Multi-media Art Event to Celebrate Women's History Month

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Admission includes hors d'oeuvres and entertainment and a cash bar. Our special guest is Veronica Cruz, founder of Las Libres and winner of the International Human Rights award.

When

Mar 1st, 2019 6:00 pm

Location

Casa Europa
San Francisco 23, Centro
San Miguel de Allende, GUA 37700
Mexico

Events

Blurb

Ser Mujer

Co-sponsor

Speakers

Fee

100 pesos

Language

English

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Upcoming Talks & Films

Tuesday, Feb 25 - 11:00 am

Talk

A Fourth Transformation: Is Mexico Ready for Social Justice?

Hector Ulloa

Mexico is in the midst of great changes. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO for short) has pledged to end the corruption that has been endemic in the country and raise the poor. These are just a couple of the more difficult aspects of what he calls The Fourth Transformation. With an activist state exercising a preferential option for the poor, he promises an end to the neoliberal era...

Wednesday, Feb 26 - 11:00 am

Film & Discussion

Where Can We Live In Peace?

Discussion with Judy Jackson

A year ago Judy Jackson’s film Walk With Us followed a caravan of Central American migrants moving through Mexico. They were fleeing the violence of drug gangs, extreme poverty and climate change in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Much of the film took place at the ABBA house for migrants in Celaya where it featured the amazing work of the shelter’s founder Pastor Ignacio Ramirez...

Thursday, Feb 27 - 11:00 am

Film

American Factory

The 2020 Oscar winning documentary, American Factory, is about a closed General Motors plant in Dayton Ohio that is now owned by a Chinese billionaire that employs American workers under Chinese authoritarian management. It is a prescription headed for conflict when workers try to form a union under the impression they are more than compliant cogs in the machine but actually have...

Friday, Feb 28 - 2:00 pm

Discussion Group

We: Reviving Social Hope

Ron Aronson

The book We: Reviving Social Hope by philosopher Ron Aronson will be the focus of a discussion group on Friday February 21. His book is a message to save us from the despair, cynicism and defeatism that paralyzes too many in these troubled times.

Aronson argues that social hope is born from collective action, a we, not just I. It is in a movement that “we become...

Tuesday, Mar 3 - 11:00 am

Film & Discussion

Tomorrow - Part 1

“Without question, this is absolutely the best and most creative film on the future of humanity and the environment.”
— Paul Hawken

As mankind is threatened by the collapse of the ecosystems, filmmakers Cyril, Mélanie, Alexandre, Laurent, Raphäel and Antoine, all in their thirties, set out to explore the world in search of solutions that can save their children, and...

Wednesday, Mar 4 - 11:00 am

Film & Discussion

Tomorrow - Part 2

“Without question, this is absolutely the best and most creative film on the future of humanity and the environment.”
— Paul Hawken

As mankind is threatened by the collapse of the ecosystems, filmmakers Cyril, Mélanie, Alexandre, Laurent, Raphäel and Antoine, all in their thirties, set out to explore the...

Thursday, Mar 5 - 11:00 am

Talk

The Green New Deal

Susan Goldman & Peter Weisberg

In the US progressive leaders have called for a Green New Deal on the scale of the mobilization for World War II. They have outlined an integrated plan to address the climate emergency that calls for a conversion of our energy system away from fossil fuels to renewables like solar and wind that can give good union jobs in clean energy. It calls for regenerative agriculture to draw...

Upcoming Trips

Mar 12, 2020

- Mar 19, 2020

Tour

Chiapas, a place of old wisdom and contemporary influences

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Mar 30, 2020

- Apr 3, 2020

Tour

Visit Sierra Gorda and Las Pozas

photo credits here...

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Multi-media Art Event to Celebrate Women's History Month