Over the last 20 years, Mexico has progressed considerably towards the recognition of women as subjects of rights reducing the historical...
Transnational Institute Webinar
Philip Alston, Aderonke Ige, Sulakshana Nandi & Rosa Pavanelli
Support for public services and limits on private profit is at an all-time high in the wake of the pandemic. How...
Hosted by the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
Stan Allen, Rebecca Eichler & Pastor Ignacio. Facilitated by Bill Dalsimer
You are invited to watch and then discuss "The Migrant Crisis: "Where Can We Live in Peace?"
Please click the link below to join the webinar:
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The Transnational Institute
Richard Kozul-Wright from UNCTAD and leading activists
Since 1 April, TNI with allies has brought together experts and activists to discuss how this pandemic health crisis exposes the...
Organized by Transform Europe & the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung
Maude Barlow, Mike Davis & Martin Schirdewan
Join the new weekly webinar series, With Everything Up For Grabs. The Green New Deal(s) the World Needs Now, focused on developing internationalist visions for Green New Deal(s) that will work for the whole planet in the post-Covid...
Join the Transnational Institute's fifth COVID-19 webinar, which will examine authoritarian and repressive state responses to the Coronavirus pandemic, featuring UN Special Rapporteur on Protecting Human Rights and other global...
Transnational Institute Webinar
Mark Heywood with Baba Aye, Kajal Bharadwaj and David Legge
The Transnational Institute's next weekly webinar is Taking Health back from Corporations: pandemics, big pharma and privatized health. ...
Atahualpa Caldera Sosa
The Center for Global Justice has produced a 30 minute film on climate change, directed by Board member Atahualpa Caldera Sosa.
The rising global consciousness of the climate crisis was reflected in San Miguel de Allende in...
Transnational Institiute
Rob Wallace
The Transnationa Institute's next webinar, A Recipe for Disaster: Globalised food systems, structural inequality and COVID-19 will feature a dialogue between Rob...
Organized by Caminos de Agua
Interview with Joaquin Murrieta Saldivar
Broadcasting from Tucson, Arizona, Joaquin Murrieta joins Caminos de Agua technical mentor, Aaron Krupp, for a conversation about what we can all do in our homes, neighborhoods, schools, and...
Organized by the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of San Miguel de Allende
Ronnie Cummins
Ronnie Cummins will speak on his new book Grassroots Rising: A Call to Action on Climate, Farming, Food, and A Green New Deal. The book is a passionate call to action for the global body politic, offering practical solutions for how to survive—...
Dylan Terrell
To access the live stream click https://youtu.be/kwf4D0kIGWs
The Alto Río Laja Watershed stretches across seven municipalities in northern Guanajuato State in Central...
Renata Ballesteros
NOTE: Due to something broken on youtube that now is fixed, we were unable to broadcast this talk on Thursday the 26th. All is working now and we have rescheduled the talk for the 27th at 11.
Cooperative Economics offers an alternative...
Mayfirst Need to Know Series
Melanie Bush, Jamie McClelland, Micky Metts, Ken Montenegro & Jaime Villareal
The virus and the fact that so many activities must be cancelled as a result has underscored the importance of free software (or what is frequently called Free and Open Source Software). If you're going on-line with what were your face to face...
Laura Carlsen
The past years have seen unprecedented movements to eliminate violence against women in our region. From the MeToo movements to denounce abuse and harassment, to Chilean women's viral performance of 'Un violador en tu camino', to demonstrations for...
Atahualpa Caldera Sosa & Ana Telma Tovar Márquez
Climate change is the most important threat facing humanity. Almost three decades after the summit of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil in 1992, the planet continues to suffer rapid deterioration from human activities.
Young people are tired of...
In 1999 the World Bank and IMF required Bolivia to privatize all public utilities in line with their neoliberal agenda. The compliant government of Bolivia then sold the water system of Cochabamba to a subsidiary of San Francisco-based Bechtel...
Veronica Cruz
Guanajuato is a dangerous place for women. Fifty-nine percent of women in Guanajuato age 15 and older have experienced violence. In 2019, there were 303 murders of women, at least 15 of which were femicides. That’s not acceptable to Veronica Cruz,...
Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona
What common denominator dictates the hardships faced by many women in both the Global South and the developed North? According to Magdalena Sepulveda Carmona it's the unfair tax structure that permits international corporations to get away with not...
Honoring the women around the world with the Goldman Environmental Prize. Stopping illegal gold mining in ancestral lands, expisng the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, banning deep sea trawling, creating a nature reserve in the Gobi Desert. These...
Betsy Bowman
Dr. Betsy Bowman will explain how the Quantitative Easing policies of the US Federal Reserve have allowed corporations to buy back their own stock -- which was formerly illegal. These QE policies have also allowed the corporations’ executives, Boards...
Tempestad, (Storm) is an award winning documentary by Salvadoran-Mexican director Tatiana Huezo. This beautifully crafted and creative film focuses on the emotional journey of two women victimized by the...
It’s 2020 and the global economy is still suffering from the housing crash of 2008. “Did no one see this coming?” was the refrain heard from Buckingham Palace to Timbuktu. Well, actually a few people did see it coming. “The Big Short” chronicles...
How did things go so wrong back in 2008-09? And what the heck really happened anyway? It’s still very confusing. And could it happen again? Some say the economy is fine. But student debt, credit card debt, mortgage debt, corporate debt, government...
An Installation to Represent Violence Against Women in the State of Guanajuato
Women from all over San Miguel have donated their own shoes for a symbolic art installation on March 8, 2020. The display of 303 pair of women’s...
Judy Jackson & Rebecca Eichler
This film, by documentary filmmaker Judy Jackson is an update from “Walk With Us” – which followed a caravan of Central American migrants - fleeing violence, poverty and climate change – as it moved through Mexico a year ago . Much of it...
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...
Gretchen Kuhner
The horrors faced by migrants fleeing poverty, war, crime and other atrocities are forcing hundreds of thousands to escape their countries, mostly Central American, to try to find a better life somewhere else; in many cases, in the United States. ...
“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...
“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,...
Ron Aronson
The book We: Reviving Social Hope by philosopher Ron Aronson will be the focus of a discussion group on Friday February 28. His book is a message to save us from the despair, cynicism and defeatism that paralyzes too many in these troubled...
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...
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...
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...
Gregory Diamant, Cliff DuRand & Peter Weisberg
It has been said “all politics is local.” Nevertheless, most public attention is focused on national politics. But that is changing now as local communities, feeling themselves powerless at the national level, are trying to gain some control over...
Benefit for Caminamos Juntos
Rhian Miller & Rhonda Berkower
Two short films that tell the stories of DACA recipients and provide insight into their lives and struggles. There can be no better time to tell these stories.
The films will be followed by discussion of DACA with filmmaker Rhian Miller from...
Transition is a movement that has been growing since 2005. It is about communities stepping up to address the big challenges they face by starting local. It’s an...
Economic globalization has led to a massive expansion in the scale and power of big business and banking. It has also worsened nearly every problem we face: fundamentalism and ethnic conflict; climate chaos and species extinction; financial...
Micky Metts
Given challenges to net neutrality, press freedom, and to our own freedom and privacy, the stakes we face in using the internet are enormous. Micky Metts of Boston’s Agaric Cooperative maintains The key to regaining security and control of the...
By now most Facebook users know their personal data is being used to sell them stuff.But they are less likely to realize how it is also used to influence their voting.In 2016 the British data research company Cambridge Analytica cunningly harvested...
The mass incarceration of immigrant families by the U.S. government is not unprecedented, nor new. During World War II, over 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry were interned in detention camps, essentially all of them families – about one-third were...
Most of us have become cynical about the ways our governments sell the public on their nefarious adventures. That is certainly the case with the disastrous 2003 US invasion of Iraq. While widely believed at the time, Secretary of State Colin Powell’s...
The 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre reminds us that the struggle against the capitalist ruling class has deep historical roots. It was in 1819 in Manchester England that a peaceful rally of working men and women demanding political...
