Massive Attack Announce Brazil Concert Supporting Indigenous Rights and Climate Justice

Massive Attack will carry out on the São Paulo area Espaco Unimed, on a invoice with the Sepultura aspect challenge Cavalera, on Thursday, November 13. They timed the occasion to coincide with the COP30 Worldwide Local weather Change Summit going down within the Brazilian metropolis of Belém. The bands partnered with the Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon to placed on the present, in assist of their battle to realize local weather justice and safe quick recognition and safety for Indigenous lands.

Representatives of Indigenous actions will seem on the occasion itself, a press launch notes, and the 2 bands may even work inside Brazil to assist Amazonian Indigenous actions. Sepultura founders Max and Iggor Cavalera will carry out the band’s Chaos AD album in full on the present.

Robert “3D” Del Naja added that he’s honored to work with the brothers “in assist of the extraordinary integrity and important position of the Indigenous folks of Brazil and the broader Amazon area. That is greater than a passing of the mic. It’s a chance to hearken to the information, ethical authority and knowledge of the Indigenous alliances and assist guarantee they’re heard within the negotiation rooms of COP30. We’ve by no means wanted their presence inside that distorted political area as a lot as we do proper now.”

The announcement comes with a joint assertion from three Indigenous our bodies: the G9, the Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon, and the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil. It reads: “We, Indigenous peoples, step onto the stage as if lighting an historic fireplace within the coronary heart of the night time. Along with Large Assault and Cavalera, we flip sound into rebellion. Our voices—alive, ancestral, untamed—will minimize by means of the air, cross each border, and unite peoples, from the Amazon to the Pacific. We’re the roots that resist, the long run that insists. We’ve by no means left. We’re right here to remind you: The Earth remembers. And thru us, it calls for—dismantle the machine that devours her. The reply is already right here. It rises from the very floor we stroll collectively. The Reply Is Us. All of us. And we are going to advance.”