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DESCRIPTION:A.N.S.W.E.R. Film Series - International Women's Day\nMaquilapolis  (City 
 of Factories)\n\n“Many consider the U.S.-Mexico border to be 'the 
 laboratory of the future.' In Maquilapolis the border is also the site 
 where global capitalism is facing profound resistance. The maquiladora 
 workers are neither helpless victims nor dupes of neo-liberal capitalism, 
 but rather social actors in the full sense of the word”  -Rosa-Linda 
 Fregoso, UCSC\n\nCarmen Durán works the graveyard shift at one of 
 Tijuana's 800 maquiladoras; she is one of millions of women around the 
 world who labor for poverty level wages in the factories of transnational 
 corporations. When the plant where Carmen worked for six years moved to 
 Indonesia, they try to avoid paying the legally mandated severance pay to 
 which they were entitled by law. Carmen becomes a promotora, a grassroots 
 activist, challenging the usual illegal tactics of the powerful 
 transnationals.\n\nThe filmmakers gave several women workers in Tijuana 
 video cameras to make a record of their lives, giving the documentary the 
 intimate feel of video diaries. Lourdes Lujan takes us on a tour of her 
 colonia, Chilpancingo, which has the bad fortune to be located under a 
 bluff from which dozens of factories expel hazardous wastes. But Lourdes 
 and her compañeras successfully pressure the Mexican and American 
 governments to clean up a toxic waste site left behind by a departing 
 battery recycling plant.  68min., 2006\n\nCall 415-821-6545 for more 
 info.\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/02/13/18362710.php
SUMMARY:International Women's Day Film: "Maquilapolis" (City of Factories)
LOCATION:ATA, 992 Valencia St. at 21st, San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/02/13/18362710.php
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