's a space for indigenous students to socialise.
*The Marco Temporal refers to the legal theory according to which the original/indigenous peoples can only demand the demarcation of lands where they were already living on October 5, 1988, the date Brazil’s present Federal Constitution was enacted.