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Speaker Domingo Tum
Mejia will be in Madison April 30th- May 4th,
as part of a national tour to amplify voices from the
Guatemalan grassroots,
to address the relation between wartime crimes
and ongoing exploitation of rural indigenous communities in Guatemala.
COLLECTIVE MEMORY,
COLLECTIVE RESISTANCE
Linking
Crimes of the Past to Ongoing Struggles Against
Militarization and Globalization
2:00 pm Friday, May 1st
206 Ingraham Hall,
1155 Observatory Dr.
in cooperation with
LACIS (Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program)
9:00 am Saturday, May 2nd
Presentation
at Covenant Presbyterian Church, 326 S. Segoe Rd.
6:00 pm
Saturday, May 2nd
Presentation with critically acclaimed movie director Luis
Argueta of the
upcoming film "abUSed - The Postville Raid”
Anderson Auditorium, Predolin Humanities Center, Edgewood
College
1000 Edgewood College Dr Madison, WI
5:00 pm Sunday, May 3rd
Presentation with
critically acclaimed movie director Luis Argueta of the
upcoming film "abUSed
- The Postville Raid”
St. Mark's Church,
605 Spruce St.
Contact Mario Garcia Sierra at (608) 575-9811 or
Lynn Persson (608) 849-8720
Tour sponsored by
the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA)
and the Madison Guatemala Network (MGN).
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 ANNOUNCEMENT
Madison
Guatemala Network
Date:
April 24, 2009
Contact:
Mario Garcia
Sierra, (608) 575-9811
marios.sierra@gmail.com
Lynn Persson (608) 698-8720
lynn@terraexperience.com
“Collective Memory and Collective Resistance”
Guatemala Human Rights Activist to Speak in Madison
From
April 30- May 4, Madison will be hosting speaker Domingo Tum
Mejia as part of a national tour to amplify voices from the
Guatemalan grassroots and build international solidarity with
struggles for truth and justice in Guatemala. The tour is being
organized by the Network in Solidarity with the people of
Guatemala (NISGUA) with collaboration with the Madison-Guatemala
Network (MGN).
Mr.
Mejia works with a group called Historical Memory, organizing to
achieve justice for crimes committed during Guatemala's 36-year
internal conflict. The group uses the reconstruction of
collective memory as a tool to demonstrate that the same motives
that fueled military offensives of the 1980's- the push to
control communities, their lands and resources- are propelling
the economic and political powers of today to impose
mega-development projects on indigenous people's lands.
Mr.
Mejia's own childhood memories, as well as the history of his
family, his community; his region and his country have propelled
him to fight nationally and internationally to achieve justice
for the genocide that took the lives of his parents. During this
tour, Mr. Mejia will speak about the importance of historical
memory in informing our understanding of ongoing repression
against marginalized peoples.
Mr. Mejia will
be speaking at the following public events:
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2:00 pm
Friday, May 1st “Collective Memory and Collective
Resistance”
206
Ingraham
Hall, 1155 Observatory Dr., Madison, WI
53706 University of Wisconsin
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9:00 am
Saturday, May 2nd “Collective Memory and Collective
Resistance” Covenant Presbyterian Church, 326 S. Segoe
Rd., Madison WI.
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6:00 pm
Saturday May 2nd ”Collective Memory and
Collective Resistance” and abUSed - The Postville Raid*
Anderson Auditorium,
Predolin Humanities Center, Edgewood College,
1000 Edgewood College Dr.
Madison, WI
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5:00 pm Sunday, May 3rd ”Collective Memory and
Collective Resistance” and abUSed - The Postville Raid* St.
Mark's Church. 605 Spruce St, Madison, WI
*Mr.
Mejia will be joined by critically acclaimed movie director Luis
Argueta who is in the post-production stage of abUSed
- The Postville Raid, the full-length documentary
that tells the story of the most brutal, most expensive, and one
of the largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids
in the history of the United States. Most of these workers were
from Guatemala. The film presents the human face of the issue
of immigration reform and serves as a cautionary tale against
abuses of constitutional human rights. Mr. Argueta’s visit to
Madison is being coordinated
by
Interfaith
Coalition for Worker Justice in cooperation with the Workers
Rights Center.
For more information on Mr. Mejiia contact: Mario Garcia:
marios.sierra@gmail.com 608-575-9811or Lynn
Persson: lynn@terraexperience.com
608-849-8720. For more information on Mr Argueta’s Madison
visit contact Sandra Rybachek
conejitary@gmail.com 608-251-4842 and
608-332-2169 or Patrick Hickey
worker1@sbcglobal.net 608-255-0376
Mr. Mejia
visits is sponsored by NISGUA and hosted in Madison by The
Madison Guatemala Network, CALA, LACIS, WORT, Covenant
Presbyterian Church, Edgewood College and St Mark’s Church.
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The Madison Guatemala Network (MGN) works
to raise
awareness about the culture, history and conditions of the
people of Guatemala and Guatemala’s relationship with the United
States. The Network builds mutually beneficial ties between
people of both countries as part of global movements for
democracy, environmental sustainability, and social and economic
justice.
NISGUA links people in the U.S. with the Guatemalan people and
their grassroots struggles for justice, human rights,
environmental protection, and dignity
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