The Corporate Coup d'État takes a complex political/historical theme and brings it to life. In the style of '13th,' 'Manufacturing Consent,' 'The Corporation,' and 'All Governments Lie' it creates a powerful cinematic experience that explains how...
Cliff DuRand
In 2016 when voters rejected the U.S. political Establishment, both Democratic and Republican, the long festering crisis of liberal democracy suddenly became visible. The loss of legitimacy by the political elite produced a President Trump. As Michael...
Cliff DuRand
Dr. Martin Luther King had a dream of a society in which all are recognized as equal and all are treated with dignity. That vision resonated with most people who aspire to a more caring society in which we are our brothers keepers. However, efforts...
Tom Paxton will give one of those now-rare concerts, his first-ever in San Miguel. All 500 seats in the Hotel Real de Minas ballroom will be reserved and assigned to ticket holders. The concert is a benefit for Caminamos Juntos, a charitable...
U.S. sanctions block the Venezuelan people from obtaining food and medicine. They resulted in at least 40,000 deaths between mid-2017 and the end of 2018, according to a...
Nominated for an Oscar as Best Documentary, The Edge of Democracy is a cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis. We witness up close the rise and fall of Brazil’s Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva. The legislative coup...
“Don’t frack with Mother Earth” became a popular slogan after Josh Fox’s 2010 documentary on hydraulic fracking exposed the dangers to humans and environment of this controversial method of extracting fossil fuels from shale. Scenes of people living...
David Bacon
Immigration has been one of the hottest issues in the U.S. for some time. Under President Trump it has given rise to some of the cruelest, most inhumane policies in recent memory. At this week’s Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Service, author/...
David Bacon
For decades Mexico’s unions have been controlled by the government rather than independently representing workers. Now President Andres Manual Lopez Obrador is seeking to move the country away from the neoliberalism of the last 36 years. What does...
Enrique Caldera & Diana Hoogesteger
What can Mexico contribute toward climate solutions? Two key areas are solar energy and regenerative agriculture. Diana Hoogesteder of Via Organica will discuss how intelligent farming practices can regenerate depleted soil while capturing carbon...
The political leaders most able to do something continue to ignore the issue of climate change. While the cataclysmic effects of global warming become ever clearer, scientists and significant swathes of the public are trying to make a difference. That...
For those of us who haven’t experienced life on a farm, it’s common to not have a full understanding or appreciation of what that life entails. It’s a life filled with; hard work, good and bad luck, joys and satisfaction, sorrows and disappointments...
Laura Carlsen
Laura Carlsen is a leading journalist reporting on Latin America and especially Mexico for US media. A familiar and always popular speaker in San Miguel, she will update us on the Mexican scene today from US-Mexican relations under Trump, to NAFTA 2....
Most of us have become cynical about the ways our governments sell the public on their nefarious adventures. That is certainly the case with the disastrous 2003 US invasion of Iraq. While widely believed at the time, Secretary of State Colin Powell’s...
Filmmaker Oliver Stone has made a dramatic thriller about the most famous and controversial whistle blower of our time: Edward Snowden. What Snowden revealed to the public was the massive surveillance the US government engaged in against its own...
When the big Wall Street banks crashed the economy a decade ago due to their financial speculation, many people began to ask “why should we put our money at risk with Wall Street?” Although the federal government bailed them out with billions of...
Own your own job? Yes you can. Thousands of people across the US and many more around the world do exactly that. They belong to the growing number of worker owned cooperatives. The documentary film Shift Change: Putting Democracy to Work...
With the long decline in US manufacturing and today's economic crisis, millions have been thrown out of work, and many are losing their homes. The usual economic solutions are not working, so some citizens and public officials are ready to think...
Micky Metts
A professional software developer, Micky will focus in this second workshop on browsing, searching, and virtual meeting software. She will show how free software opens up the world of “platform co-ops” – think of Uber under drivers’ control and AirBnB...
Micky Metts
The key to regaining security and control of the internet is switching to free software equivalents to proprietary/corporate software for communicating – among many uses. This first of two workshops will focus on communications using email and texting...
Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman will explain “how nonfree software and online dis-services impose their control on us, and some specific kinds of wrong they are designed to do.” A key initiator of the free software movement and founder of the Free Software...
Educación Colaborativa
Rocío González, Paco Guajardo, Imelda Hernández González, Mercedes Páramo & José Luis Valdés
If the Canadian company, Argonaut Gold, carries out its plans for open-pit mining...
San Miguel will join the Global Climate Strike with a march and rally, Climate Action for the Future. We will meet at 11 am at Calle del Cardo at the corner of Ancha de San Antonio, and...
Yonam Ayon, Steve Gloss & Georgeann Johnson
Localism describes a range of political philosophies which prioritize the local. Generally, localism supports local production and consumption of goods, local control of government, and promotion of local history, local culture and local identity. It'...
Judy Jackson
San Miguel is blessed with many good Samaritans. From Caminamos Juntos that helps deportees settle here to ABBA House that offers respite for migrants traveling north and south, there are many organizations and individuals that help those fleeing...
Cliff DuRand, Susan Goldman & Georgeann Johnson
The public is waking to the fierce urgency of addressing climate change. Extreme weather events, melting glaciers, floods and draughts, wild fires, intense heat waves all herald a global climate system out of balance and threatens human civilization...
Showing solutions may be the best way to solve the ecological, economical and social crises that our countries are going through. Tomorrow (in French: Demain) is a 2015 French documentary film that has the distinction of not giving...
The U.S. public is beginning to learn a new word: neoliberalism. This is in spite of the fact that neoliberalism as an ideology has informed the policies of our political leaders for the last four decades. It has brought us lax environmental...
Film: “Woman at War," starring Halldora Geirharosdottir as an eco-feminist
This film is a taut environmental thriller whose protagonist is a charismatic choir director. It takes place in...
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 living standards of the poor. These are just a couple of the more...
The 1950 Mexican classic “Los Olvidados” (The Forgotten Ones is a dark picture of the violent life of destitute children in Mexico City. Director Luis Buñuel received the Best Director award for it at the Cannes Film Festival. The film is also known...
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...
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...
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...
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...
COCECIN & Colectivo Guardianes de la Cuenca
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...
Bisbee ’17 is a nonfiction feature film by award-winning filmmaker Robert Greene set in Bisbee, Arizona, an eccentric old mining town just miles away from both Tombstone and the Mexican border.
Radically combining collaborative...
Gregory Diamant, Cliff DuRand & Arturo Yarish
Now more than ever, authoritarianism, bigotry, misogyny and social tyranny seem to be in the forefront of our political reality. Not just in the United States, but in most of the world, specters that once seemed (erroneously) to be buried have arisen...
In Seasons (2015), Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud return to familiar ground: the lush green forests and megafauna that emerged across Europe following the last Ice Age. Winter had gone on for 80,000 years when—in a relatively short period of time...
Microcosmos (1996), produced by Jacques Perrin, is an amazing film that allows us to peer deeply into the insect world and marvel at creatures we casually condemn to squishing. The making of this film took three years, developing specialized...
Have you heard the good news?
The 2020...
“This all-access, dig-in-and-dig-deep documentary from...
Educación Colaborativa
Pilar Quintanilla, María de Jesús Zermeño, Luis Suárez & Students of Agriculture and Gastronomy
This is the fourth...
Laura Carlsen
The new administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador came into office on the promise, among other things, of gender equality in government. In numbers, it has complied--the MORENA-dominated Congress and the new cabinet are have made history by being...
Laura Carlsen
Noted journalist Laura Carlsen returns to San Miguel to analyze the first four months of Mexico’s new government. Since taking office December 1, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO for short) has been introducing sweeping changes, turning...
A Film by John Pilger
The U.S. is at it again – trying to overthrow a Latin American government and claiming it is in the name of democracy. This time it is Venezuela. It’s an old game and the corporate media is falling for it again. Journalist John Pilger gives us a...
