The team at Vokaribe, a community radio station located in the Popular Library of the La Paz neighborhood, in the heart of the southwestern part of Barranquilla, is committed to making “that plural and diverse universe” heard through a sound project that amplifies the “other voices.”

In the heart of the world, the Sierra Nevada de Gonawindúa (Santa Marta), Kankuama women strengthen their own justice system through Community Committees, with the aim of guaranteeing access to justice for women and their families in order to achieve harmony and balance in their communities and territories.

In this subregion of the Caribbean, a rural communications group accompanies marches, protests, and complaints from their communities with cameras and microphones. They also dedicate themselves to telling the everyday stories of peasant, indigenous, and Afro-descendant resistance, those that are lived on the land and in the home.

Buenaventura seems like a violent place, a city caught between war and despair, a port without a community. It is, however, the epicenter of multiple struggles and resistance movements, home to communities that face poverty and their past on a daily basis. The Pastoral Social, a branch of the Catholic Church, is committed to building a society that dares to dream of a different Buenaventura.

For decades, the Old Providence Civic Oversight Committee has worked to protect the Raizal people of the islands of Providencia and Santa Catalina from dispossession. Through their work, they seek to preserve the Creole language and traditional cultural practices, the core of the islanders’ connection to their territory.

The Kankuamo people of the Sierra Nevada de Gonawindúa are guardians of ancient knowledge, preserving the balance and way of life that is kept high in the mountains. To fulfill their life mission, the Kankuamos have resisted colonization and conflict, reborn in their own government as envisioned by the mamos and sagas. “Our ancestors taught us to care for and live in brotherhood and community,” is the lesson left by Governor Jaime Luis Arias.