Roses and Rifles: Women from the FARC-EP, Colombia | Video Documentaries |Axisoflogic.com

Editor's comment: This is a truly extraordinary new film, produced a couple months ago, of amazing women, members of FARC, who live, work and fight in the Colombian jungles. In their words, they are fighting for equality for all women, for all oppressed people, for democracy and justice in Colombia and the world. They tell their amazing stories of their commitment, their worldview, why they decided to leave families and loved ones - or driven away from them, to live where they live and do what they do.

In part of the film, you will know where you are when the old classic cars appear on the street. These women also make up part of the Peace Delegation in Havana, seeking peace with and structural changes within the repressive Colombian government. The Colombian government has betrayed FARC more than once after promsing them participation in government if they lay down their arms. "The leopard cannot change his spots" so we have precious little faith that it will be any different this time. But this time the effort has been organized by Cuba and President Santos' popularity is at all time low now, before the upcoming elections in Colombia. So who knows, naive as it may sound, "Give peace a chance."

- Les Blough in Venezuela

Vilma Kahlo, director of Roses and Rifles: Colombia is a country that has been at war for more than 50 years, due to a social model that benefits the oligarchic minority and at the expense of the poor majorities, who suffer exclusion and violence. This excluding society is being led by a narco-state, financed and supported by the North American government

he mass graves, the false positives (assassinations of innocent people by the repressive forces of the state, falsely accusing them of being guerrilla fighters), tortures and violations to peasants, because of being "supporters" of the guerrilla movement (Colombia is ranked second in the world for displaced population, as a result of state and paramilitary violence); threats, persecution and repression to political dissidence; it's every day's bread for our sister nation Colombia. Colombians live in a country with a terrorist government where human rights don't exist.

In the middle of this capitalist and patriarch reality, women face all kinds of oppression: economic, sexual, intellectual, among others. In Colombia, there is almost no women's participation on different government levels, and it's almost impossible for women from the Left to do legal politics. That's why every day more women join the oldest guerrilla of Latin America. They decide to fight for their freedom with the ideal of constructing a society of peace with social justice, that is, a socialist society.

This reality is hidden or manipulated by the media, who are at the service of the big capital which has its tentacles spread out over Colombia. These media companies have demonized and stigmatized the female guerrilla fighters of the FARC-EP as sexual slaves of their comandantes.

To help breaking down the media blockade and manipulation is the mission of this documentary, in order to show the real life of the revolutionary women of the FARC-EP.

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Hints: Click on the "Captions" icon for English subtitles; after the subtitles appear, click outside the captions choice box on the screen to make it disappear and the subtitles will remain. Also, for more effective viewing of this 54 minute film documentary click on "Full Screen" icon at the bottom of the screen after the video is running. Click on Esc to return to the regular screen.

- Axis of Logic

Editor's Note and correction: If you are interested in following the process of the Peace Delegation, you can receive the Peace Delegation FARC Newsletter on a regular basis. When you sign up you'll find a 2 step process with a cyber-security note. This has been created by the Peace Delegation Farc-EP to protect their website from cyber attacks. You can learn more about how they've had cyber attacks in the past at "What you should know about the cyber war against the FARC" and you can sign up at at Peace Delegation Farc-EP, Colombia to receive the Peace Delgation Newsletter.

More information on the Peace Delegation FARC website

- Les Blough, Editor
Axis of Logic

Source of Article and Video: Peace Delegation FARC