Monday, November 12, 2007

Political art series to show "Zapatista"

Political Art and the Public Sphere will conclude for the fall semester with a screening of the film Zapatista: A Big Noise Film at 6 p.m. Monday, November 26, in Brookens Auditorium.

On January 1, 1994, the day that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect, several thousand Mayan soldiers took over half the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas. Zapatista is a look at the first four years of that uprising and tells the story of a transnational movement that transformed Mexican and international political culture in critical ways. Read more>>

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