Events

Reel Justice Film Festival – “La Lucha Sigue (The Struggle Continues)”

Event Date: February 24, 2024

The Reel Justice Film Festival is back! We have five engaging documentaries to open our minds and hearts to the challenges and opportunities around us. Our films this year focus on land and placemaking, tackling themes of food sovereignty, land rights, endangered species, and organic agriculture.

February 24, 2024

La Lucha Sigue (The Struggle Continues)

Theme: Honduras Land Defenders

Location: Online screening

Duration: 66 minutes, 2021

Time: 7:00 p.m. ET

Speakers: Elvin Hernandez, Honduran human rights investigator

In Honduras, the most dangerous place in the world to be a land defender, the Lenca and Garifuna people are not backing down. They are fighting to uphold their rights and Indigenous and Black cultures in the face of state backed megaprojects and narco-traffickers who seek to assassinate them, destroy their lands, and erase their existence.