[DenverFairFoodAnnounce] No Coast Encuentro: Friday & Saturday night entertainment!

[Denver Fair Food Committee]

The No Coast Encuentro is less than two weeks away!  In addition to the
powerful action happening Fri, Oct 15 at 11:30 at Quiznos HQ and the amazing
workshops, discussions and strategy sessions occuring Fri, Sat and Sun,
there is great entertainment on both Friday and Saturday night.

Register online and find all the details at:
http://denverfairfood.blogspot.com/2010/07/no-coast-encuentro.html

1) The Demarest Factor: US Military Mapping of Indigenous Communities in
Oaxaca, Mexico - Film premiere and presentation by Simon Sedillo
Friday, October 15th, 7:00pm
Auraria Campus, North Classroom 1535
(near Speer and Larimer)

2) Dance Party and Celebration!
Saturday, October 16th, 9:00pm
Flobots Community Space
2705 Larimer St.

Join us for all or part of the Encuentro! See the full schedule here:
http://denverfairfood.blogspot.com/2010/09/no-coast-encuentro-schedule.html

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1) The Demarest Factor: US Military Mapping of Indigenous Communities in
Oaxaca, Mexico - - Film premiere and presentation by Simon Sedillo

Friday, October 15th, 7:00pm
Auraria Campus, North Classroom 1535
(near Speer and Larimer)

This film and workshop presentation discusses a recent investigation into US
military mapping of communally owned indigenous land in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Kansas University geography professors presented the mapping project to
indigenous communities as a participatory research project intended to
benefit the communities ability to manage their resources and territory. The
involvement of the US Army’s Foreign Military Studies Office (FMSO) based
out of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and a US Army School of the America’s
graduate, Lt. Col. Geoffrey B. Demarest, raised serious suspicions about the
true nature of the mapping project known as “The Bowman Expeditions” or
“Mexico Indigena”. This film will discuss parallels between US political and
economic interests within the North American Free Trade Agreement, and a US
military strategy to secure those very interests.

Simón Sedillo is a community rights defense organizer and film maker. He has
spent the last 8 years documenting, producing and teaching community based
video documentation in Mexico and the US. Through lectures, workshops, and
short films, Sedillo breaks down the effects of neoliberalism, the North
American Free Trade Agreement, and militarism on indigenous communities,
immigrant communities, and communities of color in the US and Mexico.
Through collaborative media projects, Sedillo’s work has contributed to a
growing network of communities whose primary objective is to share, teach,
and learn from one another, about community based media production and the
collective construction of horizontal networks of community rights defense.
Sedillo is also an active member of the campaign to close the U.S. Army
School of the America’s, at Fort Benning, in Columbus, GA. You can find him
at the gates of the U.S. Army base every November along with the folks from
The School of the America’s Watch at www.soaw.org,

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2) Dance Party and Celebration!

Saturday, October 16th, 9:00pm
Flobots Community Space
2705 Larimer St.

Music, snacks, beer - there may even be a pinata! This night is going to be
fun! Be prepared to dance.  FREE of charge, everyone is welcome!

After a long couple days from the Encuentro, this is the perfect opportunity
to celebrate our victories and future struggles!
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