Multiplying the Readers
Government agencies and sectors of civil society can, and indeed should, contribute to building more and better opportunities that normalize the appeal of reading.
Culture
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Cine Mujer Collective Celebrates Sisterhood as Resistance in ‘Rebeladas’ Documentary
In the late 1970s, amidst a patriarchal society, the Cine Mujer Collective emerged, feminist filmmakers who found in cinema the ideal political tool to denounce gender problems that defined Mexican society at the time.
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“Dignified wages are not concessions: they are constitutional rights” – Striking Cultural Workers Respond to Mexico’s Cultural Secretariat
2,000 workers have been paid below Mexico’s national minimum wage for over two years, violating the law.
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Workers Occupy Culture Secretariat, Demand 13% Wage Increase
2,000 workers have been receiving incomes below Mexico’s minimum wage for over two years.
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Mexico Grants Official Protection to Pulque from Tlaxcala
The alcoholic beverage of pre-Hispanic origin is obtained from the heart of the maguey leaves and is made from the fermentation of the mucilage.
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UNAM Launches Muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros Exhibit
The exhibition Siqueiros, Imprisoning the Flame will combine his writings, state records and photographs, and will open on February 4.
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Greater Palestine Raises its Voice & Brings Visibility to the Gaza Genocide
The film, by Rafael Rangel and Mahmoud M. Zaqout and in close collaboration with 12 Palestinian photographers, exposes the human cruelty of imperialism against the Palestinian nation.
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Land of the Godínez: Work, Obedience & Dispossession in Contemporary Mexico
José Baroja’s satire is, in reality, pure sociology: the expression of an economic order & labour regime in Mexico that normalizes long hours, insufficient wages, constant evaluations, identity loss and the sacrifice of a personal life.
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Clara Brugada: Zarco Not Dismissed at Railway Workers Museum
Mexico City’s head of government announced the locomotive mechanic, trade unionist, communist and founder the Railroad Workers Museum will receive a tribute in May.
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Mexican Cinema, Receiving Increased Incentives, on the Rise at the Box Office
Mexican cinema represented 35 percent of the total films shown and accounted for 16 percent of annual attendance last year.
