Granito de arena

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 is the story of that resistance -- the story of hundreds of thousands of public schoolteachers 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. 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.

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.

Featuring: Eduardo Galeano and Maude Barlow

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Oaxaca
• Mexico
• teachers
• Jill
• Friedberg

[11rmarq]

@iSpYzz

no tenia ni idea,..... QUe mas sabes sobre eso que dijiste??? o solamente es una supusision tuya? is there anyway that you might be able to help me get the president of mexico contact information....??

[asmodeusvideo]

y los malo es que todos los planes y programas desean que en las escuelas les enseñes a los jovenes que la globalizacion es una bendicion de dios

a educarlos "para la paz"

que no mameeeen!!!!

[iSpYzz]

I was surprised to see that the people of Mexico

know what is happening to them. All we see here in the USA, are those fighting to open the border.

While our Pres. is meeting with Mexico's Pres. & Canada's Prime Minister, behind closed doors, to merge all 3 countries.

Those in power need to be replaced :/

kudos for this film.

[peperinopomoro]

the globalitazion is killing razes, peoples, comunitys

evrething