BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2883-3d5407e632bcadc71d45329d956082f0@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260608T235956Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231108T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231108T170000 SUMMARY:An HI Faculty Invites Event: “Children’s Imagination: Striking Against O XY Corporation in the Amazon Rainforest,” with Geovanni Siquihua DESCRIPTION:\nGeovanni Siquihua is a young Kichwa leader from Sani\, a c ommunity currently resisting oil extraction in the Amazon of Ecuador. In collaboration with Belé\;n Noroñ\;a\, a faculty member in t he Geography Department\, Siquihua is leading the "\;Storytelling Re sistance Project"\; in Sani. This project seeks to document elders&# 39\; memories of how the Sani community brought a transnational oil comp any to the table of negotiations almost twenty years ago.\n\nWith the ai d of Kichwa children and youth\, the project aims to document Indigenous tactics of resistance via drawings. Indeed\, this small community block ed access to the Napo River\, the largest river in the Amazon of Ecuador \, to impede the transportation of oil logistics to assert themselves du ring negotiations of oil-related compensations with Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY) twenty years ago. In this presentation\, leader Siqui hua will bring elder storytelling and children'\;s accounts of the ev ents.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/hi_striking_a gainst_oxy_corporation_in_the_amazon_rainforest_geovanni_siquihua/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Geovanni Siquih ua is a young Kichwa leader from Sani, a community currently resisting o il extraction in the Amazon of Ecuador. In collaboration with Belé ;n Noroña, a faculty member in the Geography Department, Siquihua is leading the "Storytelling Resistance Project" in Sani. Thi s project seeks to document elders' memories of how the Sani communi ty brought a transnational oil company to the table of negotiations almo st twenty years ago.

With the aid of Kichwa children and youth, th e project aims to document Indigenous tactics of resistance via drawings . Indeed, this small community blocked access to the Napo River, the lar gest river in the Amazon of Ecuador, to impede the transportation of oil logistics to assert themselves during negotiations of oil-related compe nsations with Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY) twenty years ago. I n this presentation, leader Siquihua will bring elder storytelling and c hildren's accounts of the events.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/ hi_striking_against_oxy_corporation_in_the_amazon_rainforest_geovanni_si quihua/

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