El día de los talleres de Plan Colombia y el ALCA/TLC implementamos la misma dinámica que estrenamos en Inzá. Todxs lxs estudiantes fueron muy pilos durante el taller y las profes les dejaron como tarea escribir un ensayo del trabajo que realizamos. A las abejas nos tocó revisar los trabajos lo que fue un método bastante efectivo para poder ver qué aspectos captaron lxs estudiantes del taller. Un relato de una estudiante decía: “hay que tener en cuenta una cosa, no dejarnos lavar el cerebro y estudiar para conocer nuestros derechos y así defender nuestro pueblo. ¡Pero eso si! No cambiar nuestro pensamiento, estemos donde estemos”. Otra escribió que: “a nosotros indígenas nos quieren quitar nuestro territorio, lo único que quieren es que nos desparezcamos, porque nosotros, los Nasas, somos un estorbo para los ricos que manejan las fabricas grandes”. Estos son apenas dos de las docenas de relatos de los jóvenes del CEFIC que reflejan la conciencia de la realidad que vive su pueblo.
El último día de trabajo las profes nos pidieron el favor de hacer una clase sobre la política y los movimientos sociales de los EE.UU. y Canadá. Para no caer en el esquema simple de una cátedra dictada sobre un tema lejano, tratamos de contextualizarlo a su realidad local. Con un mapa de América que iba desde el Ártico hasta el norte de Suramérica incluyendo el Caribe, compartimos un resumen de la historia de parte del continente colonizado por los Anglosajones desde la década de 1.850 hasta el día de hoy. Hablamos de la esclavitud y la segregación de los Afroestadounidenses, de las masacres de los indígenas por el Manifest Destiny, y también las guerras y T.L.C.’s impulsados por EE.UU. en lugares como Centroamérica y Haiti, que han causado olas de inmigración al norte. De los indígenas se mencionó el A.I.M (Movimiento Indio Americano, por sus siglas en inglés), N.Y.M. (Movimiento Juventud Nativo), los Gwich´in en Alaska y los nativos de Hawai´i. De los Afroestadounidenses se mencionó a Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, las Panteras Negras y Take Back the Land de Miami. Finalmente, de los inmigrantes se habló de
Aunque nos sentimos privilegiados por poder volver a compartir en espacios tan especiales como el CEFIC y también por estar en la labor de polinizaciones, es agridulce hacerlo tan sólo por corto tiempo. Nosotras estamos comprometidas en mantener las relaciones numerosas que hemos tejido pero reconociendo el esfuerzo y largo el tiempo que se requiere para esto. A la vez estamos comenzando pequeños zumbidos de una posible granja-escuela-hormiguero en el Alto Yuma (Magadalena) en un futuro indefinido, para poder crear una base suramericana desde donde echar raíces.
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After a brief rest, we bees bid farewell and thank the Quetzal for his company because he stayed a few more days in Popayan before taking flight to North America. From Popayan we head north, flying back to the place of our first experience in Cauca, Sa'th Tama Kiwe. This time, we stayed and worked a few days at the Center of Integral Community Formation-CEFIC in the town of Caldono being that the last time we were around these parts the school was in recess. What we like most of the work with the CEFIC is that in addition to the educational spaces, we also share other spaces of coexistence, work and enjoyment wiht the students and teachers. For example, this time we participated in a work minga cleaning a banana orchard and played volleyball matches with several companions from the countryside of Santa Rosa, us winning 2 -1.
The day of workshops of Plan Colombia and the FTAA / NAFTA, we implemented the same dynamic that we started using in Inzá. All the students were very aware during the workshop and the profs left them the homework to write an essay of what was discussed in the workshop. Us bees were the ones to review their assignment and it turned out to be a fairly effective method to be able to see what aspects the students retained from the workshop. One student wrote: "we must bear in mind one thing, not to be brainwashed and study to know our rights and defend our people. But keep in mind! We are not to change our thinking, where ever we are. " Another compañera wrote that: "They want to remove us the Indigenous peoples from our territory, the only thing we want is for us to dissapear, because we, the Nasa are a nuisance for the rich who own the large factories." These are just two of the dozens of stories of young CEFIC that reflect the conscience the youth have of what their people live.
The last day of work the teachers asked us the favor of doing a class on politics and social movements in the U.S. and Canada. To avoid falling into the simple lectured outline of a distant subject, we try to contextualize to the local reality. With a map of America ranging from the Arctic to the north of South America including the Caribbean, we shared a summary of the history of the continent colonized by Anglo Saxons since the 1850s to this day. We talked of slavery and segregation of African Americans, the massacres of indigenous people by means of Manifest Destiny, and also the wars and FTAs driven by U.S. in places like Central America and Haiti, which has caused waves of immigration to the north. Of the indigenous mentioned the AIM (American Indian Movement), NYM (Native Youth Movement), the Gwich'in in Alaska and the natives of Hawai'i. Of African Americans were named Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Black Panther and Take Back the Land of Miami. Finally, regarding immigrants we spoke of the CIW (Coalition of Immokalee Workers). Everything that was said was a summary of many things compacted into two hours that attempted to give an idea about how these movements are related to the concepts of territory and identity from our personal experiences. After this work we did a workshop of social cartography on the formation of the territory and identity that we learned with the youth in Popayan. The map that was woven represented everything lived by the indigenous youth of the region. The strengths, opportunities, challenges and threats (SWOT) were shown by the drawings illustrated on the map.
Although we feel privileged to be able to return to share in special areas such as CEFIC and also for being in the work of pollination, it is bittersweet to do so only for a short time. We're committed to maintaining the numerous relationships that we have made in this time though also recognizing the effort and the long time required for this. At the same time we are beginning to buzz with ideas of a possible small-school-ant farm in Upper Yuma (Magdalena) into the indefinite future, in order to create a South American base from where we may take root.
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