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In yet another twist, globalization has brought Carmen and Lourdes greater sophistication about politics and media than existed in earlier generations of the Mexican working class. Learn more about funding opportunities with ITVS. Search for " Maquilapolis " on Amazon. Starting in the s the U. Carmen takes a major television manufacturer to task for violating her labor rights. The very abutment of Tijuana's poor barrios against some of the world's wealthiest communities, and the array of low-cost consumer conveniences and devices -- televisions, cell phones, intravenous bags, pantyhose, batteries, electronic components -- for which the women have surrendered both health and freedom, make for an ironic, twisted poetry of contrasts.

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Maquilapolis: City of Factories | ITVS

In case there is any doubt about what is happening, the factory takes advantage of every rainfall, however slight, to send an extra torrent of chemical-laden waters down through the neighborhood. But Carmen is not a victim. There is also heartbreak in these victories. When the Sanyo plant where Carmen worked for six years moved to Indonesia, they tried to avoid paying the legally mandated severance pay.

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She helps organize a community group, the Chilpancingo Collective for Environmental Justice, to fight for an cleanup of a toxic waste dump left behind by a departing battery-recycling factory -- a seemingly impossible goal factorues a country whose environmental protection agencies cry helplessness at every turn. In Maquilapolisundertaxed and under-regulated factories operated by multinational corporations -- usually through local middlemen -- pollute residential neighborhoods with seeming impunity.

The results are predictable: While the poor people of Maquilaoolis do the work that keeps the malls of the Western World humming, they end up earning no stake in that world.

Maquilapolis: City of Factories | Kanopy

Tijuana became known as the television capital of the world, 'TV-juana. She suffers from kidney problems and anemia as a result of her years of factory work.

The film is entirely bilingual, with English or Spanish subtitles, as needed, so it can also be used to organize maquiladores workers to struggle for their rights. The river in front of Lourdes's home overflows with waste water from the hilltop factories. In yet another twist, globalization has brought Carmen and Lourdes greater sophistication about politics and media than existed in earlier generations of the Mexican working class.

Please enable Javascript to use Kanopy! Learn more about funding opportunities with ITVS. She earns factpries dollars a day on which she must support herself and her three children.

Lourdes, as also documented by her video diary, can't just sit by. Women's and Gender Studies.

This article relies too much on references to primary sources. After a decades long boom inTijuana suffered a recession as corporations chased after even cheaper labor in Asia.

Maquilapolis: City of Factories

But for all the miserable working conditions, health problems, and broken promises, Carmen and Lourdes and others like them -- promotoras who fight for workers' rights against the new corporate order -- are not the pliant female employees anticipated by the companies or the Mexican government. The searing new feature documentary Maquilapolis: Start watching with your public library card or university login.

Funari, who lives in Vallejo, California, served on the board of directors of the Latino media arts icty Cine Accion from to The factory workers who appear in the film have been involved in every stage of production, ciry planning to shooting, from scripting to outreach.

This film is a must see! Many consider the U. Views Read Edit View history. Maquilapolis is one of the most authoritative documentaries on cross-border maquillapolis. Starting in the s the U.

City of Factories may take its name and stories from the maquiladorasthe multinational assembly plants that sprang up south of the U. Carmen Duran works the graveyard shift in one of Tijuana's maquiladoras; she is one of six million women around the world who labor for poverty wages in the factories of transnational corporations.

This is a film that is very interestingly taped with a mixture of film still shots, computer images, words, shots from the point of view of the cameraman and point of citt of the women. Carmen's severance allows her to put a floor under her coty feet, but she's left with little prospect of a new job.