The Rebel Music Americas Tour
Peterborough, ON, Sept 22, 2005
Maria Ligia Chaverra (on the right in the photo, with translator Rona Donefer) is an Afro-Colombian elder who sits on the Community Council of Curvarado in the Choco province of Colombia. These communities were also forced to abandon their lands during the same military operations that ravaged the Cacarica. Today, they are refugees in an adjoining region where they have united in a civilian resistance process to claim their right to ancestral land. They are opposing the drive to set up agro-industrial plantations of African palm on their territory.
Photo Credit: Rene Calderon