"Hear Me" Book Launch

Aug 4th, 2018 3:00 pm

Talk

Sallie Latch

Join Sallie Latch to present her new book Here Me, Raw Rare Interviews Syrian Refugees and Other Heroes of the Refugee Crisis in Greece

CLICK HERE to know more about the book

Location

Cafe Santa Ana
La Biblioteca Publica, Rejoj 50A, Centro
San Miguel de Allende, GUA 37700
Mexico

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Upcoming Talks & Films

Sunday, Jul 21 - 8:30 am

March

Say NO to Toxic Mining in Dolores Hidalgo

Citizens and environmentalists fear irreversible damage if the Canadian company, Argonaut Gold, carries out its plans to begin operations in the Cerro del Gallo mining project which would exploit 20 thousand 270 hectares of land in the southern region of the Dolores Hidalgo municipality. The Coalición en Defensa de la Cuenca de la Independencia (COCECIN), and Colectivo Guardianes de la Cuenca...

Wednesday, Jul 24 - 11:00 am

Film & Discussion

American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs

Bernie Sanders inspired a generation - but who inspired him? “American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs” is the culmination of five years of research and production. Its inspiration was the use of the word “socialist” as a political epithet, and director Yale Strom wanted to define and contextualize the term. Most people in America do not know that the contemporary political...

Thursday, Jul 25 - 11:00 am

Talk

What is Socialism Today?

Betsy Bowman & Cliff DuRand

Socialism has become a key word in the current political campaign in the US. Republicans accuse Democrats of all being “socialists,” whatever that means. Bernie Sanders is the only Presidential candidate who proudly embraces the label, defining his democratic socialism in terms of F.D. Roosevelt’s Economic Bill of Rights – which was offered as the next stage of the very popular New Deal. The...

Wednesday, Jul 31 - 11:00 am

Film

The Conformist

Bernardo Bertolucci’s masterpiece, The Conformist (Il Conformista) from 1970, is based upon the novel of the same name by Alberto Moravia. It is beautifully played by Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli and Dominique Sanda.

The film is a case study in the psychology of conformism and fascism: Marcello Clerici is a bureaucrat, cultivated and intellectual but largely...

Thursday, Aug 1 - 11:00 am

Film

Life is Beautiful

Life is Beautiful (La vita e bella) is a 1997 Italian comedy-drama directed by and starring Roberto Benigni. Benigni’s character is an Italian Jewish father in a family consisting of his wife and small son. In the 1940s they are rounded up and sent to a concentration camp. There the father, in order to hide the reality of their situation from their son and to somehow survive, pretends...

Upcoming Trips

Nov 29, 2019

- Dec 11, 2019

Tour

Yes, you can still travel to Cuba!

Join us in an exploration of Green Cuba

Cuba has converted much of its land to...

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"Hear Me" Book Launch

Join us in an exploration of Green Cuba