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Orange County | Transnational Feminist Voices Podcast
First Episode: “Mujeres de Las Maquiladoras” March 1, 2016
As part of our commitment to transnational feminism, AF3IRM Orange County discusses the femicides of Ciudad Juarez that began with NAFTA’s exploitation of Mexican labor. We seek to empower the voices of women of color who have risked their lives to fight for Juarez’s victims of trafficking and sexual violence.
We are sharing this discussion with our community in support of AF3IRM’s Purple Rose Campaign – an international movement to stop the commodification of women and children’s bodies.
RESOURCE LIST FOR THIS EPISODE
Organizations
Madres y Familias Unidas por Nuestras Hijas (Mothers and Families United for our Daughters)
Women’s Roundtable of Ciudad Juarez
Mothers in Search of Justice
Red Mesa de Mujeres de Ciudad Juarez
Maquiladora Workers Support Fund (Go Fund Me) – to raise funds to pay for the school tuition of the children of currently striking maquiladora workers
https://www.gofundme.com/xfmzd3cs
Advocacy in Academia
The research of Dr. Julia Fragoso
The University of Texas at El Paso Women’s Studies Spring 2016 course “Indigenous Women of the Americas: Colonization and Femicide” taught by Professor Cemelli de Aztlan
Books
The Killing Fields: Harvest of Women by Diana Washington Valdez https://nacla.org/download-killing-fields-harvest-women (FREE PDF DOWNLOAD)
Making a Killing: Femicide, Free Trade, and La Frontera edited by Alicia Gaspar de Alba with Georgina Guzman
Justice, Violence against Women and Resistance in the Borderlands by Kathleen Staudt and Diana Washington Valdez
Violence and Activism at the Border by Kathleen Staudt
News articles
http://www.texasobserver.org/femicide-in-juarez-is-not-a-myth/