Ecuador's Shuar Arutam tribe vs The Multinational Mining Machine

[@DrSpooglemon]

Planned obsolescence is a cancer. The right-to-repair would not only benefit consumers but it would be good for the environment and the indigenous peoples who are subject to this kind of treatment in the pursuit of every increasing quantities of minerals.

[@mariov1347]

Like Josep Borrel said western world is the garden and the rest is Jungle. Now you understand why he said that. Colonialism and theft still very alive in the garden.

[@MouseSF]

Such a fantastic series - GZ does it again!

[@globalwanderer360]

I visited Zamora and the Yasuni river several years ago and saw the damage that oil and mining companies were doing. This should be stopped immediately

[@AGirlHasNoName1.618]

Yet every western country cries for environmental justice. Corruption is swallowing us all. It's almost time....tick tock.

[@Nphen]

@@kingofthecatnap5780 all 3 of your replies are there. Reload the page if you don't see them

[@larsbee]

​@Nphen non of his comments are here at least not for me

[@larsbee]

same as in the Niger delta ... no matter where u go everything has at least a thin film of oil.... hey ... some of the tribes there r getting hundreds of USD per year ... all worth it...

[@richardmartin2646]

I had to Disagree about the oil I've done it off and on since the 80s. The only thing you could find after an oil well is done, Is a cattle guard (gate) and maybe a little bit of a dirt road. Unlike windmills Uranium and especially The s*** they use for batteries. Oil is actually better than anything that we have right now if you will truly looking into it. Old windmills and batteries are almost as toxic as uranium.

[@catherinegoodsett-wein3313]

People who buy electric vehicles think they are saving the environment! This is crazy!

[@antimattv]

I dunno...I think a lot of the EV tech for China also comes from places like the Congo. EVs are a good idea, but the mining has to be done in a humanistic way.

[@larsbee]

​@SaintFluffySnow there no green EVs ... what r u talking about ... totally delusional 😂

[@larsbee]

I drive an EV which we share among two households ... that's the only good thing ... oh the air is clean where I live .... the poor people die from producing the materials for my EV.... I hoped to invest into the green transport revolution but it will most likely turns out being a bad investment... thx to the greed of humanity

[@antimattv]

@@larsbee I don't think you should feel guilty. Cobalt and oil are both stained with blood and exploitation. The clean air around you IS important. It is ALSO important that we know about these things and push our institutions (corporations, governments) to treat workers well.

[@Dowlphin]

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions", the saying goes, but often it is worse. People deliberately choose to pander to their ego, rejecting dissonant information. Thus one of my spiritual teaching mantras: *Corruption is a grassroots movement.* The lesson is to actually care for truth, do the homework, walk the extra mile, because any lie can make itself appear like truth and attempts to. For example, true environmentalists, the oldschool if you will, have long ago understood and practiced the value of driving your car until it is no longer roadworthy. They understood the capitalist dictate of perpetual growth and rampant consumption. With people rejecting traditional religion in a self-image of intellectual superiority and then soothing the spiritual crisis with modern replacement religion like warmism, they are basically practicing a contemporary version of selling of indulgences: They give money to their church and receive sin forgiveness services in return. (The carbon credit scheme is a blatantly obvious example.)

[@bobdennison207]

thank you everyone .

[@pacoshuman7642]

Thank you Grayzone...

[@aide-toietlecieltaidera3724]

Greyzone does great work. Many thanks

[@joelg34]

As Elon Musk said "we can coup who we like". This shows the utter hypocrisy that is the rush to "net zero" at any cost.

[@jonaswhale6451]

All billionairs are psycho in someways Elon not excluded .

[@susanpetropoulos1039]

He was only stating a fact. Corporate government can buy whomever/whatever they want. Think that they will treat you any better if you are in their way? Ask the American Indians. A few treaties broken. A few beads traded. Nothing has changed.

[@dobianuli2742]

@@susanpetropoulos1039 he was smugly saying ‘we coup who we want’

[@aide-toietlecieltaidera3724]

​@@jonaswhale6451all this billionaires were put in their place for a reason. Look up the articles by MintPress (Whitney Webb) on Musk being basically a CIA-asset

[@os3984]

​@@susanpetropoulos1039I thought it was funny because it's like a secret in plain sight. And it is fascinating that people get mad at Elon and not to the neocons or CIA or any of the like. He makes a lot of that kind of jokes. Maybe I enjoy them because I'm an aspie too😅

[@ericjensen9091]

😔 heartbreaking

[@carpediem44]

I wish the documentary would identify the Canadian corporation that is invading the Shuar territory.

