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Floro
Tunubalá
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Floro
Tunubalá
"Peace and Prosperity in Colombia? Indigenous and Grassroots Communities’ Response
to Drugs and Warfare"
After
more than forty years of armed conflict, and with increasing
U.S. involvement in the war, Colombia is not often associated
with peace. Yet grassroots campesino and indigenous communities
in Colombia have been successfully resisting violence and sowing
the seeds of alternative economic development. Floro Tunubalá will
share stories from the front lines of this struggle for peace
and prosperity in Colombia.
Floro
Tunubalá served as Governor of Cauca in southwestern
Colombia from 2001-03. The first indigenous leader ever to
be elected governor in Colombia, Floro is a member of the Guambiano
nation and a representative of one of the strongest social
movements in Colombia, the indigenous and campesino movement
of Cauca.
Co-sponsored
with the Institute for International Studies, Students Organizing
for Justice in the Americas, the Chibcha-Colombia Human Rights
Information Committee, the Colombia Human Rights Network
and Coordinación Colombia–Europa–EEUU.
Monday,
April 12, 4:00 pm
Room 223, Moses Hall
Photo
of the event
Never
Again
Directed by Marta Rodríguez and Fernando Restrepo (2001)
In the violent
and complex conflict that has racked Colombia, it is always the most vulnerable
who are the most affected. Nunca Mas presents the stories of Afro-Colombian
peasants displaced from their land in the armed conflict between the Colombian
army, Marxist guerillas and the right-wing paramilitary in the isolated
province of the Chocó. 56 minutes.
Spanish with English subtitles.
Poppy:
The Damned Flower
Directed by Marta Rodríguez (1998)
This documentary
illustrates the stark choice confronted by many rural Colombian communities:
either grow opium poppies or face starvation. Indigenous farmers interviewed
in the film characterize the cultivation of illegal crops as a social problem,
calling for land reform, access to education and general alleviation of
poverty. Yet the Colombian government’s response to the problem has
been to use toxic herbicides that not only destroy opium fields, but also
ruin subsistence crops and affect the rural population’s health.
30 minutes.
Spanish with English subtitles.
Marta Rodriguez
has devoted her career to exposing human rights violations in her native
Colombia, from her early, ground-breaking documentary on the families of
brickmakers to her recent documentary on Colombia’s displaced. She
will present at the screenings and hold a brief question and answer session
after each of the films.
Wednesday,
May 5, 7:00 pm
CLAS Conference Room, 2334 Bowditch Street |
