Felix Cabrera founded Radio Mujb'ab'l yol in his home town of Concepción Chiquirichapa, Quetzaltenango, in early 2000. During the armed conflict in Guatemala, Felix had fought alongside many other rural Indigenous farmers for agrarian reform. When the Peace Accords were signed in 1996, Felix put down his arms and took up a microphone.
Join Cultural Survival, filmmaker Anne Makepeace and the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project for the Independent Film Festival Boston's screening of WE STILL LIVE HERE: Âs Nutayuneân. Discussion to follow.
Saturday, April 30
2:15 p.m.
Brattle Theater, 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
(Subway: Harvard Square, Red line)
Visit the Independent Film Festival website to purchase tickets ($10.00).
Next door to the community radio station La Doble Via in San Mateo, Quetzaltenango, Francisco Garcia and his family are busy planting potatoes on a Sunday afternoon.
We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân, the story of the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project’s journey to bring their language home again, will inspire audiences this month at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival and the Environmental Film Festival in our Nation’s Capitol.
The Euchee Language Project and the Sauk Language Department were recently recognized for their contributions to a Native American languages kit for children called the “Euchee and Sauk Language Supplemental Resource,” developed with the American Indian Resource Center at the Tulsa City-County Library.
On March 3-6, the complete Guatemala Radio Project team met for three days in Antigua, Guatemala, for intensive planning and staff development sessions, along with the celebration of Cultural Survival's five years' involvement with community radio.
Diego Mendoza is an Indigenous Tz'utujil-Maya, of a town called Santiago Atitlan, on the shores of Lake Atitlan in Guatemala.
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are headquartered on Massachusett land, in Cambridge, MA, and we thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.
