'A Forgotten Conflict': Sahrawi Activists Slam Moroccan Greenwashing Amid Western Sahara Occupation

As climate Sahrawi activists in occupied Western Sahara accuse Morocco of greenwashing, the Spanish Film Academy, the Spanish equivalent to the Oscars, has just given its social justice award to the Western Sahara International Film Festival and its film school. We feature our interview at the U.N. climate summit with Mahfud Bechri, who explains how Morocco sells the natural resources and wealth of Western Sahara without the consent of the Sahrawi people as part of an effort to greenwash its military occupation of Western Sahara, and his larger campaign to demand companies end complicity with the occupation. The new social justice award from the Spanish Film Academy recognizes how Spanish support for the Moroccan occupation has led to "a complete media blockade" of the conflict, says María Carrión, executive director of FiSahara, the Western Sahara International Film Festival.

#DemocracyNow

[elias]

If Spain really cares about self-determination so badly, why they hold Catalonia hostage under Spain while they wanted to split.

[flawyerlawyertv]

Free all occupied territories around the world. 🖐️

[tariksaadeddine]

The Moroccan Sahara was and will always remain Moroccan until god inherits earth and what is on it.
ولا غالب إلا الله

[traceycroxford]

Spain is still colonising Morocco and very much in involved the Western Sahara.

[rossiraissouli]

Its a Moroccan land. Francisco Franco the Spanish dictator said in 1975 that the Sahraouis have Moroccan roots, and historically a Moroccan territory . Morocco gained its Sahara in 1975. The US recognizes the Saharan territory Moroccan.

[julieweiner]

USA does this to Puerto Rico every day

[joeybenoit]

Israel needs to be held accountable! Shooting an American Palestinian journalist is not acceptable!

[emiliobello]

Also a good thing for Morocco is it beat Belgium

[l.w.]

Morocco & natural resource extraction on Sahawari land is also like oil companies in US/Canada usurping control of petroleum & transport of through indigenous/original communities of the land. Worldwide, governments and corporations; take responsibility, give control back to the peoples.

[zahraramdanahmedhamadi]

The women and men from Western Sahara are very grateful for FISAHARA and Democracy Now and hundreds of ONGs alll over the world for their support and solidarity with our peaceful People who is still struggling for living freely and independent in their dear homeland because unfortunatelly the international community wants to silence our struggle against the agressors and occupiders of our country, that is why it is considered as the Africa´s last colony. We will overcome sooner or later....

[yurielcundangan]

never had felt the amount of pain that they deserve for what they've done into our society

[cowsandpigsmaketheearthwar]

LOVE YOU AMY
mr morocco came to my house. he threw me out and made me live in a tent. then he sold all of my stuff and kept all the money. He made me live in a desolate part of the desert. i thought it was bad not being able to wash my hands and having to dig a hole outside my tent to poop until mr morocco started selling the sand from beneath my feet. save the world peace and love this is why politics today makes me feel like the cover of the book cowsandpigsmaketheearthwarm with trump and uncle sam tug of warring the earth over the pit of hell with covid bats flying out end disparity

[luperamos]

So Spain occupied Western Sahara before and then handed it over to Morocco? I'd like to get some context. No clue how Morocco isn't sanctioned.

[patxiaznar]

Don't lie to me. Before the Spanish occupation, the Sahara was not part of Morocco. When the Spaniards arrived in the Sahara in 1884, they spoke to the Saharan ruler and the Sultan of Mauritania. That is why, when Morocco and Mauritania, with the assistance of the United Nations in 1975, brought the Sahara case before the Hague court, it ruled that Western Sahara, because of its lack of sovereignty ties, with Morocco and Mauritania, could be subject to resolution 1514, which grants the Saharan people the right of self-determination that awaits them so long.