On February 18, the Peace Brigades International-Honduras Project posted on social media:
“Last week we met with COPINH [the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras] in La Esperanza and visited the Utopia Meeting and Friendship Center.
Utopia is a collective space where tools for the self-sustainability of COPINH and the communities it represents are shared; a place of collective healing that nurtures the spirituality of the Lenca people, where ideas and proposals for a more just world can be developed.
As PBI, we value the existence and stewardship of this space as a guarantee of protection for Indigenous communities living in a historically threatened territory.
#IndigenousCommunities #LencaPeople #CollectiveSpace #Utopia”
COPINH’s coordinators, including Bertha Zúñiga Cáceres, have been accompanied by Peace Brigades International since May 2016.
The co-founder of COPINH, Berta Caceres, was killed on March 2, 2016.
COPINH is currently planning activities in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of “the sowing” of Berta Caceres.
This quote is widely attributed to Caceres: “They tried to bury us, but they didn’t know we were seeds.”
COPINH has posted on social media: “We invite you to gather to sow memory, strengthen hope for a more just world and reaffirm our commitment to demand justice for Berta Cáceres and defenders of the territory and life. Berta lives. The struggle continues.”
More on this in the coming days.
