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Colombia - The War We Are Living -
Courageous Women - Film
If
you ask Colombia’s city dwellers and governing political class, they’ll tell
you the country’s 40-year-old civil war is over. But The War We Are Living
film reveals the “other” Colombia, in rural areas far away from the capital,
where the war is all too real – and now the battle is over gold. In Cauca, a
mountainous region in Colombia’s Pacific southwest, two extraordinary
Afro-Colombian women are fighting to hold onto the gold-rich land that has
sustained their community through small-scale mining for centuries. Clemencia
Carabali and Francia Marquez are part of a powerful network of female leaders
who found that in wartime women can organize more freely than men. As they defy
paramilitary death threats and insist on staying on their land, Carabali and
Marquez are standing up for a generation of Colombians who have been terrorized
and forcibly displaced as a deliberate strategy of war. If they lose the
battle, they and thousands of their neighbors will join Colombia’s 4 million
people – most of them women and children – who have been uprooted from their
homes and livelihoods.
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