Radio Acampa Live

Hosted by Xurxo Souto.

Interview with displaced people in the city and invited guests.

Interview with Celia Regina, Coordinator of ACAMPA BRAZIL.

Interview with Isabel Chagas, Coordinator of ACAMPA PORTUGAL.

Interview with Alcides Porto, from PORTUGAL (ACAMPA Architects Team).

Interviews with representatives of ACAMPA Coruña.

Interviews to institutional representations.

(In connection with other community, municipal and private radio stations).

El escritor de un país sin librerías

Presents the protagonist, Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel (Guinea Ecuatorial). Direction: Marc Serena Duration: 1:20 h.Equatorial Guinea is a young country. It gained independence from Spain 52 years ago and has now become one of the most isolated states in Africa. We are accompanied by its most translated writer, Juan Tomás ÁvilaLaurel, who in 2011 had to take refuge in Spain for denouncing the dictatorship of Teodoro Obiang, considered one of the most repressive in the world. Through his books, we enter a corner of Africa where we find some of the most invisible victims of Franco’s regime and which, even now, suffers the consequences of two centuries of colonial domination. A film that combines animation, archive images and music by the country’s most international singer, Concha Buika.

Meeting:
Indigenous Peoples, the struggle for life
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Green Earth

The problem of land tenure in Colombia is the country’s oldest conflict. The struggle for control over the land’s wealth, and the right to exploit its resources, is an ongoing dispute in which the weakest link struggles for survival.

For decades the mines of Muzo, the emerald capital of the world, have produced an immense fortune for their owners. At the end of the last century, several conflicts between the emerald leaders took place to take control of the territory during the so-called ‘Green Wars’. In those days, the ‘barequeros’ –emerald seekers– gathered by the thousands around the Río Minero valley, hoping to find under the dark soil the “gem” that would bring them out of extreme poverty. After Colombian environmental laws prohibited the dumping of leftover grit and rocks from mining excavations into the river, only a few dozen “barqueros” still continue to remove the debris with their bare hands.

MST: Land, Justice and Rights

The Landless Rural Workers Movement – MST, a Brazilian social movement that fights for agrarian reform and social justice.

It originates in opposition to the more concentrated and exclusionary model of agrarian reform imposed by the military regime, including selective agricultural modernization, which excluded small farmers, mainly in the 1970s. The MST fundamentally seeks to redistribute unproductive lands.

The group is among the largest social movements in Latin America with a membership of 1.5 million landless peasants organised across 24 of Brazil’s 27 states.

The group is among the main social movements in Latin America, with 1,500 people in the country, organized in 24 of the 27 states in Brazil.

Since the movement’s creation in January 1984, they were killed 1.722 activists of the movement.

 

Documentary: Retomadas, A loita Indíxena

Direction and script: Xosé Abad
Running time: 22′
A temporary reserve turned into eternal condemnation. Unfulfilled promises of land restitution, overcrowding, racism, and scarcity of means of survival in the heart of a devastated wasteland, transformed into a gigantic area of multi-intensive cultivation of sugar cane and transgenic soy for the production of biodiesel. This is the reality of the 17,000 indigenous people of the Guarani and Kaiowá ethnic groups who live confined to little more than the 3,400 hectares that make up the Dourados Reserve.

Retaking the land and freedom

While time goes by without anything happening, some indigenous people, those who can no longer bear the confinement in the nothingness, exercise again and again a strategy of struggle and resistance under the word Retomada (Retaken). Families who leave the Reserve and risk building their hut in a territory that has already been officially handed over to the landowners but is still unproductive. It is an unequal war, one that pits force against resilience. The night attacks follow one after the other. The landowners’ security forces set fire to and destroy their wooden huts and tarpaulins, rob them of their meager belongings and, even more seriously, snatch and destroy their documents to leave them, officially, without an identity. Nothing stops them. Neither the aggressors nor the Guaranis, who once and again rebuild their barracks, knowing that success doesn’t come by the time spent in freedom but by the philosophy that underlies and feeds this resistance. To take back what is theirs, peacefully.

Carlos Taibo’s “Historias Antieconómicas”.

Has been for thirty years a professor of Political Science at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Among his books are ‘En defensa del decrecimiento’ (Catarata, 2009), ‘Colapso’ (Catarata, 2016; Letra Livre, 2019) and ‘Iberia vaciada. Despoblación, decrecimiento, colapso’.

Meeting:
O xornalismo como compromiso social, información, desinformación.
Despoilment and Violence.

I International Recognition for the Defence of Human Rights Acampa 2021

 

The MST is one of the most powerful social movements in Latin America. Since 1984, it has been defending Brazilians’ access to land, as enshrined in the Federal Constitution and the unfulfilled Agrarian Reform, promoting peaceful occupations and fostering functional civic and social structures in its encampments throughout the country, where hundreds of thousands of people live.