Known only as “Chavela,” Isabel Vargas was born in Costa Rica in 1919 and moved to Mexico at a young age, eventually becoming a Mexican citizen. The throaty ranchero singer and guitarist dressed as a man, smoked cigars, drank heavily, carried a gun,...
Alex Gibney’s documentary “Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream” is based on the book "740 Park: The Story of the World’s Richest Apartment Building." This is home to some of the wealthiest Americans....
Sometimes, truth is indeed stranger than fiction. Spike Lee's Oscar nominated BlacKkKlansman addresses America's racial disparity from a truly novel perspective. A black detective (played by John David Washington, the son of Denzel Washington...
The best self-defense strategies and techniques work equally well for men and women, but let’s face it: Women really need them because they’re assaulted more often than men. Statistics indicate that one in three women will be the victim of some type...
Georgeann Johnson & Peter Weisberg
What is the Green New Deal? What Can It Do? What are its Limitations? The Green New Deal (GND) is getting a lot of attention these days...and rightly so as the potential of the Green New Deal to address climate change and global warming is the single...
Emma Guerra Arguero is an inspiration. In 2016 She was teaching 29 students, Grades 1 - 6, in one room in an isolated country school in El Lindero, Guanajuato, Mexico. The village is registered as "La Carrera Contra El Hambre" - one of the poorest in...
Have you ever wondered what the elephant in the room is regarding global warming that nobody, including leading environmental organization, wants to talk about? The film 'Cowspiracy,' based on the book “The Sustainability Secret,” presents concepts...
In the last century, 94% of our seed varieties have disappeared. SEED: The Untold Story follows passionate seed keepers protecting our 12,000-year-old food legacy. As biotech chemical companies control the majority of our seeds, farmers, scientists,...
Ser Mujer se complace en ofrecer una serie de cortometrajes originales del primer festival de cine feminista latina celebrado en la Ciudad de México en diciembre de 2018 y están en español. Los organizadores del festival estarán en San Miguel para...
Gregory Diamant
What do we mean when we use the term “fascism”? Do we apply it only to Europe in the first half of the 20th century? What is the relationship, if any, to autocracy, post fascism and neo-fascism? Fascism is a word often used to describe...
Cate Poe
Dolores Huerta is among the most important, but least well known, activists in American history. An equal partner in co-founding the first farm workers union with Cesar Chavez, her enormous contributions have largely gone unrecognized. Dolores...
Dan Neuspiel
Prior to the advent of fascism in 1933, Germany’s medical profession was considered the most prominent in the world, a center of great discoveries. Yet German doctors joined the Nazi party in greater relative numbers than any other profession,...
When will we all have health care? When will we train doctors for service? When will thousands of health professionals volunteer to serve worldwide in poor areas? Right now, says Cuba. The film ¡Salud! takes you into the widely celebrated...
Ser Mujer invites the women of San Miguel to get together throughout the day on Sunday, March 10.
Join a group of 6 – 8 women or create your own group for a 60 – 90 minute discussion with the goal of deepening friendships and mutual...
Betsy Bowman
The periodic crises or disruptions that we see in the accumulation and concentration of capital – that is to say in the process of the unfolding of capital's fundamental dynamism – of capitalism itself – always find solutions. Whether they are good...
Paula James
In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening - women shedding the cultural restrictions of their childhoods and embracing their full humanity. Feminists: What Were They Thinking? revisits those photos, those women and those times -...
Steve Early
After his 2016 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders urged his millions of supporters to remain active in electoral politics at the local level—by running for school board, city council or mayor in cities...
The True Cost is a documentary about clothing. It's about the cloths we wear, the people who make them, and the impact the industry is having on our world. The price of clothing has been decreasing for decades, while the human and environmental...
Alejandra Cervantes
Over the last 20 years, Mexico has progressed considerably towards the recognition of women as subjects of rights reducing the historical...
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.
Cliff DuRand, Liz Mestres & Bob Stone
Bernie Sanders has put the word “socialism” back into our current political discourse. Other politicians and the media have tried to ignore his "democratic socialism.” However, young people (and others) today are not afraid of the ‘S’ word, although...
Former Harpers Magazine editor Lewis Lapham wrote The American Ruling Class, a film about the elite that makes the big decisions in the country. Whether there is a ruling class in the United States used to be a controversial question in a...
Today’s independent investigative journalists take as their watchword I. F. Stone’s premise –“All governments lie.” At a time when profit driven corporate media serves the interests of powerful elites, a democratic republic desperately needs...
Educación Colaborativa
Alejandra Quezada, Atahualpa Caldera Sosa & Jennifer Ungemach
In its series of discussions on “Re-Imagining San Miguel de Allende as a Sustainable Community,” the Education Collaborative is examining the Environmental Agenda developed by...
In 2015, a year before Trump was elected in the U.S., Argentina elected president Macri. These two are remarkably similar in how they campaigned and the policies they promote. Argentines have mounted creative resistance - worker coops, street protests...
Discussion with Rosario Betsaida and Dr David Stea
PBS’s Frontline video about Hurricane Maria “Blackout in Puerto Rico” gives us a look at economic and institutional conditions preceding Maria and what happened in the few months afterwards. In "The Battle for Paradise," Naomi Klein, noted critic of...
The migrant crisis through the eyes of Pastor Ignacio Martinez, the founder of ABBA safehouse in Celaya, “It’s not about us - it’s about the dignity of our brother ‘travellers.”
It started when Ignacio and his family took food...
Roma has been nominated for ten academy awards including best picture. Set in the La Roma neighborhood of Mexico City in the 1970s, the film’s recreation of the place and time is shown through the eyes of Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), a live-in...
Q&A with director Yale Strom & Co-Writer Elizabeth Schwartz
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...
Robert Meeropol
Robert Meeropol is the youngest son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. In 1953, when he was six years old, the United States Government executed his parents for “conspiring to steal the secret of the atomic bomb.” In his presentation of the Rosenberg case...
Oscar nominated Haitian director Raoul Peck( “I’m Not Your Negro”) takes up the life and works of Karl Marx, instigator of one of the most important social revolutions in history, along with his friend Frederick Engels.
From the excellent...
Henry Veltmeyer
“Globalization has, over the last two decades, structurally adjusted local communities to conform to a new world order. It is no surprise then that social discontent is widespread in those countries where large portions of the population have not...
Jon Allen
Jon Allen served as Canada's Ambassador to Spain from 2010-16 where he witnessed a surge in right wing populism in Italy, France, the Netherlands and Austria, as well as its left-wing manifestations in Greece and Spain. He will look at the...
Jeff Faux
No one can predict the course of history. But with chaos and conflict engulfing Washington, the next two years are particularly uncertain, and dangerous – for the US, Mexico and the rest of the world.
...
Join us for the world premiere of a new documentary that looks at the migrant crisis through the eyes of Pastor Ignacio Martinez, the founder of ABBA house in Celaya, (which is supported by Caminamos...
Historian Howard Zinn has opened the eyes of millions to the role of ordinary people in the making of our nation’s history in his 1980 book, A People’s History of the United States. His message was that history doesn’t come from great men, it...
From a historic genocide trial to the overthrow of a President, 500 Years tells a sweeping story of mounting resistance played out in Guatemala's recent history through the actions and perspectives of the majority indigenous Mayan population...
Directed by Boots Riley, in his directorial debut, Sorry to Bother You is a tongue-in-cheek (or is it?) dark comedy about the subtleties of our capitalist system and the way in which it can or does shape who we are and what we do. See what...
Ruth Bader Ginsberg (RBG) was appointed to the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) by President Bill Clinton in 1993 as the second of only four women to be confirmed to the SCOTUS. At one time she was the only female Justice on the SCOTUS. Her exceptional...
directed by Mark Dworkin & Melissa Young
In 2005 Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young produced a stirring documentary about how Argentine workers took over their enterprises in the midst of the country’s 2001 economic crisis when owners abandoned their workplaces. To preserve their very livelihood...
