Seeing the Cracks in the Walls of Globalization The Second Global Campus Portugal Trip, October 28-31 In my dreams I still visit my old house, shares one of the three old ladies who return from the graveyard to the village Luz next to the Alqueva dam. Even after ten years, the displaced inhabitants of the old Aldeia da Luz cannot be friends to their own houses, as they say, and their hands miss their old gardens and trees where they had had everything they needed. They will not live long enough to harvest from their newly planted fruit trees. Being expelled from your home and your village generates the same pain everywhere on Earth – be it in Colombia, in Palestine or in Portugal. The proper new village, the new graveyard, the new church and the memorial museum cannot disguise the merciless power of the system that strips people from their souls. This is the new Aldeia da Luz: soulless, lifeless, a refugee camp disguised as a village – while the true village had been flooded and destroyed just some hundred meters from the shore and continues its existence only in the dreams of the old people of this village. Luz (Portuguese for light) is not the only sacrifice of the Alqueva dam that we met in these four days of our journey. We are on the second trip of the Global Campus Portugal, and this time 5 women take part – Fátima, Anne B, Isabel, Sonja SB and Leila - again in Charly´s old Volkswagen van – and we head east of the Alentejo. Again we will have space to speak about all the people and projects we meet. But for now we want you to feel some of the most touching situations with us. Continue reading: terranovavoice.tamera.org/
Posted on: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 19:06:49 +0000
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