The Advocates for Human Rights and

The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library present:

WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS FILM SERIES

Maquilapolis: City of Factories

Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.

Riverview Branch Library

1 East George Street, St. Paul

Free and open to the public

Carmen works the graveyard shift in one of Tijuana’s maquiladoras, the multinationally-owned factories that came to Mexico for its cheap labor.  She and a million other maquiladora workers produce televisions, electrical cables, toys, clothes, and more – they weave the very fabric of life for consumer nations.  They also confront labor violations, environmental devastation and urban chaos in life on the frontier of the global economy.  In “Maquilapolis,” Carmen and her colleague Lourdes reach beyond the daily struggle for survival to organize for change.

Angela Bortel, Staff Attorney in the Women’s Program at The Advocates, and Alicia Ranney, Director of the Minnesota Fair Trade Coalition, will host the discussion after the film.

Download the event flyer here.