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$10-20 Suggested Donation at the door

[English description below] Pu peñi, pu lamgen, pu weni, kom pu che, La lucha sigue. En respuesta a lo que se concluyó en el primer cabildo del Área de la Bahía, realizaremos el domingo 24 de noviembre una peña solidaria para recaudar fondos para insumos médicos que se necesitan entre los médicos y estudiantes de medicina que han instalado clínicas abiertas para atender a heridos víctimas de la represión policial en Chile. El evento será de 4 a 7 pm.
Esta Peña solidaria contara con la presencia de músicos, poetas y artistas visuales locales, además de artista de Hip Hop Subverso como invitado especial.

MÚSICA:
SubVerso
Mariela Herrera
Marcelo Bertin
Axel Herrera
La comunidad de Son Jarocho del Area de la Bahia
Elisa Duran Micco
Madelina y grupo

POESÍA:
Ximena Soza

ARTE VISUAL:
Pancho Peskador
Cristian Munoz
Fotografías presentadas por Wallmapu Support Committee

COMIDA:
Habran empanadas para la venta.

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Show your support for the Chilean people’s continued struggle against neoliberalism and state violence this Sunday, 4-7pm at La Peña Cultural Center in Berkeley. This solidarity concert will raise funds for medical supplies for doctors and medical students who are running volunteer-led open clinics at demonstrations to treat injured victims of continued police repression in Chile.

This event will include local musicians, poets and visual artists, as well as a special guest, Detroit-based Chilean activist and hiphop artist Subverso, who has just returned from Chile and will perform and speak about the situation on the ground there.

MUSIC:
SubVerso
Mariela Herrera
Marcelo Bertin
Axel Herrera
The community of Son Jarocho of the Bay Area
Elisa Duran Micco
Madelina and group

POETRY:
Ximena Soza

VISUAL ART:
Pancho Peskador
Cristian Munoz
Photographs submitted by Wallmapu Support Committee

REFRESHMENTS:
There will be empanadas for sale.

ABOUT THE MAPUCHE:
From “Who are the Mapuche?: People of the Land” by Mapuche foundation FOLIL
The Mapuche people are the largest ethnic group in Chile and constitute approximately 10% (more than 1.000.000 people) of the Chilean population. Half of them live in the south of Chile from the river Bío Bío until the Chiloé Island. The other half is found in and around the capital, Santiago. There are also around 300.000 Mapuches living in Argentina. The Mapuche people call themselves differently according to where they live, for example the Huilliche, people from the south, the Lafkenche, people from the west or the Nagche, people of the valley. Pehuenches, people of the pehuen tree (auracaria) area, is one part of the Mapuche people, who live in the Andes and alongside the Bío Bío River.

ABOUT WALLMAPU SUPPORT COMMITTEE:
We are a group of people from the Bay Area and our goal is to denounce what is happening and help in any possible way to achieve peace and justice in Wallmapu.
Find Wallmapu Support Committee on Facebook

Doors open 7pm / Show starts 7:30pm

$8 in advance / $12 at the door ($8 for students/seniors/disabled people/kids 12 and under)

La Peña Cultural Center presents “Recovering Paradise: A Community’s Fight Against Narco Terror”!

UPDATE: Due to visa complications, the co-creators of the film will not be able to join us. We are looking at the possibility of involving the film’s director through a video call.

Synopsis:

Located on the coast of the state of Michoacán, Santa Maria Ostula, like many other indigenous communities in Mexico, suffered great violence from organized crime.  The citizens lost their land to cartels and businesses wanting to exploit their natural resources.  They suffered greatly from intimidation and violence.  Some were killed.  Many leaders of the community decided to move away.

In 2009, a group of Ostula’s citizens decided to reclaim some of the land that organized crime and local leaders with the help of the government had taken.  They founded the town of Xayakalan.  However, by 2011, the community experienced a steep increase in violence.  Over the next 3 years, most of the citizens were forced to leave Xayakalan because of the violence, disappearances and murders that ensued.

This all changed in 2014, when a large group of citizens returned to Xayakalan with armed self-defense groups from Michoacán.  Mexican citizens are forbidden from carry firearms, yet the Mexican Constitution grants self-defense rights to indigenous communities.  The citizens were ready to fight to guarantee their security.  Now able to defend themselves, the community reclaimed their land and began reconstruction of their village.

Recovering Paradise documents the armed resistance of the indigenous Santa Maria Ostula community and their struggle to reestablish law and order in their homeland.

The film is in Spanish, with English subtitles.

Festivals & Awards:

Winner Best Documentary – 2017 International Indigenous Film Festival (FICWALLMAPU)

Winner “Cuenca Award” – 2018 Cinema Planeta Film Festival, Cuernavaca, Mexico

2018 Ambulante Coordenadas, Mexico

2018 Cinema Planeta, International Environmental Film Festival of Mexico

Honorable Mention 2018 International Documentary Film Festival in Memory of Santiago Alvarez – Santiago de Cuba

2018 The Hispanic Meeting of Independent Documentary Film and Video: Against the Silence, All the Voices

2018 Latin American Film Festival of Montréal

Debut Feature – 2017 – International Documentary Film Festival of Mexico City

Official Selection 2017 International Festival Signs of the Night, Urbino Italy

2017 Stockholm Independent Film Festival

2017 Meet The Docs! Film Festival, Forli Italy

About the Filmmakers:

José Arteaga is a filmmaker. He has focused on documenting social and environmental movements and events, as well as various types of music and the performing arts throughout Mexico. Recently he has worked on experimental videos and created “video-dances.”

Rafael Camacho is a filmmaker and independent journalist. He has covered social conflicts for several years. Rafael has a career in feature films, television and commercials as an art director.