Jorge

Testimony about the World March

. Jorge is a member of the base team from Spain. He spoke during a ceremony celebrating the March's crossing of the line of the Equator:

Jorge & Memoscopio

Cristóbal Cobo

Testimonio about World March

. Cristóbal is a local leader and cultural organizer from Peru. He hosted the international marchers held a teach-in about what ancient astronomy can teach the world today about north-south relations. Cristobal’s testimony invites people to imagine maps that, based on ancient astronomy, represent the globe with the line of the equator as vertical axis that unites rather than divide the people of the world. He argues these new representations can become peace tools as they show egalitarian relationships between north and south, based on indigenous rather than imperialist Western views.

Cristóbal & Memoscopio

Dic/18/2009

video

Spanish

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Alberto

Testimony about the March

. Albert is a union lawyer and health rights activist from Colombia. He shared his testimony while crossing the line of the Equator. He later asked to recite a poem while waiting in Tumbes for a bus to Lima.  He argues that health rights belong in the March because health injustice is a “slow genocide” and because “the situation in Colombia amounts to an undeclared war on those who cannot afford medical attention.”  

Spanish