Community Dialogue with Marisol Castellanos Lopez of the Seccion 22 and APPO from Oaxaca, Mexico
Time Monday, March 14 · 6:30pm - 9:30pm
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Location Southern California Library
6120 South Vermont Avenue
Los Angeles, CA
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More Info This event is presented by Cop Watch Los Angeles, Piece Cooperative, the Los Angeles Anarchist Bookfair Collective, and Revolutionary Autonomous Communities Los Angeles.
Come to this event to learn, and build, and dialogue.
Marisol Castellanos Lopez is an indigenous (Chinantec) primary school teacher who has worked with the indigenous radio station Stereo Comunal in one of the state's Zapotec regions, the Sierra Norte. Castellanos Lopez was a... Section 22 (CNTE/SNTE) advisor to the APPO (Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca) in the Oaxacan popular uprising of 2006, and is currently a union official.
Her collective, the Colectivo Libertario, is considering making a call for an International Anarchist Encuentro in Oaxaca for next year. That's likely one of the things Marisol would like to talk about, although the broader contours of indigenous rights, justice, and unionism (and education).
also i'm including here the excerpt of her collective's writing:
Democracy in Mesoamerican communities has different meanings than European democracy, because it is based in mutual aid, collective work, and resistance. These forms of comunal life have preserved the environment, though they’re not ecological movements. They’re forms of resistance to preserve daily life, and life itself.
That is why it’s important for this movement to be recovered by the men and women of the countries of the North. The industry that destroys nature comes from the North. Big capital comes from the North. The wind that blows from the North sickens consciences, and has the smell of the dollar. Democratic processes, which constitute daily life in communities through the active participation of community members, is being attacked by representative demcoracy, which favors the development of the free market and competition. The community follows, constructing itself in resistance.
The relation between movements of the North and the South must be reconceptualized in light of these new conditions. We have to invert the logics of domination and charity in favor of communitarian senses of mutual aid and solidarity, and for the defense of nature and human rights.
(Spanish version, original):
Marisol Castellanos López es un indígena (chinanteco), maestra de escuela primaria que ha trabajado con l@s indígenas la estación de radio Stereo Comunal, en una de las regiones zapoteca del estado, la Sierra Norte. Castellanos López fue una sección 22 (CNTE / SNTE), asesora a la APPO (Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca) en el insurrección popular oaxaqueño de 2006, y actualmente es dirigente sindical.
Su colectivo, el Colectivo Libertario, está considerando hacer una convocatoria de un Encuentro Internacional Anarquista en Oaxaca para el próximo año. Eso es probablemente una de las cosas Marisol gustaría hablar, a pesar de los contornos más amplios de los derechos indígenas, la justicia, y el sindicalismo (y educación).
También voy a incluir aquí el extracto de su colectivo por escrito:
La democracia en los pueblos de Mesoamérica presenta diferencias significativas de la democracia europea, porque tiene en sus antecedentes, la ayuda mutua, el trabajo colectivo y la resistencia. Las formas de vida comunitaria han preservado el ambiente, no son movimientos ecologistas, son formas de resistencia, para preservar la vida cotidiana y la vida misma.
Por lo que es importante que este movimiento sea recuperado por los hombres y mujeres de los países del norte. La industria que destruye la naturaleza viene del norte, el gran capital viene del norte, el viento que sopla del norte enferma las conciencias, tiene el olor del dólar. Los procesos democráticos, que constituyen la vida misma de la comunidad, que consiste en una participación activa de los comuneros es agredida, por la democracia representativa, que favorece el desarrollo del libre mercado y la competencia. La comunidad se sigue construyendo en la resistencia.
La relación entre los movimientos del norte y el sur deben ser replanteados a la luz de estas nuevas condiciones, tenemos que invertir la lógica de la dominación, del altruismo, por el sentido comunitario de ayuda mutua y solidaridad, y por la defensa de la naturaleza y de los derechos humanos.
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