Demilitarization is a matter of political urgency for many peoples around the world. Challenging the military control over peoples and territories means fighting for peace, for people’s sovereignty, and for a world without violence, imperialism, colonialism, arms race, and warfare. People’s lives are not disposable, and women’s bodies are not battlefields!
A leader of the Union of Peasant and Indigenous Organizations of Cotacachi reports on the repression experienced in the communities and what is at stake in the Popular Referendum