Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 10:20:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Michelle Tellez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Film About Maclovio Rojas at the LA Film Festival
Please forward!! The documentary about the Tijuana community of Maclovio Rojas, EVERYONE THEIR GRAIN OF SAND is having its U.S. premiere in documentary competition at the Los Angeles Film Festival this month. Maclovio Rojas is a leftist community that has been resisting the encroaching impact of globalization in their lives for over 17 years. Because of their political stance, they are under constant attack by the government, which wants to evict them from their land to make way for corporate development. Currently one community leader, Nicholas Ramous, is in jail and several others are in hiding due to government persecution. Please come out and support this community by attending the screening. Tickets are on sale now, and can be purchased at www.lafilmfest.com or 1-866-FILMFEST. Please pass this on as widely as possible, thanks! Thu. June 23, 7:30pm, Laemmle Sunset 5 Fri. June 24, 2:30pm, DGA 2 SYNOPSIS Beth Bird's EVERYONE THEIR GRAIN OF SAND chronicles the struggles of the fiercely determined citizens of Maclovio Rojas, Tijuana, Mexico, as they battle the state government's attempts to evict them from their land to make way for corporate development. Over a three-year period, we follow the remarkably spirited and resourceful residents of this community as they build a school by hand and persistently petition the state for such basic services as running water and pay for their teachers. The government responds with a combination of bureaucratic stonewalling and the systematic persecution of community leaders --- eventually arresting one leader and forcing others into hiding, where they remain to this day. This heartbreaking and intimate documentary balances these hardships with glimpses of hard-won triumphs and the rhythm of daily life --- an elementary school graduation or time at home with family --- to remind us what the community is fighting for. The film provides a rare glimpse of the human cost of economic globalization in a part of the world where working people are valued only as cheap labor to fuel the profits of multinational corporations. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
