This twenty minute documentary follows the women’s inspirational efforts to rid their lands of the Mexican military and to set up their own ‘Women’s Bank.’ It has been made by The Bees Video team that Peace and Diversity Australia (PDA) helped set up and continues to support.

In December 1997, a group of indigenous people from the Highlands of Southern Mexico and belonging to the organisation The Bees, were warned that an armed group were coming to kill them. But instead of feeling while they still had the chance, the made the incredible decision to stay and pray for peace. In the massacre that ensued, forty-five people, …

This short documentary (5 mins) recounts how the women who survived the massacre at Acteal went on to establish their own weaving co-operative, Maya Antestic (later changed to Jolom Luch Maya).