In the face of total annihilation. The complete eradication of your home, your community, your job, your life. Where do you find the will to continue? How do you acknowledge the existence of love and hope? When a catastrophe, on par with Nagasaki, Hiroshima, or Hurricane Katrina imposes its judgement on your home, town, city?

The "havoc" or "calamity" that plague the Native and Indigenous peoples of North and South America is a familiar beast. It is poisoning the native man, woman, and child in the African Congo. It is polluting the water and air fro the native man, woman, and child in the Australian 0utback. It is terrorizing the peaceful life of the native man, woman, and child in the Jungles of Burma and Cambodia. This terror is not natural. Though it is man made, the terror, plays by the rules of "professionalism" and "law" all judged by "specific language" designed to limit and enslave.

The multinational corporations who fund the unsustainable exploitation of the Amazon are a perfect case study for the defense of not just the environment but the peoples who have inhabited these ecosystems for thousands of years. The Indigenous communities of the world are forced into a world of poverty, crime, death, and suicide.

The peoples of the Guarani and the Kaiowa tribes in the Amazon reflect a staggering amount of suicides since the mid 1990's. By 2003 the Guarani and the Kaiowa had lost over 300 individuals to suicide, 42 alone in the Mato Grosso do Sul state of Brazil. On March 5, 2002, Kaiowa Ramao da Silva commited suicide in the face of eviction from his grass-roofed hit. The doorway was so low that he had to "kneel to hand himself."