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Select a license and format and click "Add". And Lourdes's group has won its point -- but whether the political will or, ultimately, the money to accomplish the full cleanup will materialize remains in doubt. We fund untold stories for public media. Funari, who lives in Vallejo, California, served on the board of directors of the Latino media arts organization Cine Accion from to But Carmen is not a victim. When the company decided to move to Indonesia, Carmen felt angry like the rest of the workers.

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In making this documentary, the filmmakers worked collaboratively with the factory workers, providing cameras to the women and teaching them how to shoot. In case there is any doubt about what is happening, the factory takes advantage of every rainfall, maquulapolis slight, to send an extra torrent of chemical-laden waters down through the neighborhood.

Jamie Cota, an attorney, represented Carmen and her coworkers in the fight to gain their factiries severance pay from Sanyo. Starting in the s ciy U. Maquilapolis should be screened in theaters, union halls, college campuses, and at the annual meeting of the World Social Forum. That wasn't enough to get her family out of a dirt-floor shack she built from discarded San Diego garage doors in a neighborhood where sewage and frayed electrical wires run down maqui,apolis middle of the street despite the Mexican government's promises to provide municipal services.

Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free! Our outreach team includes dedicated activists on both sides of the border, mediamakers commited to social change, and most importantly a group of women factory workers struggling to bring about positive change in their world.

Through sheer persistence, Carmen and her fellow workers won the severance pay to which they were entitled by law. It filmed in Tijuana, Baja California and focuses on the factories on the U.

Funari also co-directed and edited Live Nude Girls Unite! The searing new feature documentary Maquilapolis: But for all the miserable working conditions, health problems, and broken promises, Carmen and Lourdes and others like them -- promotoras who fight for workers' rights against the new corporate order -- are not the pliant female employees anticipated by the companies or the Mexican government.

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In yet another twist, globalization has brought Carmen and Lourdes greater sophistication about politics and media than existed in earlier generations of the Mexican working class.

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Many consider the U. We also hear from company and government spokespeople, who point to the relative benefit of a low wage in a virtually no-wage country. And Lourdes's group has won its point -- but whether the political will or, ultimately, the money to accomplish the full cleanup factoriez materialize remains in doubt.

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Maquilapolis: City of Factories

She suffers from kidney damage and lead poisoning from her years of exposure to toxic chemicals. He lives in Oakland, California. Welcome to facories world of Maquilapolisa border city where it takes an hour of drudgework inside a poisonous factory to earn enough to buy a jug of potable water.

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Despite harsh conditions at maquliapolis factory, Carmen stayed on for six years, partly out of loyalty to her co-workers. As Carmen and a million other maquiladora workers produce televisions, electrical cables, toys, clothes, batteries and IV tubes, they weave the very fabric of life for consumer nations.

This is a true depiction of the Maquiladroa women Mexican workers who show us their trials and tribulations in trying to get through daily life as a factory worker. Tijuana became known as the television capital of the world, 'TV-juana.

She suffers from on-the-job kidney damage and lead poisoning from her years of exposure to toxic pf. December Learn how and when to remove this template message. The campaign utilizes a high-profile public television broadcast, top tier film festivals and community screenings of the film to create meaningful social change around the issues of globalization, social and environmental justice and fair trade.

Select a license and format and click "Add". Chief among these is Metales y Derivados, a long abandoned battery recycling factory whose U.

We are currently seeking funding to implement a binational Community Outreach Campaign, designed and implemented collaboratively with stakeholder cty in the U. The results are predictable: