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DESCRIPTION:Carmen 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\n$5-10 donation (no one turned 
 away for lack of funds)\nWheelchair accessible. Refreshments provided. 
 \n\nWatch the trailer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YywVecMaIhg\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/02/26/18732797.php
SUMMARY:Int'l Women's Day Film Showing "Maquilapolis" (City of Factories)
LOCATION:2969 Mission St. btwn 25th and 26th Sts.\nnear 24th St. BART, #14, 49 
 MUNI\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/02/26/18732797.php
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