Let’s go!
Mexico city
July 2015
It is important to create networks because it allow
us to learn from others
In Latin America borders divide us,
and we recognize that it’s as if these borders were
placed there almost by hand
because we have so many things that unite
and join us.
Convening of Collectives
From 15 countries in Latin America
and the Caribbean.
In Latin America the tissue is something ancestral
for many cultures and also for our own identity.
It is the collective participation and
above all, to be able to conciliate
several ideas and worldviews.
Community cinema
Free media, independent and alternative.
Video to denounce
It’s sharing all that information from
one place to another
and that everybody realize
that it is not just only a community
or an organization,
but thousands and thousands of people
fighting to achieve something better.
Here we brought together a very
interesting diversity
of experiences -community cinema,
video for denouncing, video as an evidence
All of this is our learning process,
our exchange process, our space
for building/growing knowledge.
For us it is fundamental to work
as a network to support the communities
that are in resistance against mining
and petroleum extractive projects
which are the common thread in Latin America
In this moment it feels really important
to build networks to share our practices,
our strategies and also our productions.
Is what gives us the strength as community
and free media, to awaken the people
who still live within the system.
It has been very interesting to meet other people
who are documenting the reality of their lives,
communicating it with other people
and helping others take control
of the media and tell their own stories.
The idea of a short film produced
by a local organization in Argentina
being presented here in Mexico or in Peru,
seems to us a very important event
for the strategy of thinking on a community cinema.
The importance of working as a network
is a peace experience,
a diverse peace that can be built
among the youth, artistic or cultural movements
in Latin America.
What we did here here is an important step
for the articulation of free/independent media
networks in Latin America
and the Caribbean.
These ties, at this point become important
as the repression and the violence
coming from the governments
are increasing and targeting our fights.
We have a common enemy,
the transnational capital is beating us all.
So finding these people
is a way of saying
“we are not alone, we are in this together.”
You share, you exchange
and you also feel the support
of a lot of people who are also
performing acts of resistance in their communities.
Let’s keep growing our solidarity
saying we are in this together
and we will be until the end!