Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: April 22
Tuesday, April 22 Earth Day
12:45-2:10 p.m. V101
Plastic Paradise: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Filmmaker, Angela Sun
Thousand miles away from civilization, Midway Atoll is one of the most remote places on earth. And yet it has become ground zero for The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, siphoning plastics from three distant continents. Journalist/filmmaker Angela Sun spent eight years on a personal journal to uncover this mysterious phenomenon. Q & A with the filmmaker will follow the 57-minute documentary.
Winner Docuwest Festival – Best of Fest (2013)
Winner Wild & Scenic Film Festival Jury Award (2014)
Maquiladora Tour: April 5
Come to learn about Tijuana communities and workers'
conditions and struggles!
Saturday, April 5, 2014
9 am to 3 pm
9 am to 3 pm
– Important Notice:
·
Citizens returning from Mexico should present an
U.S. passport. (Otherwise, they need an official ID, birth certificate, and
waiting in line when returning to the U.S. for a period of time to be decided
by the border gate officer.) More information: the U.S. State Dept. web site: US Citizens - Documents needed for entry into the U.S..
·
All tour participants must read the US travel alert
to Mexico and sign the tour waiver. Please click here to get the Tour waiver.
·
9:00 am sharp- San Ysidro. Additional information about the meeting place will be provided.
·
9:15 am- The crosses at the border: More than 7,000
immigrants have died trying to cross the border since 1994, when NAFTA was
imposed.
·
9:30 am- Otay Industrial Park, Sanyo and other
maquiladoras: workers’ labor conditions, labor rights and struggles
NOTE: We will visit the Tijuana industrial area but won’t enter any factory.
NOTE: We will visit the Tijuana industrial area but won’t enter any factory.
·
11:15 am- Metales y Derivados: maquiladoras, distorted urban development
and wild industrialization in Tijuana
·
12:00 pm- Foxconn: the largest maquiladora in both
Tijuana and the world
·
12:45 pm- Lunch
·
1:15 pm:- Group dialogue about the experience; time
for questions and comments
·
2:00 pm- Working women in Tijuana are organizing
artisan cooperatives and promoting an alternative economy. They will bring
their handcrafts to the tour. To learn in advance
about these cooperatives, please go to: Cooperativa Ollin Calli
·
3:00 pm- Return to the bus station
– Registration
·
$30
regular, $20 students, $ 50 solidarity
·
Registration covers the bus, lunch, and a donation to the workers’ organizations.
·
For
tour registration go here: sdmaquila.org
Sponsored by Colectivo Ollin Calli Tijuana, San Diego Maquiladora Workers' Solidarity Network and the Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)