Register for the film screening of “Bajo Fuego” followed by a conversation with one of our partners from Colombia COCCAM (National Coordinator of Growers of Coca, Marijuana and Poppy).
This timely event is an opportunity for students, grassroots organizations, and community members to learn from indigenous, black and small farmers on the ground about the current violation of human rights in Colombia, especially in the cocoa-growing region of Cauca after the non-compliance of the peace accords signed in 2016. We’ll learn about the situation of these communities after accessing crop substitution as part of the drug war policies in Colombia and the consequences of forced eradication through the use of glyphosate, a Monsanto product declared to be carcinogenic by the World Health Organization in 2015. We’ll analyze the transcendental U.S. policy role, how communities are organizing to combat environmental destruction, displacement, assassination of social leaders and will hear about solidarity and what we can do to promote human-centered US economic and political policies towards Colombia.
We’ll be co-hosting this event along with other grassroots organizations in the United States. If your organization is interested in co-hosting this event, please reach out to pao@solidaritycollective.org.
