Movement for Justice in El Barrio Presents: a Forum and Movie Premiere
Posted February 12, 2008 by molly_fair in Events
Movement for Justice in El Barrio invites you to learn more about the escalating low intesity warfare being waged by the Mexican government against the Zapatista communities: the brutal displacement, death threats and incarceration. Currently there are 79 military bases in Chiapas and paramilitary groups are threatening Zapatista families.Our Special guest Ernesto Ledesma from the Chiapas based Center of Political Analysis and Social Economic Investigation (CAPISE) will share with us how the main three Mexican political parties (PAN, PRD, and PRI) attempt to displace the Zapatistas from their land.
We will also present the New York premiere of "One Big Train Called The Other Campaign", a new documentary filmed by the Zapatista communities on the the Zapatista initiated Mexican movement.
Monday, February 18th @ 7 pm
New York University's KJC Center
53 Washington Square South, Suite 201
Manhattan, NY(Take subway A,B,C,D,E,F,Q to West 4th St. Walk east on West 4th St. West 4th St. becomes Washington Square South)
The new book collection of Zapatista communiques "Speed of Dreams" will be also be available.
For more information, please contact Movement for Justice in El Barrio @ movmientoporjusticiadelbarrio@yahoo.com
Co-sponsored by the National Congress on Latin America (NACLA)Who We Are:
We are the color of the earth. We are women, men, youth and children of corn. We are Mexicans. We have not lived in our Mexico for a long time, but Mexico is still the air we breathe, still the pulse of our heart, it is still the thought that fills our minds. We were born in Mexican lands and Mexican lands were born in us.
We are Movement for Justice in El Barrio, an organization of Mexican immigrants fighting for justice in East Harlem.
As Mexican immigrants, we were forced to leave our native countries because of a savage neoliberal economic system. Here in the U.S., we are affected by neoliberalism on a daily basis. Gentrification pushes us out of our homes in El Barrio. Exploitation at the workplace forces us to work twelve hours daily for poverty wages. Racist immigration policies attempt to criminalize and dehumanize us.
In New York, we fight against neoliberalism in all its forms. We fight against racism, xenophobia, sexism, classism, and homophobia.
We fight for humanity.
That is why we fight for justice here in NYC and have also joined the Zapatista’s Other Campaign and a broader transnational struggle for humanity and justice.
The Zapatistas have launched The Other Campaign and are organizing to build a new non-electoral national grassroots movement ‘FROM BELOW AND FOR BELOW’ against neoliberalism and for humanity. Thousands of Mexicans have joined The Other Campaign including immigrants living in the U.S.
In November 2006, a delegation from Movement for Justice in El Barrio screened for el Subcomandante Marcos a video message from Mexican immigrants in NYC to the Zapatistas. members express their experiences in New York, criticizing the lack of participation of the Mexican political class in resolving the problems that affect them. They talked about their aspirations to make visible all those who are invisible, who struggle throughout the country, and hopes to demonstrate the great national problems that presidential candidates avoid naming because of their desire to occupy the political center stage. El Sup responded to this with his own video message for Mexican immigrants and The Other Campaign in New York. The interview video a special message for historically marginalized peoples struggling for social justice, including workers, women, queer, poc, and indigninous communities.
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