[@michelethe80sbaby]

I thought they did. Solaris?

[@rodgerasai]

See the copies of the contract shown at about 5:35 - 6:00. They mention Solaris & the contract shows "Lowell".

[@rjung_ch]

@@rodgerasai Yes, hear Solaris as well and read Lowell many times in the contracts. So very sick. It could be any huge corporation, be it Glencore or any other. They are destroying the planet, they don't care about anything, just money. F*k them!

[@rjung_ch]

25:28 he mentions Solaris again.

[@antimattv]

Canada, a mining company masquerading as a state. Because I love my country I want to change this sad truth.

[@joylarson9040]

Thank you so very much for sharing truth.

[@MBW37]

great work as always

[@chesleymesher1913]

Thanks!

[@hammeronline8366]

Thank you for your work Oscar Leon!!!

[@furiapopular]

You are welcome!

[@dlsselle]

where would I be without your reporting? what would I know about the world?

[@Rüdiger1901]

Reminiscent of Confessions of an economic hitman. Amazing journalism! Thank you GZ!

[@lawrencemorris2261]

Man, capitalism needs to end immediately. It's awesome to see a beautiful people are standing up defending their land right. If anything, it should be the people who live there who should be educated about the potential riches of their land(if they don't know it already) and decide what they are to do with it themselves with their own business. It's the citizen's companies who should be selling their own products, not some western company. Who the heck are those foreigners to infringe on the native peoples' property. Whoever's in charge of this needs to be held accountable!

[@p.a.andrews7772]

Save the trees !!!

[@antimattv]

18:00 I absolutely understand how this person feels. There are so many times when "polite company" is used to prevent somebody from airing legitimate grievances with an entity. "Conflicts amongst ourselves,... but they are invisible". No doubt she has been made to feel like a pariah who should just shut up and behave herself. It's awful. We need to change!

[@wanxia935]

Fantastic, thank you.

[@desperatelyseekingrealnews]

Everybody needs to share this

[@dondensmore4820]

Nothing green about electric vehicles when the mining and lack of ability to be recycled. But like covid no open debate will be allowed.

[@davidprimeau3368]

exploitation of the Congo also needs to be stopped, all for batteries, the kids are suffering there and the rich get richer

[@obiigwe8349]

Important story, which reveals the shallowness of the modern "climate" movement in much of the West.

[@Dowlphin]

Empire of lies. It has an utterly fake, corrupted version of anything available.

[@annamaedevlin1713]

GREED IS A SIN!

[@giannidimarco3805]

Where's Greta?

[@roguepoet6645]

Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano Still relevant today.

[@theresabarzee1463]

Stunning. Thank you. Wishing I could do more to monetarily auppirt these fine works! Will keep trying!

[@mikecorbeil]

Very good or else excellent documentary, Max. I wish these indigenous people success but wonder what chance they have to win their battle, with capitalism being extremely rapacious. You said that this video is the third part, so I searched for the first two and it seems to be these : Part 1, " _*The Grayzone meets Ecuador's indigenous resistance* _ " (19:32), The Grayzone, published (here) 9 months ago, kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJSwnKWjaraYpc0 ; Part 2, " *_Ecuador's resistance confronts multinational mining monster_* " (39:39), TheGrayzone, published (here) 7 months ago, kzbin.info/www/bejne/ommrnmNmerNqjtE. This reminds me of another disgusting Canadian mining corporation, Gold Corp., its gold mining operations in Peru and causing great environmental harm. I believe that the video I listened to about that situation was during the 2000s, I think during the second half of the 2000s. The environmental harm was bad for, both, the natural environment and also human health. Bloody rapacious capitalistic practices! EDIT : I have now listened to the first two parts and the whole documentary is excellent.

[@rjung_ch]

23:50 spot on

[@marilynvogt-downey4393]

Yes! Good point!

