The present work aims to analyze actions and organizations of actors mobilized in processes
that are configured as struggles against environmental injustice and for the good living in the
community of São Sebastião do Burajuba in Barcarena, municipality of the state of Pará, as
resistance to issues related to environmental injustices regarding access to and use of water, in
a context marked by mining activities. These activities, considered as pollutants to a high
degree, result in significant changes in the ecosystem, in the ways of life, in the economic and
cultural practices of quilombola communities, indigenous peoples, farmers, extractivists and
fishermen. To this end, the concepts of Environmental Justice by Acselred (2010) and Bem
Viver de Acosta (2016) were used, understanding that nature and its resources are references
linked to a philosophy of life, part of countless histories of struggle and resistance of called
traditional populations. Defending against the injustice posed regarding the unequal
distribution of risks by industrial activities is presented in the form of complaints and
confrontations in Barcarena carried out by the Association of Caboclos, Indígenas e
Quilombolas da Amazônia (Cainquiama) and by the quilombola community São Sebastião do
Burajuba. It is a research of qualitative methodology, in which in addition to data analysis and
basic bibliography, interviews were conducted with several actors from the Burajuba
community, including members of Cainquiama. The research also points out that the fight for
environmental justice has a long way to go, mainly in a country marked by several social and
territorial inequalities. The results indicated that the emissions of industrial pollutants are
destined for part of a territory where populations of ethnic-racial origin live whose
socioeconomic situation becomes disadvantaged.
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