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out of the country.

John,

Brave Colombian activists have sent us an urgent plea for help.

For 18 months, 200 members of the Indigenous, Afro and campesino
communities have stayed in a protest camp 24/7 to stop their land being
further destroyed by multinational paper giant Smurfit Kappa.

They've successfully stopped the company from planting more invasive
species to produce cheap cardboard packaging. But now they're paying a
price.

Activists say the company has stepped up its intimidation tactics –
flooding their camp with hooded armed private security. Attacks and
killings in the area against human rights defenders have skyrocketed and
protesters are afraid for their lives.

Despite extreme danger, local communities are refusing to give up until
they reclaim their land, but they’re running out of supplies to sustain
their protest. The heavy rain season is about to begin and they need our
help – can you chip in to help them keep the resistance camp going?



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For decades, Smurfit Kappa has appropriated huge swaths of Indigenous,
Campesino, and Afro land to mass-plant the invasive species they use to
make paper materials.

Since pine and eucalyptus are not native to the area, they have destroyed
the local ecosystem, and dried up the nearby river. Left without the water
they need to survive, local communities have been fighting back for years,
trying to reclaim their land.

As the resistance grows stronger, Smurfit Kappa has stepped up its
intimidation tactics, deploying security with guns and a mission to
protect profits at all costs. And tensions have grown with company
officials.

The local population has faced dozens of attacks while fighting back. Our
community has stepped up before to help, paying for security, equipment,
food and shelter for a protest camp that according to the communities has
stopped Smurfit Kappa’s productive activity.

The activists have vowed not to give up, but their funds to sustain the
resistance camp have run dry just as winter hits. Let’s come together to
answer their plea for help – then work to stop human rights abuses by
corporations across the globe.



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  Thanks for all that you do,  
Alys and the Ekō team



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More information:

[ [link removed] ]Obstruction of Peace; Militarization and the Final Peace
Accords, Witness for Peace. 1 November 2019.

[ [link removed] ]Smurfit-Kappa, Colombia, Environmental Atlas Justice. 8 June 2016.

[ [link removed] ]Smurfit Kappa in Colombia: Chronicle of a Death Foretold, World
Rainforest Movement. 5 March 2020.

 

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