Amazon Watch and the Pachamama Alliance are Honored to Invite You to a "GreenBag" Lunch Presentation
with Our Partners and Friends from Ecuador
Patricia Gualinga Director of International Relations for the Amazonian Kichwa Community of Sarayaku
& Gabriela Ruales
Founding Member of the Yasunidos Environmental Youth Collective
Patricia and Gabriela will share indigenous and youth perspectives and their own
experiences working on campaigns and international legal cases to Keep Oil in the Ground in the Amazon in Yasuní National Park
and other indigenous ancestral territories. Come here the latest updates and how you can support their work.
Tuesday, October 14th
12:00pm The Pachamama Alliance Conference Room
1009 General Kennedy Ave. (Presidio Building #1009), San Francisco, CA
About Patricia and Gabriela:
Patricia Gualinga is an inspiring indigenous leader from the Kichwa community of Sarayaku in the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Her leadership was instrumental in Sarayaku’s 2012 victory for respect for indigenous consultation at the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights and the 2013 Women’s Mobilization for Life calling for “Selva Viviente” or “Living Forest” as an alternative
to oil drilling on indigenous ancestral territories. She is currently International Relations Director for Sarayaku.She has been a tremendous and effective force for indigenous rights, advocating tirelessly before multinational oil company CEOs, judges at the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights, the Ecuadorian congress, and many other highlevel decision making spaces. Gabriela Ruales is an Ecuadorian ecofeminist activist with the leading grassroots environmental group Acción Ecológica. She recently helped form Yasunidos, a collective of civil society which led a referendum drive that garnered some 800,000 signatures to force a nationwide vote on drilling in Yasuní National Park. While fraud and corruption by the Ecuador's National Election Committee negated Ecuadorians' signatures, Yasunidos continues in its fight to protect Yasuní and the indigenous communities that call it home. Gaby is a coauthor of the book The Life in the Center and the Oil Underground: Yasuní in a Feminist Context.