The People's Congress is Cool

I was recently inspired from afar. In early October, 17,000 delagates representing 220 organizations/communities gathered in Bogotá for the People's Congress. A tent city was erected in the national university and soup pots set to bubbling to accomadate the five day gathering. There were human rights organizations, small farmer collectives, indigenous communities, and others. The indigineous gaurd, who use community strength and a wooden stick with a red ribbon tied to it to provide security to their communities, were at the front of the marches that twice took over the streets. In the stadium of the university the conglomeration of resisters, defenders, fighters, activists, idealists and skeptics hammered out their goals, strategies, and resistance for the colombia they work for. Cool. I wish I could have gone, but I couldn't. Instead I watched this little video made by FOR and it made me happy that so many people are working for something outside of fear, control, and dependency.

Pics of a Good Idea

A bunch of fotos showing one of the community’s key processes. Click on the large image to begin.