Face to Face: Radical Futures for Black and Indigenous Solidarity
This workshop and presentation will cover recent developments in Black internationalist organizing at the grassroots level in the Americas. Using primary sources*, and uplifting the voices of youth, women, and queer, trans, and gender non-conforming folks, the workshop will familiarize students with the international viewpoints at the heart of local efforts to strengthen Black and Indigenous solidarity. Students will engage with histories, analyses, and testimonies of resistance produced by communities struggling to birth autonomous worlds in the shadow of Empire across Latin America and the Caribbean and within the United States. Join us as we challenge the state’s narrative of Black liberation as a “domestic issue,” and envision solidarity as a needed healing process to fortify oppressed people in our cooperative fight to reshape the future.
*In May through June of 2015, the Chiapas Support Committee organized an eleven person delegation to Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras to exchange with Black and Indigenous nations organizing for autonomy and self-determination. . Many of the testimonies to be shared will be from our exchanges with these communities throughout Central America resisting imperialism and organizing for territorial rights.
Asiyahola Sankara is a Black queer organizer and human rights activist. He received his B.A. in Gender and Women’s Studies at Pomona College in 2014, and since graduating has focused his work on strengthening connections between the emerging movement for Black lives in the United States and social movements in Latin America and the Caribbean. Asiyahola is currently the Organizing Coordinator at the Alliance for Community Transit – Los Angeles (ACT-LA), and is a member of the Chiapas Support Committee and Black Lives Matter LA.
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*Co-Sponsored by the Office of Dean of Students.
*For Scripps Students Only