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Exhibitions and Slide Shows on Threatened Peoples
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For all lectures we ask for reimbursement of the travel costs and if necessary of an overnight stay in the town where the meeting is held. Travel costs and lecture fees should be settled directly. Contact addresses and further information can be had from the

Aktionsreferat der GfbV
Frau Silvia Haselmeyer und Herr Frank Witte
Postfach 2024
D - 37010 Göttingen

Tel. +49 (0)551 499 06 17
Fax: +49 (0)551 580 28
E-Mail aktionen@gfbv.de

The GfbV will be glad to provide you with free information material on the subject required. Please ask for Frau Bremer.


Exhibitions

Development without Human rights - Adivasi in India

The exhibition gives information on the expulsion of the indigenous peoples of India by large projects, prejudicial treatment and discrimination of them in Indian society, the efforts of the Adivasi themselves and their demands for forward-looking development; with an accompanying poster and a postcard.


Slide Show by Christina Haverkamp. Length: 75 minutes

Yanomami Indians and Street Children in Brazil
Christina is available at weekends, on weekday evenings and in the morning for schools. In the case of schools there should be an audience of at least 200 pupils, who can give a donation of 2 Euros each for the Yanomami health clinic of a street children project in Brazil.


Slide Show by Anka Krämer de Huerta. Length: 20 to 90 minutes

Mountain Spirits against the Vatican
There are today some 40.000 Apachen living in the USA, 10.000 of whom in the San Carlos Reservation in the south of Arizona. They see their religion, which they have kept alive, threatened for several years bacause on their holiest mountain, Mount Graham / Dzil Nchaa Si An, telescopes are being set up, among them by the Vatican.
The speaker describes the religion of the Apaches (holy places, role of the diyin/medicine men) and at the present time of the struggle for the holy mountain. Points of especial interest can be picked out. The speaker is normally available at weekends, on weekday evenings and for schools in the morning, preferably in the Munich area, but also elsewhere in Germany.


Slide Show by Janet Abraham. Length: from 60 to 90 minutes

The Assyrians
Description of the history and present Situation of the Assyrians, and also Syrian Christians or the Aramaic. They live mainly in Tur Abdin in north-east Mesopotamia (south-east Turkey). The speaker also describes the situation of other minorities living in the area like, for example, the Yezidi and the Kurds. Aspects of particular interest can be discussed with her.
The pictures were taken in south-east Turkey. The speaker is available at weekends and depending on the distance from the venue – on weekday evenings also and in the morning for schools.


Slide Show by Prof. Thomas Heberer. Length:40 minutes

Minorities in China
The lecture is offered with various aspects possible which can be discussed with the speaker:
- Nationalities, nationality politics and ethnic minorities in China
- Islam and the Islamic peoples in China
- Tibet, China and international law
- The presentation of Tibet in Chinese art, literature and propaganda
- Ethnic identity and social change in the case of the Yi.

The speaker is available on weekday evenings and by arrangement also in the morning, e.g. for schools.


Slide show by Renate Domnick. Length: 60 minutes

Dirty Gold: The Resistance of the Western Shoshone in Nevada/USA
The lecture deals with the struggle of the indigenous Indian people living in Nevada, the Western Shoshone, against the extraction of gold which is destroying the environment on their territory. Large mining companies use poisonous cyanide on their sites, leaving polluted slag-heaps behind them. In order to stop this exhaustion of the soil the Western Shoshone demand: Recycle gold, avoid cheap products!

The speaker is available on weekday evenings.

Slide Show by Tjan Zaotschnaya. Length 60 minutes

Kamtchatka: in the Land of the Big Raven
The indigenous people of Kamchatka – Koryaks, Itelmens and Chuks – have like the Indians of North America – gone through a long history of colonialism. 300 years ago Kamchatka was "annexed” to Russia. The end of the Soviet Union plunged the indigenous people into bitter poverty. At the same time however initiatives have been established for restoring and bringing back to life the language, customs and the traditional economy. Tjan Zaotschnaya, herself an Itelmen from Kamchatka, reports on the life and culture of the indigenous people of the peninsular.
The speaker is available at weekends and on weekday evenings.

Slide Show by Stefan Struck
(possibly as a joint lecture with Dieter Balle). Length: 60 minutes (in the case of a joint lecture: about 30 minutes each)
Kurdistan

The speaker offers the following lectures on various regions of Kurdistan:
- Everyday culture of the Kurd semi-nomads in the regions of Hakkari and Ararat
- Culture, history and the present situation of the Kurds of Dersim
- From Hasankey to Urfa
- The Kurd part of the two-river country and its changes through the GAP project


The speaker comes to you at weekends anywhere in Germany, on weekday evenings only in the range of 150 km from Karlsruhe, and in the morning for schools only in Karlsruhe.

The lecture can be extended as a joint lecture with Dieter Balle on selected case-studies of expulsion practice to Turkey