[van-announce] Sat June 9 - 8 PM Canadian premier of the video Guerrero: La Ruta al Sol

[Eric Doherty]

Apologies for cross-posting - Please distribute widely


Please join the Building Bridges Human Rights Group for the Canadian 
premier of our video, /*Guerrero: La Ruta al Sol.*

/Saturday  June 9, 2007 -  8 PM -    By donation - All proceeds will be 
used to distribute the video.

A discussion and celebration will follow the video.

Rhizome Cafe - 317 East Broadway, Vancouver (Just East of Kingsway)

Food and drink will be available before and after the video.

About the Video:

*Guerrero: La ruta al sol*

*(The route to the sun)*

 

28 minutes

Bilingual - Spanish with English Subtitles / English with Spanish subtitles

 

Building Bridges Human Rights Group - Vancouver

Guerrero is best known for the Mexican beach resorts of Acapulco and 
Zihuatanejo, but few know that it continues to be the site of the most 
blatant human and economic rights violations in the country. Although 
the Sierra Club and other international groups once made the persecution 
of environmental activists in Guerrero an international scandal, 
attention has waned as abuses continue./
/

/Guerrero: La ruta al sol/ is a gritty plea from people in Guerrero for 
international pressure and solidarity to help stop human rights 
violations in Guerrero and throughout Mexico. Interviews with Mexican 
human rights workers, massacre and torture survivors, and campesinos are 
backed up with leaked police video of the Aguas Blancas Massacre which 
left 17 dead.

/La ruta al sol/ was filmed by a delegation of volunteer human right 
observers from the Building Bridges Human Rights Project which has 
groups in Vancouver and Victoria. The documentary is fully bilingual in 
Spanish and English so that it can be shown to mixed English and Spanish 
speaking audiences without translation, as requested by Mexican human 
rights groups.

/La ruta al sol/ is told exclusively in the voices of Mexicans, allowing 
them to tell their own stories.

The film was co-directed by La Huesos (a young Mexican who has withheld 
her real name for security reasons) and Eric Doherty a Canadian 
environmental and human rights activist.


For more information please contact Eric Doherty 
edoherty(at)uniserve.com or 604 877 1223.