Monday, Sept 28th 6pm AFSC office 901 W. 14th ave., Denver
Tuesday, Sept 29 6:30pm Humanities 135, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Simón Sedillo is a community rights defense organizer and film maker whose work has centered on learning from communities in resistance. Sedillo has spent the last 6 years learning, documenting, producing and teaching community based video documentation with communities in resistance across the US and Mexico. Through lectures, workshops, and screenings Sedillo helps open a powerful space for dialogue on the 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 the construction of horizontal networks of community rights defense.
# 9 Agents of Neoliberalism
This workshop identifies 9 of the most influential agents in the imposition of a neoliberal political economy around the world. From financial institutions and global economic giants to the Non-Profit Industrial Complex and Academia, what role do these institutions take in legitimizing and perpetuating a violent and racist system of oppression.
# From Militarism to Paramilitarism
This workshop discusses in more depth the role of militarism as an agent of neoliberalism. The workshop shatters myths about US military intervention into indigenous communities of the US and Mexico, past and present. This workshop irrefutably proves collusion between US economic/political interests in Mexico, and a military strategy to secure those interests.
# Indigenous Self Determination and Urban Community Liberation
This workshop explores the systematic devaluation of traditional forms of self governance and self determination, and the actual role that these traditions play in preserving indigenous culture and territory. The workshop also discusses indigenous strategies for self determination in guiding struggles for urban community or “hood” liberation.
# Solidarity not Charity
This workshop challenges the role of true solidarity work as opposed to charity work. How is it that we are to contribute to the self determination of communities in resistance so that they may defend their own rights? Is the current dominant human rights strategy addressing the issue of indigenous/collective/community rights defense? Is your solidarity creating a codependency? And many more questions on solidarity work.