The Postville Project

Documenting a Community in Transition

Postville Water Tower

Nuevo amanecer : weaving a new beginning?

Title

Nuevo amanecer : weaving a new beginning?
Postville: Past, Present and Future conference

Subject

Postville Immigration Raid, Postville, Iowa, 2008--Drama; Immigrants--Iowa--Postville--Drama; Guatemalans--Iowa--Drama; Postville (Iowa)--Drama;

Description

Jennifer Cooley, Sandra Rybachek, and actresses Elena Dobrila, Magda Caicedo, Yulia Vorobyeva, Ellen Nuss, and Alma de Pérez present excerpts from a play, a work-in-progress, based on testimonials from Guatemalan women in Postville and their constructive response to the raid. This presentation was part of the conference Postville: Past, Present and Future on April 30 and May 1, 2009, at the University of Northern Iowa. Introduced by conference organizer Jennifer Cooley.
1 video file (RealVideo ; 53 minutes)

Creator

Cooley, Jennifer

Date

5 1 09

Contributor

Rybachek, Sandra; Dobrila, Elena; Caicedo, Magda; Vorobyeva, Yulia; Nuss, Ellen; Pérez, Alma de;

Type

Moving Image

Coverage

United States--Iowa--Black Hawk--Cedar Falls; United States--Iowa--Allamakee--Postville