What happens when the “official” and the “popular” stories about your hometown do not match what you archive in your family album?
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This project is an alternative narrative force that complicates the archival landscape of the City of Medellin.
(5:41) Farconely Torres describes how she organized displaced women, children and men in her community to protest at City Hall in Medellín for the right to remain on the land where they had built their homes with found materials. This protest happened after people had come and burned down their homes -- twice. Before it happened happened again, Farconely organized women to and children to as she says "demonstrate our need" as mothers, children, families and residents of Medellín and citizens of Colombia.
(5:41) Farconely Torres describes how she organized displaced women, children and men in her community to protest at City Hall in Medellín for the right to remain on the land where they had built their homes with found materials. This protest happened after people had come and burned down their homes -- twice. Before it happened happened again, Farconely organized women to and children to as she says "demonstrate our need" as mothers, children, families and residents of Medellín and citizens of Colombia.
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