Tonight from 6 p.m. > FILM SCREENINGS, Analisys and Discussion and delicious traditional mexican food

Then from 10 p.m. > Benefit Party

The Square, 21 Russell square, WC1

Free before 9pm , £3.45 or Donation After. Food served between 6 and 8:30

_________ (dis)organises: zapatista action project >  zap06@riseup.net

The Cerezo brothers actively participated in the student campaign against the privatization of the UNAM (Autonomous National University of Mexico) in 1999. After more than 1 year, the strike was suffocated with over 5oo students arrested when the police stormed the buldings.

Thousands of Political Activists fighting for social and environmental justice in mexico, all over Latin America and the world suffer the consecuences of their own decition to struggle, in their many different ways, the system that oppresses us. The powers that be, don’t like that. Alejandro, Hector and Antonio, Cerezo were sentenced to 17 years in high security prisons, not for committing the crime they were accused of, but because the state decided there was an ‘ideological link’ between them and organised guerrillas in Mexico.


We invite you to see these films and dream. look at the screen and see if you recognize a different version of yourself. in a different country or city, shorter or taller, with dark hair and skin the colour of the earth. Studing economics or architecture, to be a lawyer or a teacher.

Likewise, a politically active student is dreaming too. she/he dreams is being you. dreamed she has white skin and got in debt to pay for an education and a future living in a place like london.One day he woke up the lights were on and had a gun on his head. he spent the rest of his early youth locked up in high security prisons being beaten, tortured and fighting against his freedom and dignity being stolen. he comes soon to london to tell his story that his is the story of many others, a story of resistance and hope. this event is the first step to think and reflect of what solidarity means. how much power we think we have and how much we can really have and how much of that power we use FOR the system and how much AGAINST it.

Northern ( read UK, EU, US, etc ) Corporations are responsible for the social unrest in the south, with the complicity and the help of their governments and their army or police force, but also with the complicity of the privilege people who consume and are dependent from the explotation of natural resources and labour to carry on living as we do today. We know that. Everything we eat, the energy we use, the tecnology we have wouldn't be here if the explotation wasn't perpetuated all over the south.
although the explotation of our everyday life, of our labour, of our intelect, of our happiness is helping the oppressor mantain the oppressed quiet and obedient. And still we can afford to live in a dream.

from 6pm


FILMS**Infoteinmet*Debate

screening and discussing political situation in mexico and beyond.

resume of the cerezo brothers and pablo alvarado case, and films as base for discussion

1999 a year of student strikes in Mexico City against the privatisation of education. July 2000 Vicente Fox comes to power as Mexican president. 8 of August 2001Mexico City small explosion outside Banamex (CityBank). F.A.R.P. graffity found nearby. Arrests follow; 13 of August, found in posession of ‘subversive material’ (leaflets and books), 3 brothers Hector, Alejandro, Antonio Cerezo Contreras and Pablo Alvarado detained. They are politically active in the UNAM ( Mexico City’s ‘Autonomous’ University) as well as in Indigenous People’s and Social struggles in Mexico. Their parents are allegedly the leaders on the EPR guerrilla. September 11th, Global War on terror begins .October 10th Digna Ochoa, human rights layer also working in the Cerezo case is ‘suicided’. June 03 the accused found not guilty of terrorism and possession of firearms, the court decides, that there is however an ‘IDEOLOGICAL LINK’. they are sentenced to 13 years in High Security prisons. March 2005 Alejandro is released. March 06 Antonio and Hector are dispersed.


films:

UNAM memoria del caos / X strike

The 1999 student strike, seen from the inside and made by the students themselves. From the beginning of the strike to the represion that put an end to it. Exclusive images of the strike, and its protagonists, the radicals and the moderates. The spying and the represion, the media’s coverage.

DIGNA

The life and death of the Mexican human rights lawyer Digna Ochoa. She was a former nun who went on to represent some of Mexico’s poorest against powerful government interests. She also uncovered torture and other abuses by the Mexican military and police. Ochoa worked on behalf of peasant ecologists in the state of Guerrerro, Zapatistas guerrillas in Chiapas and indigenous Indians in her home state of Verazcruz. At the time of her death, she was defending three men charged with bombing banks in Mexico City


Seguir Siendo

8 of August 2001Mexico City small explosion outside Banamex (CityBank). Arrests follow; 13 of August, found in posession of ‘subversive material’ (leaflets and books), 3 brothers Hector, Alejandro, Antonio Cerezo Contreras and Pablo Alvarado detained. They are politically active People’s and Social struggles in Mexico. Their parents are allegedly the leaders on the EPR guerrilla. September 11th, Global War on terror begins .October 10th Digna Ochoa, human rights layer also working in the Cerezo case is ‘suicided’. June 03 the accused found not guilty of terrorism and possession of firearms, the court decides, that there is however an ‘IDEOLOGICAL LINK’. they are sentenced to 13 years in High Security prisons.

from 10 pm ehem- £3.45 suggested donation, he he he

Djs-live Music-VJ proyections

RADIO REvOLUCIoN > *ska*fusion*reggae*
Ruben H > No boundaries between music styles, subject and object, politics and arts. of course.

Dj Subkapullo - DJ SALSA zero

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