Protesters force their way into COP30 summit venue, clash with security

Reuters ^ | November 11, 2025 | Leonardo Benassatto, Sergio Queiroz and Lisandra Paraguassu

[Twotone]

BELEM, Brazil, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Dozens of Indigenous protesters forced their way into the COP30 climate summit venue on Tuesday and clashed with security guards at the entrance to demand climate action and forest protection.

Shouting angrily, protesters demanded access to the U.N. compound where thousands of delegates from countries around the world are attending this year's U.N. climate summit in the Amazon city of Belem, Brazil.

Some waved flags with slogans calling for land rights or carried signs saying, "Our land is not for sale."

"We can’t eat money," said Nato, an Indigenous leader from the Tupinamba community, who uses only one name. "We want our lands free from agribusiness, oil exploration, illegal miners and illegal loggers."

Security guards pushed the protesters back and used tables to barricade the entrance. A Reuters witness saw one security guard being rushed away in a wheelchair while clutching his stomach.

Another guard with a fresh cut above his eye told Reuters he had been hit in the head by a heavy drumstick thrown from the crowd. Security confiscated several long, heavy sticks.

[NorthMountain]

ROFL!!!

A plague o’ both their houses ...

[hinckley buzzard]

OOPs. Maybe shouldn’t have held their cult fest in the rain forest.

[Skwor]

They always eat their own, it is the nature of evil.

[Deaf Smith]

“by a heavy drumstick thrown from the crowd”

Deep fried turkey leg?

[Leaning Right]

> Dozens of Indigenous protesters forced their way into the COP30 climate summit venue… <

I heard that they were led by a bold female warrior chief.

[butlerweave]

Need to cut more trees

[plain talk]

Wikipedia has some info about the disputes up to 2023. I’ll excerpt some of it here ...

“The Brazilian government officially recognized the Tupinambá as indigenous people in 2002.[3] In 2005, the National Indigenous People Foundation (FUNAI), which implements indigenous rights into the Federal government, created a technical group to define the 47,376 acres[15] of territory occupied by the Tupinambá of Olivença as an indigenous land (Terra Indígena, in Portuguese).

FUNAI approved the report in 2009, which arrived at the Federal Ministry of Justice in 2012.[3][16] The Tupinambá of Olivença living in Serra do Padeiro reclaimed about 90 farms between 2004 and 2016 as indigenous lands.[4]

A governmental proposal puts the Tupinambá of Olivença and other indigenous reclaimed lands at risk. In May 2023, the Brazilian House of Representatives approved the Marco Temporal project, which limits the demarcation of indigenous lands.[17]

It states that indigenous peoples only have claim to the land they occupied during the 1988 Constitution promulgation, meaning they can be removed from where they reside now if they cannot prove they permanently lived there in 1988.[18]

Farmers advocate for the project, since it defends private property. The project also threatens indigenous communities and their land.[19] The Brazilian Supreme Federal Court declared the project to be unconstitutional on September 21, 2023.[20] The declaration was overruled by the senate a week later. President Lula can still sanction or ban the project as of October 2023.”

[Lockbox]

Any “We want our 100,000 trees cut for your road, BACK!” signs?

[Maine Mariner]

I side with the protesters on this one.

Why not have a Zoom meeting and reduce the air pollution from all those flights?

[1Old Pro]

Why not have a Zoom meeting and reduce the air pollution from all those flights?

Because the real reason for these are 10% policy and 90% social fun.

[Maine Mariner]

Exactly!

I remember the number of high priced call girls going to Davos for the annual World Economic Forum.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"We want our lands free from agribusiness, oil exploration, illegal miners and illegal loggers."

Good luck with that. You might want to check with your brothers up north and see what happened to them 175 years ago.

[plain talk]

Yeah zoom works fine in many cases and is a good fit for conferences where there is mainly just speaker presentations.

I don’t know enough about the detailed history of the natives down there to “take a side”. In fact I often don’t feel compelled to take a side if I don’t necessarily agree with either side. :-)

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[FlingWingFlyer]

This isn’t going to stop until you “dust” a few of them. There should be an open season on whiney assed communist RIOT babies.

[brookwood]

want our lands free from agribusiness, oil exploration, illegal miners and illegal loggers.”
No loggers are illegal!

[decal]

Didn’t think to bring blowpipes and curare?

[gildafarrell]

So glad President Trump sat this one out.