Movement for Justice in El Barrio and North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)

Monday February 18th, 7pm
King Juan Carlos Center, NYU
53 Washington Square South

REPRESSION IN CHIAPAS
Featuring the New York premiere of the new documentary, "One Big Train
Called the Other Campaign"

The escalating low intensity warfare being waged by the Mexican government
against the Zapatista communities now includes brutal displacement, death
threats and incarceration. Currently, there are 79 permanent military bases
in Chiapas and paramilitary groups are threatening Zapatista families.

Members of Movement for Justice In El Barrio will speak about the Other
Campaign, and special guest Ernesto Ledesma Arronte from the Chiapas-based
Center of Political Analysis and Social and Economic Investigation (CAPISE)
will share with us how the Mexican government is attempting to displace the
Zapatistas from their land.

The evening will also feature the New York Premiere of "One Big Train Called
The Other Campaign," a new documentary filmed by the Zapatista communities
on the Zapatista initiated national Mexican movement, and the new anthology
of Zapatista communiques, "Speed of Dreams" will also be available.
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Movement for Justice in El Barrio is an immigrant-led multi-issue
organization fighting for justice in East Harlem, New York. Movimiento was
founded to fight against a voracious trend towards gentrification that is
devouring low-income housing and displacing immigrant families from their
homes. For more information, visit:

http://www.narconews.com/Issue42/article2037.html

http://zapagringo.blogspot.com/2007/06/fighting-to-win-in-east-harlem-and.html

The North American Congress on Latin America is an independent organization
founded in 1966 to foster awareness about Latin American politics and U.S.
foreign policy in Latin America. They publish the award-winning NACLA Report
on the Americas. For more information on NACLA, visit http://www.nacla.org
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Co-sponsored by the NYU Department of History. For information on KJC and
directions, visit: http://www.nyu.edu/kjc

Questions? Contact NACLA Director Christy Thornton at cthornton@nacla.org or
(646) 613-1440.