Date: Saturday, August 22nd 2009
Time: 07:30PM – 11:30PM
Cost: $15, 15yrs & younger FREE!
Venue: WorldBeat Cultural Center
2100 Park Blvd. San Diego 92101
Balboa Park
More Info: 619-230-1190 events@worldbeatcenter.org
Presenter Website: www.worldbeatcenter.org
Press Contact: Jesse Graham 619-230-1190 publicity@worldbeatcenter.org
WorldBeat Center presents Mixtec traditional music and dance to raise funds for the sanitary sewer system project in Santa Maria Natividad!
Mixtec is a Central American Indigenous population living in the northern and western sections of the state of Oaxaca and in neighboring parts of the states of Guerrero and Puebla in southern Mexico. Since the first settlers arrived over 2500 years ago it has developed a strong regional identity with its dances and artwork famous throughout the country and its language one of the two most popular indigenous tongues. Lately musicians such as internationally famous Lila Downs and the late Alvaro Carrillo together with a host of artists have continued the region’s rich creative tradition.
Our Mixtec performers are from a small town called Santa Maria Natividad. Unfortunately, they come from one of the most vulnerable and marginalized indigenous groups in Mexico. And, they want to make a difference in their hometown fellows’ life. Now, they are in the process of constructing a much-needed sanitary sewer system in Santa Maria Natividad. The purpose of this Mixtec cultural performance is to raise funds for the sewer system while presenting you a feast of their amazing culture.
At this event, there will be a Mixtec traditional band, a DJ, a group to play Cumbia and salsa and Mixtec traditional food. In addition, we are going to display photos of the project and raffle movie tickets.
The name of the Mixtec Town is Santa Maria Natividad
Here is a video of the town project,
http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=hRY3SalEHak
More information and online registration: Traditional Mixtec Village Fundraiser
Best regards,
WorldBeat Cultural Center
Columbus Day Protest in San Juan Capistrano
5 10 2009stop the genocide
> NICAN TLACA (“NATIVE AMERICANS“) PROTEST ONGOING GENOCIDE AT HISTORIC SITE ON anti-COLUMBUS DAY
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> Contact:
> Naui Huitzilipochtli nauiocelotl@yahoo.com
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> WHEN: October 12th, Monday 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
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> WHERE: San Juan Capistrano Mission, corner of Ortega Highway and Camino Capistrano
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> WHO: Indigenous people and supporters .
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> WHAT: Indigenous people revisit scene of crime of continuing genocide in 8th annual event
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> WHY: Columbus Day was terminated as a national holiday in the 1990’s. Nevertheless this flagrant celebration continues to flourish within American culture and the private sector. Columbus Day signs and imagery pervade at this time of the year while “Native Americans” mourn his horrendous legacy. Locally, the Ajachamen people were brutalized by the Spanish mission system. The Ajachamen people continue to experience this torment as one of their sacred burial sites is being built upon as we speak, right next to the San Juan mission.
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> SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO — Members of the NICAN TLACA community are offended by the perpetual honor given to Christopher Columbus, a man who initiated genocide against millions of Taino and Arawak people in the Carribean in the late 1400’s. Columbus and his subordinates systematically invaded islands and planted crosses and Spanish flags on them, declaring these lands as part of Spain. He believed that non-Christians and non-whites had no rights to claims of their ancestral lands, and instituted a system of slavery for purposes of collecting gold and other precious metals, as well as of stealing land. Tens of thousands were outright-murdered by Columbus’s men. Some were massacred, some were crucified upside down in groups of 13 to represent Jesus and the 12 apostles, some were driven off of cliffs to their deaths, all in the name of greed. * Today, this man is honored by many Americans as a hero. Today’s Native Americans see him as the initiator of the deaths of 95 million indigenous peoples throughout the Western hemisphere. In the 1700’s the Spanish created the California mission system as a way to subjugate California nations. Father Junipero Serra was in charge of this system and mostly resided locally at the San Juan Capistrano mission, where he committed atrocities against local Ajachamen people.** We acknowledge that both of these men are icons of the holocaust against our peoples.
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> COLUMBUS DAY PROTEST
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> * Stannard, David. American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World. New York: Oxford University, 1992.
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