This song was chosen because it was my introduction to Eduardo Galeano. A university degree in Anthropology and Sociology did not put me into contact with his writings, nor did almost 10 years of working in various immigrant and global justice networks. The preceding statements should underscore just how effectively the coloniality of power and knowledge operate, how they work to contour the social conditions of the world based on a very small selection of ways of being and knowing. Galeano's work as K-Llejero states, "inspiring a continent and also me", has been one of the foundational blocks for building my critical understanding of social structuring and models of domination. This process of (im)migration, of movement of knowledge across networks, or bodies transgressing spaces and producing knowledge is glaringly obvious through the lens of hip hop aesthetics. The ability of sonic archives to share knowledge across vast distances in short amounts of time is one of the most potent challenges to coloniality.

The video for this song is another creation of the GlobalFaction collective. They describe themselves as an innovated digital media production collective, that believe that art and media should be grounded in the production on knowledge and action.

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