Wednesday, November 9, 2016 - 11:00am
Location:
Jerome Richfield 319
Central American Studies Presents, For the Defense of Life, Mother Nature, Land and Territory, with Aura Lolita Chavez Ixcaquic
"With the men - the ones making the decisions to sell off the land - we had to make an effort to bring about a change in their perception of land tenure, and say that no one is an owner of the land, not even the state," Lolita explained at a women's forum in Istanbul in 2012. "The bones of our grandmothers are in that soil, so how dare you sell that land with the bones of our grandmothers?"