On Strike writes: The teachers strike in Oaxaca, Mexico is not the beginning. For over 20 years, global economic forces have been dismantling public education in Mexico, but always in the constant shadow of popular resistance…
Granito de Arena “A Grain of Sand”
Friday, December 15th, 2006
7:00pm
La Casa Community Center
3166 Mt. Pleasant Street NW
$5.00 donation (no one turned away, donations go to support striking teachers in Oaxaca)
Granito de Arena is the story of that resistance – the story of hundreds of thousands of public school teachers
whose grassroots, non-violent movement took Mexico by surprise, and who have endured brutal repression in their 25-year struggle for social and economic justice in Mexico’s public schools.
The evening will include an update on the current situation in Oaxaca, Mexico where a teachers strike which began in May has lead to a huge popular uprising which is facing brutal state repression.
Featuring: Eduardo Galeano and Maude Barlow
Award-winning Seattle filmmaker, Jill Freidberg (This is What Democracy Looks Like, 2000), spent two years in southern Mexico documenting the efforts of over 100,000 teachers, parents, and students fighting to defend the country’s public education system from the devastating impacts of economic globalization. Freidberg combines footage of strikes and direct actions with 25 years worth of never-before-seen archival images to deliver a compelling and unsettling story of resistance, repression, commitment, and solidarity.
A sixty-minute documentary, Granito de Arena places the Mexican teachers’ struggle in a global context clearly spelling out the relationship between economic globalization and the worldwide public education crisis.
Sponsored by:
The Brian MacKenzie Infoshop
www.dcinfoshop.org
and
On Strike Productions
source: http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/136846/index.php
We have produced a T-shirt Designed to raise funds for the camaping in support of the struggle of the people in mexico.
We are interested in recruiting people that would be interested in saling them. they will also receive a comission. The idea is to raise funds to sustain the people doing the struggle in Mexico and support here for the activist doing the solidarity in support of the stroggle in Mexico. if you are interested in meeting it see a sample in our website. you can call me also at 347-6277369 or email me to: RB@casadelsol.org
You can link with our site and receive 7% of all sale coming through your site. You will able to use this proceeds to support your organization in its solidarity workin with the people of Oaxaca . Our website is ready for this puroose, See us at: http://www.casadelsol.org
Check it out
Balamkin