Description
This book was born from a process of harvesting knowledge, drawing out wisdom rooted in memory, body, and lived practice-by the women themselves-and presented in the form of spoken and written expression. Here, symbolic utterances and mantras become women’s cultural weapons in nurturing life, sowing hope, and sustaining resistance.
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As long as they still stand, Indigenous Peoples have not been defeated. And they will never stand alone.
— Rukka Sombolinggi, Secretary General of the Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN)
Reading these women’s “mantras” was for me a profound experience. Who would have thought? They speak directly out of the web of life, out of their rural villages threatened by the mines. Their words pack more punch than any of the policy documents that cross my desk. These defenders of Mother Earth are the real thing.
— Gerry Van Klinken, Inside Indonesia
