Don't let those watchful "eye" windows deter you from visiting the Casa Payán en Silvia, Colombia. It's a living symbol of the Guambiano (Misak) indigenous cultural resilience. It serves as both a museum for the tourists and a place of meeting and teaching for the indigenous people. Its rounded form echoes the cyclical worldview of the Misak people.

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#FirstNations #Misak and campesino leaders have denounced the negative environmental impacts caused by the Irish capitalist multinational company #SmurfitKappa, which produces 11 billion square meters of packaging each year.

In the Cauca region as a form of nonviolent resistance, activists remove the bark from the lower part of the trees making them unusable to the company.

(Images are by an independent Colombian photojournalist who wishes to remain anonymous. )

https://nacla.org/extractivism-ireland-and-packaging-giant-smurfit-kappa

Colombian Indigenous Communities Fight to Reclaim Land from Irish Packaging Giant

The Irish-based multinational Smurfit Kappa's vast tracts of monoculture forestry in Colombia tie Ireland into global webs of extraction and exploitation. 

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#Colombia: Os indígenas #Misak são violentamente atacados pela polícia, enquanto impediam a passagem do veículo blindado em #Bogota.
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