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Amazon Watch and the Pachamama Alliance are Honored to Invite You to a "GreenBag" Lunch Presentation with Our Partners and Friends from Ecuador Patricia Gualinga Director of International Relations for the Amazonian Kichwa Community of Sarayaku & Gabriela Ruales Founding Member of the Yasunidos Environmental Youth Collective Patricia and Gabriela will share indigenous and youth perspectives and their own experiences working on campaigns and international legal cases to Keep Oil in the Ground in the Amazon in Yasuní National Park and other indigenous ancestral territories. Come here the latest updates and how you can support their work. Tuesday, October 14th 12:00pm The Pachamama Alliance Conference Room 1009 General Kennedy Ave. (Presidio Building #1009), San Francisco, CA About Patricia and Gabriela: Patricia Gualinga is an inspiring indigenous leader from the Kichwa community of Sarayaku in the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Her leadership was instrumental in Sarayaku’s 2012 victory for respect for indigenous consultation at the InterAmerican Court of Human Rights and the 2013 Women’s Mobilization for Life calling for “Selva Viviente” or “Living Forest” as an alternative

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Amazon Watch and the Pachamama Alliance  are Honored to Invite You to a "Green­Bag" Lunch Presentation 

with Our Partners and Friends from Ecuador  

Patricia Gualinga Director of International Relations for the Amazonian Kichwa Community of Sarayaku 

& Gabriela Ruales 

Founding Member of the Yasunidos Environmental Youth Collective  

 Patricia and Gabriela will share indigenous and youth perspectives and their own 

experiences working on campaigns and international legal cases  to Keep Oil in the Ground in the Amazon in Yasuní National Park  

and other indigenous ancestral territories. Come here the latest updates and how you can support their work.  

 Tuesday, October 14th 

12:00pm  The Pachamama Alliance Conference Room 

1009 General Kennedy Ave.  (Presidio Building #1009), San Francisco, CA 

  

About Patricia and Gabriela:  

Patricia Gualinga is an inspiring indigenous leader from the Kichwa community of Sarayaku in the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Her leadership was instrumental in Sarayaku’s 2012 victory for respect for indigenous consultation at the Inter­American Court of Human Rights and the 2013 Women’s Mobilization for Life calling for “Selva Viviente” or “Living Forest” as an alternative 

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to oil drilling on indigenous ancestral territories. She is currently International Relations Director for Sarayaku.She has been a tremendous and effective force for indigenous rights, advocating tirelessly before multinational oil company CEOs, judges at the Inter­American Court of Human Rights, the Ecuadorian congress, and many other high­level decision making spaces.  Gabriela Ruales is an Ecuadorian ecofeminist activist with the leading grassroots environmental group Acción Ecológica. She recently helped form Yasunidos, a collective of civil society which led a referendum drive that garnered some 800,000 signatures to force a nationwide vote on drilling in Yasuní National Park. While fraud and corruption by the Ecuador's National Election Committee negated Ecuadorians' signatures, Yasunidos continues in its fight to protect Yasuní and the indigenous communities that call it home. Gaby is a coauthor of the book The Life in the Center and the Oil Underground: Yasuní in a Feminist Context.