Eight Mayan women
Sep 22nd, 2009 by Sara Koopman
I am posting this video to get us going, and as an example of the sort of videos I am asking you to look for. I found this video through the organization Rights Action, which is based in Canada and builds alliances in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Mexico for community development and human rights.
This video focuses on the resistance of a community to a form of development, a Goldcorp mine. In 2007 UBC received $5 million from Goldcorp (based in Vancouver) for the new earth sciences building.
One Response to “Eight Mayan women”
a good demonstration of the subaltern not being heard. The mining co. bring this Guatamalan community from their rural home to the courtroom, from the periphery to the core. The mining co. claims local leaders admitted that it was a mistake for the community to ask for their land to be revalued exampling what Spivak’s “strategic essentialism” and displaying its potential problem. I am left wondering… If their local leaders wont support them who will? if the local leaders had shown support would the situation be different?