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Scope and Contents This video is restricted and cannot be viewed on the HRDI site. Session is conducted in both Spanish and English. Opening ceremony and conversation with all participants in the Rethinking Power and Resistance Conference. Ghislaine “Tiger Lily” Mahone convened the conference with movement and voice. Paula X. Rojas (Mamas of Color Rising), Beliza Torres, and Katherine Craft (Conspire Theatre) led participants in a movement exercise. Andrea Zarate introduced the participatory nature of the...

Scope and Contents This video is restricted and cannot be viewed on the HRDI site. Session is conducted in both English and Spanish. In this session, panelists from three community collaborations – Conspire Theatre, Polochic Evictions Counteraction, and the Transgender Jail Project—introduce their organization, how their organization developed, and the intersections between their organizations and human rights issues. The Polochic Evictions Counteraction is represented by two representatives from the 12...

Scope and Contents This video is restricted and cannot be viewed on the HRDI website. Session is conducted in English. Mayra Gómez, co-director of the Global Initiative for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, presents on forced evictions within the Polochic communities in Panzós, Guatemala. The presentation begins with photographs of women who have been evicted from their homes throughout the world, in places such as Nairobi, Cambodia, India and Guatemala. She details the motivations behind forced...

Scope and Contents Session is conducted in English. Roundtable discussion with hip hop artists Invincible, Yoli Zapata, Tru Bloo, Lah Tere, micah hobbes frazier (DJ Trinity), and TooFly, moderated by Kellee Coleman and Rocío Villalobos. Discussion begins with personal introductions by moderators and panelists, who introduce themselves and detail their art, work, and activism. Topics covered include race, gender and deconstructing privilege through the production of art and music, experiences of panelists...