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1) The Demarest Factor: US Military Mapping of Indigenous Communities in Oaxaca, Mexico - Film premiere and presentation by Simon Sedillo
Friday, October 15th, 7:00pm
Auraria Campus, North Classroom 1535
(near Speer and Larimer)
2) Dance Party and Celebration!
Saturday, October 16th, 9:00pm
Flobots Community Space
2705 Larimer St.
Join us for all or part of the Encuentro! See the full schedule here!
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1) The Demarest Factor: US Military Mapping of Indigenous Communities in Oaxaca, Mexico - Film premiere and presentation by Simon SedilloFriday, October 15th, 7:00pm
Auraria Campus, North Classroom 1535 [Map]
(near Speer and Larimer)
This film and workshop presentation discusses a recent investigation into US military mapping of communally owned indigenous land in Oaxaca, Mexico. Kansas University geography professors presented the mapping project to indigenous communities as a participatory research project intended to benefit the communities ability to manage their resources and territory. The involvement of the US Army’s Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO) based out of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and a US Army School of the America’s graduate, Lt. Col. Geoffrey B. Demarest, raised serious suspicions about the true nature of the mapping project known as “The Bowman Expeditions” or “Mexico Indigena”. This film will discuss parallels between US political and economic interests within the North American Free Trade Agreement, and a US military strategy to secure those very interests.
Simón Sedillo is a community rights defense organizer and film maker. He has spent the last 8 years documenting, producing and teaching community based video documentation in Mexico and the US. Through lectures, workshops, and short films, Sedillo breaks down the effects of neoliberalism, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and militarism 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 communities 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. Sedillo is also an active member of the campaign to close the U.S. Army School of the America’s, at Fort Benning, in Columbus, GA. You can find him at the gates of the U.S. Army base every November along with the folks from The School of the America’s Watch at http://www.soaw.org/.
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2) Dance Party and Celebration!Saturday, October 16th, 9:00pm
Flobots Community Space
2705 Larimer St. [Map]
Music, snacks, beer - there may even be a pinata! This night is going to be fun! Be prepared to dance. FREE of charge, everyone is welcome!
After a long couple days from the Encuentro, this is the perfect opportunity to celebrate our victories and future struggles!
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