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DESCRIPTION:EL CHOCÓ, COLUMBIA: Resistance for Survival\n\nConversation and slide show 
 with activist photographer STEVE CAGAN\n\nActivist photographer Steve Cagan 
 has been working for over five years on a project in El Chocó, Colombia. 
 El Chocó is the northwestern-most department of Colombia, right on the 
 border with Panama.  It's an area of great natural beauty and incredible 
 bio-diversity, and home to river-centered Afro-Colombian and indigenous 
 cultures.   The area has been isolated from and ignored by the rest of the 
 country for a long time. While their reasonable demands for public services 
 such as health and education were not met, they could still live well on 
 the bounty of the rain forest.\n\nThis life and the whole area are under 
 great threat, as Colombian and international economic interests are 
 determined to eliminate the rain forest to develop large industrial 
 agricultural and infrastructure projects. If nothing changes, the rain 
 forest of El Chocó, with its important environmental treasures and the 
 special cultures it shelters, will soon be gone, probably within a 
 generation. The one hope is the potential of the local communities to 
 organize and resist the pressures to abandon their homes.\n\nSteve has been 
 photographing the environment and the people of the area and working 
 closely with the few organizations committed to defending the people of the 
 region.  This month's "Other Voices" will feature the story of El Chocó as 
 seen through Steve's incredible photographs and narrative.\n\nFree and open 
 to the public -- Be a part of the studio audience!\n\nPart of the "Other 
 Voices" television series produced by Peninsula Peace and Justice Center.  
 Broadcast live on Mid-Peninsula Community Media Cable Channel 27, webcast 
 at www.midpenmedia.org, and rebroadcast throughout December -- schedule at 
 PeaceandJustice.org/index.php?topic=tvschedule.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/11/14/18551015.php
SUMMARY:Free Forum on El Chocó, Columbia with Steve Cagan
LOCATION:Community Media Center\n900 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto 94303\n(Wheelchair 
 accessible)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/11/14/18551015.php
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