top
East Bay
East Bay
Indybay
Indybay
Indybay
Regions
Indybay Regions North Coast Central Valley North Bay East Bay South Bay San Francisco Peninsula Santa Cruz IMC - Independent Media Center for the Monterey Bay Area North Coast Central Valley North Bay East Bay South Bay San Francisco Peninsula Santa Cruz IMC - Independent Media Center for the Monterey Bay Area California United States International Americas Haiti Iraq Palestine Afghanistan
Topics
Newswire
Features
From the Open-Publishing Calendar
From the Open-Publishing Newswire
Indybay Feature

To Die in Mexico: Dispatches from the Drug War

Date:
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Time:
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Event Type:
Teach-In
Organizer/Author:
Location Details:
Niebyl Proctor Library/Institute for the Critical Study of Society
6501 Telegraph Ave (@ Alcatraz),
Oakland. CA 94609

Interactive Theatrical Presentation
John Gibler with Kairos Theater Ensemble

Since 2006, 40,000 individuals have been killed and 10,000 disappeared in Mexico’s so-called drug war, producing excess deaths and surplus terror on par with any armed military conflict. John Gibler, author of To Die in Mexico, in conjunction with Kairos Theater Ensemble, will deconstruct the violence and carnage, showing how state interests and transnational economics drive this rolling atrocity, where murder is a business strategy, impunity a competitive advantage, and death part of the overhead. Counting and recounting the stories of the murdered, the raped and tortured, this theatrical presentation and dialogue seeks to bring clarity, critical nuance, and human detail to challenge the erasure and terror of the free-trade-induced narco-state formation, and to give voice to "those who rebel against silence and anonymous death."

John Gibler is a journalist, writer and cultural activist and the author of Mexico Unconquered and To Die in Mexico. He writes for Left Turn, Z Magazine, Colorlines, and has reported for DemocracyNow!, CNN, KPFA, Al Jazzera.

Kairos Theater Ensemble is a professional theater company dedicated to challenging structural violence & systemic oppression by using theater to bear witness, create dialogue, and inspire creative problem-solving and activism.
Added to the calendar on Wed, Jun 22, 2011 3:56PM
We are 100% volunteer and depend on your participation to sustain our efforts!

Donate

$110.00 donated
in the past month

Get Involved

If you'd like to help with maintaining or developing the website, contact us.

Publish

Publish your stories and upcoming events on Indybay.

IMC Network