Documentary screening and Q&A: ‘Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley’

Justice and Peace Netherlands and the Amnesty International Committee are excited to invite you to join us for a screening of the documentary film Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguan Valley at our documentary night on 15 November 2016 at Het Nutshuis. The documentary screening is followed by a Q&A with Tomy, a human rights defenders from Honduras. June 28th 2009, the first coup d’état in a generation in Central America overthrows the elected president of Honduras. A nationwide resistance movement is born, which takes inspiration from the daring act of the farmers of the Aguan Valley to take over 10,000 acres of palm oil plantations claimed by the country’s largest landowner, and a key player in the coup. Filmed over four years beginning with the coup itself, follows one hilarious and insightful journalist and three key members of the farmer’s; resistance as they convert the plantations into a workers co-op and agitate for a more democratic state, all while trying to survive the violent reaction of the landlord and the coup regime. 

Language: English
Please email your RSVP to info@justiceandpeace.nl to secure your spot for this event.