Creative Resistance to Free Trade
Two NAU events that speak to the ongoing affects of free trade in poor and indigenous communities in Mexico.
Free Trade and Community Resistance
Wed., Oct. 24, 7 p.m., Free
Cline Library Auditorium at NAU
The Mexico Solidarity Network presents Cecilia Santiago Vera, a social psychologist and adherent to the Zapatista initiated Other Campaign from Chiapas, Mexico.
Vera’s presentation, in Spanish with English translation, will cover the following:
• Free trade and threats to indigenous communities, especially women
• Human rights abuses in Mexico
• The Zapatista-initiated Other Campaign
• How indigenous communities are working to resist free trade practices
• The leadership of women in fair trade cooperatives ~ traditional weavings and handicrafts from the cooperatives will be available for sale
MAQUILAPOLIS
[ city of factories ]
Mon., Oct. 22, 7 p.m., Free
Cline Library Auditorium at NAU
The film Maquilapolis portrays the struggles of women at work in a maquiladora electronics factory, at home in an extremely poor community, and as they work to improve their lives and communities in the first Mexico-U.S. free trade zone. The film is in Spanish with English subtitles.