Someone Else’s Treasure – Guatemala
Someone Else's Treasure
Someone Else’s Treasure is an ongoing multimedia project which brings to light some of the experiences of indigenous communities around the world that have been impacted by the global mining industry – including communities in the Philippines, Tanzania, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Chile, Canada, and Guatemala.
This multimedia piece focuses on communities in San Marcos, Guatemala, living next to the Canadian-owned Marlin Mine. The first two songs are by Grupo Kotzic, who are from San Marcos, singing about the peoples’ resistance to the mine. The third song is a live recording from inside the Church of San Miguel Ixtahuacan, San Marcos, where community members were singing a song they wrote about their experiences with the mine.
In an effort to better understand the true cost of an industry that shapes the world around all of us, the focus of Someone Else’s Treasure is on the externalized – the men, women, and children, that have been left out of the equations and are therefore forced to pay the price for someone else’s treasure.
Someone Else’s Treasure – Guatemala from allan lissner on Vimeo.
You are too one dimensional. Please visit the area and see the multiple sides of this human experience. There are new houses, bigger schools, larger families, kids with fancy bicycles, school girls in beautiful clothes. And so much more that is the totality of being human. You neglect the viscious fight between the Catholic CHurch and the Evangelicals. You fail to see the new hotels being constructed to house the clients of the cayotes. You are simply focussed on your narrow perspectives and lazy attitudes based on a failure to think, to find-out, to compare, and to evaluate. Please stop being narrow-minded and please become more broad-minded.