Convergence: Art and Activism

A Conference on the Intersection of Arts and Activism.
Tufts University Medford/Somerville Campus
April 3-5, 2009

I will be presenting Saturday, 04/04/09, showing a work in progress of our short doc based on footage shot starting May 2006 through present footage of Esperanza del Barrio.

Followed by a panel discussion with Professor Radiclani Clytus and Lecia Rosenthal.

http://convergence-art.com/schedule.html

Vendor Law Reform Protest

Esperanza del Barrio: Grassroots Organizing

Esperanza del Barrio: Saliendo Adelante

Esperanza del Barrio: ¡La Lucha Sigue!

Movement for Justice in El Barrio

Came across this article while doing research for upcoming videos on street vendors in East Harlem:

"Zapatismo is not a new political ideology or a rehash of old ideologies. Zapatismo is nothing, it doesn't exist. It only serves as a bridge, to cross from one side to the other. So everyone fits within zapatismo, everyone who wants to cross from one side to the other. Everyone has his or her own side and other side. There are no universal recipes, lines, strategies, tactics, laws, rules or slogans. There is only a desire: to build a better world, that is, a new world."
-- The Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous General Command of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (CCRI-CG of the EZLN)

Movement for Justice in El Barrio (MJB), an East Harlem-based organization of immigrants and low-income people of color, has been fighting gentrification in Manhattan’s “last frontier” for over three years now. Being majority Mexican and sharing an affinity for the zapatistas’ way of organizing, MJB decided less than a year after forming to join the Other Campaign as an essential component of their work for self-determination.

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