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Territories of Resistance: Mezcala and Epistemologies Against Oblivion

  • UC Santa Cruz 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, CA, 95064 United States (map)

In collaboration with the Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy, the CRJ presents a discussion on the struggle against dispossession and violence in Mezcala, resistance organized around the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) and its connections to war.

Ines Duran Matute is a research-activist that has supported the Coca Indigenous community of Mezcala in defense of their territory and the national struggle of Indigenous peoples in Mexico.

Rocio Moreno is an historian from the Pueblo Coca (Jalisco) and is Mezcala’s councilmember on the Indigenous Governing Council (CIG).