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The majority of the marchers who took to the rainy streets of Bogota at the end of April with their flags and picket signs calling for peace and social justice had travelled up to 20 hours by bus from the rural corners of Colombia. Photo: Leonardo Villamizar
Some 1700 organisations began planning the Patriotic March two years ago, resulting in one of the largest mobilisations in Colombian history—it is an initiative that seeks to become a real democratic alternative for the country. Photo: Leonardo Villamizar
Popular mobilisations which are expressions of different social struggles have been on the rise in the last decade. Photo: PBI Colombia
Mauricio Archila, historian and analyst of social movements for CINEP, says the social movements that achieve the most are those that are able to avoid violent confrontations. Photo: Leonardo Villamizar
Over the course of the last year, thousands of students have protested and achieved the withdrawal of a proposed project to reform the Higher Education Law (Law 30). Photo: Leonardo Villamizar
Last year, a planned mining project that would have threatened the Santurban highlands (Santander) brought social organisations and environmentalists together to lead a movement that rejected the plan´s implementation. The legal actions taken as well as the mobilisation of thousands of people succeeded in halting Canadian company Greystar from moving forward with its gold extraction project. Photo: Leonardo Villamizar
One of the most important social movements of the last decade has been the victims’ movement. Photo: Leonardo Villamizar
The National Movement for Victims of State Crimes (MOVICE) emerged as a part of an investigative project called Colombia Never Again that documented crimes against humanity. Photo: Damien Fellous/librearbitre.
Within the movement 283 organisations work together. Today, they have gained recognition and hold an important position within Colombian society. Photo: PBI
The majority of the marchers who took to the rainy streets of Bogota at the end of April with their flags and picket signs calling for peace and social justice had travelled up to 20 hours by bus from the rural corners of Colombia.
Photo: Leonardo Villamizar
The majority of the marchers who took to the rainy streets of Bogota at the end of April with their flags and picket signs calling for peace and social justice had travelled up to 20 hours by bus from the rural corners of Colombia. Photo: Leonardo Villamizar
The majority of the marchers who took to the rainy streets of Bogota at the end of April with their flags and picket signs calling for peace and social justice had travelled up to 20 hours by bus from the rural corners of Colombia.
Photo: Leonardo Villamizar
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