Grain of Sand - background to 2006 uprising in oaxaca (Chinese subtitles) 街頭就是教室 (中文字幕)

Granito de Arena

2005 Corrugated Films, directed by Jill Freidberg

Spanish and English with Chinese subtitles

62 minutes

http://www.corrugate.org/granito_de_arena/granito_de_arena



For over 20 years, global economic forces have been

dismantling public education in Mexico,

but always in the constant shadow of popular resistance...



Granito de Arena is the story of that resistance –

the story of hundreds of thousands of public schoolteachers

whose grassroots, non-violent movement took Mexico by surprise, and who have endured brutal repression in their 25-year struggle

for social and economic justice in Mexico's public schools.



Completed in 2005, Granito de Arena provides context and background to the unprecedented popular uprising that exploded in Oaxaca, Mexico, in 2006. It serves as an excellent prequel to Corrugated Film's latest release, Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad.



Award-winning Seattle filmmaker, Jill Freidberg, spent two years in southern Mexico documenting the efforts of over 100,000 teachers, parents, and students fighting to defend the country’s public education system from the devastating impacts of economic globalization.

Freidberg combines footage of strikes and direct actions with 25 years worth of never-before-seen archival images to deliver a compelling and unsettling story of

resistance, repression, commitment, and solidarity.



《街頭就是教室》

導演：朝兒. 弗德堡(Jill Freidberg)

製作：corrugated films

地區：美國／墨西哥

年份：2005

語言：西班牙語及英語／中文字幕

片長：62分鐘



導演朝兒，如果大家還記得2005年的電影節，我們曾放映她的作品＜這就是民主的面貌＞（This is What Democracy Looks Like, 台譯：西雅圖火未花），這次她深入墨西哥，更進一步探討西雅圖反世貿運動的深入意涵之一：當這世界一切皆可變賣，我們的生存，是人，還是寵物，抑或奴隸？

這齣影片，是關於墨西哥教師反對教育商品化，或對公共服務私營化的運動，當然，透過各大由美國主導的國際新聞社，這單新聞，就變成了「教師要求加薪」，但教師要求加薪怎會演變成家長學生打埋一份，與警察衝突，就當然不會細究。

在香港，我們似乎很接受公共服務私營化，什麼醫管局、市建局、房協，什麼領匯，大搖大擺地把我們的公民權利變成商品出售。現在還大談教改，到底香 港的教改，是否真的教改？有趣的是，當出了名維護那些商業邏輯來處理公共服務的前規劃地政局長孫明揚，竟成了教育局長後，我們的「教改」又會成何事？

我們以為落後貧窮的墨西哥地方教師卻告訴我們，教育，就是讓一個人知道如何以知識和行動，去維護一個人該有的尊嚴；而不是，把一個孩子變成商品一樣送給大老闆做員工！



http://smff.wordpress.com/2007/09/01/grainofsand/