From Militarization to Immigration: Karla Lara at Webster University

Join us at Webster University as we host Honduran feminist activist and artist, Karla Lara!

Karla will be performing some of her own music and will sit on a discussion panel contextualizing three decades of political struggle in Honduras.

There will be TWO events:

1) 12:00 P.M
Library Conference Room at Webster University Library
101 Edgar Rd, Webster Groves, MO 63119

2) 1:30 P.M
H. Sam Priest Center
8270 Big Bend, Webster Groves, MO 63119

Karla is part of “an extensive artistic movement that creates music to express the identity, history and rhythms of a better Honduras that they are building together,” according to her website.
A member of the renowned Central American revolutionary musical group “Cutumay Camones,” she has been singing since she was a student at the Honduran Autonomous National University in 1985. For the past five years, she has been touring extensively to call attention to the repercussions of the 2009 coup that ousted elected President Manuel Zelaya. Those effects include the increased violence that has driven an increasing number of Honduran children to make the dangerous journey across Mexico to the United States, where many are now held in border detention centers.