AF3IRM OC Podcast: "Mujeres de Las Maquiladoras"
[soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/270353241" params="auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%" height="450" iframe="true" /]NOW AVAILABLE!Orange County | Transnational Feminist Voices PodcastFirst Episode: “Mujeres de Las Maquiladoras” March 1, 2016As 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 EPISODEOrganizations Madres y Familias Unidas por Nuestras Hijas (Mothers and Families United for our Daughters)Women’s Roundtable of Ciudad JuarezMothers in Search of Justice Red Mesa de Mujeres de Ciudad JuarezMaquiladora Workers Support Fund (Go Fund Me) - to raise funds to pay for the school tuition of the children of currently striking maquiladora workershttps://www.gofundme.com/xfmzd3cs Advocacy in Academia The research of Dr. Julia FragosoThe 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 GuzmanJustice, Violence against Women and Resistance in the Borderlands by Kathleen Staudt and Diana Washington ValdezViolence and Activism at the Border by Kathleen Staudt News articles http://www.texasobserver.org/femicide-in-juarez-is-not-a-myth/http://derechoslatinamerica.com/2015/05/31/maquiladoras-misogyny-and-migration-exploring-femicide-in-ciudad-juarez/https://fnsnews.nmsu.edu/the-silencing-of-womens-voices/