More from the worker’s rights organization in Tijuana
July 29, 2008
“Day Job 3″ by Kinsee Morlan
CENTRO DE INFORMACION PARA TRABAJADORAS Y TRABAJADORES
INFORMATION CENTER FOR WORKING WOMEN AND MEN
CITTAC
[Versión en español: ver abajo]
Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
July 28, 2008
Dear Friend,
We are the Information Center for Working Women and Men (Cittac) in Tijuana. We are a collective of workers and ex-workers mostly from maquiladoras, but also from other places of employment in Tijuana where workers are exploited. Our purpose is to support individual and group struggles against injustices in the workplace.
Tijuana, the Paris of the Americas
July 27, 2008
Tijuana bands and Tijuana DJs you should know about
July 25, 2008
Photo by Damian Gastellum
Lhabia: http://www.myspace.com/lhabiatijuana
Unsexy Nerd Ponies: http://www.myspace.com/unsexynerdponi
LoudNoises!: WWW.MYSPACE.COM/LOUDNOISESMUSICA
Astronauta Jackson: http://www.myspace.com/astronautajackson
Latinsizer: http://www.myspace.com/latinsizer
Orlando: http://www.myspace.com/orlandoespop
Falopia: http://www.myspace.com/falopia
Madame Ur and Sus Hombres: http://www.myspace.com/madameur
Audioguns: http://www.myspace.com/audioguns
Maquila worker’s rights
July 23, 2008
Cittac is an excellent organization in Tijuana that fights hard for worker’s rights. They’re having a very affordable fundraiser on Aug. 8:
Pam and Ken Barratt
Invite you to
A FUNDRAISING DINNER
August 8, 2008
6:00 PM at
2961 Caminito Niguel, San Diego 92117
The food will be prepared by maquiladora workers. Following dinner, there will be an informative presentation by activist representatives of
Information Center for Working Women and Men (CITTAC):
ANTONIA ARIAS
The San Diego Maquiladora Workers’ Solidarity Network (SDMWSN):
ENRIQUE DÁVALOS and CLAUDIA ELÍAS
Their talk will focus on the difficulties that Tijuana maquiladora workers face as they attempt to organize for better wages and working conditions; and how they are supported by the Tijuana organization:
CITTAC – Centro de Información para Trabajadoras y Trabajadores, AC
(Information Center for Working Women and Men)
The cover charge for the dinner is:
$25.00 for Individual and $40.00 per couple
RSVP by August 5
Contact Pam or Ken at (858) 246-7177 or E-mail: pbarratt@qbl.org. The proceeds from this fundraising dinner will go directly to CITTAC. Please make your check payable to SDMWSN which is a 501(C)(3). This will make your contribution tax-deductible.
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Pam and Ken Barratt
Le invitan a:
NOCHE de CENA y ACTIVISMO
8 de Agosto, 2008
6:00 PM en
2961 Caminito Niguel, San Diego 92117
La comida será preparada por compañeras trabajadoras/activistas de la maquila. Después de las cena habrá una presentación de activistas:
Information Center for Working Women and Men (CITTAC):
ANTONIA ARIAS
The San Diego Maquiladora Workers’ Solidarity Network (SDMWSN):
ENRIQUE DÁVALOS and CLAUDIA ELÍAS
Su plática será acerca de las dificultades que enfrentan los y las trabajadoras de las nmaquilas en Tijuana para su organización por mejores salarios y condiciones laborales y de cómo son apoyadas por la organización de Tijuana:
CITTAC – Centro de Información para Trabajadoras y Trabajadores, AC
El precio de la cena es:
$25.00 por persona y $40.00 por pareja
Favor de responder antes del 5 de Agosto
Contacte Pam or Ken al (858) 246-7177 o E-mail: pbarratt@qbl.org. Lo recaudado en esta cena irá directamente a CITTAC. Favor de escribir sus cheques a SDMWSN la cual es una organización sin fines del lucro (501c 3). Así su contribución será deducible de impuestos.
