On September 18, 2013, the Munduruku indians from the Brazilian Amazon sent a note of support to the "struggle movements demonstrating in the streets." Since the so-called "June Days", the massive riots that turned Brazilian politics upside down, the country's streets were still in turmoil. The fight of the Munduruku people received the support of the urban movements, and the Ipêrẽgayũ Munduruku wrote back offering their solidarity: "We thank all the movements which have been expressing their indignation in the streets, in all sectors of society and in all the existing social classes."
While the Munduruku were fighting hydroelectric power companies in their territory, a conjunction of urban struggles and ancestral causes was turning the streets of Rio de Janeiro into a burgeoning of syncretic symbols. In the demonstrations, you could see an activist Batman running alongside a Korubo Indian, and indigenous feathers styling Anonymous Rio’s profile. And the Aldeia Maracanã, the former Indian Museum the Brazilian government wanted to pull down in order to build the Maracanã Stadium parking lot, became an icon for the revolt in which young streamers coexisted with shamans from various tribes. Cosmopolitics, a term used to define Yanomami leader Davi Kopenawa’s world vision, became urban. And the digital network and empowered crowd-era technopolitics made some unforeseen turns in Brazil as they were coloured with ancestral worldviews.
