Andrea Cristina Mercado is lead organizer at Mujeres Unidas y Activas, a grassroots Latina immigrant women’s organization in the San Francisco Bay Area. She shared with the TEDx audience how she is currently leading a statewide effort to include domestic workers in labor laws. There are over 30 grassroots domestic worker organizations across the country, [...]
Video: Documenting a human rights crisis on the US-Mexico border
The remains of at least 6,000 migrants have been found in U.S. desert land since U.S.-Mexico border policies were implemented in the 1990s. Some groups estimate that for each set of remains recovered, those of 10 more people are lost to the harsh desert elements. Advocates and authorities attribute the escalating number of deaths not [...]
Viernes Video: Outlawing cultural knowledge in Tucson, Arizona
When Arizona’s State School Superintendent, Tom Horn, made it his mission to shut down Tucson’s Mexican American studies program, it triggered an outcry among Latino communities nationwide. The filmmakers of the film, Precious Knowledge, traveled to Tucson to chronicle an entire school year to document disenfranchised youth becoming engaged, informed and active Chicanos in a [...]
Video: Chilean virtuoso flutist transcends musical borders
Chilean Alberto Almarza is a world reknown “virtuoso flutist” who is a resident artist and member of the faculty at The Jeanne Baxtresser International Master Class at the Juilliard School in New York. In this appearance at a TEDx event in Pittsburgh, Almarza shares a flute composition that had its inspiration from ancient Japanese music. [...]
Intrnl Video: All-female longboard crew takes viewers along for a road trip in Spain
What do you get when you put together seven girls with a passion for longboard skateboarding in a van on a road trip in Spain? We all get a four-part film titled Endless Roads. Shot entirely in Spanish with English subtitles by Spanish filmmaker Juan Rayos, the film follows an all-female longboard crew as they [...]
Video: Sports team owner explains how sports can save Mexico
Jose Angel Garcia, founder of the professional Mexican basketball team, Huracanes Tampico, explains to a TEDx audience in San Antonio how sports is helping to solve two problems in his country — child obesity and violence. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOTorl8SWT8[/youtube]
