Mural Berta Cáceres & Marielle Franco

Berlin

2019

This mural located in Berlin serves as a pedagogical platform to discuss the responsibility of German and European actors in the murders of environmental and social activists. Berta Cáceres and Marielle Franco are representative of today's intersectional Latin-American social struggles. Marielle was black, lesbian, and single mother from the Maré Favela. She became city council in Rio de Janeiro until her murder with a German, Heckler and Koch gun. Berta on the other hand was a Lenca indigenous social leader killed because of her activism against the construction of a massive hydroelectric project. Voith Hydro, a German enterprise, was involved in this project. Together with CADEHO (human rights collective Honduras) and orangotango (collective for critical education and creative protest) we developed a series of workshops to gather information and put it together in the website (https://muralbertamarielle.orangotango.info) We also made a short video, and a mural together with two colombian female artists, Soma, and La Negra.