Decaimiento Alfa, Shinpei Takeda

Intervención artístico-arquitectónica multisensorial que hará partícipe al espectador de un proceso reflexivo-vivencial sobre el sentido de la historia, el testimonio y la supervivencia.

http://www.cecut.gob.mx/article/1686

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzC6TsVF2XM

Colectivo Chilpancingo Pro Justicia Ambiental

El Equipo de Acción Comunitaria de la BEJC - el Colectivo Chilpancingo Pro Justicia Ambiental

Los miembros del Colectivo son residentes de la colonia Chilpancingo y los vecindarios adyacentes. La mayoría son mujeres, y tienen un compromiso con la justicia social y ambiental. Activo desde mediados de los 1990, el Colectivo se dedica a mejorar las condiciones de vida de todos los residentes de la colonia Chilpancingo, haciendo abogacía y organizando para cambios que crean un ambiente limpio y sano, condiciones de trabajo seguras, y dignidad humana. El Colectivo también sirve de recurso para la comunidad, ofreciendo información y capacitación a través de reuniones, foros, entrenamientos, y materiales disponibles al público. El Colectivo mantiene abierta al público la oficina de EHC en Tijuana cuatro días por semana.

http://www.environmentalhealth.org/BorderEHC/BorderEHC_Espanol/BorderESCommActnTm.html

American Friends Service Committee

Honoring our human dignity

Published in 2008 as part of the Beyond Border series of AFSC's Project Voice, Honoring our human dignity talks openly about the facts and fictions surrounding immigration in the United States.

To download a PDF of this publication go to:

http://afsc.org/document/honoring-our-human-dignity-0

Coalition Justice in the Maquiladoras

Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras: Is a tri-national coalition of religious, environmental, labor, Latino and women’s organizations. Their efforts are grounded in supporting worker and community struggles for social, economic and environmental justice in the maquiladora industry. They dedicate themselves to democratic process and unity of action, maintaining sensitivity to de diverse representation within their coalition.

http://coalitionforjustice.info/CJM_Website/New_Sites/Home/Home.html

BSCC-Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition

In 1993 a case manager named Marisa Ugarte was working at a program for runaway teens when she came across a young girl who had been prostituted. Soon Marisa, realized through her work that the young girl, like many of the women and children who walked the streets selling their bodies, were not voluntarily “on the job,” but were victims of traffickers and pimps. The women, children, and men were being commercially exploited.

The traffickers and pimps were predators and they were victimizing the vulnerable in order to commodity their bodies and turn a profit. Unlike, drugs that were only good for one hit, labor, or sex with a victim, could be sold and re-sold an infinite number of times to maximize the profit margin.

As Marisa explored the seedy under world of trafficking she linked up with grass-roots organizations in San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico where she learned that trafficking was not a problem limited to specific boundaries or the perimeter of one country but was as all about the movement of persons from one place to another.

Persons where being transported like cattle and against their will. Much like the trafficking and movement of drugs, human trafficking is controlled by international cartels and is a form of organized crime. Similarly, as Americans have high per capita earnings and access to extensive resources and disposable income, the United States is a destination country for many victims. Sadly, trafficking is often seen a problem of the “other” and the demand for illicit sex and cheap labor in the United States is over looked.

So as Marisa continue investigating she came across rape camps in among the reeds and canyons of San Diego, forced labor in the pruned and pristine agricultural fields, and children turned out in Tijuana’s infamous Zona Norte. She knew something had to be done and began to envision a “safety corridor.” Then through a UNICEF conference on human trafficking Marisa was introduced to coalition building and the advantages of strategically pulling resources to create a continuum of services for victims.

Thus 1997 was a landmark year. This was the year that the coalition was founded and began to coordinate services and advocate on behalf of victims. Today the coalition encompasses over 150 government and non-governmental agencies in the United States and Latin America who are dedicated to combating trafficking and empowering victims so that they may return to families, friends, and daily life.

As for Marisa, she is now executive director of BSCC and continues to be at the forefront of the fight against trafficking but helping other organizations and coalitions grow and build programs to help victims in both the United States and Latin America.

http://www.bsccoalition.org/

In her role as the Executive Director of the Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition, Marisa Ugarte brings more than 20 years of experience in advocacy for exploited men, women and children, and in assisting and at-risk youth.

With a Masters degree (equivalent) in social work and psychology, Ms. Ugarte spent three years developing social services programs in Tijuana, Mexico. Ms. Ugarte is founder of the Binational Crisis Line in Tijuana, as well as the Domestic Violence Crisis Center for the Sistema Nacional para el Desarollo Integral de la Familia, Tijuana (DIF Tijuana). Ms. Ugarte continues to be an advisor to DIF and to the Civil Protection and Disaster Crisis Prevention Program in Mexico.

http://www.bsccoalition.org/marisa_ugarte.html

San Diego Maquiladora Solidarity Network

The San Diego Maquiladora Workers’ Solidarity Network ties together people in the nation’s largest border town who want to build an alliance between working people across that border. We believe that US and other multinational corporations operating factories in Tijuana and other maquiladora cities have no right to pay poverty wages, require pregnancy tests of their workers, pollute with impunity, and repress unions. We believe that union and other workers in the US will be crippled as long as they are cut off from their co-employees abroad. And we believe that there is no better place to start solving these global problems than locally.

The Network stays in close touch with workers in Tijuana and other cities fighting for their rights. We contribute to their struggles in ways that they agree upon, using the leverage that we have as residents of the home country of many of their employers. We write letters, send emails, bring workers to San Diego to tell their stories, and we organize protests and pickets. We bring attention to abuses that corporations would prefer to keep from a US audience. We are union members, students, public health advocates, environmentalists, church people and others working toward alliances with all grassroots organizations that share an interest in our work.

We meet once a month, and meetings are open to all. Anyone can join our Network by participating in our events, coming to meetings, getting on our email list, or all of the above. Please join us, and help us spread our Network throughout San Diego. Help Tijuana ’s factory workers win justice today, and help us unleash the power of workers united across borders tomorrow.

http://sdmaquila.org/