Sunday, February 10, 2008

Protest/March on February 4th

On February 4th there was a huge protest/march in Colombia protesting FARC. FARC is the group that is responsible for a lot of the kidnappings that happen. Everyone wore white that day and at noon people all over the country gathered in specific places and had one minute of silence to remember those people who had been kidnapped. We participate at school. So these are the students at school. After the moment of silence several people spoke. They were all people who had been kidnapped themselves or know people that were kidnapped. Then we all walked around the school together with signs and singing songs etc. It was pretty interesting. I don't quite understand all of the politics, but it was interesting to participate in the event. Supposedly, there were marches happening all around the world, including in the United States, but it was not widely publicized and probably only took place in Colombian communities.