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Granito de Arena (Grain of Sand)

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Producer(s)Jill Irene Freidberg
Director(s)Jill Irene Freidberg
Release Date2005
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Runtime62 min
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For over 20 years, global economic forces have been dismantling public education in Mexico, but always in the constant shadow of popular resistance. Granito de Arena is the story of that resistance – the story of hundreds of thousands of public schoolteachers whose grassroots, non-violent movement took Mexico by surprise, and who have endured brutal repression in their 25-year struggle to defend public education.

Award-winning filmmaker, Jill Freidberg (This is What Democracy Looks Like, 2000), spent two years in southern Mexico documenting the efforts of over 100,000 teachers, parents, and students fighting to defend the country’s public education system.

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Related IssuesEconomic Justice, Illiteracy, Human Rights, Immigration, Bilingual Education, International, Central America, South America, Racial Justice, Latino, Youth, Educational reform