African, Indigenous, & Asian Ancestral Remedies and Resistance

African, Indigenous, & Asian Ancestral Remedies and Resistance Talk & DIY Workshop with Chiapas Support Committee
at The Hive
April 23rd, 5-7pm

JOYMA (PO’15) is pursuing a Master’s degree in social work at the University of Washington. Originally from Chicago, Nimocks organizes against racial and economic injustice with the Seattle Black Book Club and promotes grassroots organizing through music and the arts. Her research focuses on the oral histories of ancestral beautification practices among women of the African diaspora. Nimocks has worked across the Global South creating non-toxic remedies, cosmetics and practicing traditional healing methods in Central American Garifuna territories and then as a Watson fellow in South Africa, Tanzania, Morocco, India, Thailand. She is a member of the collective the Chiapas Support Committee. Nimocks will facilitate a do-it-yourself workshop and speak on ancestral remedies & resistance.

ALFREDO LÓPEZ, the vice-president of OFRANEH (the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras) will speak at this event as part of his series on governmentsupported paramilitaries, maroon histories and Black Indigenous resistance. Lopez will highlight how for centuries the Garifuna have defended their ancestral lands and seas. Lopez is the coordinator of radios in Garifuna communities across the length of Honduras’ Caribbean coast. He hosts the first Garifuna radio Faluma Bimetu (Sweet Coconut) which began transmitting in 1997 in defense of territory and ancestral culture. In 2015, OFRANEH won two historic victories for land and reparations in the international court system. Lopez will talk on the sacred coconut fruit and palm tree and its centrality to Garifuna livelihood, practice and the fight against climate change. His community has battled intentional poisonings and rising sea levels with coconut tree reforestation projects; they honor and gain sustenance from the ancient plant.

Co-sponsors: The Hive, Pomona RHS, Environmental Analysis, Harper Lectureship, Scripps Caribbean & Latin American Studies, ASPC, Chiapas Support Committee

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
FMI contact: mrp12013@mymail.pomona.edu

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ACCESSIBILITY
The Hive is accessible through the entrance facing 7th Street (north entrance), the entrance facing College Ave (west entrance), and the entrance adjacent to Millikan Laboratory and the Cowart ITS building (east entrance). The west entrance can open automatically. For accommodations, please contact the Hive via Facebook message, email (hive@claremont.edu), or phone call (909-607-9248).