Our Culture is Our Resistance

Our Culture is Our Resistance: Repression, Refuge and Healing in Guatemala

Photographs by Jonathan Moller

Preface by Rigoberta Menchú Tum, 1992 Nobel Peace Laureate

Essays by Ricardo Falla, Francisco Goldman and Susanne Jones

Prose and poetry by Humberto Ak'abal, Heather Dean, Julia Esquivel, Eduardo Galeano and Francisco Morales Santos

Testimonies by survivors of Guatemala's brutal civil war

"It was the worst massacre since the times of the Conquest in the 16th century. It happened just twenty years ago, but the world, blinded by racism, never knew. This book recovers that history. In words and images, it narrates the death and resurrection of the indigenous peoples of Guatemala."

-Eduardo Galeano

"With his photographs, Jonathan Moller reminds the present generation of the extreme wave of brutality that engulfed the people of Guatemala twenty years ago. Because of my Latin American heritage, my blood turns to ice when I see these images. They speak of the horrors faced by my fellow Latin Americans in countries dominated by the externally imposed National Security Doctrine. Moller's photographs should be shown and debated in all schools and universities to teach tolerance and compassion to those who will hold power in the future."

-Sebastião Salgado

"In Guatemala, every clandestine cemetery that is found, every bone that is recovered from Mother Earth speaks of the people who were annihilated, of the homes burned, of the indiscriminate massacres. In short, they speak of the crimes against humanity, of the genocide committed by the Army against the indigenous population.

Jonathan Moller's photographs speak of this. But they also show another face, the face of life, hope, redemption, and demands for change. These images both denounce and give a message of life. They inform while capturing the beauty of a passing moment that is fixed in memory. Each moment captured by Jonathan Moller's camera passes into eternity, yet also gives encouragement for the future. Each moment sets an example for future generations, so that they may know the past, which is filled with darkness but also contains hope, struggle and optimism. Hope is seen in people's labor, in children's faces, and in the construction of a better life for all . . . "

-Rigoberta Menchú Tum

$45 / copy (Please make checks out to Jonathan Moller)

100% goes to Guatemala: half to the Association for Justice and Reconciliation (AJR)to support their work for justice and truth in Guatemala, and half towards the production and printing of an educational publication for and about rural Guatemalan communities uprooted by the violence and civil war.

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*** Spanish language edition available at www.turnerlibros.com