Columbian street artist Bastardilla gets political with her latest piece. “On this occasion I want to share with you some information about some current issues in Colombia,” she writes us. She’s talking about MINGA.

Bastardilla passed along the following information, which informs her new piece of work:

“Minga: In ‘Kichwa’ a dialect from the Amazon, means work or community actions, collective and solidarity.

“MINGA is the name of a peaceful manifestation that is carried out through a march of hundreds of kilometers, in which different groups and organizations of various regions of Colombia, create through the use of dialogue a work agenda whose objective is to determine steps towards the defense of the dignity and sovereignty of the original people and native Indians in their ancestral lands.

“This year, MINGA also proposes - as part of the Global Minga - the construction of a Climatic Justice Court, that judges the foreign companies and governments that work with them; that prey on Mother Nature, looting her natural resources and make vulnerable the respect and defense to the right of life.”


More on Bastardilla at bastardilla.org

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