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DESCRIPTION:***PLEASE JOIN US FOR THIS IMPORTANT FILM FESTIVAL***\n\nMadCat Women’s 
 International Film Festival\n\npresents\n\nMaquilapolis Northern California 
 Premiere Screening\n\nThursday, September 21, 2006 @ 7:30 pm\n\nGrand Lake 
 Theater\n3200 Grand Avenue\nOakland\n\n• Filmmakers and Film Subjects in 
 Person\n\nMaquilapolis Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre\n2006 • 60 min 
 • Color • Beta SP • US/Mexico\n\nThis intimate documentary shares the 
 lives of some members a tightly knit community that sits in the shadow of 
 one of Tijuana’s 800 maquiladoras, multinational factories that thrive 
 off Mexico’s cheap labor force. Carmen, a single mother and one of the 
 more than one million Mexicans employed at the maquiladoras, works making 
 television components six nights a week for six dollars a day. She comes 
 home to a shack she built out of recycled garage doors, in a neighborhood 
 with no sewage lines or electricity. At 29, she already suffers from kidney 
 damage and lead poisoning from her years of exposure to toxic chemicals. 
 However, Carmen is far from a victim—she is a dynamic young woman, busy 
 making a life for herself and her children.\n\nCarmen and her friends, some 
 of whom become promotoras (community-based activists), reach beyond the 
 daily struggle for survival to fight for workers’ rights. They take a 
 major television manufacturer to task for violating labor rights and 
 pressure the government to clean up a toxic waste dump left behind by a 
 departing factory. The women, armed with the video cameras Funari and De La 
 Torre provide, also document their lives, their city and their hopes for 
 the future. 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 an entire community with an 
 uncertain future.\n\nTix: $10.\nAdvance tickets available by calling (415) 
 255-7296\nMastercard and visa accepted only in advance of the screening. 
 Cash or Debit at the door.\n\nThis screening is co-sponsored by Global 
 Exchange and the Wellstone Democratic Club. Partial proceeds go to benefit 
 these organizations.\nCo-presented by Film Arts 
 Foundation\n--------------\nPreceded by\nSouth of Ten Liza Johnson\n2006 
 • 10 min • Color • 35mm • US • West Coast Premiere\nUsing the 
 decimated landscape of the Mississippi Gulf Coast as its backdrop, South of 
 Ten restages the extraordinary routines of survivors of Hurricane Katrina. 
 A girl flees a makeshift tent city. A man finds a trombone amidst the 
 rubble. A worker watches the ocean from under a moving house, while its 
 owner gazes at the view from her shifting living room. In ten vignettes, 
 residents of the destroyed Mississippi Gulf Coast act out scenes of their 
 everyday lives and the relentlessness of labor now required in their 
 extreme terrain.\nFor more information contact:\n(510) 
 452-3556\nwww.grandlaketheater.com\n\n\n_________________________________________________________\nGlobal 
 Exchange is an international human rights group that relies on 
 its\nmembers--tens of thousands of people just like you--to work with us 
 to\ncreate social, political and environmental justice.\n\nPlease become a 
 Global Exchange member today. Your tax-deductible gift helps\nkeep our 
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 justice.\nhttp://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/lists.html\n\nThank 
 you. \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/09/13/18310807.php
SUMMARY:MadCat Women's International Film Festival: "Maquilapolis"
LOCATION:Grand Lake Theater\n3200 Grand Avenue\nOakland\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/09/13/18310807.php
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