14-15 August 2000

Footage begins with Monica Angeles, Martha Figueroa, and Margaret Crehan in an apartment, then driving in a car. Various blurred shots of landscape shot out the window. In the car, they discuss the nature of the Women's Caucus, its training with women, the ways in which it has been beneficial, and the issues important to the organization. Later they discuss a specific murder case that they are working on. B-roll of the group visiting a waterfall, and then a rural community with houses, animals, including a monkey, dogs and roosters. Interview with a staff person from the organization Salud y Desarrollo Comunitario (SADEC). He talks about his organization, the specific women's issues they work on, and a training they held on providing medical support. He talks about the importance of collaboration, and how it helps him better understand the issues affecting women. He says that putting groups in contact with each other allows women to find strength in each other. As the interview comes to the close, he gives verbal consent for the footage to be used, and Monica Angeles summarizes the interview in English. Next is more shaky footage shot from a moving car, and outside a rural home. There is an interview with a woman named Alberta Estrada [?] standing outside her home in Pico. She talks about issues facing women in Chiapas, and how indigenous women face greater abuse than Mestizo women. She talks about the need for unity among all women to get justice for the community. She also talks about sexual abuse and prostitution. After the interview, Monica Angeles summarizes what was said in English. There is some b-roll of Alberta with her family, her home, their animals. Next, there is an interview with a woman named Andrea Torres Cruz [?]. Her mother was killed by her father. Her father also owned a bar, and had prostitutes there. Andrea turned her father in to the authorities, and he was taken away. She does not believe there will be justice, however, because police are known to abuse their own spouses. She fears that when her father returns, she will be forced off the land or possibly killed like her mother. After the interview, Monica Angeles summarizes in English.