February 23, 2012
Imagination
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February 21, 2012
Mexico’s Workers Unite
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Mexico City’s zocalo, called Plaza de la Constitucion, has seen many a coming together of activists and protesters, peasants and professionals, revolutionaries and those with no ideology other than wanting to be able to live with dignity. I happened upon a peaceful march consisting of all the above, a workers’ rights demonstration that massed at the zocalo. Union members representing miners and airline employees, small-scale farmers inspired by Zapata and Che, skilled men and women making ends meet in factories, carried banners and sang songs as they walked.
On the same day, workers were marching at the Super Bowl festivities going on in downtown Indianapolis in protest of the Right to Work legislation that was later passed in the state.
I walked out onto the zocalo and snapped some photos, all the while thinking: the similarity and direct correlation of this march and the one in Indy is striking. American and Mexican workers taking a stand for their livelihoods, yet often portrayed at odds with each other…
…jobs being exported, jobs being taken away from Americans by Mexicans on U.S. soil, trade, farmers in Mexico migrating to Indiana to pick tomatoes and de-tassle corn, economic decisions by governments…people marching for the same reasons.
February 20, 2012
UNAM’s Free Bike Share Program
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At Mexico City’s National Autonomous University of Mexico, a student can walk up to any of the campus bike stations, show their student ID card, pick a bike, have their card and a bar code on the bike scanned, and then be on their way. When done, they can return the bike to any of the bike stations on campus.
It’s free for students.
February 19, 2012
Diego Rivera’s Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda
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Built in the late 1500s, Mexico City’s Alameda is a park that three centuries later had become a place for the city’s wealthy to gather and mingle. In 1947, Diego Rivera painted his vision of a Sueno de una Tarde Dominical en la Alameda.
Some 45 feet wide by 12 feet high, the mural is filled with historical figures from when the Spaniards first came to the “new world” to then modern-day figures, such as Frida Kahlo. A skeleton character named Catarina stands center of the cast of characters, and nearby is a chubby faced, young boy named Diego Rivera.
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