Doors open 18:00 | Movie + Discussion 19:00 @ Rigaer 94
The colonial history of Western Sahara is often not well known, both the occupation of the territories by the Spanish State since the 1700s, as well as its continuity in the hands of Morocco since 1975. There are several examples in the world where colonial powers hide their history of domination in the narrative of “regional conflicts between neighbouring countries”. Among the most prominent examples are Palestine - England/State of Israel and Sahara- Spanish State/Kingdom of Morocco. Such a narrative distorts the continuity of profiteering that the original colonial states maintained in the occupied territories. At the same time, it blurs the military relations between the different occupying forces and the role that the institutions of so-called international law play in advancing Western capitalist interests.
In such a landscape, the dependency on humanitarian aid plays the role of pacifiers. The lowest form of extortion imaginable: is forcing people to follow rules that favour only the West, to have access to a food ration that does not even provide the necessary nutritional levels nor the quantity to feel satisfied.
The extortion is as crude as it reads: exchanging food for self-determination. In this way, the resistance, the direct action, and the taking of subjectivity by the people are seen as “unnecessary violence”, to the point of being presented as the real cause of the situation of domination.
