Film Screening:
Wetback
(Arturo Perez Torres, 2005, 90 min, USA, in English & Spanish with English subtitles, Color, DVD)
WETBACK follows undocumented migrant workers from their home in Nicaragua across Central America and Mexico to the U.S.-Mexican border, meeting many other migrants along the way. They encounter gangs, vigilantes, corrupt law enforcement, physical danger, and safe havens in their attempt to be among the 10% of migrants who actually make it all the way into North America. The migrants, those who aid them, and those who turn them back all give their own perspectives on how this vast, illegal system trafficking in cheap labor and dreams actually functions, and what its terrible costs and perils are.

-- Panel Discussion to Follow, Including:
- NC Representative Paul Leubke (D)
- 2011 SAF Fellow Nandini Kumar
- SAF Advocacy & Organizing
- Director Nadeen Bir
 

-- This event is part of a celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Student Action with Farmworkers!

Cost: Free and Open to the Public!

Sponsors: The Archives for Human Rights & Documentary Arts in the Special Collections Library, the Duke Human Rights Center, the Franklin Humanities Institute, and the Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI). Co-sponsored by Student Action with Farmworkers and BorderWork(s).