{"id":4199,"date":"2025-10-06T15:56:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T15:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amazonflotilla.quipa.org\/declaration-we-sail-united-for-climate-justice\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T21:01:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T21:01:53","slug":"declaration-we-sail-united-for-climate-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amazonflotilla.quipa.org\/en\/declaration-we-sail-united-for-climate-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"DECLARATION WE SAIL UNITED FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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DECLARATION<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

WE SAIL UNITED <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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We, Indigenous Peoples, organizations, movements, and coalitions from Abya Yala and around the world, defenders of nature, the Amazon, and our rights, gather today in Quito for a clear reason: centuries ago, from this city, departed the missions that, under the pretext of ‘discovering’ the Great Amazon River, unleashed conquest upon our territories and the entire Amazon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, from this very same point, in memory of October 12th\u2014the beginning of the colonization of the Americas\u2014and in commemoration of the first great uprising of Indigenous Peoples across the continent in 1992, we begin a new chapter. We set out not to conquer, but to connect. We set out so that the world may finally hear the voices from our territories. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the eve of October 12, a date that marks centuries of dispossession, we present the Yaku Mama Amazon Flotilla<\/strong>, a coalition of peoples, communities, organizations, and movements uniting to travel 3,000 km from the Andean glaciers of Ecuador to Bel\u00e9m, Brazil, for COP30. United as one body\u2014the Andes, the Amazon, and the world’s forests\u2014we sail to remember that the life of the planet depends on the protection of our territories and our rights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We sail to remind the world that true climate action is not signed in agreements\u2014it is lived and defended in our territories every day. We sail to tell the world that the Amazon and our Indigenous and collective territories are the heart of the global climate response.
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This journey is diversity in motion. At each stop, we will show the scars of extractivism\u2014illegal mining, oil spills, false climate solutions\u2014and we will also reveal the strength of our alternatives: the living forest economy, ancestral science, and collective governance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are not going to Bel\u00e9m to ask for a seat at the table; we are going to demand that climate policies be built from the territories, with justice for those of us who protect life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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OUR DENUNCIATIONS<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n