South Portland Human Rights Commission

🙏🏼 Jajóm, South Portland!
What an incredible day! Casa Areyto extends a heartfelt jajóm (thank you) to everyone who joined us for the "Seeds of Culture" event in South Portland, Maine. I am so grateful for the stories shared, the learning we experienced together, and the deep connections made through our ancestral agricultural knowledge.

Our deepest gratitude to the South Portland Human Rights Commission and the Grassroots Fund for their continued support of our mission to remove barriers to education.

Shout out to Tostones Café for the delicious Taíno Indigenous food!

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Today marks the 49th year since the beginning of the Cambodian genocide in 1975—a systematic persecution and killing of Cambodian citizens by the Khmer Rouge under the leadership of Pol Pot. The horrific four-year reign of terror resulted in the deaths of 1.5 to 2 million people, nearly 25% of Cambodia’s population. In 1975 The Khmer Rouge had taken power in the country following the Cambodian Civil War and attempted to create a classless agrarian society by brutal force. The regime ultimately collapsed when Vietnam invaded, establishing an occupation that would last more than a decade.

Said Dith Pran, from the film “Children of Cambodia’s Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors”: “It is important for me that the new generation of Cambodians and Cambodian Americans become active and tell the world what happened to them and their families ... I want them never to forget the faces of their relatives and friends who were killed during that time. The dead are crying out for justice.”