Simón Sedillo, a community rights defense organizer and filmmaker, will be making presentations in the Monterey Bay Area on Indigenous Strategies for Hood Liberation and screening the new documentary film Xip Xop oaXaca. On Thursday, April 22nd, Sedillo will be at Cabrillo College at 1pm and at the Brown Berets Bike Shack in Watsonville at 7pm. On Friday, April 23rd, Sedillo will be presenting at UC Santa Cruz at 11:30am.

The presentation identifies several specific institutions which threaten the lives of average everyday people everywhere. This workshop also shows how the devaluation of traditional forms of self governance and self determination has lead to the criminalization of entire sectors of society. Finally the presentation shares some indigenous strategies for self determination as guides for urban community (hood) liberation.

Simón Sedillo has spent the last eight 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 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.

Cabrillo College in Aptos, April 22nd at 1pm | Bike Shack in Watsonville, April 22 at 7pm | UC Santa Cruz, April 23rd at 11:30am