Juan Gabriel Muñoz
Construction and Wood Workers‘ Union of COLOMBIA

It is said that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it, maybe modern colonialism is not interested for us to keep history in mind; these words are right when the issue has to do with the superimposition of human beings over other human beings, the weighting of land, the indoctrination of cultures, the exchange of knowledge and the market of goods and services that favor a few, colonizing what we need and do not have is an action that borders on violence, history tells us that this practice is not done through dialogue or agreement, on the contrary, the protagonist is excess of force, impositions and lack of communication.

There are many models of colonization, religious beliefs talk about how a group of people had a whole people as prisoners, these people were their slaves, they served without reward to those who considered themselves kings or semi-gods, they delivered their labor force for them without any retribution, they were colonized and fear prevented them from seeing the wonderful options they had.

Colonialism is a political and economic system whereby a foreign state dominates and exploits a colony, using military force that the invaded country cannot resist and the colonizer, invader or conqueror imposes military, political, economic and social controls. The history has allowed us to see how this type of dynamics exceeds the allowed values in terms of the treatment of the invaders, statistics show that this phenomenon called colonialism has often been marked by violence on the part of the colonizer.

Nowadays in a globalized world it is possible to think that colonialism is left behind on the shelves of libraries, in hardcover books preserved for philosophers and students or that this concept is just a click away in digital search engines as virtual tools, it is unfortunate for INTERGREMIAL to say that colonialism is present every day, today we are the object of modern and planned colonialism, the global powers have colonized the world, not just one nation, they have colonized the entire world, we are prisoners of colonialist-consumerism, colonialist-employment, colonialist- health, colonialist-education; being this the most worrying for us as men and women associated in this platform of workers of the construction in Colombia, we consider that we have become part involuntarily of a model of life in which we are colonized by the excess of fear in front of the current world’s management.

They insist that the changes will lead us to unmanageable situations and we overlook the fact that we are managed and programmed not to see beyond what the colonization media, sorry communication media
………… say and teach.

We, the stubborn, the unsatisfi ed, we who believe that everything can be better, we are on the verge of extinction, we are not allowed to be visible but we are insistent in permanently showing that „history was not yesterday, every second that passes is history“

We keep repeating during years the experience, liberation was not enough for us to make decisions respecting the right to education, access to programming

as we defi ne the current educational model, a model for which we are numbers that are updated as it is designed, today we program our children to exist in a changing world that circulates in the philosophy of continuity, the evolution of the basic concepts of how to live are summarized in obedience, in having more effi cient operating systems but with more controlled software, we are not free as long as we do not understand that the methodology of modern colonialism is the same as the one applied by our predecessors

We, the workers of Colombia, are still subject to colonialism disguised as democracy, like the kingdom model in other cultures, our country is negatively managed as a colony where hierarchical positions are passed down from family to family, nowadays we continue to persist in turning around everything that has colonized us and that prevents us from implementing the changes that the new generations expect to receive, the INTERGREMIAL is committed to educate its affi liates by means of non-colonizing and non-indoctrinating processes and to transfer the knowledge to their families so that one day not too far away the global objectives such as those of politéknik for the benefi t of human beings become a reality for the good of the new generations, that the modernity and what is to come is framed in the extension of the human right to education and the eradication of the projects that colonize people and their thoughts.

We stand for the freedom of thought of human beings and access to quality education with global awareness objectives.