The tactics of the Sarayaku people and those of the Dakota Access Pipeline share many similarities, yet there exist differences. For this paper, I will focus on the similarities regarding environmental rights, state violence, and consent over land and the differences of the land ownership and social activism. Both groups focus on advocating for environmental rights rather than succumb to the capitalist ideals encroaching on their land. This is a driving force to maintain their land and its purity as well as reach the outside communities. The Sarayaku people are deeply connected to nature and hold the vision of sumak kawsay, or living in harmony with the natural world and insisting that nature has rights deserving of protection. In making this claim, the group can put appeal to environmentalists, and
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The Sarayaku people, faced several months of struggle, torture, rape and suffering from the state for protesting to quell the resistance (Goodman). The Ecuadorian government cracked down on the resistors, ordering closure of CONAIE to prevent activists from attending an UN climate summit, in which the people could bring to light certain abuses, and cut off their outreach severely limiting access to outside help (Goodman). In regards to the Pipeline, the US led various unsuccessful military campaigns to suppress, annihilate, and possess the Native people of their claim for land. The US government attempted to silence and deter protesters through many different means such as massive flooding, relocation, and outright murder (Estes). Despite this, protestors’ attempt to combat this destruction was brought to the world stage, allowing the outside world to view the injustices; the uprising and recognition was met with violent state repression, in which AIM leaders were assassinated and imprisoned. It was the US’s way of curbing resistance, yet it only illuminated the
The Sarayaku people, faced several months of struggle, torture, rape and suffering from the state for protesting to quell the resistance (Goodman). The Ecuadorian government cracked down on the resistors, ordering closure of CONAIE to prevent activists from attending an UN climate summit, in which the people could bring to light certain abuses, and cut off their outreach severely limiting access to outside help (Goodman). In regards to the Pipeline, the US led various unsuccessful military campaigns to suppress, annihilate, and possess the Native people of their claim for land. The US government attempted to silence and deter protesters through many different means such as massive flooding, relocation, and outright murder (Estes). Despite this, protestors’ attempt to combat this destruction was brought to the world stage, allowing the outside world to view the injustices; the uprising and recognition was met with violent state repression, in which AIM leaders were assassinated and imprisoned. It was the US’s way of curbing resistance, yet it only illuminated the