Premiere Date: October 10, 2006
Synopsis
Just over the border in Mexico is an area peppered with maquiladoras: massive factories often owned by the world's largest multinational corporations. Carmen and Lourdes work at maquiladoras in Tijuana, where each day they confront labor violations, environmental devastation and urban chaos. In this lyrical documentary, the women reach beyond the daily struggle for survival to organize for change, taking on both the Mexican and U.S. governments and a major television manufacturer. A co-production of the Independent Television Service (ITVS).
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good film, pero sad!!
this film is part of what is going on in the maquila.
There has been several deaths in the maquilas thanks to NAFTA and the so called "first world countries".
All they do is exploit because they think we aren't concience of what is going on, but we work to survive and because they take the work away from the campesinos!Thats why the EZLN outcoming rose, because the indigenous pueblo is oppressed. tonto xenophobic "first world countries", remember that karma is mean and it will come and bite you in the pompa! o wait, it already has with the economic crisis! And know we students have to pay more because the "first world countries" are going broke! Brujos man...their going brujos!!The clothes you have on now, where probably made in a maquiladora, people have risked their health, their lives, they sweated over making those clothes!! You paid about 20 bucks, they got paid 10 cents!People are being put in danger just so you could put some clothing you probably didnt even need... how sad no?What is being done? nothing, actually more is being done! More maquilas are being planted in unnessesary places!!!!pero puees what can we do? work to survive!! i myself am exploited, pero i have to work to pay of those EXTRA 121 dlls that the government is know charging due to the economic crisis!!I have to work to survive, even if it means being paid a misery!!
by cindy
August 4, 2009, 2:18 AM