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Feminists Around the World: Angela Maldonado · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, y'all, it's Samantha and Annie's not with me today,
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  Speaker 1: but welcome to stuff. Mom never told you a production
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  Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. Yeah, y'all. Like I said in the introduction,
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  Speaker 1: Annie is out. She is missing a very important component
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  Speaker 1: the Internet. Yes, the downfalls of working from home, we
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  Speaker 1: do have to rely heavily on the Internet. Unfortunately it
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  Speaker 1: just didn't work out for Annie. Today. I miss her, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I just miss her. And today we are talking about
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  Speaker 1: indigenous activists from Latin America for our latest Feminist Around
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  Speaker 1: the World, and we're celebrating Indigenous People's Day as well
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  Speaker 1: as Hispanic Carriage Month, which is still happening as we
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  Speaker 1: record this episode. I guess I'm recording it by myself. Oh.
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  Speaker 1: But with all that celebrating that is happening, we are
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  Speaker 1: actually talking about the amazing works of Colombian ecologists on
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  Speaker 1: Halia Maldonado and Maldonado's work has been a fierce battle
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  Speaker 1: with some big players, and some have actually called her
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  Speaker 1: the guardian of the Amazons. She has been a force
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to protecting the land and the creatures
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  Speaker 1: that inhabitant. She is what many would picture when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to being an environmental activist, someone who not only
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  Speaker 1: studied the land, but truly watched over it to protect
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  Speaker 1: and fight for the lives of the many inhabitants. She
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  Speaker 1: even has a quote about how these lands, as an
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  Speaker 1: indigenous person, you know that these lands will either accept
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  Speaker 1: you or reject you, and she feels very home there.
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  Speaker 1: She actually first visited the rainforest more than twenty years
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  Speaker 1: ago and was deeply affected by what was happening to
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  Speaker 1: the environment and immediately started focusing her education to advocate
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  Speaker 1: for the inhabitants and the sources there. In two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and three, she was able to get permission to live
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  Speaker 1: in the Amazon by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia,
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  Speaker 1: which is a gorilla group involved with the Colombian conflict
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  Speaker 1: and has been working to protect the lands. Her story
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  Speaker 1: has traveled far and has even brought a lot of
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  Speaker 1: danger her way, including a lot of death threats, but
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  Speaker 1: she still pushes forward. Her work has included conservation work
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  Speaker 1: through her Ngo Fandacion in Tropica, as well as working
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  Speaker 1: with animals and rescuing animals. Essentially living in Leticia, a
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  Speaker 1: remote area on the borders of Columbia, Brazil, and Peru,
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  Speaker 1: she has spent more than twenty years recording, documenting, and
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  Speaker 1: defending the forest. According to a twenty twenty two Civil
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  Speaker 1: Rights Defenders article quote, Moldonado is head of the environmental
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  Speaker 1: organizations in Tropica. Located in the Colombian town Leticia by
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  Speaker 1: the Amazon River. The organization works against the illegal trafficking
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  Speaker 1: of wildlife and conducts educational programs for indigenous communities. In
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  Speaker 1: a new project, together with Civil Rights Defenders in Tropica,
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  Speaker 1: has now started to educate high school children about their
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  Speaker 1: human rights and how to stay it up against injustice
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  Speaker 1: and corruption. The goal is to create a better tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: for both the students and society at large. All of
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  Speaker 1: this comes a lot of risk. Here's another quote from
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  Speaker 1: that article. Columbia is one of the deadliest countries for activists.
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  Speaker 1: This article came out, I believe, in twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: Last year, at least one hundred and forty five community
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  Speaker 1: leaders and rights defenders were killed in the country, and
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  Speaker 1: Helia herself has received death threats due to her activism,
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  Speaker 1: and in twenty nineteen she got a secure temporary relocation
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  Speaker 1: through Civil Rights Defenders Emergency fund. Working to protect human
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  Speaker 1: rights and the environment comes with a huge risk. She
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  Speaker 1: even talked about not having children in fear that she
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  Speaker 1: would be murdered for her work, so a lot of
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  Speaker 1: things to consider. Her works have also included fighting to
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  Speaker 1: stop the trafficking of night monkeys, which she discovered was
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  Speaker 1: happening illegally for malaria research. In twenty fourteen, she was
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  Speaker 1: able to win a lawsuit against the company, the Columbia
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  Speaker 1: Ministry of Environment, and the regional environmental authorities, setting a
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  Speaker 1: precedent to protect these species and much of the other
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  Speaker 1: wildlife there. And she's continued to persist, working constantly to
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  Speaker 1: better her community and the world. She has worked to
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  Speaker 1: mentor the next generation of activists as well, not only
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  Speaker 1: to carry on her work, but to empower them as well.
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  Speaker 1: She told the Civil Rights Defender quote, the Amazon region
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  Speaker 1: is a black holes corruption, smuggling, in impunity. We leave
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  Speaker 1: nothing for the younger generation. There is an increase in drugs,
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  Speaker 1: child prostitution, and children dropping out of school. In this project,
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  Speaker 1: we want to empower young people and train them in
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  Speaker 1: civic participation and accountability. We want them to be able
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  Speaker 1: to protect their rights for their future. And of course,
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  Speaker 1: all of her works have earned her very well deserved accolades,
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  Speaker 1: including the Whitley Award in twenty ten and National Geographics
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  Speaker 1: Awards for the Leadership and Conservation in twenty twenty. And
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  Speaker 1: Helia Maldonado has done a lot of work and continues
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  Speaker 1: do a lot of work. It's amazing to see how
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  Speaker 1: she continues to push and really mentor others to step
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  Speaker 1: up to be indigenous leaders themselves. Oh so there you go.
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