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[ [link removed] ]Demonstration of Misak people against Smurfit Kappa

John,

An Indigenous leader from the Kokonuko people in Columbia was just shot
dead while trying to reclaim their lands from a multinational paper giant.
Now the local communities are pleading for our help.

They desperately need funds to hire additional security to keep themselves
safe while they re-occupy their rightful land.

Our community can wire them the money they need practically overnight – if
enough of us give right now:



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This is just the latest of a string of abuses at the hands of Irish
packaging company Smurfit Kappa. For decades, the corporation appropriated
huge swaths of Indigenous, campesino and afro land to mass-plant the
invasive species they use to make paper materials. Local communities have
been fighting back for years, trying to reclaim their land.

Fearing a new progressive government won’t be as quick to crack down on
community protests, the company is taking matters into its own hands,
hiring private security to protect its pillaged land. Hooded men arrived
with guns and a mission to protect profits at all costs.

Now one leader is dead. And the local communities sent us an emergency
SOS.

Can you chip in to help?



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The Indigenous, campesino, and afro people have lived on land in
Colombia’s Cauca Valley for thousands of years.

Then, several decades ago, Smurfit Kappa scooped up the most fertile land
in the region. It leveled the irreplaceable forest and planted non-native
eucalyptus and pine in its place, which is then cut down to use for
packaging. This not only destroyed the local ecosystem, but it dried up
the nearby river, leaving the local communities without the water they
need to survive.

The local population has faced dozens of attacks while fighting back.
SumOfUs has stepped up before to help, paying for equipment, food and
shelter for a protest camp that according to the communities stopped 70%
of Smurfit Kappa’s activity.

John, with your support, we can do it again – then work to
stop human rights abuses by corporations across the globe.



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



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More information:

[ [link removed] ][In Spanish] Indigenous man murdered, shot by hooded men working for
multinational company
CRIC Colombia. 9 November 2022.
[ [link removed] ]Obstruction of Peace; Militarization and the Final Peace Accords
Witness for Peace. 1 November 2019.
[ [link removed] ]Smurfit-Kappa, Colombia
Environmental Justice Atlas. 8 June 2016.
[ [link removed] ]Smurfit Kappa in Colombia: Chronicle of a Death Foretold
World Rainforest Movement. 5 March 2020.

 

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