You may kick me off my land but you can't keep me down

Did you know that almost 9% of Colombia's population have been displaced from their homes? That's 3, 800,000 people!

For the past 20 years, forced displacement has been one of Colombia's most serious humanitarian problems. All the different parties of the armed conflict have systematically used it as a war strategy -- a fact that reveals the structural character of the conflict.

Richard Simard, Programs Officer alerted me to this great video...

"Our Colombian partner "Asociación Campesina de Antioquia - ACA" produced and diffuses this video (with English subtitles) on the situation of the displaced populations.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GjjNxJmndso
We often say in Colombia, there are no displacements because there is war, there is war so that there are displacements."
Displaced people have rights. With ACA's work and others, may they be realized. La Lucha continua.

The Asociación Campesina de Antioquia (ACA) works with displaced farmers and their families in Antioquia, many of whom have been forced to live in makeshift houses on the outskirts of Medellin where they have no access to basic services and where theres is no decent land for them to work. Many are forced to beg in the street to provide for their families. The ACA also works to put the problem of Antioquia in a national perspective: a team of filmmakers travels across Colombia making documentaries about rural, afro-Colombian and indigenous communitie who find themselves caught in the middle of Colombia's war.