Global Femicide and the Disappearance of Women in Juarez

The program includes:20 minute movie clip from Senorita Extraviada
Panel: Professor Hobson,
Graduate Student Sara Watkins, and members from
Mujeres de Juarez
Snacks will be provided

UCSB History grad student Sarah Watkins will be talking about what’s been going on in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo over the last decade.

The discussion will be preceded (on Wednesday) by a film screening:

Student Series
Bordertown
Wednesday, October 28, 6pm
Film Screening/MCC Theater

Bordertown is based on the tragic account of hundreds of women working in American-owned factories in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, where dozens of women working in the maquiladoras have been kidnapped, raped, and murdered; and little, if anything, has been done about it. Eva, a 16-year-old factory worker who was left for dead by the two men who raped her, seeks the help of a local newspaper man. Lauren Adrian, an up-and-coming Chicago newspaper reporter is assigned to the story. What she finds is a corrupt system of unfair labor practices, where workers are offered absolutely no protection from the police, the government agencies, or the companies they slave for. Discussion with Mujeres de Juarez de UCSB following the screening. Gregory Nava, 112 min., English and Spanish, 2006, USA.

hm 10/28/09