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Mexico is going through what many experts are beginning to call the Mexican Spring. Mexico as we know it will never be the same from here on out. The people are making more radical moves than the entire world is doing right now and Western media is still trying to…
Mexico is going through what many experts are beginning to call the Mexican Spring. Mexico as we know it will never be the same from here on out. The people are making more radical moves than the entire world is doing right now and Western media is still trying to…
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Chocolate: An Act of Resistance
Cacao growing is being kept alive in Mexico by a fierce (and loving) grandma
In Mexico, Chocolate isn’t just a sweet treat. It is a food steeped in history and spirituality that has lost its place in Mexican agriculture and production. This is a story about bringing it back.
Filmed on 5d Mark iii w Canon 24-70, 16-35, 70-200 2.8 L
Video via The Perennial Plate
For more information on the Maya cacao growers featured in this video, visit: CASFA and Casa Tropical.
The Incas, the Aztecs, the Mayans, all dark-skinned Indian people, had a highly developed culture here in America, in what is now Mexico and northern South America. These people had mastered agriculture at the time when European white people were still living in mud huts and eating weeds. But white children, or black children, or grown-ups here today in America don’t get to read this in the average books they are exposed to.
Malcolm X (via american-radical)
This is from an interview which can be found in this book
(via sinidentidades)
Mi Triqui: Life in Three Languages
Like many migrant children from Mexico, Bernadina Hernández came to the United States without speaking a word of English. She didn’t speak Spanish either, only Triqui — the Indigenous language of her pueblo in Oaxaca. Now she’s a leader in her community and the breadwinner of her family.
This short documentary takes a look at the work Bernadina does for Indigenous families, primarily Triquis from the state of Oaxaca, in her hometown of Hollister, CA.
Bermadina is also a member of La Unión Indígena, an organization serving Indigenous-language speakers in many of central California’s agricultural communities.
This documentary was part of Raquel Maria Dillon’s master’s thesis at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Raquel now works as a video journalist for the Associated Press. Follow her on Twitter at @RaquelAPLA.
EDITOR’S NOTE: We’re reposting “Mi Triqui” in hopes that more people see it. Help us share Bernadina’s amazing story by passing along this video to family and friends. A special thanks to Raquel for making this video available to the public again.
