cpsylist: Invited GuestSpeaker Tomorrow

[Bryan O. Rojas-Arauz]

Hi All,
Hope you are doing well. Please see the message below as an invitation 
to attend a panel discussion and conversation taking place tomorrow 
morning. Brought to you by Bilingual Supervision.

Best,


Bryan
SALA Diversity Chair

Bilingual Supervision Class of the Counseling Psychology Program is 
pleased to invite you to the Panel

The struggle for indigenous rights of the Mapuche in Chile: 
Extractivism, use of the Anti-terrorist law and the condemnation of 
Chile in the Inter-American Court.

Public Interest Environmental Law Conference

Date: Friday, March 1, 2019

Time: 10:30-11:45

Room: LAW 141

Description:

This panel addresses the circumstances confronting Mapuche People in 
Chile and their efforts to protect their territory from extractivism 
backed by government policies. The Mapuche movement is generating 
strategies based on collective rights to promote biodiversity   through 
the Mapuche concept of “Kume monguen”.  During the last decades, 
hundreds of Mapuche leaders have been imprisoned using counter-terrorism 
legislation aimed at curbing Mapuche protests against extractivism. The 
Inter-American Court in 2014 condemned the Chilean State due to 
irregularities in the use of anti-terrorist laws against indigenous 
leaders. Human rights abuses against Mapuche communities have continued 
including violent raids with children injured and youth killed by 
militarized police.

Participants:

Pablo Millalen member of the Mapuche Historian Community / Ph.D. Student 
in Latin American Studies at University of Texas Austin.

Ruth Vargas-Forman, PhD.  member of the Center for Legal Defense CID SUR 
Chile/ Instructor Counseling Psychology, University of Oregon.

This activity will be followed by a lecture in Spanish by Pablo Millalen 
at 12:15 at Lokey 117

Education Building (open to the public).

We look forward to your presence.