Report from Chiapas and Beyond: John Gibler speaks on the Zapatistas' Other Campaign

Report from Chiapas and Beyond:
John Gibler speaks on the Zapatistas' Other Campaign / Video documentaries on police brutality in Atenco

Monday, June 19 at 7 PM

6 - 7 PM: New College Media Studies MA Program - Information Session. Come by between 6 and 7pm to learn about the program.

7 PM: John Gibler and videos on the Zapatistas' Other Campaign and police brutality in Atenco.

New College Theater (wheelchair accessible)
777 Valencia Street (between 18th & 19th Streets)
San Francisco

La Otra Campaña (the Other Campaign) is the Zapatista’s response to Mexican election politics in an election year, a countrywide tour to activate the anti-capitalist, grassroots left and enact new constitutional reforms that will stymie the neoliberal agenda. John Gibler, a Global Exchange human rights fellow in Mexico who has been covering the Zapatistas' Other Campaign since January 1st, will speak on the Other Campaign and present two short documentaries on the May 4th massive police raid in San Salvador Atenco.

Gibler was present in Atenco and has since conducted scores of interviews with victims and witnesses. He collaborated with both documentaries which include direct film footage from Atenco as well as photographs, interviews, and archival footage. Each video is about 40 minutes long in Spanish with English subtitles. The films show the incredible and systematic use of police brutality in Atenco, breaking the information black hole enforced by major US media in their refusal to cover the violence or analyze its political nature.

$5 donation requested. No one turned away for lack of
funds.

Co-Sponsored by Global Exchange and New College Center for
Education and Social Action

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Jon Garfield
New College Center for Education and Social Action
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