Memoria Y Camino del Tejido de Comunicación

CAUCA – COLOMBIA: CYBER-ATTACKS AGAINST COMMUNITY MEDIA

 

We inform the community and the public that the websites nasaacin.org, pueblosencamino.org, orewa.org.co, somosdefensores.org, among other sites of Colombian indigenous, social and afros organizations, which are housed in the server Process of Black Communities, PCN, broke down in the morning of March 2 this year, after suffering a technical attack on the server security structure.

 

This situation happens in moments of emergency, when we are informing all what happens at different points of concentrations where we are carrying on actions of liberation of the mother earth in northern Cauca.   

 

It is not the first time that nasaacin.org is sabotaged. This always happens when there are actions of territorial control launched by the indigenous communities.  The Tejido de Comunicacion spread the voice of the communities that resist extractive and free market policies. In this case, we were denouncing the powerful company of sugarcane Incauca, working with the military and judicial apparatus, for dispossessing our indigenous communities. Some private and governmental sectors are not interested on the divulgation of information related to the denunciations and grievances of the indigenous communities. Therefore, in addition to cyber-attacks, we have received frequently death threats via cellphone.  

 

We denounce these problems and confirm our commitment with making visible the actions of territorial control and all the initiatives in defense of life carried by our communities to counteract the mining policies of the Santos government, which are sterilizing the land with monocrops, the mining exploitation, and the construction of dams. These policies are displacing indigenous communities and giving away to private sectors our country’s sovereignty.   

 

At this moment when our website started to work again, the equipment of our radio station, located at the Munchique Mountain in Santander de Quilichiao, suffered one more time a technical problem. It is important to remind that last year we sought for support from our indigenous organizations for the maintenance of Radio Payu’mat equipment through a “minga de apoyo” in order to prevent technical problems. Unfortunately, that call did not have an answer and today we have this result.  

It is crucial the normal functioning of our community media to counteract the disinformation and smear campaigns undertaking by mass media against the actions of territorial control of our indigenous communities. We call for the support and the dissemination of the actions of the Liberation of Mother Earth.

 

Tejido de Comunicación del Pueblo Nasa – Cauca – Colombia

 

Traducción al inglés por Diego Cortés