Gregory Diamant & Paula James, moderated by Trish Snyder
We live in a time when social sociopathy seems to be rearing its virulent head with more and energy. Different but related types of hate are spewing out their bile in our society. Please join Paula James and Gregory Diamant in exploring these poisons...
Matthew Ally
This talk begins with a worldly parable, ends with an earthly one, and touches on several ecological truths along the path between. Where have we come to? How did we get here? Where might we go? These are the pressing questions of our time.
It...
“the fierce urgency of now” – Martin Luther King
The Center for Global Justice celebrates the birth date of Martin Luther King by looking at the last years of King’s life and his moral boldness that many preferred to ignore. This is...
Bob Ware
Philosopher Bob Ware’s new book retrieves the emancipatory thought of Karl Marx for our times and for our future. Often maligned as out of date, Marx’s work is now enjoying a revival as increasing numbers are looking for an alternative to a failing...
Over four years ago the disappearance and murder of 43 students from Ayotzinapa became a scandal that rocked the nation and tarnished Mexico’s officialdom at all levels – political, military and the police. Now President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador...
For those who still wonder how someone like Donald Trump could become President, Michael Moore’s latest film exposes an uncomfortable reality. It wasn’t the Russians. The Democratic Party, imbedded with...
@ El Sindicato Centro Cultural Comunitario
Silvia González & Alberto Aveleyra
“Cities in Transition” is the second discussion in the monthly “Reimagining San Miguel as a Sustainable Community” series. Following introductory presentations by Silvia González, who works with the Transition Towns Network in Querétaro and Alberto...
@ Centro Impulso Social Barrio Las Cuevitas, Calzada a la Estación, S/N
Leticia Merino, Graciela Martínez & Henry Miller
This was the first in a series of monthly discussions on "Reimagining San Miguel de Allende as a Sustainable Community" based on the Agenda Ambiental 2018, developed by a special multidisciplinary seminar in the UNAM. The Agenda outlines the most...
President Trump claims trade wars are easy to win. So far he has demonstrated they are easy to start. It remains to be seen how they will end. It is also easy to start military wars, as presidents from LBJ to George W. Bush have shown. Based on Norman...
If you’ve been thinking that the current trade war with China is confined to trade, think again. In 2016, the renowned documentarian, John Pilger, completed his film, “The Coming War on China,” a detailed look at the American strategy geared toward...
Cliff Durand
The collapse of liberal democracy and the rolling crisis of neoliberalism converge with other crises to leave us disoriented in a world that seems to be falling apart. Is unbridled global capitalism self-destructing? Will we go down with it?
...
"Blue Gold: World Water Wars" was originally released in 2008 but its message is even more relevant today. As world fresh water supplies decrease the looming specter of water wars is becoming more apparent. We didn't get the message in 2008 and we'...
Pedro Gellert
Dr. Pedro Gellert, a professor from Mexico City, will address why the question of Israel/Palestine is an increasingly important part of the progressive agenda. The talk will also deal with some broader questions such as the role of the Israel Lobby,...
This film focuses on the prehistory of the current Israeli territory and its occupants as well as the changes that have occurred since 1947, mostly due to US backed Israeli policies and financing. The conflict has been characterized by sporadic...
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
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Alberto Aveleyra
San Miguel de Allende is a beautiful colonial era city that we all love. Who has the right to this city, the right to shape it into a livable space? Is it the hotel owners, the restaurateurs, the developers, the realtors and the politicians? How about...
From a historic genocide trial to the overthrow of a President, 500 Years tells a sweeping story of mounting resistance played out in Guatemala's recent history through the actions and perspectives of the majority indigenous Mayan population...
Cliff DuRand
For the first time in six decades Cuba has a president who is not a Castro and who was born since the 1959 Revolution. The generation that made the Revolution is being replaced with a new generation of leaders. Cuba is changing. Yet there is also...
Cuba and the Cameraman is a very human chronicle of life in revolutionary Cuba told through the camera of Jon Alpert. Over 42 years he repeatedly visited the island with his video camera, returning to befriend three Cuban families as well as...
Mark Bilker & Gregory Diamant
The 2016 U. S. election was a devastating loss for progressives in the United States. With the Republican sweep of both national and local offices, many of the gains and protections that had been taken for granted are being swept away. Ethical and...
This documentary follows Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the last few years of his life, from the vital role he played in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to his assassination in 1968. While King’s leadership during the bus boycotts, the sit-ins and...
Laura Carlsen and Elisa Servin
The July 1 Presidential election here in Mexico is a watershed. Going into the voting the progressive populist Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador holds a decisive lead over the neoliberal candidates from PRI and PAN in spite of concerted campaigns to...
In the last century, 94% of our seed varieties have disappeared. SEED: The Untold Story follows passionate seed keepers protecting our 12,000-year-old food legacy. As biotech chemical companies control the majority of our seeds, farmers, scientists,...
Dylan Terrell
Mexico’s 1917 Constitution protected the natural resources of the country from private appropriation. The land, oil, mineral resources, and water were to belong to the nation. They were part of the commons. Over the last three decades, and...
With the long decline in US manufacturing and today's economic crisis, millions have been thrown out of work, and many are losing their homes. The usual economic solutions are not working, so some citizens and public officials are ready to think...
Oscar nominated Haitian director Raoul Peck( “I’m Not Your Negro”) takes up the life and works of Karl Marx, instigator of one of the most important social revolutions in history, along with his friend Frederick Engels.
From the excellent...
SER MUJER & the Center for Global Justice present
Sandra Moran
Sandra Moran is a member of the Nobel Women’s Initiative, an elected member of the Guatemalan Congress for the Convergence Party and a tireless defender of women’s rights will discuss the current political situation in Guatemala and the role of social...
Casilda Barajas & Jennifer Ungemach
Join Caminos de Agua and SECOPA (Community Services of Pozos Ademato) on Friday, March 23rd in celebration of World Water Day. Travel to the rural community of Pozos Ademato to see the work of a dedicated group of women fighting for health in their...
A Benefit for Caminos de Agua
Rebecca Peterson
A fun and meditative arts workshop involving embodied writing, journaling and the making of a huge banner.
Water as feminine agency, flow, power, connection, will be honored as well as considering water in our daily lives, and where and how we...
Caminos de Agua, i3: Ideas that Inform and Inspire & the Center for Global Justice present
A Panel Discussion
San Miguel and surrounding communities face unprecedented water challenges. Our water comes from a large underground aquifer that is declining at an alarming rate. Wells are going dry, and the water that remains contains harmful minerals that cannot...
Marx will be played by Gregory Diamant
2018 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx. In order to mark this bicentenary, the Center for Global Justice is presenting a staged reading of the play, Marx in Soho by the acclaimed radical historian, Howard Zinn.
The play takes...
Representatives from Comision Unidos
Produced by Emma Thompson, Sold tells the story of a brave, 13-year-old girl from Nepal who dreams of buying a tin roof for her family home, only to be tricked and trafficked to a prison brothel in India where she is coerced into bonded...
Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo, Yolanda Millan & Cliff DuRand
Cooperatives are a growing alternative to working for a corporation, an alternative where there are no bosses, workers own and manage their own business and receive the benefits of their work rather than enriching absentee investors. Such democratic...
A powerful documentary about the work of Berta Caceres, an environmental activist from Honduras. Berta’s pursuit of environmental justice continues after her death. On March 2nd, 2016 news of Berta Caceres’ murder shook the world. The woman whose...
Canadians and USians are invited to dialog about the strengths and weaknesses of our respective countries. We are neighbors with a common language and share a long unfortified border, yet know too little about each other. What can we learn by...
Michael Moore’s film “Where To Invade Next” is a welcome antidote to America First chauvinism. Moore takes us to numerous European countries to highlight more progressive social policies in areas of education, the prison system, drug policy, the...
Cuba and the Cameraman is a very human chronicle of life in revolutionary Cuba told through the camera of Jon Alpert. Over 42 years he repeatedly visited the island with his video camera, returning to befriend three Cuban families as well as...
