Snowbird Symposium - 2005

DOCUMENTARY FILMS every THURSDAY at the TEATRO SANTA ANA ,*   from 3:00-4:45 pm, followed by discussion
* except “Burn!” on Thurs. Feb. 16, which will be shown at the Villa Jacaranda Hotel

LECTURES & TALKS every WEDNESDAY in the SALA QUETZAL from 10:30 am-12:30 pm

Admission $50 pesos for all events, DONATIONS ALSO ACCEPTED
Schedule subject to change. Check Atencion weekly for details.

THURS Jan. 5
FILM - (double feature) Farmingville - The response of a Long Island suburb to the influx of Mexican immigrants & The 6th Section - Organizing of Mexican immigrants in Newburgh, New York.

WED Jan. 11
TALK - Cliff DuRand & David Rowe discuss John Perkins’ book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - How he cheated countries out of trillions of dollars on behalf of the corporatocracy.

THURS Jan. 12
FILM - The City (La Ciudad) - Personal stories about the loneliness, camraderie, economic hardship and solidarity among Latino immigrants in New York City.

WED Jan. 18
TALK - Joe Ershun & Marge Zap, McCarthyism - Their experiences of political repression and lessons for today, plus a documentary on the attack on the UN featuring Zap.

THURS Jan. 19
FILM - Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove made George W. Bush presidential - The ruthless, remorseless, brilliant political puppet master who created a governor and president.

WED Jan. 25
TALK - Murray Kamelhar presents a dramatic reading of Harold Pinter´s 2005 Nobel Prize speech - A powerful anti-war statement by a great playwriter.

THURS Jan. 26
FILM - The Control Room - Behind the scenes look at Al-Jazeera, the Arabic satellite television news network that President Bush wanted to bomb.

WED Feb. 1
TALK - Irma Rosado, a counselor of women in rural communities, talks on The Causes of Migration and Its Effects on Families in the San Miguel de Allende area.

THURS Feb. 2
FILM - Global Village ... Global Pillage - Corporate globalization and how people around the world are challenging it.

WED Feb. 8
TALK - Atahualpa Caldera talks on Water Availability and Its Impact on Agriculture and Migration in San Miguel de Allende.

THURS Feb. 9
FILM - Thirst - Is water part of a shared commons, a human right for all people, or a commodity to be bought, sold and traded in a global marketplace?

WED Feb. 15
TALK - Report by the Center for Global Justice’s Mexico Study Group on Migration

THURS Feb. 16
FILM - Burn! - with Marlon Brando - A Caribbean island neo-colonized by the British and the revolt of the Black cane cutters against their exploitation. (Note: at Villa Jacaranda Hotel)

WED Feb. 22
TALK - Bob Stone & Betsy Bowman on Worker Cooperatives in Argentina - How Argentine workers are building an alternative to the neo-liberal disaster that befell their country.

THURS Feb. 23
FILM - Viva Zapata! - Another Marlon Brando film in which he plays the legendary peasant leader of the 1910 Mexican Revolution.

WED Mar. 1
TALK - Cliff DuRand talks on Neo-liberalism and Globalization - A critique of the public philosophy that guides corporate-led globalization.

THURS Mar. 2
FILM - The Corporation - About the pathological pursuit of profit and power.

WED Mar, 8
TALK - Report by the Center for Global Justice’s Mexico Study Group on Migration

THURS Mar. 9
FILM - Life and Debt - The relation between Jamaican poverty and the practices of international lending agencies, based on Jamaica Kincaid’s book “A Small Place.”

WED Mar. 15
TALK - Bob Stone & Betsy Bowman on the World Social Forum in Venezuela - Two of the founders of the Center for Global Justice report on the global justice movement today.

THURS Mar. 16
FILM - Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear and the Selling of American Empire - How a radical fringe of the Republican Party used the 9/11 terror attacks to advance their agenda.

WED Mar 22
TALK - Betsy Bowman on Globalization from a Subsistence Perspective - Empowerment based on cooperation as an alternative to the current globalized, free market industrial system.

THURS Mar. 23
FILM - Wal Mart: The High Cost of Low Price - The real lives of the workers and families of the world’s largest employer and the business owners and communities it destroys.

WED Mar 29
TALK - Julieta Sánchez interviews women in rural communities on Effects of Migration on Women.