Oaxaca    

community-teacher movement (Mexico)

Fighting destruction of communities and preserving their cultural heritage

 Thurs  1  November  8pm
Venue:  Fottrell Lecture Theatre, Arts Millennium Building, NUI Galway 

Introductory film:  

OAXACA: Megamarch for Justice
(34 mins) 

Followed by speakers from: 

CODEP (Comité de Defensa de los Derechos del Pueblo – Committee for the Defense of the Rights of the People),    

APPO (Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca – Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca), and

the education workers’ union Section 22

Meeting  hosted by Archaeology Society, NUI Galway supported by the Department of Archaeology & in association with the Global Women's Strike 

 Fully   accessible  ALL WELCOME .
No entry charge.  Donations to Oaxaca communities accepted on the night 

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Also on Thursday 1st November

A class in Maggie Ronayne's Public Archaeology course taught by the guests from Oaxaca, Mexico
and Ms Nina López from the Global Women's Strike

12-1pm McMunn Lecture Theatre, Arts Science Blding, NUI Galway.

All welcome, seating may be limited due to size of venue

The Archaeology Society, with the support of the Archaeology Department N.U.I. Galway and in association with the Global Women’s Strike, are hosting a talk and short film presentation by two teachers from the Oaxaca community-teacher mass movement in Mexico. Oaxaca is one of the places where agriculture first began and an area of other internationally significant archaeological heritage.  This is a rare opportunity to hear points of reference of the grassroots movement explain the problems faced by Indigenous people in their efforts to fight corruption and protect their communities, heritage and culture.

Two representatives from CODEP (Committee for the Defence of the Rights of the People) and APPO (Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca) are on a speaking tour of Europe to outline the struggle against the numerous injustices and repression the Indigenous population of the region are suffering at the hands of the local and national governments and their representatives.  The people of Oaxaca are up against Plan Puebla Panama, the US expansion of Nafta, the free trade agreement, to Central America, which would bring expropriation of land, environmental and cultural devastation, sweatshops and destitution.

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