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Saturday, May 19, 2018

Afro-Colombian activist Francia Márquez, 2018 Goldman Prize Winner, on Stopping Illegal Gold Mining

Francia Márquez, a leading Afro-Colombian activist who is the 2018 recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize for Central and South America, visited Democracy Now! in May 2018. In this wide-ranging interview with Amy Goodman, Márquez describes how she organized her community of La Toma, in Colombia’s Pacific southwest region, to stop illegal gold mining by multinational corporations on their ancestral land.
read more... https://www.democracynow.org/2018/5/18/afro_colombian_activist_francia_marquez_2018

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