“THEY SOWED TERRICIDE; THEY HARVESTED REBELLION”
THE NATIVE FLOWER REBELLION COMES TO A CLOSE, BUT, THE INDIGENOUS WOMEN SAY, THE FIGHT'S NOT OVER
Tracy Barnett and John Ahni Schertow
October 23, 2019
As the Extinction Rebellion shut down the system in the North, Indigenous women in Argentina staged an uprising of their own.
The Native Flower Rebellion was an occupation of “self-convoked” Mapuche, Guaraní, Qom and other Indigenous women who traveled from all corners of the republic to demand an accounting from their government.
On October 9, the group of 23 women occupied the Ministry of the Interior in Buenos Aires. According to them, The agency is the focal point of much of the racist, violent and environmentally devastating government policy in their territories.
The women wanted action.
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