
The Veins That Bind Us
A documentary film series celebrating indigenous solidarity and creative resistance across Mexico’s Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
A documentary film series celebrating indigenous solidarity and creative resistance across Mexico’s Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
The grisly murders of 15 Iko’ots activists in July 2020 created a wave of backlash that pitted community leaders against one another and threatens to undermine communal governance structures among one of Mexico’s most unintegrated Indigenous groups.
Since Columbus and Cortés, nearly every colonial expedition to the coasts of the Americas was driven by the desire to discover a passage linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and facilitate trade for the Spanish Crown. Five hundred years later, that dream will soon be realized.
In Oaxaca, Mexico Indigenous communities and workers in the informal economy struggle to survive the economic shutdown and find alternative means to support their families.
A graphic illustration inspired by the devastation wreaked by Canadian mining companies in South America.