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DESCRIPTION:SIMÓN SEDILLO\n\nSelf Determination and Community Rights 
 Defense:\nNeo-Liberalism, Militarism, and Some Challenges of 
 Solidarity\n\nWednesday, April 22 • 7:00-9:30 PM\nKresge Town Hall • 
 Kresge College\n\nIn the face of neo-liberalism, militarism, and repression 
 around the planet we must explore how social movements are organizing for 
 the self defense of community rights.\n\nThis multi-media presentation 
 includes video clips, a discussion about community based rights defense in 
 Oaxaca and Chiapas, Mexico, immigrant communities around the world, and 
 communities of color in the United States.  The presentation will also 
 explore themes of solidarity, the "NGOization" of resistance, and the 
 comodification of sustainability.  Be prepared to be challenged, engaged, 
 and a part of a community discussion about solutions.\n\n Simón Sedillo is 
 a community rights defense organizer and a documentary film-maker whose 
 work has centered on placing skills, cameras and editing equipment in the 
 hands of communities in resistance so that they may be able to document 
 their own histories of struggle. Sedillo has spent the last 6 years 
 documenting and teaching community based video documentation in Mexico, in 
 immigrant communities in the US, and with youth of color across the US. 
 \n\nToday, Sedillo shares some experiences and perspective for 
 international audiences in the US and Europe, on the local and global 
 implications of the Oaxacan people's struggle. Through lectures, workshops, 
 and screenings Sedillo helps open a powerful space for dialogue on the 
 effects of neoliberalism on indigenous communities in Oaxaca, immigrant 
 communities around the world, and communities of color in the US. Through 
 collaborative media projects, Sedillo's work has contributed to a growing 
 network of community based media activism whose primary objective is to 
 share, teach, and learn from one another, about grassroots resistance and 
 the construction of horizontal networks for the self defense of community 
 rights. Sedillo is currently on tour screening short film segments from 
 Oaxaca and presenting workshops on the following topics: Oaxaca and Chiapas 
 Past and Present, Neoliberalism 101, From Militarism to Para-militarism, 
 Challenging International Solidarity, Effects of Neoliberalism on 
 Communities in the USA, Proposals Towards the Self Defense of Community 
 Rights\n\nThis public presentation is a collaborative effort by the 
 Watsonville Chapter of the Brown Berets, MEChA, Kresge College, and El 
 Centro: Chicano Latino Resource Center.\n\nFor more information and for 
 accommodations, please call 459-5449 or email 
 elcentro@ucsc.edu.\n\nhttp://www.brownberets.info\nhttp://elenemigocomun.net\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/13/18588355.php
SUMMARY:Simon Sedillo: Self Determination and Community Rights Defense (UCSC)
LOCATION:Kresge Town Hall • Kresge College • UC Santa Cruz
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/04/13/18588355.php
DTSTART:20090423T020000Z
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