Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad (= A Little Bit of So Much Truth)

A Film by Jill Friedberg

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University of Ottawa
Friday February 15, 2008
Screening begins 19h30
Venue: MacDonald Hall Auditorium (MCD 146), 150 Louis Pasteur Street, Ottawa, Ontario

Mexico / 2006 / 93 minutes / Spanish w/EST

In the summer of 2006, a broad-based, non-violent, popular uprising exploded in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.

Some compared it to the Paris Commune, while others called it the first Latin American revolution of the 21st century.

But it was the people’s use of the media that truly made history in Oaxaca.

A 90-minute documentary, A Little Bit of So Much Truth captures the unprecedented media phenomenon that emerged when tens of thousands of school teachers, housewives, indigenous communities, health workers, farmers, and students took 14 radio stations and one TV station into their own hands, using them to organize, mobilize, and ultimately defend their grassroots struggle for social, cultural, and economic justice.

Directors Bio: Jill Friedberg
www.imdb.com/name/nm0294998/

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