Jon Sack's Graphic Novel 'La Lucha' Celebrates Mexican Human Rights Activist Gabe Spitzer - Humanosphere.org
go to original July 6, 2015

For this Humanosphere podcast, we talk with Adam Shapiro, a human rights activist with the Irish organization Front Line Defenders, about a courageous Mexican woman who lives on the front lines in the fight for human rights – Lucha Castro. (Editor’s note: Sorry about the ten seconds of silence at the beginning, but consider it an invitation to briefly meditate).

Castro, Shapiro and their colleagues visited Seattle recently, to promote a book about human rights in Mexico and to meet with local supporting organizations like the Channel Foundation, Linksbridge and El Centro de la Raza. The book La Lucha: The Story of Lucha Castro and Human Rights in Mexico is a graphic novel that describes the terrifying and inspiring work of Castro, a human rights attorney, in the incredibly violent Mexican border community of Juarez. Below is a video describing the story:

La Lucha - Video Promo (Front Line Defenders)

Shapiro, a documentary film maker in addition to a long-time human rights activist, said Front Line Defenders was launched in Dublin in 2001 by Mary Lawlor, previously with Amnesty International, to provide rapid and direct support around the world to activists like Castro because they are often celebrated as heroic individuals but not given the kind of practical, legal, financial or social support they need to thrive – or merely survive.

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