Janet Jarman & Clancy McCarty
“Every two minutes, a woman dies of complications related to pregnancy or childbirth—that’s about 720 deaths every day. But 98 percent of those are preventable”. To combat the highest mortality rates in Central America, indigenous women in Guatemala...
Mila Villasana
We invite children (ages 4-8) to join us in the Sala Literaria (Bellas Artes) to learn about simple ways we can help our mother Earth.
Children will learn about resource conservation in fun...
Organized by El Sindicato Cultural Comunitario & the Center for Global Justice
How are we responding to the deepening water crisis? And, how can we be more effective? Building on the analysis presented in the first day of the Water Forum 2018, to be held at the Charco del Ingenio on Friday, March 9, we will regroup to look at...
Organized by El Charco del Ingenio
In anticipation of the next World Water Day and following up on the Water Forums held in 2016 and 2017, the Charco del Ingenio Botanical Garden is calling an open meeting to discuss the central water issue--a common natural asset that is threatened by...
Lena Bartula
“Woman Unfolding,” continues at La Huipilista Art Gallery.
Women artists have come together for a second year, to present “Woman Unfolding” an art show presenting the work of San Miguel’s women artists focusing on the theme of women in all our...
John Simsarian
Current U.S. deportation policies present a challenge to the San Miguel community as growing numbers of Mexicans are sent here, often after many years of living in the US. In response, a local volunteer network is being organized called Caminamos...
Women artists have come together for a second year, to present “Woman Unfolding,” an art show presenting the work of San Miguel’s women artists focusing on the theme of women in all our stages, ages, views and our active lives. The exhibit will be...
“Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”
That guarantee attracted bipartisan support, and both the House and the Senate approved the Equal Rights...
Discussion with filmmaker Valeria Fernández
The documentary Two Americans is a cautionary tale on the direction immigration policies are headed in the US, but also a hopeful exploration on the power of resiliency.
The parents of 9-year-old Katherine Figueroa are arrested when...
Featuring acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, The Great White Hoax explores how American political leaders of both parties have been tapping into white anxiety, stoking white grievance, and scapegoating people of color for...
Chuck Kelly, Peter Weisberg & Ed Wolff
The mid-term elections in the US are shaping up to be of historic importance. Will voters be able to stop the Trump Republican offensive against the common good? Can the Democratic Party be brought back to its New Deal/Great Society heritage or is it...
“Adventurous, ambitious and ingeniously futuristic, "Sleep Dealer" is a welcome surprise. It combines visually arresting science fiction done on a budget with a strong sense of social commentary in a way that few films attempt, let alone achieve...
This 1997 Italian comedy-drama is directed by and starring Roberto Benigni, who co-wrote the film with Vincenzo Cerami. Benigni plays Guido Orefice, a Jewish Italian book shop owner, who employs his fertile imagination to shield his son from the...
Co-sponsor: El Sindicato - Centro Cultural Comunitario
Olivia Canales, Marco Gómez, Lucero Jiménez, Yolanda Millán y Celia Pacheco
When distressed owners shut down their workplaces, what can workers do? This was discussed last August at the 6th International Workers' Economy Gathering in Buenos Aires, Argentina....
Here in San Miguel we can watch the émigrés ride by on the freight trains heading to el norte. But we know little of the drama, the danger, the pathos of that middle passage. The dramatic film Sin Nombre takes us inside that experience. It is...
Laura Carlsen
Based in Mexico City, noted journalist Laura Carlsen's Americas program is a major source of news and commentary on Mexico and Latin America for English readers (www.americas.org). Her print and broadcast...
In this teach-in by the preeminent public intellectual, Noam Chomsky explains in depth how the concentration of wealth and power has undermined the American dream of upward class mobility as well as democracy. He draws on philosophy, history and...
Cliff DuRand, Susan Goldman & Roberto Robles
As we struggle to find our way out of our present morass, we need a vision of where we want to go. Historian and political economist Gar Alperovitz has been building institutions for a better society...
Directed by Oscar® nominee Laura Poitras (“My Country, My Country”), CITIZENFOUR chronicles Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald’s remarkable encounters with Edward Snowden in a Hong Kong hotel room as he hands over classified documents that...
Discussion with Filmmaker Holly Yasui
The US has never been very welcoming to people who are “different.” Muslims, Syrian refugees, Mexican immigrants, African Americans have often faced hostility, particularly when people feel threatened by war or by economic insecurity or physical...
Co-sponsored with Occupy SMA
Ron Aronson
The election of Donald Trump has exposed American society’s profound crisis of hope. Ron Aronson’s book We: Reviving Social Hope is a stirring call to social activists....
Alberto Aveleyra
San Miguel is facing a point of no return in its development. This can be seen in projects like Capilla de Piedra, that destroyed the cultural landscape and the urban integrity of the city. The challenges faced today by San Miguel --real estate...
Discussion led by director Atahualpa Caldera Sosa
Poverty, emigration, social pathologies of all sorts seem to be a dominant story in Mexico as many despair for the future. For that reason, the success of a communal cooperative in nearby Hildago State is all the more inspiring. There an ejidal...
Cathy Canepa, Dan Neuspiel & Jessica Schorr Saxe
A panel of three physicians will discuss how to achieve "Medicare for All" in the U.S., a single-payer publicly financed national health program that would fully cover medical care for all Americans, while lowering costs by eliminating the profit-...
Ercilia Sahores
The way we produce food in the current world accounts for half of all human created greenhouse gas emissions. Waste, transportation, deforestation, food processing, packaging, refrigeration and freezing add up to making agriculture one of the main...
The way we produce food in the current world accounts for half of all human created greenhouse gas emissions. Waste, transportation, deforestation, food processing, packaging, refrigeration and freezing add up to making agriculture one of the main...
Director Craig Atkinson won the Tribeca Film Festival's Best Documentary award for 2016 for Do Not Resist. As noted in The Guardian, the film “shows how US police have become an occupying army" and asks an important question: "How did we...
Discussion with Gregory Diamant
Mexican Border; drugs; prostitution; corrupt US law enforcement. Sound familiar? This 1958 baroque nightmare of a south-of-the-border mystery is considered to be one of the great movies of Orson Welles, who both directed and starred in it. On...
Betsy Bowman, Cliff DuRand & Steve Gloss
The liberal political order is collapsing worldwide. Discredited neoliberal economics is resurgent. Inequality widens as a matter of public policy. Nuclear boat diplomacy threatens us all. Climate catastrophe looms. There is great anxiety as the US...
It is often said that racism is America’s original sin, referring to anti-Black racism. But actually there was an earlier racism against the original inhabitants of the Americas....
This new documentary highlights Baltimore's rat wars and its urban planning failures. Baltimore, like so many urban centers around the world is plagued by a rat problem. “Rat Film,” made by Baltimore resident Theo Anthony, is alternately amusing and...
Pedro Gellert
Since its launch nearly two decades ago, Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution has given new hope to millions in Latin America while also instilling fear among the elites in the US that a path was being blazed toward a non-capitalist way forward for that...
This year’s lecture by Jeff Faux, based on a book he is now writing, will address the prospects for a major war in the next three years of the Trump government. “Major” is an important adjective because we are obviously already at war in a number of...
President Trump has appointed Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach as co-chair of an Election Integrity Commission. Kobach has promoted a Republican dark operation called Crosscheck, a secret purge list that helped steal the 2016 election....
Joan Roelofs
Following her introductory lecture on January 11, Professor Joan Roelofs will lead a 4-session class meeting Mondays and Wednesdays at the Center for Global Justice. The course will address these themes:
January 15: Introduction. How is...
Joan Roelofs
This presentation by Professor Joan Roelofs will touch on themes to be developed in more depth in her four-session course beginning the January 15, at the Center for Global Justice:
Discussion with Georgeann Johnson
Released in July, 2017, only weeks before the arrival of hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria in the Caribbean basin, and the earthquakes that wreaked havoc in Mexico and Central Amercia, and little more than a decade after An Inconvenient Truth...
