Breaking the Siege:Justice for Atenco
Posted May 3, 2009 by k_c_ in Events
Film Screening of Romper el Cerco-"Breaking the Siege" a film by Canal Sies de Julio and Promedios in NYC
May 4, 2009 1:30-4:30pm Martin E. Segal Theatre CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue
"Breaking the Siege" documednts the repression of Atenco's social movement (Frente de Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra -FPDT). This is a simultaneous projection on Brasil, México and NY as part of Libertad Y Justicia para Atenco-Campaña Nacional y Internacional(The national and international campain for justice and freedom for political prisioners of Atenco)
a film about the events in Atenco / Mexico 2006San Salvador Atenco, May 2006. A small town in the suburbs of Mexico City. Two months before the presidential elections, a conflict for land and rights escalates between the population of Atenco and the Mexican government. Unbelievable events take place: the police attack a marketplace, the inhabitants block the highways leading to the city, and confrontations between an outraged population and police forces break out. The state of emergency goes on for several days and culminates in the death of a 14 year old boy.
This video analyzes the events in San Salvador Atenco during the first days of May and denounces the violation of the civilian population’s human rights by state and federal police forces. The documentary deconstructs the mass media’s operating methods, which were responsible for creating a climate of fear and an information blockade on the events in San Salvador Atenco, in the midst of an especially delicate situation: the 2006 process of presidential succession in Mexico.
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