I wish I was in LA for this (and a million other reasons) plus I would love to take my younger daughter who recently returned from Oaxaca.

“Xip Xop OaXaca” (50 Minutes) Hip Hop is alive and well today all over the world. This film is just another piece of evidence that by taking back identity, territory and community, Hip Hop can be part of a movement for hood liberation. In Oaxaca City, Mexico we see one more city in which young people continue to speak truth to power, through Hip Hop.

*When: Monday, April 12th, 2010
*Where: Geology Building. Room 4660, UCLA
*Time: 6pm- 9pm

Presented by Simon Sedillo (a community rights defense organizer and film maker. He has spent the last 8 years documenting, producing and teaching community based video documentation in Mexico and the US. Through collaborative media projects, Sedillo’s work has contributed to a growing network of community based media production whose primary objective is to share, teach, and learn from one another, about community based media production and the collective construction of horizontal networks of community rights defense.)

http://elenemigocom un.net/banda/ simon/x/en

** snacks provided! **