From NY Remezcla
While the sounds of the Colombian Caribbean coast are known across the world thanks to the Pan American adoption of cumbia and its subsequent transnational success, little is known about the much more Afro-centric pacific coast, with the one obvious exception of Grammy-winners Choc Quib Town.

To help fill that unfair hole and give the Pacific its proper representation, these two music lovers and internet activists joined forces and put together a compilation of 24 tracks for free download. One of the men behind this project is no other than Caballo (Colombian residing in Canada) who has been featured in Remezclamore than once because of his indefatigable work releasing compilations of cool innovative Latin music through his netlabel Latino Resiste. The other one is the mysterious DJ Mundo, a faceless representative of the Rebel Sounds community, a bootlegger’s haven of mestizo music.

The all-encompassing compilation will take you on a trip through these vastly unexplored areas of Colombia and it’s characteristic music (loots of marimba sounds) mixing in the old and the new, with remixes of traditional tunes and original tunes by current artists. Lots of unknown names for the uninitiated, that’s for sure, but also some familiar voices like Choc Quib Town’s Goyo (in the most crossover-friendly of the compiled tracks), Pernett, La Mojarra Eléctrica and Uproot Andy. All artists donated their songs for the cause and the artwork was done by the talented design team of AfroMestiza (the same guys who did the art for Sergent Garcías’s latest albums).

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We received a link from Josef Kubota Wladyka, a filmmaker based out of NYC. He has been shooting a series of short films entitled, "One Shot Stories" around the world. They are short vignettes of people's lives told in a single shot. He recently traveled to the Pacific Coast of Colombia and shot a story with a community leader in a small AfroColombian fishing Village, Curai, south of Tumaco. He wanted to share it with the AfroColombia NY community. 

Come join us for a night of solidarity, a short film, and insightful presentation featuring Rudy Amanda Hurtado Garcés. 

Rudy Amanda Hurtado Garcés is one of the founders and organizers of Palen(k)e Universitario, a national Afro-Colombian student organization that struggles against the privatization of public education and neo-liberalism and state repression more broadly. She is also an anthropologist-activist at the Universidad del Cauca in Colombia where she researches the relationship between multiculturalism and neo-liberalism in Afro-Colombian communities. 

In her presentation, Amanda will speak about the phenomenon of "Neoliberal Multiculturalism" in Colombia and Americas. She'll talk about this bearing in mind the social, political, and environmental effects of multinational corporations and megaprojects on the collective territories of Afro-Colombian communities in the midst of armed conflict in Colombia. She will also relate these issues to her experience as an organizer with the Afro-Colombian student movement.

*REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED - PLEASE RSVP BY MONDAY, MARCH 19 at raceandethnicitygroup@gmail.com 

This event is sponsored by the Columbia University Graduate History Association's Students of Color Chair, Columbia University's Workshop on Critical Approaches to Race and Ethnicity, Columbia University Office of Diversity, LUCHA, and AfroColombiaNY

Terraza Cafe hosts a conversation with Danelly Estupiñan. An Afro-descendant woman activist and community organizer from Colombia, Estupiñan will share her experiences as a community organizer and psycho-social supporter for women victims of violence in rural and urban areas of Buenaventura, the second most important port in Colombia and one of the most dangerous places for human rights defenders, particularly women.

Saturday, March 24, 2012 7:00pm
Terraza 7 Cafe
40-19 Gleane Street
Elmhurst, NY 11373
7 train to 82nd Street

Join the CCNY BLACK STUDIES PROGRAM co- sponsored by FALU FOUNDATION, BLACK STUDENT UNION and the AFRICAN STUDENT UNION to celebrate in welcoming Juan de Dios Mosquera. Leader of Movimiento Nacional Cimarron, one of the most recognized Afro-Colombian organizations, both nationally and internationally; Co-founder of Afro-Colombian Studies programs, the National Movement for Afro-Colombian Rights, the National Afro-Colombian Women Movement, the Continental Network for Afro-American Organizations and the Center for Justice against Racism in Colombia.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 6:30pm
Conference Hall 1-203 - NAC Building
The City College of New York
138th Street & Convent Ave.
Subway #1 to 137th Street, Bus M101 to 138th St.
RSVP: 212-650-8117 or 646-246-8302
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AfroColombia NY and the Colombian Studies Group (CUNY Graduate Center) would like to invite you to a very special evening featuring a documentary “The War We Are Living," part of the acclaimed PBS series Women, War & Peace, conversation of political strategy and solidarity with Clemencia Carabali and Francia Marquez, Afro-Colombian Leaders featured in the film, and wonderful Colombian music on Monday, January 16 at 6:30 p.m. 

The discussion will be followed by a performances by acclaimed Colombian musician Gregorio Uribe and Diego Obregón from Grupo Chonta  
Monday, January 16th @ 6:30 p.m. 
Location: Terraza 7 Café
Queens, New York, 40-19 Gleane Street
Take the 7 Train to Roosevelt and 82nd 

 The film highlights the efforts of two extraordinary Afro-Colombian women who are defying powerful mining interests and paramilitary death threats to protect their community and the land that sustains them. They are standing up for a generation of Colombians who have been terrorized and forcibly displaced as a deliberate strategy of war.  Please RSVP at yesenia@afrocolombiany.org. Read more about the documentary here.