As filmmaker, Jen Senko, tries to understand the transformation of her father from a non political, life-long Democrat to an angry, right-wing fanatic, she uncovers the forces behind the media that changed him completely:...
Betsy Bowman
Jack Rasmus in Z Magazine (Dec. 2017, Vol. 30, No. 9, p 28) counts up the cost of the $800 billion TARP bank bail-out initiated in Sept. 2008, and the subsequent “quantitative easing programs” carried out by the Federal Reserve and Central...
Pat Coony, Cliff DuRand & Peter Weisberg
Free trade has been at the center of much political controversy in recent years. Both Bernie Sanders on the Left and Donald Trump on the Right have rejected the proposed TransPacific Partnership and the existing NAFTA. Liberal Hillary Clinton embraced...
"If you could know the truth about the threat of climate change — would you want to know? Before the Flood features Leonardo DiCaprio on a journey as a United Nations Messenger of Peace, traveling to five continents and the Arctic to witness climate...
Atahualpa Caldera Sosa, Gregory Diamant & Georgeanne Johnson
One of the major challenges facing us today is climate disruption. The extremes of climate events are getting more extreme (major storms, drought, floods, polar ice caps melting, unprecedented warming, etc.). The science is clear but the solutions are...
President Trump has appointed Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach as co-chair of an Election Integrity Commission. Kobach has promoted a Republican dark operation called Crosscheck, a secret purge list that helped steal the 2016 election....
For over a decade Venezuela’s revolution lifted millions out of poverty, raised healthcare levels dramatically and achieved universal literacy by using the nation’s oil wealth for the benefit of those at the bottom of society. From the beginning the...
As filmmaker, Jen Senko, tries to understand the transformation of her father from a non political, life-long Democrat to an angry, right-wing fanatic, she uncovers the forces behind the media that changed him completely:...
Gregory Diamant, Cliff DuRand & Susan Goldman
We live in perilous times. Environmental crises, the increased threat of nuclear war, austerity and the slashing of the social safety net are occupying our thoughts and emotions....
Dr. Gail Presbey
When the media gives us any news at all about Latin America’s largest country, Brazil, it is usually about its corrupt politicians. It is true they are abundant. But the good news that is ignored is about its popular struggles for social justice. Now...
Dan Neuspeil & Peter Weisberg
Is healthcare a privilege where wealth determines the quality of care or a basic human right? The U.S. is the only developed country that does not offer any form of universal health coverage....
Andrés Barreda Marín
In anticipation of Trump's promised revamping of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA, or TLCAN in Spanish), many social movement organizations from Mexico, the U.S. and Canada...
Cliff DuRand
Cuba is re-forming its socialism. Building on the human development achieved over the past half century and more, this brave country is boldly re-inventing its socialism....
JoAnn Lum
In recent years, hard-won rights of U.S. workers have been steadily undermined, leading to such abuses as wage theft and modern forms of slavery. Trump's anti-immigrant policies have only escalated these attacks....
Discussion with Susan Goldman
The Goldman Environmental Prize honors women and men who take grassroots actions to protect the environment in their communities. Goldman Prize recipients focus on protecting endangered ecosystems and species, combating destructive development...
James Baldwin was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. Black and gay, he was one of the sharpest writers of the civil-rights era. I Am Not Your Negro is a 2016 documentary film directed by Raoul Peck,...
Enaid Savage
Racism has a great deal to do with the election of Donald Trump, but as Enaid Savage argues, not perhaps in the way that Americans may think. Savage contends that racism is a social construct that serves a function within society, and US society...
It is said that racism is America’s original sin, often referring to anti-Black racism. But there is an earlier racism--the view that the original inhabitants of the Americas were barbarian and that civilized Europeans were superior and entitled by...
Gilberto Perez
Gilberto Perez is a member of the Buddhist order- Nipponzan Myohoji Sangha and one of the “Trident Three” protesters who were arrested at a Mothers Day demonstration at the Trident nuclear submarine base....
As filmmaker, Jen Senko, tries to understand the transformation of her father from a non political, life-long Democrat to an angry, right-wing fanatic, she uncovers the forces behind the media that changed him completely:...
Chelo Agundis, Alison Bastien, Angelica Juarez-Rios & Ann Medlock
Many girls are taught at an early age to strive for perfection, to be “good little girls” and not take the risk of making a mistake or causing trouble. “Don’t stick your neck out” we are told. What separates the well-behaved woman from the woman who...
The Goldman Environmental Prize honors grassroots environmental heroes from the world’s six inhabited continental regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands & Island Nations, North America, and South & Central America....
Jose Prieto interviewed by Cliff DuRand
Cuba is re-forming its socialism. Building on the human development achieved over the past half century and more, this brave country is boldly re-inventing its socialism. Recognizing that the state cannot do everything, it is opening up its economy to...
Discussion with Catherine Murphy & Aylin Wong
San Francisco-based filmmaker Catherine Murphy has spent much of the last 10 years working in Latin America and was asked to accompany Barack Obama on his historic trip to Cuba last March. She will be joined by Aylin Wong, from the Cultural bureau of...
Yo Soy Así, produced and directed by Jodi Savitz, is a documentary film which follows four Argentine, lesbian-identified women,...
Yo Soy Así, produced and directed by Jodi Savitz, is a documentary film which follows four Argentine, lesbian-identified women,...
Gregory Diamant
Not only are we facing a rise in right wing authoritarianism but climate disruption is looming over our lives. In the United States, the past thirty years has seen a rise in a collective anxiety fed by a media desperate for profit at any cost....
The Salt of the Earth is a 2014 French-Brazilian biographical documentary film directed by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado. It portrays the works of Salgado's father, the noted Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado.
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Casilda Barajas & Jennifer Ungemach
Water access and quality issues impact women around the globe. Join Casilda and Jennifer (Caminos de Agua) to see how water flows through womens’ lives, celebrating emotions, confronting challenges, sharing realities, speaking truth, implementing...
This moving documentary from the Stephen Lewis Foundation shines a light on the urgent need to provide better protection for the human rights of African grandmothers....
Jeff Cohen
At a time when the “news” media has become entertainment, fake facts abound, investigative journalism withers and the president attacks the media as the enemy, more than ever we need a bold, independent media. Media critic Jeff Cohen will open a...
Led by Atahualpa Caldera Sosa
GAIA, the Interdisciplinary Environmental Action Group, is devoted to generating sustainable alternatives in urban, suburban and rural communities....
Director Kimberly Bautista provides an intimate look at violence against women in Guatemala by chronicling the three-year journey of Rebeca as she tries to hold her sister’s killer accountable....
Director Kimberly Bautista provides an intimate look at violence against women in Guatemala by chronicling the three-year journey of Rebeca as she tries to hold her sister’s killer accountable....
Discussion with Atahualpa Caldera Sosa
As consumers in a globalized world, we have become accustomed to having an enormous array of fresh vegetables available throughout the year....
Discussion with filmmaker Jen Senko & media critic Jeff Cohen
As filmmaker, Jen Senko, tries to understand the transformation of her father from a non political, life-long Democrat to an angry, right-wing fanatic, she uncovers the forces behind the media that changed him completely:...
U.S. reproductive health clinics are fighting to remain open. Since 2010, 288 TRAP laws (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) have been passed by state legislatures....
Jose Chencho Alas
While Mexico has large numbers of its citizens in the US, per capita El Salvador has a far larger percentage of its people who have emigrated due to poverty and violence. Now under Donald Trump’s ethnic cleansing program, large numbers will be forced...
Directed by Samantha Grant, Daughters of the Forest tells the powerful, uplifting story of a small group of girls in one of the most remote forests left on earth who attend a radical high school–...
Directed by Samantha Grant, Daughters of the Forest tells the powerful, uplifting story of a small group of girls in one of the most remote forests left on earth who attend a radical high school–...
Marco Gómez Gómez & Maria Lucero Jiménez Guzmán
In this presentation, Marco Gómez Gómez will speak on The Workers´ Economy in the Age of Global Capitalism which will address capital concentration, global value-chains, and the global polity as the contemporary setting for a Workers´ Economy...
