Cuba Caravan & Oaxaca Film Event

Please pass widely.

LEARN ABOUT THE CUBA CARAVAN & CURRENT EVENTS IN OAXACA!!!
Two GREAT speakers at ONE event this Thursday!!!

Cuba Caravan 2008 Information and Outreach Session
Oaxaca Update & Film Screening

Simon Sedillo: El Enemigo Comun
John Waller: Cuba Caravan Coordinator

Thursday, April, 10 2008
7-10PM
Office of the Watsonville Brown Berets
408 Main Street
Watsonville, California
95076
brownberets [at] msn.com

John Waller: Pastors for Peace...
Want to travel to Cuba with the Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan? In July
2008 the Cuba Caravan is heading to Cuba, and scholarships are available.
Come learn about the Cuba Caravan and how to apply. Get involved,
participate in the first ever HIP HOP EXCHANGE on the caravan...all
artists/ poets/ b-boys/ b girls/ graff artists...encouraged to apply.

Simon Sedillo: Media Educator/ Activist, "El Enemigo Comun"...
This Bilingual multi-media workshop / presentation will include scene
selections from three films: "El Enemigo Común" (2005), "El Machete"
(2007) and "Paz Sin Justicia" (2008) in order to illustrate neoliberal
atrocities and community based resistance to them in Oaxaca, Mexico.

"El Enemigo Común" documents paramilitary activity in Oaxaca from
2000-2005, leading up to the arrival of Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, Oaxaca's
current governor.

"El Machete" was filmed and edited by indigenous women and youth from
communities in Oaxaca, during the winter of 2007, and documents a more
profound look at the day to day struggles for land, water, transportation,
culture, dignity, justice, liberty, and peace.

"Paz Sin Justicia," a 41 minute film by the Committee in Defense of the
Rights of the People - CODEP, examines what Oaxaca looks like today in
2008, and what it really means for Oaxaca to return to normal after the
2006 uprising. Corruption, institutionalized repression, and economic
slavery are the standard through which a weak government attempts to hold
itself together and stay in power.

Videos / workshop presented by Simón Sedillo, a human rights filmmaker who
has spent the last 6 years documenting and teaching community-based video
in indigenous communities in Oaxaca, in immigrant communities in the US,
and with youth of color across the US.

http://elenemigocomun.net/banda/simon

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Oaxaca Hoy, Paz Sin Justica: Neoliberalismo y Resistancia Indigina

10 de abril de 2008
7-10PM
Oficina de los Watsonville Brown Berets
408 Main Street
Watsonville, California
95076
brownberets [at] msn.com

Este taller bilingüe y presentación multimedia hecho en diferente partes a
través 3 videos: "El Enemigo Común (2005)", "El Machete" (2007) y "Paz Sin
Justicia" (2008) Ilustra las atrocidades neo liberales y resistancia
comunitaria en Oaxaca, Mexico.

"El Enemigo Común" documenta actividades para-militares en Oaxaca desde
2000-2005, antes de entrada a Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, el gobernador de oaxaca
ahora.

"El Machete" era filmada y editado por mujeres indígenas y jóvenes de
comunidades de Oaxaca, durante el invierno de 2007 y documenta una mirada
profunda a las luchas de cada día por tierra, agua, transportación,
cultura, dignidad, justicia, libertad y paz.

"Paz Sin Justicia" es una película de 41 minutos del Comité en Defensa del
Derechos del Pueblo (CODEP) y examina el situación en Oaxaca hoy en 2008 y
que es normalidad dentro Oaxaca después de levantamiento de 2006.
Corrupcion institucional represión, y esclavitud económica son las cosa
que usas un gobierno débil y tirano para mantener su poder.

Taller desde Simon Sedillo, un videographer que traba en Oaxaca hace 6
anos ensenando y documentando video comunitaria dientro los communidads
indigina en Oaxaca, en communidads immigrante en Esdados Unidos y con
jovenes de color en Estados Unidos.