Gran told me about my father’s childhood. She recalled how as a child, he took lunch to the workers on the Antioquia Railway. Armando Orozco Tovar Carlos Arango Z was his name and he started working at just six-years-old to help support his family. From Tulúa, in the […]
Author: ThePrisma
A genocide does not just happen, we allow it to happen
Gregory H. Stanton, president of Genocide Watch, has identified the 8 stages of a genocide: classification, symbolization, dehumanization, organization, polarization, preparation, extermination, and denial. These 8 stages are predictable but not inexorable and at each of them, there may be preventive measures in order to stop it.
“Not without my family”… an immigrant’s battle in England
How long can a mother be forced not to see her children? One year and two months was what the Mexican and British governments made Jael Deyssy De la Luz endure. A hunger strike and a continuous and tireless fight made a reunion possible. Virginia Moreno Molina “When […]
Latin Americans who work as cleaners and are invisible
Their work starts before sunrise when the classrooms are still empty. Whilst universities teach about values and rights these workers come and go unseen shrouded under a cloak of invisibility born of the stigma businesses and institutions attribute to the word ‘cleaners’ who for their part are generally exploited and […]
José Barahona… In Lisbon I remembered you
What is it like for a Latino man with few resources to look for a new life in a different continent? Even a common language plays tricks. And when things are hard, do you stop calling your family? These are the issues in this new film between fiction and documentary.