Ser Mujer will be organizing its second Take Back The Night as a way to celebrate International Women’s Day. Take Back The Night is an event that seeks to bring awareness to the public about sexual assault and offer a safe place for victims to break...
It is often said that racism is America’s original sin, referring to anti Black racism. But actually there was an earlier racism against the original inhabitants of the Americas....
This documentary, directed by Mary Dore, resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern women’s movement....
Laura Carlsen & Aracelli Rodriguez
The Disappeared: More than 28,000 people have gone missing during Mexico’s drug wars. What happened to them? This is the question that drives activist Aracelli Rodriguez whose son Luis Angel, a federal police officer, went missing in Michoacan in 2009...
This conference-concert presents several female composers from different epochs and places around the (Western) world, such as Maria Szymanowska, Pauline Viardot, Teresa Carreño, Amy Beach and María Teresa Lara. The speaker shares her passion for the...
Michael Moore’s film “Where To Invade Next” is a welcome antidote to America First chauvinism. Moore takes us to numerous European countries to highlight more progressive social policies in areas of education, the prison...
Discussion with Sallie Latch
Situated 150 miles south of Sicily, the Mediterranean island Lampedusa has hit headlines as the first port of call for hundreds of thousands of Middle Eastern and African refugees hoping to make a new life in Europe.
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Rolling Stone investigative reporter Greg Palast busted Jeb Bush for stealing the 2000 election by purging Black voters from Florida’s electoral rolls. Now Palast is back to take a deep dive into the Republicans’ dark operation, ...
Juan Gerardo Domínguez Carrasco
Cooperatives have been recognized globally as the most important agent in the construction of a new society and as key to the advancement of the new world envisioned in the World Social Forum....
Gregory Diamant & Cliff DuRand
Join us to celebrate the publication the of the Center for Global Justice's latest book, Moving Beyond Capitalism. The Book contains key presentations from a 2014 conference...
Argentina’s 2001 economic crisis saw the mass collapse of the country’s financial institutions, leaving more than half the country living in poverty (some sources put the figure as high as three quarters for 2002). Following the economic collapse,...
Director Josh Tickell takes us along for his 11-year journey around the world to find solutions to America's addiction to oil. A shrinking economy, a failing auto industry, rampant unemployment, an out-of-control national debt, and an insatiable...
Oscar Nominated director Josh Fox (Gasland) continues in his deeply personal style, investigating climate change. Traveling to 12 countries on 6 continents, the film acknowledges that it may be too late to stop some of the worst consequences and asks...
Betsy Bowman & Bob Stone
How will history remember 2017? Will it be remembered as the year of Trump or as the year of resistance to Trump? Bowman and Stone claim that it’s up to us.
Compare 2017 with the year 1944 in France. Is 1944 remembered by its...
Led by Yolanda Millan
"Las Rancheritas" is a group of women who have been working together for 16 years in the production of handmade wool rugs. From a workshop on cooperativism given by the Center for Global Justice in 2013, this group decided to work differently, putting...
Led by Peter Weisberg
With new outrages coming from the White House daily, the pressing question for most USians is “What is to be Done?” Demonstrations, marches, and other forms of direct action spring up spontaneously around the country as well as here in San Miguel. ...
Economic inequality has always been a key feature of capitalism. But it is now becoming increasingly clear to many that today’s growing massive inequality threatens to destroy capitalism itself. Former Clinton administration Labor Secretary Robert...
Discussion led by director Atahualpa Caldera Sosa
Poverty, emigration, social pathologies of all sorts seem to be a dominant story in Mexico as many despair for the future. For that reason, the success of a communal cooperative in nearby Hildago State is all the more inspiring. There an ejidal...
Joan Roelofs
Today, increasing numbers of people are finding socialism to be an attractive idea as an alternative to capitalism. But what is it? The socialist idea has a long history. In this 4-day class, political scientist Joan Roelofs will discuss various...
Victor Bremson
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing the song of angry men?
It is the music of the people
Who will not be slaves again!
When the beating of your...
Carole Lapidus
Although the United States is a nation of immigrants, for much of its history many immigrant groups have been treated almost as badly as the natives of this continent. Today it is Mexicans and Central Americans who are the Others being given the harsh...
Centered on race in the US criminal justice system, the film title refers to the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution which outlawed slavery (unless as punishment for a crime). The critically acclaimed film 13th argues that slavery is being...
Cliff DuRand & Joan Roelofs
Bernie Sanders has put the word “socialism” into our current political discourse. Other candidates and the media ignored his ‘democratic socialism.” However, young people (and others) today are not afraid of the ‘S’ word. But what does it mean? A...
Laura Carlsen
Noted journalist Laura Carlsen argues that if Trump follows through on his promise of massive deportations, this would generate an instant unemployment crisis. If he can stem the flow of remittances to families in Mexico, it will have a devastating...
Filmmaker Oliver Stone has made a dramatic thriller about the most famous and controversial whistle blower of our time: Edward Snowden. What Snowden revealed to the public was the massive surveillance the US government engaged in against its own...
Jeff Faux
Today, Democratic Party leaders are blaming everyone from Vladimir Putin to James Comey to the Electoral College for their defeat in November. But they should look in the mirror. After Years of neoliberal economic policies that favored Wall Street...
Gregory Diamant, Cliff DuRand & Joan Roelofs
Four decades of corporate-led neoliberal globalization facilitated by Democratic and Republican elites alike that have undermined the American Dream for so many working people, finally blew back on them in last year’s presidential election....
Is a teach-in by the preeminent public intellectual Noam Chomsky. He explains in depth how the concentration of wealth and power has undermined the American dream of upward class mobility as well as democracy. Chomsky draws on philosophy, history...
Heist traces the worldwide economic collapse to a 1971 secret memo entitled “Attack on American Free Enterprise System.” Written over 40 years ago by the future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell, at the behest of the US Chamber of Commerce,...
Betsy Bowman
The dead-end of neoliberalism is simply that outsourcing production to low-wage areas of the world has lowered salaries in the main consuming countries – the US, Europe and Japan – to the point where people can't buy what is...
With great clarity, renowned economics professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of today's economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within the structures of American-style capitalism...
Greed is Good. This is the credo of the aptly named Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), the antihero of Oliver Stone's Wall Street. Gekko, a high-rolling corporate raider, is idolized by young-and-hungry broker Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen)....
An Eyewitness Report by Sallie Latch
The flood of refugees into Europe from Syria as well as other countries has made visible the human cost of the instability of the region. Last spring our own Sallie Latch responded to this humanitarian crisis by going to the Greek island of Somos to...
Cliff DuRand & Chris Kellogg
Now that Latin American "Pink Tide seems to be receding as some of those leaders have died, some have lost power to conservative U.S. friendly leaders, some have had to seriously compromise their hopes. Panelists Chris Kellogg and Cliff DuRand will...
Oliver Stone and American University historian Peter J. Kuznick, began working on the project in 2008. Stone, Kuznick and British screenwriter Matt Graham co-wrote the script.[5] This 2012 documentary mini-series for Showtime covers "the reasons...
In 2009, Director Oliver Stone set out on a road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media's misperception of South America while interviewing seven of its elected presidents. In casual...
Discussion with Peter Weisberg
In the turbulent 1960s, change was coming to America and the fault lines could no longer be ignored — cities were burning, Vietnam was exploding, and disputes raged over equality and civil rights. A new revolutionary culture was emerging and it sought...
Cliff DuRand & Jennifer Ungemach
In this event, the Center for Global Justice looks at a country that is blazing hopeful new trails. Cuba: Organic Agriculture and Cooperatives will look at how Cuba became a world leader in organic agriculture and is now poised to also become the...
Discussion with Cliff DuRand
Oliver Stone and American University historian Peter J. Kuznick, began working on the project in 2008. Stone, Kuznick and British screenwriter Matt Graham co-wrote the script.[5] This 2012 documentary mini-series for Showtime covers "the reasons...
