“This isn’t a cause of fear for me – it’s not a motive for us to stop fighting, to stop defending.” Maxima Acuna(when asked if she was worried given Berta Caceres’ assassination)
Maxima Acuna is a wife, mother, farmer, weaver, environmental activist who has had her home destroyed (twice), has been beaten unconscious with her daughter, has been physically beaten with her husband, and has had false charges laid against her. I really admire her tenacity, strength, and sense of justice in the face of pure evil in both protecting her way of life, her rights and the environment.
There is a short video worth seeing at – https://youtu.be/Gz8eZx8V4Uo
For Maxima Acuna
In the Northern Highlands of Peru the diminutive Maxima and husband Jaime bought a farm in the Tragadero Grande, they built a simple earth shack to raise a family, and they respectfully subsist and produce while caring for the land but came the miners with engineers, security, even local police to raise their home to the ground for a mining company, some time later they returned to beat her and her daughter unconscious and despite the recorded evidence no appeal to the courts would be heard, instead Acuna was blamed and false charges stuck against her, resulting in an eviction order with huge fines, until outside voices raised the alarm, but the dismissal of the false charges has not lessened the threat and abuse, beatings, and intimidation of Maxima the farmer, the weaver, the maker, the land and water carer, who refuses to surrender the land and life in her care. Copyright 2022 ©Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®️
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Heartwrenching, and inspiring … a compelling read Paul … and I’ll watch the video soon … thank you for sharing ..
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Ha, great choice Ivor, Merchant is always welcome words and music alike.
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Hi Pvcann, I love music and i like us to meet in person, you can write me from my private mail, hclinton5216@gmail. com
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Maybe this poem/song by Natalie Merchant is appropriate Paul .. Lyrics/poem first, then the song …
Motherland
Where in hell can you go
Far from the things that you know
Far from the sprawl of concrete
That keeps crawling its way
About 1,000 miles a day?
Take one last look behind
Commit this to memory and mind
Don’t miss this wasteland, this terrible place
When you leave
Keep your heart off your sleeve
Motherland cradle me
Close my eyes
Lullaby me to sleep
Keep me safe
Lie with me
Stay beside me
Don’t go, don’t you go
O, my five & dime queen
Tell me what have you seen?
The lust and the avarice
The bottomless, the cavernous greed
Is that what you see?
Motherland cradle me
Close my eyes
Lullaby me to sleep
Keep me safe
Lie with me
Stay beside me
Don’t go
It’s your happiness I want most of all
And for that I’d do anything at all, o mercy me!
If you want the best of it or the most of all
If there’s anything I can do at all
Now come on shot gun bride
What makes me envy your life?
Faceless, nameless, innocent, blameless and free,
What’s that like to be?
Motherland cradle me
Close my eyes
Lullaby me to sleep
Keep me safe
Lie with me
Stay beside me
Don’t go, don’t you go
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Yes, heart wrenching indeed, such evil in the world.
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Greed and evil go hand in hand Paul
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O and how, in plain sight to o Ivor.
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It is awful the lengths that greedy people will go to to get their hands on gold.
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Awful
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People like me who are less than brave benefit from the courage of those like Maxima Acuna.
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Yes, absolutely so.
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I just watched the video. 19th-century Manifest Destiny in the US has moved into the Southern Hemisphere. Appalling.
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Yes, appalling, most of the thuggery is to do with US companies wanting access.
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Another black mark against the land of my birth.
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Sadly so Liz, hoping to find some good news.
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Judging from your poem today, I’d say you didn’t find it.
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No I did not, not much good news anywhere that will shift my mood. The move in the US has already emboldened the religious nuts over here.
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I am very sorry to hear that.
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Just like the butterfly effect says 😦
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Sadly, yes.
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Paul, there is evil everywhere. Thankfully there are courageous people everywhere who stand up and fight back! A powerful and informative post!
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Yes, sadly true Cheryl, and many thanks for this.
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Wow – I didn’t know this – we need this to be kept in our consciousness of what is really going on behind the fake news
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Yes, what a mess the media is in, and I wonder if they are even aware, stories like this should be on the front pages in my view, thank you so much.
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