Films from the Americas
MIT Western Hemisphere Project
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
English sub-titles. Discussion w/ scholars & film critics after each screening.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/events
Contact: MIT Western Hemisphere Project, hemisphere-announce@mit.edu
"The Last Zapatistas" (Mexico)
MIT Western Hemisphere Project
The first Zapatistas - survivors of the 1910 Mexican Revolution - reminisce & discuss present-day ecological challenges plus prospects for peace & justice. (Activist Kevin Batt, just returned from a visit with today's Zapatistas in Chiapas, will join us.)
Fri Jan 9, 07-09:00pm, MIT 66-110
"Sixth Section" (USA) & "Dream Deferred" (USA)
MIT Western Hemisphere Project
In Sixth Section a group of workers in NY, determined to improve life in their native Mexican village, send money home - & gain economic & political influence. In Dream Deferred high-school kids from immigrant families in Boston tell their stories: because their parents are "undocumented," they are unable to attend college.
Fri Jan 16, 07-09:00pm, MIT 66-110
"First Night" (Colombia)
MIT Western Hemisphere Project
Enchanting yet bittersweet, this love story is set in a society forced to deal with violence & corruption. Wilson & brother Tonio are separated by economic necessity. Tonio & Paulina soon flee their home in the mountains. What happens on their first night in the big city?
Fri Jan 23, 07-09:00pm, MIT 66-110
"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" (Venezuela)
MIT Western Hemisphere Project
In April 2002, the Venezuelan elite deposed the elected President. The coup was supported by the Bush Administration and even by the New York Times. Film-makers were inside the presidential palace throughout. Come watch the film they made.
Fri Jan 30, 07-09:00pm, MIT 66-110
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Globalization Sounds Good But Who Pays the Bills?
MIT Western Hemisphere Project
Wed Jan 28, 07-09:00pm, MIT 1-150
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Wendy Call is a writer and activist who divides her time between Boston and Oaxaca, Mexico. She will discuss the costs of "free trade" -- no, it really isn't free -- and the ways in which indigenous and rural communities in Mexico and Central America are resisting the globalization being imposed on them by their own governments.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/events/
Contact: MIT Western Hemisphere Project, hemisphere-announce@mit.edu
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How to Make Your Public Service Project More Successful!
Sally Susnowitz (Director, MIT Public Service Center)
Tue Jan 20, 27, 03-05:00pm, W20-301, PDR 1 & 2
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 18-Jan-2004
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
What did you do last summer? What did you learn?
Jerry went to Honduras, where he installed equipment in a river to see if the US-owned mine nearby was poisoning it. Susan joined an AIDS-education project in Belize. Ashley & Kay spent eight weeks in Arizona supporting Navajo elders in their fight to live a sustainable lifestyle against pressure from corporations & the government. All these MIT students wanted to do public service, & their efforts were funded by MIT, but will their projects actually have lasting benefits for the communities they intended to serve?
Students combining research & public service must achieve both understanding and positive change. We will talk with students, faculty, & funders about how a project can be designed to maximize the chances of success. If you have done public service, or want to, please join us! Our guest-list includes Jean Jackson (MIT Anthropology); Jeff Ravel (MIT History); Tom Cummins (Harvard Latin American Studies); Chappell Lawson (MIT Political Science); Michael Bergren (MIT Eloranta Committee); Paul Parravano (MIT President's Office); and you!
[Co-sponsored by the MIT Public Service Center]
Web: http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/courses/service04.shtml
Contact: Organizers, service04@mit.edu
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