Movie: Breaking the Siege

June 9 2010
7 pm @ the KWCCSJ
63 Courtland Ave E, Kitchener
*no charge/pay what you want

- San Salvador Atenco, May 2006. A small town in the suburbs of Mexico City. Two months before the presidential elections, a conflict for land and rights escalates between the population of Atenco and the Mexican government. Unbelievable events take place: the police attack a marketplace, the inhabitants block the highways leading to the city, and confrontations between an outraged population and police forces break out. The state of emergency goes on for several days and culminates in the death of a 14 year old boy.

This documentary reveals mass media’s strategy that ignores the concerns of the population and generates a climate of fear in order to justify a massive police deployment.