Indigenous, black and peasant ‘Minga’* in Colombia: breaking the fence, weaving with equals (a Minga is a Collective Work)
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by Raul Zibechi 28 octubre, 2020 11 minute read from “Alternativas” magazine shared with thanks translation thefreeonline
More than 8,000 indigenous people, peasants and Afro-descendants arrive in Bogotá to denounce the massacres that are taking place throughout Colombia with the complicity of the Government of Iván Duque.
“Guard, guard. Strength, strength ”, thousands of young people chant raising their chontas (wooden canes), showing the decision of the native peoples, blacks and peasants to defend life and territory, during the Minga that has arrived on Sunday, October 18 for the night to Bogotá. There are 8,000 wills who traveled 450 kilometers from Cali, in the south of the country, to the capital, mobilizing 500 vehicles, many goats (open buses from rural regions) and walking in an orderly manner, flanked by the Indigenous Guard.
It is the only organized mobilization with precise objectives, capable of setting Colombian society in motion. Proof of this is that all the media, even the most right-wing, are covering the Minga, and that the extreme right of the Democratic Center, Uribismo, supporters of former President Álvaro Uribe, filed a complaint because, they say, “the mobilization is violating biosafety protocols and putting citizens at risk ”.
The truth is that the arrival of thousands of indigenous, Afro and peasant farmers to Bogotá mobilized a good part of the capital, where it was received by the young people who won the streets last November, during the national strike, and occupied them again on 9 and September 10 in response to the murder of a lawyer by the police. The multicolored chivas circulated overflowing to the sound of whistles and drums.
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