[@Nphen]

While mines do a lot of damage, it's up to national governments to enforce mine cleanup. A lot bigger than any of these mines is the amount of the Amazon lost to soy production. The US could become a global leader in hemp (which produces more food than millions of acres of crops it can replace; corn ethanol, cotton, soy) and try to get Brazil to clear less forest for beef cattle and their soy-based feed. This could save 100x the footprints of these mines and build up soils globally, because the US enforces a global hemp ban.

[@adel19997]

I'll wait 10 years before I consider an electric vehicle & solar panels.

[@Stellarcrete]

Resist.

[@kathycarpenito]

Now we know why the Pope and his ilk are so interested in the Amazon……………

[@rjung_ch]

All religions are bad, the catholic church may not even be the worst, but they are really horrible.

[@oswarz]

A link to parts one and two would be nice. I see many vids which one is first, second?

[@thegrayzone7996]

kzbin.info/aero/PLAZrqdbdGGQymKoUAK07z14G5FFByVrER

[@magellanmax]

Corporate greed has no limits.

[@martinelongum2439]

Very difficult , cannot transport this on my fb !!!?

[@peterstone9316]

Truly i say to thee, its ONLY by taking to Sahaja yoga that can save us now! Sahaja yoga is different from other yogas, because it STARTS with Self Realisation, instead of that being an unobtainable goal of a false practice/teaching! Self Realisation is the starting point of reality!

[@paulaheady8990]

I've seen with the mining companies did the rivers in Peru. There is no life at all in those Rivers I'm people with and without money must purchase bottled water for everything. Looking at those Rivers is shocking, they stink, they are full putrid content. Mixed person wonder how any business could do this and not feel responsibility to clean up, but tested maybe impossible.

[@veteranscannabisadvocacygr5401]

✨🌎 EarthWise Reporting, very helpfully Facts & Indigenous Information on the Ground Events & circumstances unseen/ unheralded/ unheard on elsewhere Media ~ Blessings to Brave 🌀Beautiful 💚

[@Mark1JT]

strong Avatar vibes

[@rjung_ch]

that's exactly what Avatar show us, exploitation and destruction of worlds.

[@supergeodotca]

Vilifying mining companies is not the answer. It is the government that is at fault here. Canada has lots of mining happening and the environment is not being destroyed because the mining legislation protects the environment and often enriches the lives of aboriginal communities. I have lived in mining communities my whole life and worked for mining the responsible industry. Painting all mining with the same brush doesn't tell the truth.

[@labryon]

Broad brush and/or anecdotal…either way your “I have lived in mining communities” remains meaningless w/i context of this report because you don’t say which mining community while also claiming Canadian mining as non problematic.

[@supergeodotca]

@@labryon living and working in a mining town and industry for decades is not anecdotal and is not based on some green or anti-mining ideology.

[@labryon]

@@supergeodotca living and working in an Ecuadorian mining town for a lifetime is not anecdotal either…unless you’re some bold commenter that says no: in fact indigenous Ecuadorians are “often enriched” by Canadian mining while being “protected” by Canadian laws. OFTEN, got it! 🙃💩✅

[@supergeodotca]

@@labryon are you an Ecuadorian citizen?

[@labryon]

@@supergeodotca I don’t need to be as I’m not opining about them or mining

[@jfb3567]

“Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil”-Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett

[@jfb3567]

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[@ivoperic3992]

name them and shame them

[@hx-flixblog4569]

The native people have every human right to defend themselves by any means. They need to have their own armed security forces.

[@Dowlphin]

Shuar here are also witnessing the superior nature of socialism with Chinese characteristics. 😒 P.S.: I noticed the edit on Odysee is longer. Noticed it too late, otherwise I would have watched it there.

[@domingodeanda6113]

Canada has so much land to dig for copper.

[@hunter5369]

They would have to pay $30+ an hour ti the miners abd un other countrues they pay $30 a week not to mention how cheao the concessions are in Ecuador compared to Canada

[@PrayerPartnerExtraordinaire]

They're explaining the ABC s of life to us in order to survive. It's unbelievable how greed makes you stupid as hell.

[@gaylecoleman8567]

No maybe about it preserving the forests and jungles is imperative to the survival of the world

[@allcatall3931]

wondering what motivates the mining company the most at this point, whether responsibilities to investors & employees, or customers, or profit.. either way, such cannot be xcuses, if earth itself is being vandalized..

