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Estamos Aqui Call to Solidarity
Memory Without Borders
Bicycle Caravan in search of family members separated by illegal adoptions during Guatemala’s decades of genocides and State repression
TO THE COMMUNITY IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE SEARCH FOR MISSING FAMILIES IN GUATEMALA.
The “We Are Here Collective” (“Colectivo Estamos Aquí”) and its friends kindly invite you to support the Cycle Caravan / Memory Without Borders project, which aims to raise funds to support the reunification of families who were victims of illegal adoptions in Guatemala, during the internal armed conflict that devastated the country from 1960 to 1990.
This bicycle caravan is the first of its kind and is dedicated to the search for the biological families of disappeared children in Guatemala. It is a historic event. To date, we have already reunited several families. Our mission is to support our members through a painful process of searching for their relatives, restoring memories, and reclaiming lost identities.
This project was born in Quebec-Canada and advocates for the reunification of families separated by these criminal practices that have been facilitated by a corrupt Guatemalan government. The efforts to reunite these families must be supported on a global scale due to the international nature of this injustice.
The search for the truth, the restitution of our memory and the demand for justice for these deplorable state crimes requires a lot of work and our resources are limited, for which reason we send you this call for solidarity.
The Cycle Caravan Project
For several months we have been preparing the Memory Without Borders project, a bicycle caravan that will start in Mexico City in March 2025 and travel to Guatemala City, covering a total of 2000 km. This unique project aims to raise awareness about the issue of lost identities and illegal adoptions in Guatemala during the internal armed conflict. By embarking on this journey, we hope to raise funds to support those affected by this tragedy.
We need resources to carry out this large-scale project and are not receiving any government or partisan support. We rely solely on popular solidarity and collective will. Our meetings have shown the urgency for these children, now adults, to reclaim their roots, roots that were ripped away and denied for years due to impunity and corruption in Guatemala.
How you can help:
We need a safe and visible ride. Depending on the route we map out and make public at the time, we will need safe lodging, food for the road, and spaces to get the message of our journey across with projections and spaces to spread the message of our journey with projections, talks, workshops and cultural events, etc.
We require motorized transportation, with the capacity to carry food, luggage, work equipment, and didactic and diffusion materials as well as tools, first aid kit and a bicycle that cannot continue riding due to an emergency.
Join our security network. Share our posts on social media to increase our visibility. The more visible we are, the more our safety will be ensured during the trip. We will also put in place international legal measures to protect ourselves.
Your support is crucial.
Participate as a donor. Your financial contribution will support not only the bicycle caravan, but also the research work carried out by the Estamos Aqui collective. You can follow our fundraising campaign at the next publishing.
Join the caravan. Participate in bike rides on the section of your choice to strengthen our action. Together, we can go further.
Solidarity knows no borders
It transcends geographical, ideological, religious, and political barriers. Solidarity comes from the heart and, today it travels by bicycle. We refuse to let any state deny us the right to know our past, our roots. We are here to break the chains of silence and use them to pedal. We want to raise awareness about the search for our missing relatives and Guatemalan families. We speak on behalf of our parents, of those who are still searching for us, those who still hope to see our eyes, recognize our smiles, and rebuild tomorrow's memories with us. With your support, you can make a real difference and, together, we will rewrite history.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
SINCERELY,
BICI-CARAVAN MEMORY WITHOUT BORDERS
AND COLECTIVO ESTAMOS AQUÍ.
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Rights Action (U.S. & Canada)
Since 1995, Rights Action funds land, justice, human rights and democracy struggles, environment, community development and emergency relief projects in Guatemala and Honduras. Rights Action works to denounce and to hold accountable the U.S. and Canadian governments, multi-national companies, investors and banks (World Bank, etc.) that help cause and profit from exploitation and poverty, repression and human rights violations, environmental harms, corruption and impunity in Honduras and Guatemala.
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