[act-ma] 11/08 Pena: Struggle & Revolution in Latin America with a focus on El Salvador

[Charlie Welch]

Encuentro5 & Mass Global Action present
Pena Latinoamericana
Struggle & Revolution in Latin America with a focus on El Salvador

7 pm - late
@ Encuentro 5
9 Hamilton Place, Boston.
Next to Park Street T Station

Join us for a night of folklore, storytelling, art y amor, the
poetry of struggle bringing histories to life, and life to our
circles of song.

A Peña is a gathering of musicians, artists, and friends who come to 
share their work and to play together. Peñas take historical root from 
Chilean social gatherings during the 60s and early 70s that  expressed 
the spirit of creativity and resistance in melody, poems, and artwork.

Please feel free to bring your own stories, songs, poems, or artwork to 
share.

rsvp on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/987508261274968/?source=1

Indigenous peoples and human rights/peace/social justice/environmental 
organizations were beginning to gear up for the 500th anniversary of 
Columbus' voyage, 1492-1992, which marked the beginning of the European 
invasion of the Western Hemisphere and Native resistance to it. While 
governments were trying to make it into a celebration of colonialism, 
Native peoples wanted to use the occasion to reveal the historical 
truths about the invasion and the consequent genocide and environmental 
destruction, to organize against its continuation today, and to 
celebrate Indigenous resistance. With representatives from 120 Indian 
nations from every part of the Americas, the all-Indigenous First 
Continental Conference on 500 Years of Indian Resistance, held in Quito, 
Ecuador in July 1990, saw itself as fulfilling a prophesy that the 
Native nations would rise again when the eagle of the north joined with 
the condor of the south. The conference resolved to transform Columbus 
Day, 1992, "into an occasion to strengthen our process of continental 
unity and struggle towards our liberation." Resistance 500 "reaffirm 
October 12, 1992 as International Day of Solidarity with Indigenous 
Peoples."
Snacks  beverages provided
$5 suggested donation. No one turned away.
Please note that the venue is currently not wheelchair accessible.


www.encuentro5.org <http://www.encuentro5.org>


Flyer 
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/ep9erfa5pe8oqgs/11_07%20Pena%20Latinoamericana%20-%207%20pm%20%40%20e5.html?dl=0>