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DESCRIPTION:The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman\n(65 min.) 2011 
 \nProduced, directed, filmed and edited by; Julie Cavanagh (teacher), 
 Darren Marrelli (school social worker), Norm Scott (retired teacher), 
 Mollie Bruhn (teacher), Lisa Donlan (parent).\nIt is the antidote to the 
 massive propaganda campaign to push privatization of education in the film 
 “Waiting For Superman” last year. The film was also made by teachers 
 and parents and is an antidote to the pro-privatization propaganda.\nThe 
 organized coordinated destruction of public education through charter 
 schools and making the schools “profit centers” pushed by the Bill 
 Gates Foundation and the Broad Foundation is a critical issue for all those 
 interested in defending public education.\nTeachers from San Francisco will 
 join the discussion following the film. \nThere will be a Photo display by 
 Kilo of the more than 70,000 educators and other members of the Seccion 22 
 teachers’ movement in Oaxaca, Mexico, who are striking and taking 
 occupation action against privatization and the destruction of public 
 education pushed by US billionaires and Arnie Duncan, Obama’s secretary 
 of Education.\nhttp://www.waitingforsupermantruth.org\n(Discussion follows) 
 \n\n7:45\nBackyard (el traspatio) (122 min.) (2009)\nDirected by Carlos 
 Carrera   \nSabina Berman, the most important screenwriter in Mexico has 
 written a powerful screenplay on the conditions and causes of the attacks 
 of women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. In an epidemic of murders, thousands of 
 women workers in Juarez have been kidnapped and killed.  We learn about 
 their conditions and the war zone in Mexico, which are the center of this 
 detective mystery. Behind the story is the role of NAFTA and the “Free 
 Trade” zone imposed by the US on Mexico.  While promising to “help” 
 Mexico, NAFTA has created a slave labor union free environment for 
 multi-nationals with a militarized drug war that threatens the lives of 
 people throughout the region. Chelis Lopez of Radio Bi-Lingual will 
 participate in a discussion after the film.\nOn Sabina 
 Berman:\nhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0075843/bio\nhttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0075843/awards\nSee 
 also:\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2011/2011Films.htm#5\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/2011/2011schedule.htm#2\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/06/13/18681727.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: Films & Photos on US Schools and Mexico
LOCATION:518 Valencia, near 16th St., San Francisco.  Near 16th St BART. \n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/06/13/18681727.php
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