 

I Local Recognition (Galicia) for the Defence of Human Rights Acampa 2021

 

 

Nicanopr Acosta is a daily presence in every just cause that takes to the streets in A Coruña and Galicia. The voice of the activist Nicanor Acosta -82 years old- is always behind the loudspeaker of the claim in favour of the most disadvantaged.

An anti-Franco militant, he is the driving force behind the Festivities for Cultural Diversity in the Agra del Orzán neighbourhood, the Galician Immigration Forum and the first and second World March for Peace and Nonviolence (2009-2010).

He camped out in the 15M movement and led its demonstrations. He participated in Stop Evictions and organised the people affected by the preference shares scam. He is also the founder of the association Forum Propolis, whose premises are always available for meetings of many social movements, and where he frequently organises round tables on a wide range of current issues. Acosta participates in Vanguardia Obrera, Acampa por la Paz and many other causes.

 

Matria

MATRIA es el reconocimiento de la tierra como única patria, la tierra en la que mi madre, mi padre, mis abuelas y todos mis antepasados hundieron las manos para alimentarnos, tal y como lo siguen haciendo 1200 millones de campesinos que en la actualidad alimentan al planeta. Es además un homenaje a la mujer campesina, corazón y motor de la agricultura familiar, que, a lo largo y ancho del planeta, garantiza la soberanía y la seguridad alimentarias.

MATRIA es un grito de alerta ante las agresiones que sufre la madre tierra por parte de la agroindustria o la gran minería, pilares fundamentales de una economía especulativa que encuentra en la alimentación y la explotación salvaje de los recursos naturales ingentes dividendos. Es también un grito de socorro frente a las violaciones de los derechos humanos que sufre el colectivo campesino en el mundo.

En el epicentro de esta situación se encuentra la mujer, que sufre problemas añadidos como la dificultad en el acceso a la tierra, cuestión determinante que propicia una discriminación estructural (familiar, social y económica) que genera violencias específicas.

Tal es la trascendencia del problema del campesinado que en diciembre de 2018 Naciones Unidas aprobaba la Declaración sobre los derechos de los campesinos y otras personas que trabajan en zonas rurales.

Este trabajo fotográfico propone un relato visual de la realidad que la Declaración pretende proteger, desarrollando cuatro de los derechos más relevantes que encumbra y documentando situaciones en las que estos son violados en cinco escenarios distintos del planeta. También se aportan las huellas visuales de las alternativas propuestas desde la comunidad rural, con especial atención a aquellas protagonizadas por la mujer.

Atrapadas

“Impossible to differentiate one day from another. Difficult to trust that something will happen that can change things. The routine of survival is imposed on the misery of knowing that, after a long journey, after resisting bombings and enduring the harshness of the road, we arrived at this situation. Europe became an immense disappointment, almost unassimilable, for the “lucky” ones who arrived alive in the Old Continent.“

ATRAPADAS tells the story of Somod, Aicha, Amal, Anin, Zahraa, and Hasisa, Syrian women refugees in the port of Piraeus in Greece, one of the largest camps for refugees fleeing the war in Syria.

Two actresses give body and voice to the real witnesses of these women who tell us about their flight from war: the hard journey to Piraeus, hunger, rape, sanitary conditions, separation of families … They unravel their lives with words.

ATRAPADAS relies on the story of the actresses and everyday objects, which illustrate the narrative and take on a strong symbolic power.

 

Documento en PDF: Maquinarias Teatro, Ferrol – Atrapadas

PERFORMERS:
Eugenia Sanmartín
Helga Méndez

DRAMATURGY, PRODUCTION AND DIRECTION:
Helga Méndez
Eugenia Sanmartín

STAGE MANAGER:
Cristina Mariño

VOICES:
Daniel García
Fadile Tibisay

PHOTO:
Carmen Pardo

PROMOTION VIDEO:
Carmen Pardo
Eugenia Sanmartín
Helga Méndez

Meeting:
Land, Justice and Rights
The Migration Crisis

Musical introduction: Richi Casas

He is a virtuoso saxophonist, who cultivates very diverse styles, always in the key of emotion. He played in the orchestra Los Satélites, and was a founding member of the bravura ensemble Los Papaqueixos. The central argument of his final concert, specializing in jazz at the Conservatory of A Coruña, were the recordings that the musicologist Dorothé Schubarth made for his grandmother, Rosa, in Cerceda in the 70s. Among other projects, Richi Casás was the musical director of the “Pardiñazo”, a great concert (more than three hours of music, eleven musicians on stage), created for the celebration of the XL anniversary of the Pardiñas Festival, in Guitiriz.