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Farming Community’s
Fight for Control of Its Land and Future
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'Calibri'">Sunday, September 30, 12:00-1:00 pm, Church
of the Covenant, 67 Newbury St., Boston<br>
Tuesday, October 2, 7:30-9:00 pm, Tufts University,
Cabot 206, Medford<br>
Friday, October 5, 5:00-9:00 pm, Encuentro 5 (NEW
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'Calibri'">Want to put together a last-minute event near
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Activist Etny Torres Moreno and
Human Rights Attorney Jorge Eliécer Reales Maza
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; "><span style="font-size:
12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri,Bold'">For decades, the
few hundred residents of Las Pavas, a sustainable farming
community in
southern Bolivar, a department (province) in northern
Colombia, have been forced to leave
their land periodically to escape paramilitary violence.
But the community members have
always returned.
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; "><span style="font-size:
12.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri,Bold'">In 2006, as the
community was organizing to claim its right to the land
under Colombian
law, Daabon Group, a large producer of palm oil for the
international organic market,
bought the community’s land from the absentee owner who
had lost his claim to the land.
In July 2009, the Colombian riot police forcefully removed
the community of Las Pavas
from the land. Nearly two years later, the community
returned to their homes and their
struggle to gain control over their land continues.
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; "><span style="font-size:
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rgb(0.633600%, 25.740000%, 79.200000%)">While a particular
tragedy, the story of Las Pavas is emblematic of the
perpetual struggle in Colombia over control of the land
and its productivity.
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rgb(0.633600%, 25.740000%, 79.200000%)">In this Speaking
Tour, Etny Torres, a leader in the struggle against
expropriation of subsistence farmers’ land by
government-backed
agrobusiness, and Jorge Eliécer Reales Maza, a human
rights attorney
representing displaced </span><span style="font-size:
14.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri,BoldItalic'; color:
rgb(0.633600%, 25.740000%, 79.200000%)">campesinos, </span><span
style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family:
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79.200000%)">will place the story of Las Pavas in the
larger contexts of multinational corporate land grabs,
international trade,
human rights and national sovereignty.
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<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; "><span style="font-size:
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rgb(0.633600%, 25.740000%, 79.200000%)">Come hear about
the struggle of the people of Las Pavas from eyewitnesses
and learn what you can do to change the balance of power,
in Colombia and
here in the United States.
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