Garifuna Settlement and Solidarity Day

regions. Our mission is to empower Central American students in the United States through activism, education, and organizing that is rooted and founded in social change. We are an inclusive space that is welcoming of all individuals regardless of ethnicity, class, and creed. As stated in our guiding principles: In its hegemonic attempts, capitalism upholds colonial rationalities that erase our historic identities, including that of Black and Indigenous communities, to maintain its ideology of individualism. Thus, UNICA recognizes the importance of self-determining our own diverse, fluid Central American identities as a conscious step to objectively analyzing our conditions in this world. 
The goal of this event is to provide more visibility of the Garifuna community and raise awareness on the issues that Afro-Indigenous people face in regards to the resistance against forced displacement, cultural genocide and much more. Our objective is to provide an accessible and informative format of storytelling through different artistic mediums such as music, film and visual art. Through these mediums, we look to highlight the importance of cultural work in regards to the preservation and promotion of collective, cultural and historical memory. The intention is to reiterate the importance of amplifying the work and contributions of the Garifuna community across the isthmus and diaspora. With the immediate impacts of Hurricanes Eta and Iota affecting vulnerable communities and the responses of disaster capitalism prolonging such devastation, we find great urgency to host this event. We look forward to building solidarity through awareness and supporting hurricane relief efforts.