[Antiracism] Mon Apr24: Estacion Libre: People of Color & the Zapatista Movement (Smith College)

[Ka Yan Cheung]

"El Otro Lado" - People of Color in the US, the Zapatista Movement, & Collective Struggles
Monday April 24th : A day of workshops and performances by Estacion Libre at Smith College 

12 noon (Workshop 1 & 2)
Workshop 1: Womyn & the Zapatista Movement (location: Unity House )
Who are the Zapatistas? What are the roles of womyn in the movement? What does "Solidarity" means for us? This workshop will address power, privilege, and gender politics of the Zapatisa movement, in Mexico and in the US.

Workshop2: Arts & Activism: Hip Hop & the Art of freestyling (location: Mwangi Center)
What is hip hop? What is freestyle? What are the elements of hip hop music? Why is hip hop an important tool for the struggle? We will also take a look at current resources and hip hop organizations (their victories and goals) for further analysis.

4pm Panel Discussion: Struggles of People of Color, Zapatismo, & You (location: Mwangi Center)
How does the liberation struggles and organizing of people of color in the US intersect with the Zapatista movement? More importantly, how can we learn from each other to effectly create social change in our communities?

7-9pm - Hip Hop & Poetry Performance (location: Davis Ballroom)
There can be no revolution without music!

For more info: contact 646.321.5413
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"El Otro Lado" - People of Color in the United States, the Zapatista Movement, and Collective Struggles

In 1994, the dawn of the North American Free Trade Agreement, indigenous peasants in Chiapas, Mexico took the world by storm by rising up in revolution. The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN - Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional) emerged from the mountains and jungles to say "NO" to corporate globalization, neo-liberal colonialism, and the exploitation of indigenous people, women, the poor, and the oppressed. In 12 years, the EZLN has become a major voice in the international struggle against capitalism and neo-liberalism, and an inspiration and hope to struggles throughout the world.

Estacion Libre, a US based collective of People of Color, has been building with the Zapatista movement for over eight years. Through delegations to Zapatista communities, and a continued presence of a peoples space in Chiapas, hundreds of U.S. based community activists and organizers from communities of color have visited, shared with, and learned from the Zapatista movement. These lessons are brought home - back to community struggles against gentrification, police brutality, incarceration, racism, sexism, homophobia, and economic exploition. By sharing tactics and dialogues with the Zapatistas, we strive to create sustainability throughout communities of resistance here in the U.S., with hopes that we can defeat the monster of capitalism and corporate globalization here, in the brain of the monster. http://www.estacionlibre.org/ 

This day of events is sponsored By Nosotras (of Smith College).