The Politics of Displacement and Community Self Determination: A Workshop and Film Screening with Simon Sedillo

Monday December 21st
Doors Open: 7:45pm
Event: 8:00 PM

The Politics of Displacement and Community Self Determination: A Workshop with Simon Sedillo

simonSimón Sedillo is a community rights defense organizer and film maker. He has spent the last 7 years documenting, producing and teaching community based video documentation in Mexico and the US.

This workshop identifies several institutions that threaten the lives of people everywhere. From banks and corporations to non-profits and universities, what role do these institutions have in making the poor stay poor, while allowing the rich to get richer? This workshop shows how the political devaluation of traditional forms of self governance and self determination has led to the degradation of entire sectors of society. Finally this workshop shares indigenous strategies for community based self determination in guiding struggles for urban community liberation.

As part of the presentation--Sedillo will screen his new short film. "La Familia Raices" is a short documentary on the family and Son Jarocho band ¨Los Raices¨ from Oaxaca. The Raices Family play traditional Son Jaracho music in support of the Oaxacan people's social movement. This traditional Afro-indigenous music originates in the state of Veracruz and is also traditionally played in some parts of the state of Oaxaca. This musical tradition is based upon popular education, collective organizing, and long term self determination for its musicians and instrument makers.