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Rights Action is pleased to share information about James' new book of photography. Our work overlapped with James for many years. In Tierra de Arboles, one finds images of many people, communities and events Rights Action has funded and supported for decades, as they struggle and work for truth, memory and justice.
Guatemala’s U.S.-backed repression and genocide against its own people ravaged the country from 1960 to 1996. Tierra de Arboles ~ Land of Trees documents the aftermath of the genocides and repression, attempting to understand Guatemala's present-day ills – poverty, crime, repression, corruption and forced migration – by visually narrating the fragile context in which the perilous search for truth, memory and justice for the hundreds of thousands of victims and survivors endures despite on-going repression and corruption, and in which community struggles in defense of indigenous rights and territories continue due to increased activity of "foreign extractive industries in cahoots with oligarchical powers."
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