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Film Screenings and Workshops on Direct Resistance to Neoliberalism
Friday, November 20th
2PM - 4PM Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad - In the summer of 2006, a broad-based, non-violent, popular uprising exploded in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Some compared it to the Paris Commune, while others called it the first Latin American revolution of the 21st century. But it was the people’s use of the media that truly made history in Oaxaca. A Little Bit of So Much Truth captures the unprecedented media phenomenon that emerged when tens of thousands of school teachers, housewives, indigenous communities, health workers, farmers, and students took 14 radio stations and one TV station into their own hands, using them to organize, mobilize, and ultimately defend their grassroots struggle for social, cultural, and economic justice.
10PM - 12 AM Films From the Oaxacan Mutual Aid Multimedia Cooperative "ManoVuelta" - ManoVuelta has produced a number of films which continue to deal with the aftermath and continued resistance to state sponsored repression in Oaxaca, Mexico since the 2006 popular uprising. ManoVueltas films make connections between struggles for self determination in both rural and urban communities in Oaxaca, Chiapas and Veracruz. ManoVuelta both produces films and contributes to the self defense of community rights through media skills training. Please come to this screening to get a real good update on Oaxaca since the 2006 uprising, and to see a little bit more of what is going on in Southern Mexico. Several short films will be screened from 10pm til Midnight.
Saturday, November 21st
7:00pm
CIW and SFA - Members of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and the Student Farmworker Alliance will present the latest in their continued campaign for fair food. With huge victories against major food corporations, the CIW is setting the pace for a world in which many worlds may fit.
7:45pm
Victor Toro, Nieves Aires and Mario Venegas - Community organizers and immigrant rights activists Victor Toro and Nieves Aires, will share their powerful and overwhelming story as survivors of the brutal regime of General Agusto Pinochet in Chile. Nieves Aires walks listeners through a detailed story of a woman's strength and resilience, in the face unimaginable atrocities. Toro, who has been exiled in the South Bronx for more that 25 years will present his current immigration case where-in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Charges Victor Toro with residing in the US illegally, and with being a founding member of the MIR Revolutionary Leftist Movement, an organization that US Homeland Security is classifying as a terrorist organization. Together Victor and Nieves charge the US government for its involvement in the bloody September 11th, 1973 coup, and charges the current Chilean government with still harboring officials from the Pinochet regime.
Dr. Mario Venegas is the coordinator for the Permanent Committee for Chile at Amnesty International. He also serves as the Director for the Foundation for Human Rights in Guatemala. He currently works for the Abbott Pharmaceutical Company. Dr. Venegas earned his Ph.D. from the University of London in Chemistry. Dr. Venegas was a refugee in London before coming to the United States. He can speak about his experience in Chile as well as the political situation in that country.
9:30pm
Death Threats: The Politics of Displacement and Community Self Determination - Community rights defense organizer Simón Sedillo will be bringing a new multimedia presentation. Through lectures, workshops, and short films from Oaxaca, Mexico Sedillo breaks down the effects of neoliberalism, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and militarism in Mexico. Sedillo's thoughtful analysis, points directly at the SOA and The FMSO Foreign Military Studies Office, in Fort Leavenworth Kansas. This workshop is balanced with the positive outlook of indigenous strategies for community liberation and self determination. Finally Sedillo will end with the latest film from ManoVuelta: "La Familia Raices." Los Raices play Son Jarocho, a traditional Spanish and Afro-Indigenous music in support of the Oaxacan people’s social movement. Son Jarocho originates in the state of Veracruz and is also traditionally played in some rural parts of the state of Oaxaca. This community based art form is founded upon popular education, collective organizing, and long term self determination for its musicians and instrument makers. The film breaks down stereotypes about the traditional Mexican family, and about participants in the 2006 Oaxacan Uprising.
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