River Flotilla Opens People’s Summit in Belém With Demands to Halt Amazon Extractivism

Overview

• Organizers estimate about 5,000 participants from roughly 60 countries joined around 200 boats on the Rio Guamá and Baía do Guajará.
• The flotilla traveled from the Federal University of Pará to Vila da Barca, spotlighting riverine communities and urban peripheries.
• Cacique Raoni joined the Caravana da Resposta and urged Presidents Lula and Macron to block new oil drilling and the Ferrogrão railway.
• Protesters pressed for Indigenous land demarcation and opposed Petrobras’s Margem Equatorial exploration, Tapajós waterway projects, and mining.
• The People’s Summit at UFPA runs through November 16 with plenaries and cultural programs to consolidate demands for delivery to COP30.