An indigenous woman invades the stage, remembers being fired while she was pregnant and demands Luciano Huck and Globo

An indigenous woman invaded the stage during a presentation by Luciano Huck and Globo executives at Rio2C, the country’s largest creative economy event, in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday 5. Wearing a headdress and straw cloak, she thanked Huck for the help he gave her. she received previously, but she took the opportunity to launch a call for greater visibility of indigenous peoples in the station’s programming.

“Eight years ago I was fired from my job while pregnant, as were you and your wife [Angélica] They sent a room for my daughter. And shortly after I was kicked out of the house and I lost my husband, murdered,” the participant said.

The name Bekoy Tupinambá could be read on his identification badge. On the Internet she introduces herself as Jennyffer Brans for Tupinambá and is a partner of the BND Digital agency. In a post on her Instagram, Thursday the 6th, the woman underlined that “the Tupinambá are warriors! I am what mine were, warriors!”.

Bekoy Tupinambá reported the difficulties and highlighted her participation in the creation of the first digital marketing agency formed by indigenous women. She criticized the lack of visibility of indigenous people in the media and called for more attention for her community. “We own this land, but we don’t want to invade or take anyone’s land,” she said.

In his speech, Bekoy claimed to have brought the first repatriated indigenous artifact, the Tupinambá cloak, and questioned Huck about his support for the indigenous cause. Huck responded that his voice will always be heard on TV Globo and reaffirmed the station’s commitment to respect and recognition of indigenous peoples.

Amauri Soares, director of Globo, underlined the broadcaster’s pride in producing the Talk about the Earth, content created by indigenous peoples and mentioned the continued involvement of indigenous creators in new projects. He reaffirmed Globo’s interest in working together with the indigenous community to produce content that reflects the indigenous vision of present-day Brazil.

Source: Terra