Tag Archives: Colombia

CrimethInc: “Columbia: A general strike as insurrection”

Posted on May 21, 2021 by

“Despite brutal state repression, Colombia’s general strike has continued strong now for 23 days. The revolt has largely been leaderless and solidarity has expanded to include an impressively wide array of Colombian society: Indigenous and Afro-Colombian movements, queer and trans people, workers, students, people whose precarious employment has been lost to the pandemic. As in many other recent uprisings around the world, this one has been driven first and foremost by youth who know that their only hope to have any future at all is to fight for it. Millions are united in their rejection of unlivable conditions and horrific police violence.”

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Christina Noriega: “Colombian Protesters Are Ready for the Long Haul”

Posted on May 11, 2021 by

“After nearly two weeks of protests against neoliberal reforms and police violence, Colombia’s conservative government has refused to make any major concessions. The demonstrations continue.”

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Amanda C. Waterhouse: ‘“La Esperanza de América Latina”: The Ongoing Student Revolution in Colombia’

Posted on October 26, 2020 by

“Continued student organizing shows that student protest is not an add-on to normal political life in Colombia, but a pillar so fundamental that it persists even when the most basic rights erode. Students have long agitated amidst extreme adversity and violence. They have … defended their participation in co-governance within educational institutions, especially universities, and addressed the broader political, economic, and social problems of the country.”

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CrimethInc.: ‘The Uprising in Colombia: “An Example of What Is to Come”’

Posted on September 14, 2020 by

“So people are not just participating in an uprising, people are not just fighting against the system—they are also imagining and they are creating new ways and new perspectives for another kind of society.”

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“Battle for the mother land: Indigenous people of Colombia fighting for their lands”

Posted on November 13, 2017 by

‘A green-and-red flag flies over a cluster of bamboo and tarpaulin tents on the frontline of an increasingly deadly struggle for land and the environment in Colombia’s Cauca Valley.  It is the banner for what indigenous activists are calling the “liberation of Mother Earth”, a movement to reclaim ancestral land from sugar plantations, farms and tourist resorts that has gained momentum in the vacuum left by last year’s peace accord between the government and the leftwing guerrillas who once dominated the region – ending, in turn, the world’s longest-running civil war.’

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“‘Goodbye, Weapons!’ FARC Disarmament in Colombia Signals New Era”

Posted on August 6, 2017 by

‘As United Nations inspectors slammed shut a shipping container filled with rifles, fighters from Colombia’s largest rebel group cheered on Tuesday morning when their leader declared that they had laid down their arms after 52 years of guerrilla war. …  Gaitan Duke, 33, said … that far from surrendering, the rebels were transforming themselves for a new, democratic fight.  “We are not demobilizing,” he said. “We are laying down our weapons to become an open and legal political movement.”’

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