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Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary (Film Screening 9/1)
The film shows the issue of immigration into the U.S. from the perspective of the undocumented worker
Film Screening:
WATSONVILLE BROWN BERETS PRESENT
Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary
tells the real story of immigration to the United States. Filmmaker Arturo Perez Torres follows in the footsteps of two friends traveling over land from Nicaragua to the U.S. The film shows the issue of immigration into the U.S. from the perspective of the undocumented worker. It reveals the poverty that drives workers across the U.S. bordera poverty that causes them to literally risk life and limb to provide for their families that they leave behind. The film is about survival that drives immigrants to travel thousands of miles, facing Mexican police and gangs and the Border Patrol and the vigilantes in the U.S. 97min. 2005
“Wetback” cuenta la historia verdadera sobre inmigración en los Estados Unidos. El cineasta Arturo Pérez Tores sigue los pasos de dos de sus amigos, viajando por Nicaragua hasta los Estados Unidos. Esta película nos habla sobre los problemas de inmigración hacia los Estados Unidos desde el punto de vista de trabajadores indocumentados. Nos revela la pobreza que obliga a trabajadores a cruzar la frontera entre México y Estados Unidos— Una pobreza que causa que los inmigrantes pongan en riesgo sus vidas para proveer para sus familias que dejan atrás en sus países. Esta película es sobre como sobrevivir, lo cual lleva a muchos inmigrantes a viajar miles de millas, a enfrentarse a la Policía Mexicana, Pandillas, la migra y los vigilantes en los Estados Unidos. 97 min. 2005
6PM FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 1, 2006
BROWN BERETS MEETING ROOM
406 Main Street Suite 408b
(Behind Ritmo Latino Music Store)
DOCUMENTARY FOLLOWED BY LA PENA DE WAZTLANCO
FOOD, DANCE, MUSIC, POETRY AND FIRME GENTE!
http://www.opencityworks.com/wetback/
http://WWW.BROWNBERETS.INFO
WATSONVILLE BROWN BERETS PRESENT
Wetback: The Undocumented Documentary
tells the real story of immigration to the United States. Filmmaker Arturo Perez Torres follows in the footsteps of two friends traveling over land from Nicaragua to the U.S. The film shows the issue of immigration into the U.S. from the perspective of the undocumented worker. It reveals the poverty that drives workers across the U.S. bordera poverty that causes them to literally risk life and limb to provide for their families that they leave behind. The film is about survival that drives immigrants to travel thousands of miles, facing Mexican police and gangs and the Border Patrol and the vigilantes in the U.S. 97min. 2005
“Wetback” cuenta la historia verdadera sobre inmigración en los Estados Unidos. El cineasta Arturo Pérez Tores sigue los pasos de dos de sus amigos, viajando por Nicaragua hasta los Estados Unidos. Esta película nos habla sobre los problemas de inmigración hacia los Estados Unidos desde el punto de vista de trabajadores indocumentados. Nos revela la pobreza que obliga a trabajadores a cruzar la frontera entre México y Estados Unidos— Una pobreza que causa que los inmigrantes pongan en riesgo sus vidas para proveer para sus familias que dejan atrás en sus países. Esta película es sobre como sobrevivir, lo cual lleva a muchos inmigrantes a viajar miles de millas, a enfrentarse a la Policía Mexicana, Pandillas, la migra y los vigilantes en los Estados Unidos. 97 min. 2005
6PM FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 1, 2006
BROWN BERETS MEETING ROOM
406 Main Street Suite 408b
(Behind Ritmo Latino Music Store)
DOCUMENTARY FOLLOWED BY LA PENA DE WAZTLANCO
FOOD, DANCE, MUSIC, POETRY AND FIRME GENTE!
http://www.opencityworks.com/wetback/
http://WWW.BROWNBERETS.INFO
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http://WWW.BROWNBERETS.INFO
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This looks like a terrific "undocumented documentary." I will make a special point to see it. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for focusing on one of the most marginalized groups in our society.
When I occasionally read the hate mongering that passes for editorials or letters to the editor at the Sentinel, I'm left wondering if the people writing that shit are real...
The blame and ill treatment some people want to inflict on others is truly alarming. The only analogy that comes to my mind is how some Germans scapegoated Jews prior to WWII. Not only is this completely dispicable, it is also without intellectual merit.
I repeat: Illegal immigrants are not taking away people's jobs. They are filling jobs that no one else wants to do. Not only that, they are feeding you and me. I cannot think of a nobler, more physically demanding vocation. Last year, at least five farmworkers had to die before Schwarzenegger and the Ag Industry lobby "allowed" emergency heat regulations to be passed in California. Prior to this, they had fought them tooth and nail FOR YEARS. Who knows how many people have actually died in this vocation, in order to feed you and me, while eaking out a living that is on par with that of slaves.
Finally, I hope all those right-wing hatemongers who love the phrase, "what don't you understand about the word 'illegal'?" and who like to throw around vague Christian-Nationalist phraseology are familiar with the Christian scriptures that condemn the abuse of farmworkers.
For their benefit, here it is:
"Look! The wages you have failed to pay the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered innocent men, who were not opposing you."
From the Book of James, Ch. 5, #4-6.
What I would like to know is, if one believes everything in the Bible is the inerrant, inspired "word of God," then how can a person support a nationalist law, such as an arbitrary border, (Jesus' family crossed the border to Egypt in order to avoid infanticide) over this, the "inspired word of God"? I pose this question to those readers who are of the fundamentalist Christian point-of-view. Thanks to anyone who can clear up this incongruence for me.
When I occasionally read the hate mongering that passes for editorials or letters to the editor at the Sentinel, I'm left wondering if the people writing that shit are real...
The blame and ill treatment some people want to inflict on others is truly alarming. The only analogy that comes to my mind is how some Germans scapegoated Jews prior to WWII. Not only is this completely dispicable, it is also without intellectual merit.
I repeat: Illegal immigrants are not taking away people's jobs. They are filling jobs that no one else wants to do. Not only that, they are feeding you and me. I cannot think of a nobler, more physically demanding vocation. Last year, at least five farmworkers had to die before Schwarzenegger and the Ag Industry lobby "allowed" emergency heat regulations to be passed in California. Prior to this, they had fought them tooth and nail FOR YEARS. Who knows how many people have actually died in this vocation, in order to feed you and me, while eaking out a living that is on par with that of slaves.
Finally, I hope all those right-wing hatemongers who love the phrase, "what don't you understand about the word 'illegal'?" and who like to throw around vague Christian-Nationalist phraseology are familiar with the Christian scriptures that condemn the abuse of farmworkers.
For their benefit, here it is:
"Look! The wages you have failed to pay the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered innocent men, who were not opposing you."
From the Book of James, Ch. 5, #4-6.
What I would like to know is, if one believes everything in the Bible is the inerrant, inspired "word of God," then how can a person support a nationalist law, such as an arbitrary border, (Jesus' family crossed the border to Egypt in order to avoid infanticide) over this, the "inspired word of God"? I pose this question to those readers who are of the fundamentalist Christian point-of-view. Thanks to anyone who can clear up this incongruence for me.
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