Adapta Project show muy exitosa!
July 22, 2008
“Day Job 1″ by Kinsee Morlan
Yep. The show was a success. Tons of San Diego and Tijuana people gathered together at Terra Sur to enjoy one of the best shows of the year (in my humble and bias opinion).
I’ll post pictures of the opening as soon as I get them. One of the most surprising things of the night was that I sold one of my photos! The one of the beautiful tranny family above will be going to a very ecentric and caring new owner tomorrow. That’s the first piece of my own work that I’ve ever showed, let alone sold, so I’m pretty freakin’ happy.
Good old U-T readers
July 16, 2008
“Faith vs. Faith” by Daniel Ruanova
Um, so, every time there’s a story about Tijuana in the Union-Tribune, the list of online comments that follow are almost always disturbingly racist.
My art collective got some coverage about our upcoming Tijuana show in the paper today, and after getting a call from a guy who called me a “puke face,” we got the e-mail copied below. Racism at its best:
———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Donna Curran <d-curran@cox.net>
Date: Jul 15, 2008 9:24 AM
Subject: Offensive picture
To: adaptaproject@gmail.com
Your choice of picture for todays Union Tribune, back page of the Health section, called inappropriately “My Faith vs. Your Faith”, is very offensive. The wording on the left is offensive. A way for TJ to say what they think of us? They are not our friends. We have good artists here. We don’t need TJ’s offensive art. You need to be more careful in your choices.
La vida
July 11, 2008
“Hi” by Kinsse Morlan
I talked to photographer Frederic Roberts recently (he currently has a show on India up at MoPA), and something he said really made me think about the process of taking photos. And I’m not talking technical: We’ve all gone digital, so photography is no longer too much about the aperture of f-stop, nor is it about developing the film or spending any time at all in the dark room ourselves (which I did way back in high school, and miss greatly).
Frederic reminded me of the human side of photography. He called “travel photographers” — those who swoop into an exotic place and start putting their cameras in foreigners’ faces — total and complete assholes. And he’s right.
I’ve lived in Tijuana for two years, but I’m still an asshole outsider who keeps my camera on or near me at all times, just waiting for a chance to whip it out and snap a shot of something my gringa eyes recognize as different and interesting. Most of the time, of course, it’s the people of Tijuana.
But Frederic made me think about how I go about taking my photos. It’s important to me to catch people doing their normal day-to-day things, but sometimes they see me seeing them and they get uncomfortable. I, too, get uncomfortable when I’m on the other side of the lens, so I completely understand, but the question becomes; How do you go about getting these great “average life of interesting foreign people” photos without being an outsider asshole? Frederic said he developed a relationship with all of his subjects, but that’s a luxury (both in the time and money sense) that I simply don’t have. I could take the time to ask people if I can take their pictures, but then I’d lose the thing I like most about photography — the one moment of random fleeting beauty.
Arg. I don’t have the answer.
Happy Birthday, my lovely little Tijuana
July 11, 2008
“This is Not Tijuana” by Kinsee Morlan
Starting tomorrow, July 11, Tijuana Media Lab will stream audio all day in celebration of Tijuana’s 119th birthday.
audio stream:
http://tijuanamedialab.org:8000/listen.pls
Tecktonik kids
July 8, 2008
I had no idea the sweet new dancing style I see late-night at Tijuana clubs already had a trademarked name: tecktonik. Check out how cool these young little TJ kids are:
Vice on Mexico
July 7, 2008
Do these kids’ show hosts do whatever Pharrell and Nigo order them to? They look like they’re about to tell us about the next Blue’s Clue. (Content source: Viceland.com)
The assholes over at Vice are launching a Mexico version. Nice.
Check out their Art Talk! series and don’t miss the Music World feature with the Black Lips in Tijuana.
More info is below:
