Granito de Arena

For over 20 years, global economic forces have been dismantling public education in Mexico, but always in the constant shadow of
popular resistance...

Granito de Arena is the story of that resistance –

the story of hundreds of thousands of public schoolteachers

whose grassroots, non-violent movement took Mexico by surprise, and who have endured brutal repression in their 25-year struggle
for social and economic justice in Mexico's public schools.

Featuring

Eduardo Galeano and Maude Barlow

Award-winning Seattle filmmaker, Jill Freidberg (This is What Democracy Looks Like, 2000), spent two years in southern Mexico documenting the efforts of over 100,000 teachers, parents, and students fighting to defend the country’s public education system from the

devastating impacts of economic globalization.

Freidberg combines footage of strikes and direct actions with

25 years worth of never-before-seen archival images

to deliver a compelling and unsettling story of

resistance, repression, commitment, and solidarity.

Music By

DJ Food * Los Mocosos * Correo Aereo

PlanB * Slowrider

Grupo Mono Blanco * John Holowach

A sixty-minute documentary, Granito de Arena places the Mexican teachers’ struggle in a global context, clearly spelling out the relationship between economic globalization

and the worldwide public education crisis.

Featuring a driving soundtrack by DJ Food, Slowrider, PlanB,
and Los Mocosos, Granito de Arena fuels indignation, inspires action, and raises important questions about democracy, sovereignty, and the universal right to public education.

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