Originally published at: Uncontacted tribe attacks loggers in Amazon - Boing Boing
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Again… that whole “uncontacted” narrative isn’t accurate… These are people who likely met colonizers earlier in history and made the choice to reject contact. That’s a very different thing.
Also, good for them.
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I feel kind of bad for the individual loggers too—logging is statistically one of the most dangerous jobs out there and the people doing the work are usually poor working class guys just trying to scrape by—but fuck the logging company that sent them to there.
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What’s their gofundme
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Sure, that’s a tactic as old as capitalism itself. But I doubt they had no other choices with regards to labor options… Maybe it was the one that paid the best, but I have to imagine that people are aware of the implications at this point, even the working classes.
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You may be overestimating the range and variety of economic choices available to poor people in Peru.
For all Latin America to be honest
This is one of the play stupid games, win stupid prizes situations
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I’m not dismissing that, just pointing out that this has long been a strategy for the elites. Divide up people based on some metric or other, and destroy them both.
There is always another choice. Aren’t some many activists working on environmental issues also of the working classes? 
I have to imagine that they are, because who would know the stakes better than the people hurt the most by these structures, whether it’s the working classes or the indigenous community…
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In these situations, violence by illegal loggers against the indigenous population is not uncommon, and in cases like this, where there’s no contact, we’d be unaware of any deaths in the native group. Which makes me wonder if the arrow attacks were purely in response to encroaching upon/destruction of their territory, or also in response to earlier violence.
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Once again, “uncontacted tribes” is a misnomer.
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To be clear I mean violence by those loggers, rather than by previous groups which… yeah.
I would not be surprised.
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I fear for the tribespeople.
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Apparently the Prime Directive had already been breached. But there’s no reason we can’t try to mitigate the damage.
LLAP
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