Granito de Arena (Grain of Sand) screens Jan. 26

Granito de Arena (Grain of Sand) will screen Friday, Jan. 26, at 7 p.m. at the Resource Center of the Americas, 3019 Minnehaha Ave., Minneapolis. The 60-minute film, in both Spanish and English, is free and open to all.

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—of thousands of public schoolteachers whose grassroots, non-violent movement took Mexico by surprise, and who have endured brutal repression in their struggle for social and economic justice in Mexico\’s public schools.

Combining footage of strikes and direct actions with 25 years\’ worth of archival images, filmmaker Jill Freidberg\’s award-winning documentary highlights the relationship between economic globalization and the worldwide public education crisis.

The showing is sponsored by the University of Minnesota Labor Education Service and co-sponsored by the Resource Center of the Americas.

View the entire film series schedule at www.laboreducation.org/les/films2006.php