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Category: EEUU
“Repensando la Estrategia de EE.UU. para Centroamérica: De la Represión Extractiva a la Autodeterminación de los Pueblos”
Por: Lulu Matute, Observatorio de la Escuela de las Américas. Tucson, Arizona. Septiembre 2024. Read more
RITMOS DESCOLONIZADOS
- serie de artes y presentaciones para celebrar el trabajo
Ritmos Descolonizados (Decolonized Beatz) es una serie de artes y presentaciones para celebrar el trabajo de narradores, organizadores, y artistas indígenas, incluidas las personas discapacitadas y personas 2LGBTQIA+, las mujeres y loscreativos afroindígenas. Read more
LA CORTE SUPREMA DE LOS COLONIZADORES
- Las cortes de los colonizadores nunca han sido un buen lugar para los pueblos indígenas.
- demostración de fuerza y unidad entre los pueblos indígenas y las naciones tribales.
DISPATCHES FROM OUR RELATIVES
- (Treaty 1 Territory, “Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada”)
- Theo and founding executive director, Jen Deerinwater.
THEO CUTHAND
DISPATCHES FROM OUR RELATIVES
JEN DEERINWATER - (Treaty 1 Territory, “Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada”) At the inaugural event in Crushing Colonialism’s Decolonized Beatz, Indigenous World
- Pride event and media series the short film, Extractions, by Two-Spirit Little Pine First Nation member, Theo Cuthand, was screened. Following the screening was a pre-recorded conversation between Theo and founding executive director, Jen Deerinwater. Included here is a snippet of that conversation. You can watch the full event on our Facebook page at fb.watch/nTTgk2gGuw
- Jen Deerinwater: How did you get into filmmaking?
- Theo Cuthand: I got into it when I was 16 years old. I was in a workshop that was part of a queer film festival that was in Saskatoon in ‘95. It was just for that one year. We made a video for that weekend called “Lessons in Baby Dyke Theory.” It was about trying to find other lesbians. It was this short, cute video…in the mid nineties, there wasn’t a lot of work being done by queer youth in the video art world. It traveled to all these queer film festivals internationally.
- Jen Deerinwater: Your film Extractions covers a lot of topics in a very intersectional way. The ties between resource extractive industries and creative practices is relatively unknown to many. Many of them (resource extractive companies) fund museums and film festivals.
- Theo Cuthand: I had this issue when I was in the Whitney Biennial. Warren B Kanders was on the board the year I was in the Biennial. He’s a war profiteer who made tear gas that was used in Palestine and on the “U.S.- Mexico” border.
- Jen Deerinwater: What advice do you have for Indigenous people, especially our Two-Spirit and queer relatives, who want to get into filmmaking?
- Theo Cuthand: There are a lot of film festivals and artist run centers in “Canada” that have programs for emerging artists to make a film or learn. You can also apply to film school, but I think community-based learning is also key for people who don’t feel confident with the education system and want to experience more hands-on learning. If you’re learning editing, you can do a lot with YouTube tutorials. I’m like a big believer in community based art practices and teaching emerging Indigenous creatives skills. I come out of a DIY kind of punk community and aesthetic. I guess there’s still part of me that’s a scrappy punk that just wants these communities to not have to play the big art game with all the money people. You can find Theo’s work at vimeo.com/thirzacuthand
CARTA DE LA DIRECTORA EJECUTIVA FUNDADORA
Bienvenide, bienvenida y bienvenido a la primera edición de Crushing Colonialism (Aplastando el Colonialismo): ¡La Revista! Me emociona enormemente poder ofrecerles esta publicación. Crushing Colonialism se fundó en el año 2016 como una publicación independiente de noticias indígenas bajo la revista digital Resist Media. Desafortunadamente, no se dieron los recursos para que pudiéramos publicar. Sin embargo, había un fuerte seguimiento en línea y el deseo de la comunidad de contar con una organización que apoyara a nuestres, nuestras y nuestros narradores. Read more
Esto’k Gna of Somi Se’k
Written by Juan Mancias, Tribal Chair of the Esto’k Gna – Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribal Nation of Texas
Connection. Our bodies are designed for it. Intricate systems of connections on and below our skin keep us alive. Neurons fire off and our hearts beat because our bodies listen to one another and no one system is competing above the rest. Read more
Migration, Displacements, and Workers: Perspectives from a U.S-Mexico Border Region
By Patricia Rodríguez
The times we live in are desolate, especially for low income workers and communities throughout Central America, Mexico, the U.S., and globally. Visiting the border region along the Mexican towns of Piedras Negras and Ciudad Acuña and talking to the women workers (obreras) and seeing the humanitarian crisis brewing in packed shelters in the area, the links between border imperialism, economic, labor and immigration policies, and the growing need for cross-borders grassroots solidarity efforts become crystal clear. Read more
Por el Cierre de la Escuela de las Américas/WHINSEC
Por Dévora González e Azadeh Shahshahani *
El 16 de noviembre de 1989, el Batallón Atlacatl salvadoreño, capacitado y financiado por los Estados Unidos, ingresó a los terrenos de la Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) en El Salvador y asesinó brutalmente a seis sacerdotes jesuitas, a Celina Ramos, de 16 años y a su madre, Elba Ramos. Diecinueve de los veinticinco soldados del Batallón Atlacatl eran graduados de la Escuela de las Américas del Ejército de EEUU. Read more
