Oakland: Simon Sedillo discusses the Politics of Displacement & Community Self Determination + Rebel Patagonia Film Screening
Dear everyone,
If you happen to find yourself in or near the Oakland area in the coming days, then I think it’s pretty safe to say that you are one lucky bastard. Lucky because AK Press is hosting two exciting events at our Oakland warehouse and bastards simply because I see the word as a term of endearment. For those of you who don’t know, the warehouse is located at 674 23rd Street (between San Pablo and MLK). Closest BART stop is 19th station. The 15, 18, and 72 AC Transit bus routes all stop within feet from our front door. Ample bike parking. No excuses for you not to be here.
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Friday, November 13 @ 7pm
THE POLITICS OF DISPLACEMENT AND COMMUNITY SELF DETERMINATION with Simón Sedillo
Donations graciously accepted
Vegan Cuban food for sale!
Simón Sedillo is a community rights defense organizer and film maker. He has spent the last 7 years documenting, producing and teaching community based video documentation in Mexico and the US. Through multimedia presentations Sedillo helps show some effects of neoliberalism on indigenous communities, immigrant communities, and communities of color in the US and Mexico. Through collaborative media projects, Sedillo’s work has contributed to a growing network of community based media production whose primary objective is to share, teach, and learn from one another, about community based media production and the collective construction of horizontal networks of community rights defense. For more info visit http://elenemigocomun.net/banda/simon.
This workshop identifies several specific institutions, which threaten the lives of average everyday people everywhere. From banks and corporations to non-profits and universities, what role do these institutions have in making the poor stay poor, while making the rich get richer? This workshop also shows how the political devaluation of traditional forms of self governance and self determination, has lead to the degradation of entire sectors of society. Finally this workshop shares some indigenous strategies for community based self determination in guiding struggles for urban community liberation.
Screening of La Familia Raices: Short documentary on the family and Son Jarocho band ¨Los Raices¨ from Oaxaca. The Raices Family play traditional Son Jaracho music in support of the Oaxacan people’s social movement. This traditional Afro-indigenous music originates in the state of Veracruz and is also traditionally played in some parts of the state of Oaxaca. This musical tradition is based upon popular education, collective organizing, and long term self determination for its musicians and instrument makers. The Raices family breaks through the difficulties faced by any family, with music, resistance, and determination.
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Thursday, November 19th @ 7pm
FILM SCREENING: REBEL PATAGONIA
$5 suggested donation goes to benefit the Venezuelan Anarchist Newspaper El Libertario
From 1920 to 1921, there was an anarchist-led peasant uprising in Patagonia, South America. The army, led by Colonel Varela, reacted by executing some 1,500 people. Because of the remoteness of the region, the events did not become known in Buenos Aires at first. When word of the massacre became public knowledge, the anarchist movement started a campaign against the “killer of Patagonia,” as they called Varela, culminating in his assassination at the hands of Tolstoyan anarchist Kurt Gustav Wilckens on January 23, 1923.
Q&A session will be held after the film with visiting Venezuelan anarchist/member of El Libertario editorial collective. For more info on El Libertario, as well as archives in both English and Spanish, go here: http://www.nodo50.org/ellibertario/.
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Now you know, so bring yourself and a few friends.