Trading Bows and Arrows for Laptops

In June 2008, a team from Google Earth Outreach traveled to western Brazil to launch a technology training program for members of several indigenous tribes living in the threatened Amazonian rain forest. Film by Denise Zmekhol.
Shorter version of video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVv_XF...

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[atroise]

Very good

thank you...

[BreakChannel23]

I forgot to mention that I am 100% sure this thing stinks of "forced euro-colonization". I can smell it from here and the odor is appalling. Civilization does not mean laptops, cell phones, facebook and starbucks. Civilization means NOT KILLING PEOPLE or THEIR ENVIRONMENT.

[BreakChannel23]

That is right on target! It is the ecological distaster that is moving along as usual. The euro-brain culture eats every living and non-living thing in its path. I get a feeling of great angst in my gut when I think of eurocolonization in the America's. I know I will not live to see this disease halted, but I know there exists a growing stand against this culture of sickness. Our mother, though having great love and patience will one day fully discipline the misbehaving child.

[1rebelblood]

South America is the LAST refuge for true freedom from the grips of the Babylonian system, just look at what they did in the North and pretty much ALL over the world. Most people only see SA as a place to get wood floors or a "cool" table or wood spoons, but they never want to see the bigger picture, like what happens to the lives it impacts to just get a freakin spoon, and when i say lives i do mean the impact on ALL life, not just the impact on the menti of the people but the home of all

[BreakChannel23]

This is pretty much true. Trading bows and arrows for laptops secretly means they are being fed the disease of becoming nothing more than a consumer. No longer a human being at all but a consumer. When I saw this video and realized the actual reason they were being "converted", I vomited.

[1rebelblood]

Plain and simple, the white man dont give a shit about ya, unless you got something it wants, then you get wiped off the face of the planet with only your story writen in the way it wants in its books as them as the gods.

[2mreeves]

I'm so impressed with your achievments. Keep up the good work!

[joebuddyable]

Replanting the forest should be the responsibility of the loggers!!

[VirtualRealityTV]

tears of joy, at how beautiful this is.! 1 Million sapplings planted by a culture surrounded by forest and only desiring more of its return is such a powerful statement upon the value their contribution makes to the health of the WOrld!. As a permaculturalist its inspiring to realise our most ancient untamed and remaining groups of societies can offer the last hopes for us all in reclaiming their knowledge, and making it available for us all to apply to the reforesting of earth.