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What began as a teachers' strike on May 22, 2006 for better wages and more resources for students has erupted into a massive movement for profound social change in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. LAND, RAIN AND FIRE tells the story of the police attack on the morning of June 14th when more than fifty thousand teachers were camped out with their children. Dozens were hospitalized. But the attack backfired as public anger transformed the strike into an unprecedented democratic insurgency, demanding the resignation of the Governor and the creation of a new constitution. Hundreds of unions, indigenous and women's organizations, neighborhood groups, students and professional associations came together and created APPO – The Popular Assembly of the People's of Oaxaca and a massive campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience has brought the state government to a standstill. As the people's movements in Latin America take center stage — LAND, RAIN AND FIRE is a must see!
A documentary by Tami Gold and Gerardo Renique
in collaboration with:
Mal de Ojo (Oaxacan video collective)
2006, 30 minutes, color, DVD, available in Spanish |
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"LAND, RAIN AND FIRE provides on-the-ground coverage of the conflict that has heretofore been found only in bits and pieces via the Internet... LAND, RAIN AND FIRE analyzes the structural violence and poverty that motivates the ongoing struggle, and makes clear, with every Oaxaqueo interviewed, that the movement in Oaxaca is a struggle against neoliberalism and its tangible effects on the lives of the people, particularly since the passage of NAFTA."
Christy Thornton, NACLA |
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