White House Invades Mexico Tonight- February 22, 2008 7PM

An original Theater/Dance piece commissioned for the DREAMING THE AMERICAS / THE BODY POLITIC IN PERFORMANCE
NoPassport presents a one-day conference with the support of The Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts, Translation Think Tank, and in collaboration with Frank Hentschker & the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center. by Caridad Svich
www.caridadsvich.com/NoPassport

Martin E. Segal Theatre Center
The CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave.
(34th Street),

ph: 212-817-1860 mestc@gc.cuny.edu

Created by: Michael Schenker and Harry J. Bubbins
Choreography by: Sabine Heubusch, www.spinelight.com
Dancers: Anna Adler, Simone Coonrod, Sabine Heubusch, Anna Mc Hugh,
Shiwa Noh, Daniella Peltekova With: Marilyn Eire, Harry J. Bubbins, Firefly

Immediately followed by a Panel Discussion

7:05 PM Plan Mexico: Impunity, the ‘Drug War’ and Human Rights in Mexico-moderated by Jason Grote with Harry Bubbins, Laura Carlsen, Hector Sánchez *Harry J. Bubbins was a friend and colleague of Brad Will is involved in the movement to achieve accountability for his murder. www.friendsofbradwill.org *Laura Carlsen is director of the Americas Program of the Center for International Policy www.americaspolicy.org *Jason Grote is a playwright . jasongrote.com. *Hector Sánchez is the Policy
Education Coordinator for Global Exchange’s Mexico Program. http://www.globalexchange.org/

____Free. Reservations not required. Seats: First come, first served.____

**Please Forward Widely**

Movement for Justice in El Barrio…
invites you to learn more about the escalating low intensity warfare being waged by the Mexican government against the Zapatista communities: the brutal displacement, death threats and incarceration.

Currently, there are 79 permanent military bases in Chiapas and paramilitary groups are threatening Zapatista families.

Our special guest Ernesto Ledesma Arronte from the Chiapas-based Center of
Political Analysis and Social and Economic Investigation (CAPISE) will share with us how the main three Mexican political parties (PAN, PRD and PRI) attempt to displace the Zapatistas from their land.

We will also present the New York Premiere of “One Big Train Called The Other Campaign”, a new documentary filmed by the Zapatista communities on the Zapatista initiated national Mexican movement.

Monday, February 18th @ 7 pm
New York University’s KJC Center
53 Washington Square South, Suite 201
Manhattan, NY

(Take subway A,B,C,D,E,F to West 4th St. Walk east on West 4th St. West
4th St. becomes Washington Square South)

The new book collection of Zapatista communiques “Speed of Dreams” will
also be available.

For more information, please contact Movement for Justice in El Barrio @
movimientoporjusticiadelbarrio@yahoo.com

Co-sponsored by the National Congress on Latin America (NACLA)

-MORE INFO ON Ernesto Ledesma Arronte and CAPISE-

Ernesto Ledesma Arronte is the Director and founder of the Center of Political Analysis and Social Investigations and Economic A.C. (CAPISE).
He was the General coordinator of the First Hemispheric Encounter against Militarization and is currently a lecturer on indigenous communities and the situation of these communities in Chiapas.

CHIAPAS: WAR and PILLAGING
Since 2002, CAPISE has focused its work on the defense of the collective rights of Indigenous Peoples, particularly relating to indigenous peoples defense of and right to territory, their right to justice and their
right to cultural identity. In the last two years, Ernesto Ledesma Arronte and CAPISE, to which he belongs, through a deep investigation, have identified the mechanisms of the pillaging of the Earth and of the evacuation of zapatista indigenous communities in Chiapas at the hands of the Mexican government, through various institutions, in a ferocious dispute for the
control of the territory.

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*Zapatista-inspired rebellion on Turtle Island and throughout the galaxy…http://zapagringo.com

*Slingshot Hip Hop, the first feature-length film from Palestine’s emerging hip hop scene…http://slingshothiphop.com

with Alfonso,
Member of CIPO – RFM (a Magonista indigenous organization in Oaxaca)
& Eric Larson
IWW delegate, recently returned from Oaxaca

“This part of Santa Lucia is enemy territory. It is near Barricade Three, the Príista attack of last Friday, and the site of Brad Will’s murder. It’s also where the CIPO house is located…Now, less than a week after Brad Will’s murder, some of the same Príistas have agreed to “dislodge” CIPO from the neighborhood. If history, recent and distant, teaches us anything, their method will be violence. It is important that they know that acts of violence will not go unseen, even in this small neighborhood that they control. Please contact some or all of those listed below; tell them that if CIPO is attacked, that the Mexican state is responsible. And please also keep this in mind as solidarity actions are planned and carried out.”

Join us to learn more about this important struggle, and about what we can do.

Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2007, 6pm
DARE
340 Lockwood Street, Providence
Call 351-6960 for more information