by Elvia Arriola | Jun 13, 2011 | Further Study, Maquiladoras
Srta Extraviada/Young Missing Woman In 2002, filmmaker Lourdes Portillo released her documentary Señorita Extraviada, or Young Missing Woman on the subject of the disappearances of hundreds of young women and girls, many of them workers in the NAFTA factories, who had...
by Elvia Arriola | Jun 9, 2011 | Delegations, Further Study, Maquiladoras, NAFTA
Why Go on a Delegation? Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera (ATCF) ATCF organizes quarterly delegations to visit maquiladora workers and communities along the Mexico-U.S. border. The Comité Fronterizo de Obrer@s (CFO: Border Committee of Workers) hosts each group’s...
by Elvia Arriola | Jun 6, 2011 | Further Study, NAFTA
Serial Sexual Femicide in Ciudad Juárez: 1993-2001 Julia Monárrez Fragoso In memory of Guillermina Valdés-Villalba DEBATE FEMENISTA, 13th Edition, Vol. 25, April 2002. We aren’t talking about the final moments of these children and women. We are talking about a long...
by Elvia Arriola | Jun 6, 2011 | Further Study, Maquiladoras, NAFTA, Women and Globalization
Missing the Story Debbie Nathan (from The Texas Observer, August 30, 2002) …The victim, 17, was beaten to death in her parent’s home by her boyfriend, 27. They had two children. He said he murdered her because she was going to marry someone else....
by Elvia Arriola | May 20, 2011 | Further Study, Maquiladoras, NAFTA, Women and Globalization
SUMMARY OF ARTICLE: (The full length article is in the Seattle Journal for Social Justice, Vol. 5 (Issue 2) ( Spring/Summer 2007). Click para leer en Español (La Responsabilidad Por Los Asesinatos en las Maquiladoras). ACCOUNTABILITY FOR MURDER IN THE MAQUILADORAS:...
by Elvia Arriola | May 20, 2011 | Delegations, Further Study, Maquiladoras, NAFTA, Women and Globalization
In its 10th year, Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera is taking another delegation to MEXICO, Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, May 20-22, 2011 to meet maquiladora workers who share their stories about life under NAFTA. Coordinator Judy Rosenberg has this to say about the...
