18 SEPT 2024: Global Extractivisms, Wars, and Criminal Economies
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19 SEPT 2024: Indigenous Autonomy, Self-Determination, and Self-Defense
From 16:30-20:00
At Museum of Impossible Forms (Aallonhalkoja 9 - Sompasaari)
20 SEPT 2024: Screening and mutual aid party
From 19:00-22:00
At Dodo (Veturitallinkuja 5)
We warmly welcome you to a three-day program dedicated to the construction of autonomies in defence of life and other-worlds, while contesting oppressive structures. This initiative arises from a shared necessity to create a platform for collectively navigating the present storm—as described by the Zapatistas. This storm, a global war driven by capitalist expansion, threatens all forms of life. While the effects and experiences of this storm vary, coming together in our differences will enable us to build collective power. The gatherings aim to foster discussion, build networks, and activate future trajectories of work toward long-term efforts in creating nodes of mutual aid and collective autonomy. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn from indigenous autonomy and self-determination processes, civic observation brigades, refugee alliances, and historical resistance movements.
We are delighted to welcome representatives from the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center (FRAYBA), the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) of Mexico, and Rex Osa.
The gatherings are organised by Colectivo Armadillo Suomi in collaboration with the Museum of Impossible Forms, Debt for Climate Finland, Students for Palestine Finland, TAIVO, the EXALT Initiative at Helsinki University Global Development Studies (FSS), and the Association for the Advancement of Social and Ecological Justice through Art and Research. For more information contact: autonomiascolectivas@proton.me
The event is organised on a mutual aid basis. Donations are welcome!
18 SEPT 2024
From 16:30-20:00
At Museum of Impossible Forms (Aallonhalkoja 9 - Sompasaari)
19 SEPT 2024
From 16:30-20:00
At Museum of Impossible Forms (Aallonhalkoja 9 - Sompasaari)
20 SEPT 2024
From 19:00-23:00
At Dodo (Veturitallinkuja 5)
Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center (FRAYBA) was founded on March 19, 1989, at the initiative of Don Samuel Ruiz García, then Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas. He saw the need to create a human rights space that could respond to the demands of communities and organisations defending their rights. From its inception, FRAYBA was conceived as an open space to receive and support any person or collective whose rights were violated, regardless of religion, ethnicity, or gender. Though rooted in the diocesan process, the Center was established as a civil organisation, autonomous in its operation from the diocesan structure, yet connected to and guided by the indigenous communities and their commitment to dignity, justice, and peace.
Rex Osa is a migrant activist with a refugee background. Active for nearly two decades in refugee struggles in Germany, his recent focus has been on networking and organising with deported persons in Nigeria. In 2019, he founded the Migration Information Point (MIP) in Benin City, Nigeria, supporting the self-organisation and expertise of people with migration experience. With the Deportees Emergency Response and Support (DERS) in Lagos, he monitors charter deportations from Germany and elsewhere in Europe and facilitates access to basic services for deported individuals.
The National Indigenous Congress (CNI) was constituted on October 12, 1996, as a collective space for all indigenous peoples, tribes, and nations within what is now Mexico. The CNI provides a platform for shared thought and solidarity, strengthening resistance and rebellion movements through indigenous forms of organisation, representation, and decision-making. The CNI operates by seven guiding principles: To serve, not to serve oneself. To build, not to destroy. To represent, not to supplant. To convince, not to defeat. To obey, not to command. To go from below, not from above. To propose, not to impose.
Recuperando el Paraíso (Recovering Paradise), 2017
by José Arteaga & Rafael Camacho
1hr12min
Spanish with English subtitles
A group displaced by narco-violence organises themselves to confront, through an armed-uprising, the drug cartel that for several years now has been terrorising their community. RECUPERANDO EL PARAÍSO is a confidential gaze at the struggle of an indigenous community for surviving and defending their land in the midst of a violent context that threatens a large area of Mexican territory.
*Image Caption: Simón Pedro Pérez López (Simón Pedro), Las Abejas de Acteal human rights defender murdered the 5th of July, 2021 in Simojovel Chiapas.
