The Zapatistas & the World
Sub-title:
Reflections from Exchanges between US-based Organizers & the Zapatista Communities
Date & Time:
09/26/2007 - 19:30
Description:
NY-based organizers returning from this July's Second Encuentro of the Zapatista Peoples with the Peoples of the World as well as members of Estación Libre NYC will be speaking of their experiences with the Zapatistas and to the challenge and work of "bringing it home." Presentations will be followed by a whole group discussion around what this new phase of Zapatismo means for us here in NYC.
Bios:
Presenters will include Prita Lal, who has been involved in grassroots community organizing work with low-income women of color for the past four years in New York City and is currently a part of Center for Immigrant Families and member of Casa Atabex Ache; M. Mayuran Tirchelvam, a member of Estación Libre -a national collective of rebellious people-of-color working to build Zapatista-inspired autonomy in the U.S. territories- who also hangs out with kids of mamas in the movement as part of Regeneración Childcare NYC; Kolya Abramsky, was active in Zapatista-inspired networks in Europe and is currently a student and teacher in the Sociology Department at SUNY Binghamton where he is researching conflicts related to energy; and Carwil James who has participated in a variety of direct action efforts to unravel empire from the inside out and currently researches strategies of grassroots autonomy in Latin America as an anthropology student at the CUNY Graduate Center.
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