Daniel Rudin
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  • WORK
    • Demo
  • ORGANIZED LABOR
    • Letter from the picket line
    • Hunger Strike
    • Pentagon Steel workers stage picket
    • PNP crosses picket
    • Pizza Hut ENDO
    • Workers Find Ways >
      • The BPO worker
      • The domestic helper
      • The OJT student
      • The agency worker
      • The volunteer nurse
      • The factory technician
      • The ship builder
      • The coop worker
      • The farm worker
      • The factory worker
  • INFORMAL LABOR
    • Day Labor
    • Day Labor: St. John's
    • The Working Homeless
    • Proyecto Testimonio
    • El Fortín
    • Doña Irma
  • HOUSING
    • Danger Zone
    • El Fortín: Projects
    • Exile
    • Interrupt the Pipeline
  • SPATIAL MONTAGE
    • Negotiating Documentary Space
    • Day Labor
    • Day Labor: St. John's
    • The Working Homeless
  • People's Media Advocacy, Asia

El Fortín (2011)

El Fortín visually represents Nicaraguan scavengers, many indigenous. They are enterprising workers, but their work is grueling and dangerous, and the product of war and economic hardship (this hardship, I argue, is an American export). The scars of war must be relatively permanent, even greater the scars of a civil war, the flames fanned by foreign interests.

El Fortín: Housing Project (2010 - 2011)

As an outcome of El Fortín, I was able to raise funds to roof roughly 70 homes in the neighborhood near the municipal dump called Tangera. The project should be seen as part of an exchange between the community itself and myself as filmmaker. The project was carried out in three phases, a first roofing and horse-cart project in 2010, a second roofing project in 2011, and a micro-credit project in 2013. Funds were provided by World Relief. These photos are from the first and second phases, two and three years on, and were taken as proof that the roofing and horse carts are still in use by their intended owners.

El Fortín: Microcredit Project (2013)

Doña Jesus, Doña Benita, Yadir - participants in microcredit project, 2013. Their business are making tortillas, selling fish, a pulpería (small store), and making tamales.
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