What resonated with me in this video was how these big
buildings are supposed to mean somehow an advance in the economics of the place
they are in. In their own words, these buildings mean globalization. But the
reality is that the economic growth is exclusively for the place they come from,
and an abuse to the place they are placed.
The people who work
in these companies know that these buildings mean tax breaks for the owners of
the companies at the expense of cheap labor. The workers know that these
companies and their owners care absolutely nothing about the workers health and a
life with dignity. But these companies mean jobs as well. For the workers, no matter
how little they gain, at least is something and they can bring some food for
their families. All of it at the expense of their health and their families
future.
The tactic that I see was employed by the artist was to be
with the interviewees, not only when they were being interviewed, but when they
were asking for their rights and they money the deserved in the gonverment offices. This approach was successful,
because as a viewer I was not only able to learn from the point of view of the
interviewees, but I was also able to understand their point of view from
within.
30 minutes in the video these women were asking for their
money of liquidation and the guy, who was from Mexico as well, was trying to make
some jokes undermining what these women were asking. It’s so interesting how someone who lives in this places, where these
companies have done so much harm, is still on the side of these companies
instead of helping these women get what they deserve. THis was the specific moment that resonated with me, because as a Latino I understnd that people who behave like this somehow suffer from internalized racism. They thing that they are less than this wealthy men and that f they are on their side they are more like them than the people asking for their rights.
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