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Seattle filmmaker to present on state of education in Mexico
Photos and story by James Hill
Award-winning Seattle filmmaker, Jill Freidberg (“This is What Democracy Looks Like,” 2000), spent two years in southern Mexico documenting the efforts of more than 100,000 teachers, parents, and students fighting to defend the country’s public education system from the devastating impacts of economic globalization.
Freidberg combines footage of strikes and direct actions with 25 years worth of never-before-seen archival images to deliver a compelling and unsettling story of resistance, repression, commitment, and solidarity. She will present her film at 6 p.m. on May 15 in Room 104 of the Moriarty Arts and Humanities Building at the Cascade Campus.
For over 20 years, global economic forces have been dismantling public education in Mexico, but always in the constant shadow of popular resistance. The film, “Granito de Arena,” is the story of that resistance – the story of hundreds of thousands of public schoolteachers whose grassroots, non-violent movement took Mexico by surprise, and who have endured brutal repression in their 25-year struggle for social and economic justice in Mexico’s public schools.
This event is sponsored by ASPCC and the Multicultural Awareness Council.
About James Hill
James G. Hill, an award-winning journalist and public relations writer, is the Director of Public Relations at Portland Community College. A graduate of Portland State University, James has worked as a section editor for the Newberg Graphic... more »