On this episode, the LMC spends the hour with freelance journalist Christina Noriega to discuss Colombia’s Operation Artemis and how it has used the expansion of national parks to further criminalize sustenance, landless farmers.
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August 20th, 2021: Colombian Community Organizing
Following a series of protests against an unpopular tax reform, freelance writer Christina Noriega speaks with the LMC about how the real challenges of community organizing in Colombia begins when the TV cameras have long gone away.
October 2nd, 2020: Black Lives Matter In Colombia
Afro-Colombian attorney Dayana Blanco Acendra spends the hour with the LMC to discuss the Black Lives Matter movement through the eyes of Afro-Colombianos, the case of Anderson Arboleda, and the struggle against internal displacement. Dayana Blanco Acendra is also the founder of ILEX Accion Juridica based in Colombia.