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[Free Film Screening] MAQUILAPOLIS [City of Factories]

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  1. tigermission1

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    Just an FYI for those interested...


    The Station Museum of Contemporary Art and The Museum of Fine Arts Houston are pleased to announce a free film screening:

    MAQUILAPOLIS [City of Factories]

    http://www.maquilap olis.com

    A film by Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre, 90min

    November 5th, 2-4p.m, Museum of Fine Arts Theater, 1001 Bissonnet.

    Question and answer session with special guests, Dir. Sergio De La Torre and Lourdes Luján, afterwards

    THE FILM: Carmen works the graveyard shift in one of Tijuana's maquiladoras, the multinationally- owned factories that came to Mexico for its cheap labor. After making television components all night, Carmen comes home to a shack she built out of recycled garage doors, in a neighborhood with no sewage lines or electricity. She suffers from kidney damage and lead poisoning from her years of exposure to toxic chemicals. She earns six dollars a day. But Carmen is not a victim. She is a dynamic young woman, busy making a life for herself and her children.

    As Carmen and a million other maquiladora workers produce televisions, electrical cables, toys, clothes, batteries and IV tubes, they weave the very fabric of life for consumer nations. They also confront labor violations, environmental devastation and urban chaos -- life on the frontier of the global economy. In MAQUILAPOLIS, Carmen and her colleague Lourdes reach beyond the daily struggle for survival to organize for change: Carmen takes a major television manufacturer to task for violating her labor rights. Lourdes pressures the government to clean up a toxic waste dump left behind by a departing factory.

    As they work for change, the world changes too: a global economic crisis and the availability of cheaper labor in China begin to pull the factories away from Tijuana, leaving Carmen, Lourdes and their colleagues with an uncertain future.

    CONTACT: George Ramirez, gramirez@mfah. org or 713.639.7727. Rosalinda Gonzalez, rosalindagonzalez@ gmail.com or 832.213.7428.
     
    #1 tigermission1, Nov 4, 2006
  2. thadeus

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    Goddamnit.

    I want to move back to Houston :(
     
    #2 thadeus, Nov 4, 2006
  3. StupidMoniker

    StupidMoniker I lost a bet

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    Quite a pickle they find themselves in: they don't like the way the factories operate, but they also don't want them to leave, and pushing for the changes they want will just contribute to them going.
     
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  4. rrj_gamz

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    This sounds like a great film...Wish I was in town...
     
    #4 rrj_gamz, Nov 5, 2006
  5. tigermission1

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    Really good film...

    In the future, I will keep posting info about similar events/screenings in the Hangout just in case anyone is interested, I would hate for anyone to miss out just because they don't know about them.

    Of course, if any of the mods objects to that for any reason whatsoever, I will comply.
     
    #5 tigermission1, Nov 5, 2006
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