Next Tuesday, November 15, the centenary of the first general workers’ strike in Guayaquil, that ended in the largest worker massacre in Ecuador. It is for this reason that the Centennial Committee November 15 has prepared a program dedicated to this event, which began this Wednesday with the presentation of a collection of books and will run until November 14.
Emerald Munozspokesperson and member of the Committee, mentions that for them it is important to carry out this program in collective work, because in addition to commemorating the 100th anniversary of the worker massacre of November 15, 1922, it also opens the debate on some themes and edges that are stem from this event. “This process was always made invisible, it was always minimized (…) These people were forgotten because the same power took the bodies from the families,” says the also cultural manager.
“In the long run, all that sacrifice paid off in terms of labor rights”Add.
This is how historians, writers, actors, artists, photographers, cultural managers, unions and more join this tribute to from different perspectives to discuss this episode that claimed the lives of 90 workersalthough for the Government of that time there were 10. “History is worked on simply as dates that are completely boring for many and we do not speak from the facts, the events, from another way of telling the story”, Munoz maintains.
“For us, it is important to open this debate and also involve the new generations.”
This Thursday, at 5:00 p.m., the Artistic Exhibition Paths of a conquest: Narratives and imaginaries of the worker massacre 1922-2022, which consists of a photographic, documentary and journalistic selection, which questions the viewer about the relationship between documentary language, state violence and the workers’ struggle in the first decades of the 20th century.
“The exhibition has some spaces in which people can interact with the work and see in a certain order how things happened and in which spaces they are happening”, explains Muñoz about the exhibition directed by her and in which she involved UArtes students in the process. “For them, it was incredible to know that Alfredo Baldeón was not only in the novel (crosses on the water), but existed in real life.
This exhibition will be open until November 30 on the Contemporary Art Gallery, located in the Library of the University of the Arts.
For Friday, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., the National Meeting of History, at the Faculty of Jurisprudence University of Guayaquil. This meeting will be made up of some talks, among which stands out “Prehistory of the protest era”, by Rubén Aroca; “Pressure and violence of the State”, by Miguel Cantos; “Women’s organization on the eve of November 15, 1922″, by Freddy Aviles; “Literature and social history of Guayaquil in the 20th century”. by Ivonne Núñez; and, “On November 15, 1922 from a long-term perspective”, by Ángel Emilio Hidalgo.
And at 7:00 p.m. the play will be presented The representation of November 15, of the playwright Alejandro Moreno and the direction by Juan Coba Caiza.
The Saturday at 10:00on the Terrace of the UArtes Library, a workshop called “Voices in crosses”.
From 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., this Saturday, the Trails of the 15N route, It will start in the Plaza de San Agustín (Luis Urdaneta and Avenida Pedro Moncayo) and will end at the General Cemetery, at the tomb of Alfredo Baldeón. In this you will travel through the streets and spaces where the historical events of November 15, 1922 took place. “Where shots were fired, where people died, where bodies were thrown into the river. We will finish at the tomb of Alfredo Baldeón, where a kind of pilgrimage will take place, since he is this symbolic representation of November 15, thanks to the work of Gallegos Lara”. Munoz points out.
On Monday, at 6:00 p.m., the collective book will be launched at the UArtes Library: 1922 the first bloodbath of the Ecuadorian working class. It is a compilation of current historical studies on the massacre; these texts belong to Natalia Tamayo, Freddy Avilés, Clodoveo Astudillo, Miguel Cantos, Clara Medina and Samaela Campos.
All activities are free with prior registration at www.centenario15n.org/agenda/encuentro. On this same page you can find all the information.
The cultural manager also invites the general public to join the great march on November 15. “The march has a very important value for this city, it should not be left aside. These dead should really be commemorated because we owe them a lotwe owe them the power to enjoy many labor rights”. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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