Throughout the territory we call “Mexico” (and beyond); the triad formed by the State, the corporations and the (para)military groups wage an invisible war against indigenous peoples. Mega-projects, mining, energy extraction, tourism, and drug trafficking are some of the main  forms of capitalism driving the violent dispossession of their ancestral lands, waters, mountains, air, bodies and dignities. But because whenever there is oppression there is resistance, the Indigenous National Council (CNI) and the Center of Human Rights Fray Bartolomé de las Casas (Frayba) are traveling through Slumil K’ajxemk’op, the Land That Does Not Surrender, the Europe from below, to weave and strengthen networks of solidarity in defense of life; here and there.

In the film, the indigenous community of Santa María Ostula is trying to survive the violence and dispossession of their lands in the context of the war against drug trafficking in Mexico. With the uprising of the self-defense groups, the residents who had previously being displaced, could finally return to their lands and begin the reconstruction of their community.

This screening aims to offer a look into one of the many mirrors of struggle of the indigenous communities in Mexico, and to reflect it into our own struggles here; as well as to collect money to help funding the travel of members of the Indigenous National Council (CNI) and the Center of Human Rights Fray Bartolomé de las Casas (Frayba), from Mexico to the Netherlands, and throughout Europe.