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PBI FILM NIGHT- HASTA LA ULTIMA PIEDRA

Thursday September 13: 8.00pm
Glitch Bar and Cinema,
386 St Georges Road, North Fitzroy

PBI Australia presents an amazing documentary exploring non-violent
resistance in Colombia. Hasta La Ultima Piedra (Until the final stone) is
a recent film documenting the courageous resistance of the San José de
Apartadó Peace Community in Colombia, one of the communities accompanied
by PBI Colombia.
In the region of Uraba in Columbia, the national army, paramilitary groups
and guerrillas of the organisation FARC have been fighting each other
since the mid-nineties. As it is mainly the civilian population that
suffers from the conflict, farmers joined forces to form a neutral peace
community. The warring parties however didn’t tolerate this: families were
forced to settle elsewhere, crops were set on fire and innocent citizens
were murdered. The government’s only reaction was to dispatch 150 police
officers, whose presence only increased the belligerence of the
guerrillas. The peace community was no longer prepared to live under such
conditions and decided to create a neutral zone with no access granted to
anyone armed. In HASTA LA ULTIMA PIEDRA Juan José Lozano portrays the
community just as a village on safe ground is being built.

The volunteers from PBI who have had the opportunity to live in San Jose
de Apartadó have been changed forever by the experience. They will never
forget the dedication, the creativity, the humility and the courage of the
people in these communities who are standing up non-violently to some of
the most vicious paramilitary groups in the world. And the volunteers are
bringing this inspiration with them when they go back to their home
country.

PBI Volunteers who have provided accompaniment at this community will
speak on the night.
Drinks and nibbles available.
Entry by Gold Coin donation.

A short version of the documentary can be viewed online at
<http://www.protectionline.org/Hasta-la-ultima-piedra-version.html>http://www.protectionline.org/Hasta-la-ultima-piedra-version.html

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