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"Teachers and Popular Movements in Southern Mexico Since the Uprising in Oaxaca, 2006."

A talk by indigenous primary school teacher Marisol Castellanos López with an introduction and translation into English by Eric Larson.

Thursday, March 10, 2011
1:00 PM
10367 Bunche Hall
UCLA

Marisol Castellanos López is an indigenous (Chinantec) primary school teacher who has worked with the indigenous radio station Stereo Comunal in one of the state's Zapotec regions, the Sierra Norte.  Castellanos López was a Section 22 (CNTE/SNTE) advisor to the APPO (Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca) in the Oaxacan popular uprising of 2006, and is currently a union official.

 Introduction and Translation into English by Eric Larson, Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Brown University, Lecturer in History and Literature at Harvard University.

Cost: Free and open to the public

For more information please contact

Cynthia Gomez
Tel: 310-825-4571
latinamctr@international.ucla.edu

Download File: PopMovementsSoMexico-2a-psk.pdf

Sponsor(s): Latin American Institute