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Vicente Ramirez Calmo
Vicente Ramirez Calmo of the Guatemalan ejercito, Comunidades de Poblacion en Resistencia, discusses the Guatemalan struggle for indigenous human rights and land struggles. The tactics, goals, and experiences of guerillas against the Guatemalan civil defense, as well as the immigraiton of Quiche indians to Mexico and North America are also discussed.
South Africa and Central America Reports
Date: 11/12/1977Call Number: FI 094Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Heber Dreher, Barbara LubinskiProgram: Freedom is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Report on South Africa economic measures on "war footing." El Salvador anti-government occupation and Guatemala elections, repression and resistance.
Guatemala: Carmen Camey
Date: 1/1/1991Call Number: V 383Format: VHSProducers: Trella LaughlinCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Interview with Carmen Camey of the Guatemala’s Human Rights Commission. She appeals to the world to put an end to the huge number of assassinations and disappearances which have taken place in her country since 1954. This genocide/ethnocide is part of a military strategy to remove the base of support for the popular guerilla movement. She also discusses the terrible working and living conditions of poor Guatemalans.
Vivan Las Mujeres - Update with the BCTF - Fight Racism
Date: 2/16/1986Call Number: V 472Format: VHSProducers: Trella LaughlinCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Vivan Las Mujeres features two feminist activists that spent six months in Central America meeting and working with women. Discusses the creation of the Women's Skills and Resource Exchange Center in Seattle that directed monetary and organizational resources to women in Central America.
An interview with Dorothy Nell Turner and Velma Roberts of the Black Citizens Task Force of Austin about housing, development, busing, and conflicts within the Black community.
Fight Racism Musical Benefit was a tribute to Malcolm X on the anniversary of his assassination. BCTF and Let the People Speak sponsor the event that features local bands and WC Clark. Trella Laughlin opens Fight Racism.
Immigrant Rights, A Civil Right Issue For the 1990's - Part 5
Date: 10/28/1990Call Number: CV 266Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Discussion of the HIV tests imposed on immigrants from Mexico and Central America at border detention centers. Forum on refugee communities from Guatemala and Haiti. Also discussion of the Cuban-Haitian Adjustment Act and the Motley Bill which impacts on refugees from Guatemala. Raids on day laborers are criticized.
Guatemala 1
Jose Ortiz , a former Guatemalan guerrilla fighter, describes the civil war. He recounts the origins of the conflict from Nov 13, 1960, the history of the war which would last over thirty years, to the conclusion of the fighting in 1996.
No Es Tan Facil Olvidar
Date: 1/1/1996Call Number: V 555Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Dramatic production created by Indigenous community youth about the numerous massacres in the early 1980s of Indigenous communities in Guatemala, specifically the village/aldea of Santa Maria Tzeja.
Jose Maria Ortiz - Guatemalan Worker's Party – Part 1
This recording details how Jose Maria Ortiz became involved in guerilla movements, student movements, and communist movements in Guatemala. Interview conducted in Spanish and translated to English.
Side B.
Jose Maria Ortiz - Guatemalan Worker's Party – Part 2
Discusses the various guerilla movements from 1960s until the death of Luis Turcios Lima. Discusses the Movimiento Revolucionario 13 de Noviembre (November 13th Revolutionary Movement, or MR-13), the Fuerzas Armadas Rebeldes (Rebel Armed Forces, or FAR), and Partido Guatemalteca del Trabajo (Guatemalan Workers Party, or PGT). Also includes discussion of Turcios Lima's leadership.
Interview conducted in Spanish and translated to English.
Jose Maria Ortiz - Guatemalan Worker's Party – Part 3
Discusses the setbacks and challenges guerilla movements faced following the death of Turcios Lima, the decline of guerilla movements, and his analysis on what is necessary for a revolution in Guatemala. Discusses linking class struggles across Central American and Mexico.
Interview conducted in Spanish and translated to English.
