On November 3rd, 8pm at Rice Cinema,
Houston Indymedia will be screening:
Un Poquito de Tanto Verdad (A Little Bit of so Much Truth)
a 90 minute documentary by Corrugated Films and Mal de Ojo TV which captures the unprecedented media phenomenon that emerged when tens of thousands of school teachers, housewives, indigenous communities, health workers, farmers, and students took 14 radio stations and one TV station into their own hands, using them to organize, mobilize, and ultimately defend their grassroots struggle for social, cultural, and economic justice.
In the summer of 2006, a broad-based, non-violent, popular uprising exploded in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Some compared it to the Paris Commune, while others called it the first Latin American revolution of the 21st century.
But it was the people’s use of the media that truly made history in Oaxaca. A 90-minute documentary, A Little Bit of So Much Truth captures the unprecedented media phenomenon that emerged when tens of thousands of school teachers, housewives, indigenous communities, health workers, farmers, and students took 14 radio stations and one TV station into their own hands, using them to organize, mobilize, and ultimately defend their grassroots struggle for social, cultural, and economic justice.
"Beautiful, powerful, dramatic...magnificent...provides a remarkably deep and penetrating look into the people who made up the movement. Everyone interested in Mexico, in teachers and education, in workers' movements, in indigenous people, in the state of our world and the struggle for social justice should see the video."
Mexican Labor News and Analysis
The screening is one in an ongoing series of progressive films presented by Houston Independent Media Center on a monthly basis, designed to raise awareness on a variety of important social and political issues. The Houston Independent Media Center is a community-based organization committed to using media production and distribution as a tool for promoting social and economic justice
Rice Media Center is located on the Rice University campus inside Entrance No. 8 on University Boulevard at Stockton Drive.
www.corrugate.org/un_poquito_de_tanta_verdad/un_poquito_de_tanta_verdad
For more information on the film and screening see:
http://houston.indymedia.org/news/2007/10/61722.php
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The Houston Indymedia filmscreening working group will be hosting a meeting on Wednesday October 25th at Taft Street Coffee (21115 Taft St.) at 7:00pm to talk about promoting this film and the other Screenings we have this year, as well as start planning our 2008 schedule. We have been screening progressive documentaries monthly at Rice Cinema for 5 years are entertaining films about Human Rights in Burma, The International Drag King Movement, Iraq War Deserters, Graffitti Art and more. Please come help support and build an alternative media structure that can challenge power and create a space for the people's voice to be heard and listened to.
Courtesy of: RoB, Houston Indy Media, and Houston Sin Fronteras
