This Week at the Center for Global Justice
Event Category: Films and Presentations/Discussions
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Tuesday, Feb 19 – 1:00 pm
Film & DiscussionRoma
Roma has been nominated for ten academy awards including best picture. Set in the La Roma neighborhood of Mexico City in the 1970s, the film’s recreation of the place and time is shown through the eyes of Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a live-in domestic worker inspired by the one who helped…
Tuesday, Feb 19 – 6:00 pmFilm & DiscussionWalk with Us
The migrant crisis through the eyes of Pastor Ignacio Martinez, the founder of ABBA safehouse in Celaya, “It’s not about us – it’s about the dignity of our brother ‘travellers.”
It started when Ignacio and his family took food to migrants jumping freight trains Some were…
Wednesday, Feb 20 – 1:00 pmFilm & DiscussionBlackout in Puerto Rico & The Battle for Paradise
Discussion with Rosario Betsaida and Dr David Stea
PBS’s Frontline video about Hurricane Maria “Blackout in Puerto Rico” gives us a look at economic and institutional conditions preceding Maria and what happened in the few months afterwards. In “The Battle for Paradise,” Naomi Klein, noted critic of neoliberal economics, describes the…
Thursday, Feb 21 – 1:00 pmFilm & DiscussionDon’t Give Up Your Voice
In 2015, a year before Trump was elected in the U.S., Argentina elected president Macri. These two are remarkably similar in how they campaigned and the policies they promote. Argentines have mounted creative resistance – worker coops, street protests, theater and music – that offer lessons for…
Friday, Feb 22 – 6:00 pm
Admisión gratuitaEducación ColaborativaChallenges of Biodiversity in San Miguel de Allende
Alejandra Quezada, Atahualpa Caldera Sosa & Jennifer Ungemach
In its series of discussions on “Re-Imagining San Miguel de Allende as a Sustainable Community,” the Education Collaborative is examining the Environmental Agenda developed by the University Seminar on Society, the…
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