[mgj-discuss] Oaxaca Film Screening, December 15th

[Keith Johnson]

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...
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Granito de Arena "A Grain of Sand"*
Friday December 15th
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)
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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.

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 featuring: Eduardo Galeano and Maude Barlow, 
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
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-- 
so c'mon friends, to the barricades again
-ASMZ