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DESCRIPTION:Thursday, March 20, 2003. 8PM $5\n\n\nMissing Young Women:\nFree Trade and 
 violence against women in Mexico\n\n\n \n\n \n\nSince 1993 more than 320 
 young women have been abducted, raped and murdered\nin the Mexican border 
 city of Juarez. Despite the number of victims and the\naudacity of the 
 killers, authorities have failed to stop the killings or\njail the 
 murderers. A culture of violence against women reigns in 
 Juarez.\n\nSeñorita Extraviada is a 70-minute film that documents the 
 women of Juarez\nand their struggle for justice. The film is narrated in 
 English with Spanish\ninterviews that are subtitled in English.\n\n 
 Originally, police blamed the murders on the victims themselves, 
 accusing\nthem of prostitution or drug abuse. As victim's families 
 organized to defend\ntheir daughters and demand justice, the cops 
 desperately arrested and\ntortured suspects until they confessed, but the 
 murders continued.  Most\nalarmingly, the account of one female survivor 
 was never investigated. The\nfilm is also a disturbing portrait of Ciudad 
 Juarez, NAFTA's "City of the\nFuture" and home to 500 enormous assembly 
 plants, called "maquiladoras." In\nthese plants, Mexican workers toil away 
 12-hour shifts in well-kept,\nUS-owned factories for $4-8 a day. After 
 shift,  workers return to\nshantytowns of sewage, danger and squalor. 
 Families with three full time\nwage earners can't afford decent housing. 
 Señorita Extraviada\ngives voice to the victim's families and local 
 activists struggling against\ncorrupt police.  The film raises important 
 questions about an economic\nsystem that devalues women's work and women's 
 lives.\n\n"With over 270 girls raped and murdered and another 450 reported 
 missing, we\nfelt we had to investigate these disappearances and attacks," 
 explains\ndirector Lourdes Portillo, "attacks specifically directed toward 
 young,\nbrown, unprotected, poor women. We had all these different pieces 
 of the\npuzzle, all these various elements, that just didn't fit together, 
 and the\nmost surprising thing was the silence."\n\nThis event is 
 co-sponsored by the Mexico Solidarity Network and ....\n\nJessica Marques, 
 the west coast coordinator for the Mexico Solidarity\nNetwork, will 
 introduce the film and lead a discussion and question/answer\nperiod 
 afterward.\n\n \n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/17083.php
SUMMARY:Missing Young Women:
LOCATION:992 Valencia @ 21st\nSan Francisco\nwww.atasite.org\n415-824-3890
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/17083.php
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