What does a Just transition mean for those bearing the consequences of an abandoned coal mine? – Saturday 31 May, 10.00am – 12.00pm
~ Texto en español abajo ~ Join us for the second event of Weaving Futures: Festival and Popular Education Series for a Just Transition, a series aimed at generating spaces for learning, articulation and action in solidarity with the movements and peoples in Colombia:...
Communities resisting the effects of multinational companies: Junta Social Pro Reubicacion de Tabaco is celebrating!
Photo: Andrés López. The African-descent community of Tabaco in La Guajira, Colombia, was brutally displaced from its town in 2001 to give way to the Cerrejón mine, the biggest coal open-cast mine in Latin America, owned by Glencore, the Swiss company. In 2001, the...
Take Action: Justice for Tabaco
Twenty-three years after the violent displacement from Tabaco, there is no collective relocation nor collective and individual reparations for members of the Tabaco community. The displacement of the African-descent community of Tabaco in La Guajira, Colombia, gave...