Discussion with Gregory Diamant
Directed by Oscar® nominee Laura Poitras (“My Country, My Country”), CITIZENFOUR chronicles Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald’s remarkable encounters with Edward Snowden in a Hong Kong hotel room as he hands over classified documents that...
Discussion with Cliff DuRand
Herod's Law (original Spanish title La ley de Herodes) is a 1999 Mexican comedy produced by Bandidos Films. A fable of a janitor turned Mayor on a little town lost in the Mexican desert, who gradually realizes how far his new acquainted power and...
Cliff DuRand & Others TBA
This presentation will cover the history and political implications of the making of the waves of US-Mexican international policy for contemporary struggles for labor, immigrant and civil rights across at the US-Mexican border region. We will look at...
Discussion with Peter Weisberg
Translation - Oliver Stone and American University historian Peter J. Kuznick, began working on the project in 2008. Stone, Kuznick and British screenwriter Matt Graham co-wrote the script.[5] This 2012 documentary mini-series for Showtime covers "the...
Discussion with Cliff DuRand
The Mexican-American War was the first major conflict driven by the idea of "Manifest Destiny:" the belief that America had a God-given right, or destiny, to expand the country's borders from 'sea to shining sea'. Following the earlier Texas War of...
Discussion with Atahualpa Caldera Sosa
“13 Pueblos” by award winning Mexican filmmaker Francesco Taboada Tabone chronicles citizens from 13 Morelos villages and their struggle against environmental degradation from human misuse and industrial and commercial projects brought on by NAFTA. To...
Cesar Arias & Atahualpa Caldera Sosa
Desertification and declining access to potable water are central features of global warming and the worldwide environmental crisis. By 2030, a 40% global shortfall in a stable supply of good-quality fresh water is expected. The situation in San...
Desertification and declining access to potable water are central features of global warming and the worldwide environmental crisis. By 2030, a 40% global shortfall in a stable supply of good-quality fresh water is expected. As of 2008, 70% of the...
Discussion with Cliff DuRand
Oliver Stone and American University historian Peter J. Kuznick, began working on the project in 2008. Stone, Kuznick and British screenwriter Matt Graham co-wrote the script.[5] This 2012 documentary mini-series for Showtime covers "the reasons...
Discussion with Peter Weisberg
Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigates what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis.
Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's...
Discussion with Filmmaker Holly Yasui
On November 16, President Obama announced the awarding of a Medal of Freedom to Minoru Yasui in recognition of his lifelong fight for justice, including his challenge of discriminatory orders...
Nellie Bailey, Gregory Diamant & Peter Weisberg
The marathon infomercials from our two major political parties have finally ended. And progressives are now left with the question “Where do we progressives go from here?” Do we simply support the non-Trump lesser of two evils? Do we build a third...
Discussion with Peter Weisberg
Oliver Stone and American University historian Peter J. Kuznick, began working on the project in 2008. Stone, Kuznick and British screenwriter Matt Graham co-wrote the script.[5] This 2012 documentary mini-series for Showtime covers "the reasons...
A Film by John Pilger followed by discussion with Gregory Diamant
La historia del manipulación de países latinoamericanos por Estados Unidos durante los últimos 50 años, inclusive la verdad detrás del derrocamiento procurado del Presidente de Venezuela Hugo Chávez en 2002.
Discussion with Susan Goldman
Many in San Miguel have read Naomi Klein’s book “This Changes Everything.” Now she has collaborated with her husband Avi Lewis to put it on the big screen in a powerful documentary. Filmed in nine countries and five continents over four years, “This...
Oliver Stone and American University historian Peter J. Kuznick, began working on the project in 2008. Stone, Kuznick and British screenwriter Matt Graham co-wrote the script.[5] This 2012 documentary mini-series for Showtime covers "the reasons...
Discussion with Gregory Diamant
Noted economist Richard Wolff presents monthly economic analyses in New York City, co-sponsored by Democracy at Work, Left Forum, and Judson Memorial Church, that provide invaluable information on key issues of our time. We will screen his June...
Chip Berlet & Bill Fletcher
Why now? What does it mean for our democracy? How does it impact our role in the world? How can we counter it? This discussion with social justice and labor activist Bill Fletcher, host of the television show The Global African, and...
Through interviews filmed over four years, Noam Chomsky discusses the defining characteristic of our time – the deliberate concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a select few. He unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads...
This community built and operated complex of pools in the state of Hidalgo is considered one of the top co-ops in Mexico given the quality of their operations. Thousands of gallons of hot water pour out of various springs on the mountainside where it...
A panel with Yolanda Millan, Gabriela Osorio & Dylan Terrell
Speakers from Caminos de Agua, TOSMA, the popular Saturday Organic Farmers Market, and Tiangus Multitrueque, an...
Discussion with Georgeann Johnson
Taking Root is a compelling documentary narrative about the first environmentalist and first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. In 1977, Wangari Maathai suggested rural women plant trees to address problems stemming from a degraded...
A Documentary with Gar Alperovitz
While there's been no shortage of commentary about the structural crisis plaguing the American economic and political system, from wage stagnation and chronic unemployment to unchecked corporate and state power and growing inequality, analyses that...
Betsy Bowman, Cliff DuRand & Others TBA
Oliver Stone and American University historian Peter J. Kuznick, began working on the project in 2008. Stone, Kuznick and British screenwriter Matt Graham co-wrote the script.[5] This 2012 documentary mini-series for Showtime covers "the reasons...
Translation of Michael Moore’s new film “Where To Invade Next” takes us to numerous European countries to highlight more progressive social policies there in areas of education, the prison system, drug policy, the workplace, health and many other...
This is a joint program with the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of San Miguel de Allende.
James Paul
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The Center for Global Justice is fortunate to be able to present a talk by Dr. Paul on the current conflict next Friday. In addition to the warring Islamist groups, James Paul will also tell us about non-violent secular groups...
Discussion with Cliff DuRand
Much of San Miguel has read Naomi Klein’s book “This Changes Everything.” Now she has collaborated with her husband Avi Lewis to put it on the big screen in a powerful documentary. Filmed in nine countries and five continents over four years, “This...
Betsy Bowman
For forty years scientists have been warning of the warming effects of the continued burning of fossil fuels. Study after study, exposé after exposé, evidence of denial and cases of criminal obfuscation on the part of the petroleum industry...
Discussion with Betsy Bowman
It’s 2016 and the global economy is still suffering from the housing crash of 2008. “Did no one see this coming?” was the refrain heard from Buckingham Palace to Timbuktu. Well...
Discussion with filmmaker Atahualpa Caldera
Grutas de Tolantongo is a worker owned eco-resort in the State of Hidalgo. Tolantongo is situated in a spectacular box canyon where a thermal river flows from the side of a mountain. Working together, the campesinos have built warm infinity pools to...
Betsy Bowman, Cliff DuRand & Bob Stone
The co-founders of the Center for Global Justice, Cliff DuRand, Betsy Bowman and Bob Stone, will discuss institutions and practices that presently exist in the nooks and crannies of capitalist societies that point to an alternative. Worker self-...
Michael Moore’s new film “Where To Invade Next” takes us to numerous European countries to highlight more progressive social policies there in areas of education, the prison system, drug policy, the workplace, health and many other areas of daily life...
Discussion with Cliff DuRand
Why are the people living in some of the richest countries in terms of resources always the poorest people in the world? Why are there poor countries and rich countries at all? How did this come about and can it be overcome? The documentary film "...
Dr. Joan Roelofs
NATO has been the U.S.'s premier military alliance since the 1940s. It was to defend Europe against a supposed threat from the Soviet Union. But now, a quarter century after the demise of the U.S.S.R., NATO continues and has expanded its operations...
International bestselling author and global change agent John Perkins will deliver a keynote address at the San Miguel Writers' Conference on Friday February 12, at 11:00 am. The event coincides with the release of his latest book, The New...
A burn is more than just a wound: it is a prolonged sentence of suffering, and even more so in the Gaza Strip, Palestine. ... Read more