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Announcement :: Children & Education : Civil & Human Rights : Democracy : Globalization : International Relations : Labor : Latin America : Media : Missouri : Privatization : Protest, Resistance and Direct Action |
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Documentary film premiere in Columbia |
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by DJ Squeezebox
Email: info (nospam) corrugate.org (verified) |
23 Sep 2005
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Mexican schoolteachers take to the streets in new documentary film premiering in Columbia. |
Award-winning filmmaker, Jill Freidberg, (This is What Democracy Looks Like, 2000), brings her new documentary film, Granito de Arena, to the Ragtag Cinema in Columbia, on Sunday, Oct. 2nd.
GRANITO de ARENA
"Important...disturbing...Anyone concerned about education, human rights, labor unions, Latin America, and globalization will want to see this inspiring film." Mexican Labor News and Analysis
Granito de Arena is the inspiring and unsettling story of thousands of Mexican schoolteachers who have endured brutal repression in their struggle to defend public education from the devastating impacts of economic globalization.
Award-winning filmmaker, Jill Irene Freidberg, spent over two years in southern Mexico documenting the strikes, direct actions, and marches of over 100,000 teachers, parents, and students fighting the privatization of Mexico's public schools.
"An essential, resounding, overwhelming story. The film is a cry of outrage; the message, a cry of hope." Pablo Gentili. Federal University of Rio De Janeiro.
Interviews with internationally-recognized figures, like Eduardo Galeano and Maude Barlow, place the Mexican teachers' struggle in a global context, clearly spelling out the relationship between economic globalization and the worldwide public education crisis. With a driving soundtrack that includes Los Mocosos, DJ Food, Plan B, and Slowrider, Granito de Arena fuels indignation, inspires action, and raises important questions about democracy, sovereignty, and the universal right to public education.
"The film is an inspiring glimpse into the power of collective action, one that's certainly relevant to people in this country as well." City Pages, MPLS.
Jill Freidberg co-produced the award-winning documentary This is What Democracy Looks Like, about the 1999 World Trade Organization protests in Seattle, which won numerous festival awards, screened in over 50 countries and received national television broadcasts in Canada and Mexico. Freidberg was a founding member of the Seattle Independent Media Center and currently works with several independent media collectives and indigenous radio stations in Mexico, and with community radio station KBCS, in Seattle.
One showing only!!!
Ragtag Cinema
23 N. 10th St.,
Columbia, Missouri 65201
8:15 PM
Sunday, Oct 2nd.
Contact for more information:
Jill Freidberg
206-851-6785
info (at) corrugate.org
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