Indigenous and re-emerging ways of deciding together

Formas indígenas y re-emergentes de toma de decisiones
(Indigenous and re-emerging ways of deciding together)

A conversation on community and politics by Sócrates Vázques García y Rosa Zubizarreta

Este evento va a ser en Español
This session will be held in Spanish with live translation -- see the English description further down.

Un taller con Sócrates Vázques García y Rosa Zubizarreta

A través de su experiencia como parte de la comunidad, y de sus estudios e investigación profunda en los sistemas sociales de su Pueblo Ayuujk, Sócrates nos hablará de "La organización comunal: Estrategias de vida desde el territorio ancestral, sistemas de cargos y cosmovisiones Ayuujk"

Un sistema que ha sobrevivido siglos de invasiones, opresión, desplazamientos y desposeimiento.  Y que va encontrando formas de prosperar mientras coexiste con el gobierno Mexicano, un producto directo de la colonización.

¿Podemos tener procesos similares en lugares donde nuestra cosmología y ese enfoque de la tenencia de la tierra y la comunidad se han perdido?

Rosa nos hablará de su investigación sobre "La práctica de la indagación collectiva en los Consejos de Ciudadanos de Vorarlberg, Austria"

Explorando las diversas prácticas de innovación democrática que están difundiéndose...  A veces de arriba abajo, a veces de abajo arriba, a veces encontrándose en el medio. Más pequeños que las Asambleas de Ciudadanos, más ágiles que los Jurados de Ciudadanos, los Consejos de Ciudadanos cuentan con un sistema operativo de código abierto basado en la empatía. Se utilizan en Austria para generar políticas públicas de manera participativa e incluyen una función diseñada para observar la implementación de dichas políticas.

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Through his own life story and his deep knowledge of the social systems of his peoples, Sócrates will bring us to his Pueblo Ayuujk in Oaxaca, where we will explore "The communal organisation: life strategies from the ancestral territory, community-work systems, and the Ayuujk cosmology"

A system that has survived centuries of invasion, oppression, displacement and dispossession.  And that now has found ways to thrive while co-existing with the highly colonised Mexican government.

Can we have similar processes in places where we have lost our cosmology and that approach to land holding and community?

Rosa will walk us through her research on "The practice of collaborative inquiry in Vorarlberg’s community councils"

Touching on the various practices of democratic innovation that are currently spreading… sometimes top-down, sometimes bottom-up, sometimes meeting in the middle. Smaller than Citizens’ Assemblies, more agile than Citizens’ Juries, Citizens’ Councils feature an open-source, empathy-based operating system. They are used in Austria to generate public policy in a participatory manner, and include a feature designed to monitor the implementation of that policy. 

Socrates Vásquez García (Ayuujk Jääy, Ayuujk Community). From Oaxaca, Mexico, is a radio journalist, activist for Indigenous Peoples Communication Rights, co-founder of Ayuujk Community Radio Jënpoj, which has been operating in Tlahuitoltepec Mixe, Oaxaca, for the last 17 years. He has worked on community development projects, training Indigenous community journalists, and strengthening Indigenous community broadcasting. He has worked for the recognition of community and Indigenous radio stations in Mexican legislation.  Socrates was the national representative of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC), and belonged to the Regional Council of AMARC Latin America. Socrates is also a rural sociologist at the Autonomous University of Chapingo, in Texcoco, Mexico. He has a master's degree and Ph.D. in rural development from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana de Xochimilco. He did his doctoral thesis in communication and Indigenous territory.

Rosa Zubizarreta's life calling is to catalyze the cultural shift from argument-as-battle to collaborative epistemologies. As part of growing our societal capacity for arriving at powerful truths together, she practices and studies relational approaches to group facilitation. These are methods that work with the energy of divergent perspectives to generate shared systemic understandings, felt wholeness, and inspired action. Author of “From Conflict to Creative Collaboration: A User’s Guide to Dynamic Facilitation”, Rosa teaches this practice internationally. Having earned several master’s degrees in multicultural education, social work, and organization development along the course of her journey, Rosa is currently completing doctoral studies at Fielding Graduate University.  An activist at heart, she has also written about the synergy between non-violent direct action and deep dialogue.

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