CNY-Cajibio Sister Community Delegation
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This year is the 10th anniversary of the first delegation to Cajibio, and Frank Cetera and Emily Coralyne will be going for their first time! Please join our experience by following us here on GoFundMe! where you will receive updates and information about Colombia before, during, and after our trip! Frank and Emily will be curating items daily to you, such as relevant articles, blogs from the field, pictures and videos, and other bits & pieces of things we encounter that we think will help you experience the delegation's mission and travels.
The CNY-Cajibio sister community relationship centers around supporting the Movimiento Campesino De Cajibio (MCC), or the Small Farmers Movement in English, a small farmers’ organization with the goal of ‘buen vivir’ (good living), rooted in sustainable local communities, free of exploitation, militarization, and dependent economic relationships. The CNY-Cajibio Sister Community "advances peace and prosperity through cultural, educational, humanitarian, and economic development exchanges" (Sister City International).
Frank Cetera is a Permaculture Activist working for food security, ecological landscapes and lifestyles, and social justice out of Syracuse, NY with the 501(c)3 Alchemical Nursery Project. Frank also brings experience and knowledge from the world of cooperative living and enterprise as a NY State business advisor and member of various retail and housing collective cooperatives such as Bread and Roses, Syracuse Real Food Coop, and Cooperative Federal Credit Union. His goal in being part of this delegation is to help involve increasingly larger portions of the public (through the national and international Permaculture community, and the regional and statewide cooperatives community in NYS) in the sister-city relationship to become part of the challenge to the powerholders' policies and to promote alternative visions and programs.
Emily Coralyne is currently the Regional Coordinator in Central New York with New Yorkers Against Fracking. She began her activism working with a Kichwa community on a water project in the Ecuadorian Amazon while she was a college student. Along with working to ban hydrofracking in New York, she is developing a Solarize Syracuse project and educating her community about the dangers of crude oil transportation by train. She is excited to meet the young adults in Cajibio and how they are empowered to be involved in their community. She is also interested in how the farmers build solidarity with others and resist threats to their livelihoods. She will also be traveling to Ecuador to visit with activists who are resisting oil drilling in the Yasuni rainforest who have developed the Yasunidos campaign.
http://yasunidosinternacional.org/about/english/
Any contributions made to this page will fund both Emily and Frank equally.
The CNY-Cajibio sister community relationship centers around supporting the Movimiento Campesino De Cajibio (MCC), or the Small Farmers Movement in English, a small farmers’ organization with the goal of ‘buen vivir’ (good living), rooted in sustainable local communities, free of exploitation, militarization, and dependent economic relationships. The CNY-Cajibio Sister Community "advances peace and prosperity through cultural, educational, humanitarian, and economic development exchanges" (Sister City International).
Frank Cetera is a Permaculture Activist working for food security, ecological landscapes and lifestyles, and social justice out of Syracuse, NY with the 501(c)3 Alchemical Nursery Project. Frank also brings experience and knowledge from the world of cooperative living and enterprise as a NY State business advisor and member of various retail and housing collective cooperatives such as Bread and Roses, Syracuse Real Food Coop, and Cooperative Federal Credit Union. His goal in being part of this delegation is to help involve increasingly larger portions of the public (through the national and international Permaculture community, and the regional and statewide cooperatives community in NYS) in the sister-city relationship to become part of the challenge to the powerholders' policies and to promote alternative visions and programs.
Emily Coralyne is currently the Regional Coordinator in Central New York with New Yorkers Against Fracking. She began her activism working with a Kichwa community on a water project in the Ecuadorian Amazon while she was a college student. Along with working to ban hydrofracking in New York, she is developing a Solarize Syracuse project and educating her community about the dangers of crude oil transportation by train. She is excited to meet the young adults in Cajibio and how they are empowered to be involved in their community. She is also interested in how the farmers build solidarity with others and resist threats to their livelihoods. She will also be traveling to Ecuador to visit with activists who are resisting oil drilling in the Yasuni rainforest who have developed the Yasunidos campaign.
http://yasunidosinternacional.org/about/english/
Any contributions made to this page will fund both Emily and Frank equally.
Organizer
Emily Coralyne
Organizer
Syracuse, NY
