Mexico: Workers resist power sell-off
Mexico: Workers resist power sell-off
Article originally published in Australia’s Green Left Weekly
23 October 2009
Mexican President Felipe Calderon has tried to buyoff electricity workers facing redundancy as part of his campaign to privatise the state-owned power company Luz y Fuerza, by offering free English lessons on top of redundancy payments. (more…)
Acclaim for the unusual: Angels of Anarchy exhibition preview for the Gulf News
Female Surrealists, ignored for a long time, are accorded pride of place with a show that highlights their radical streak
- By Rachel Rickard Straus,Special to Weekend Review
- Published: 00:00 October 16, 2009
http://gulfnews.com/arts-entertainment/visual-arts/acclaim-for-the-unusual-1.514130
Mexican govt vs electricians

Road to nowhere
Last Saturday night, the Mexican president Felipe Calderon sent the army and the police into all the offices of Luz y Fuerza, forcing workers off the night shift. Luz y Fuerza, one of the two biggest electricity companies in Mexico was being liquidated, the government announced: it was inefficient and had no place in a country in economic crisis. (more…)
Interview with Leonora Carrington in The Independent
Nazis, nannies and hair omelettes: Leonora Carrington, the last living Surrealist, looks back on her extraordinary life and times
Leonora Carrington was the toast of the Surrealists. Then she was forced to escape the Nazis, a Spanish mental asylum and her nanny, before fleeing to Mexico… Ahead of two exhibitions of her work, the 92-year-old reflects on a life less ordinary
Interview by Rachel Rickard Straus and Ruth MacLean
Sunday, 23 August 2009
Gregory Fritz’s irreverent choreography
BY RUTH MACLEAN
Special to The News
“Contemporary dance is boring and pretentious,” says Gregory Fritz, himself a contemporary choreographer. (more…)
Spencer Tunick interview

BY RUTH MACLEAN
Special to The News
“I’m not as famous as you would think. Not my face,” says Spencer Tunick.
“Andy Warhol’s famous. Damien Hirst is famous. I’m well-known. No one stops me on the street.” (more…)