[@j.farrell]

Hmmm. Who looks like they are more out of touch with the natural world around them? We do! 🙋🏻‍♂️

[@scottmaule4395]

PPL HAVE TO realise that the time of humans with SOULS is over.THEY ARE THE SMARTPHONES PPL.

[@richardmartin2646]

Steven dorf did a movie about this

[@carpediem44]

The private car, internal combustion OR electric, needs to die. This planet needs to focus on mass transit. If you want privacy, ride a BIKE 🚵‍♂️

[@555RavenCrow]

I live 34km away from civilization, in a mountainous area, so F U woke one. Cars are what made life outside of a dirt hut possible. And taking them away will only mean large public transport vehicles spewing industrial amounts of black smoke going around in circles, mostly empty most of the time. There's a balance to everything, and "this must die" or "this needs to die" etc. is what puts you in the fascist camp.

[@rjung_ch]

@@555RavenCrow Maybe woke is the wrong word, but the last part is spot on. We need to find the balance and *not* fight each other. But that has always been the way forward, divide and conquer. The corporations just profit from that.

[@bengilkes7676]

Animal agriculture?

[@larsbee]

damn .... now I have to ask if my appliances are made of blood free copper??? 😂😂😂 our civilization is just a cruel deadly joke...

[@shamitbikramshah8577]

Sue them in Canada Surely their crazy PM will help (or get paid off)

[@ARBITRAGEandTIME]

Thanks Greta 😕

[@ewa2z816]

( real issues) ….Outlined beautifully …. Coherent…. The problem is simple…. GOVERNMENT

[@pseudonayme7717]

Nope, it's greed. Government just works for the greedy.

[@ewa2z816]

@@pseudonayme7717 government means “ mind control”…..of us, ALL…..way more than greed….. it’s evil….and the workers are Satan’s minions

[@rjung_ch]

@@pseudonayme7717 spot on truth. They are all corrupt and do all they do only for money. It's time to eat the rich.

[@humushumus2219]

I'm curios. Do people know the channel: Beau of the fifth column? Is he just some CIA stooge?

[@shawnnelson1669]

Comment

[@MS-sq3cg]

Seems bad...like a Japan...

[@alexanderleuchte5132]

Uncle Ted did nothing wrong

[@wolstenholme100]

My video about a Shuar visit: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnyrpHl4rp52rLc

[@rolfsautter4186]

The world can't afford capitalism

[@samueljr.2026]

The Shuar Arutam tribe´s death isn´t nothing compared with global warming, pandemic, nuclear wastewater, economic crash and asteroid hitting Earth.

[@mary-ue4ir]

Cold hearted huh? One day it will be your tribe ... Once you cross that line and say someone's life is "nothing" you have initiated the proof to prove yourself wrong. It will hunt you down, find you and nothing, will be all that remains.

[@alexanderleuchte5132]

What do we want? Total Whitey death! When do we want it? Now!

[@BigChillingGoingDown]

Sorry but i absolutely gitta root for the minimg company here. I have yet to see a single one of these primitive tribes teach us a single useful thing. They had a shot and failed. Mining companies on the other hand, have proven their usefulness and necessity to humanity time and time again. Easy choice.

[@globalwanderer360]

I presume you are someone who benefits from this destruction. What you don't realise that it is suicide for the whole world, including you

[@a.randomjack6661]

Is this why your IQ is so low? 'Flame retardants and pesticides overtake heavy metals as biggest contributors to IQ loss'

[@adama7752]

Nature is utilitarian in the end anyway, makes you wonder what we are progressing towards

[@DurzoBlunts]

Should go back to history class then, you skipped a day or 10. Our democracy in America is based loosely off of The Great Law of Peace which was thought up by the Iroquois confederacy. On top of that Benjamin Franklin was a big proponent of learning from the Iroquois. Hence why he printed up excerpts from speeches by Canassatego. Sorry they didn't have cellphones before the mayflower but they were more culturally complex (eastern tribes) than the general public knows. You're a prime example.

[@mary-ue4ir]

@@DurzoBlunts Thank you, well said.

[@Cinepobrefilmfestival]

what? we got censored by Ze GrayZone? mystery of the vanishing comment

[@alexanderleuchte5132]

Mystery of the KZbin Automod. Only true IQ190 Einsteins are able to understand it