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New World Border
Call Number: V 277Format: VHSProgram: Peek MediaCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
New World Border documents the rise in human rights abuses along the US Mexico border since the implementation of border blockades, which have been erected in populated areas throughout the border region during the last decade. Included are interviews with immigrant rights organizers, testimony from immigrants, analysis of "free trade" policies and current efforts to build a vibrant movement for immigrant rights.
Zapatista
Date: 1/1/1998Call Number: V 538Format: VHSProducers: Big NoiseCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
With exclusive access and interviews with Subcomandante Marcos, Noam Chomsky and others, Zapatista is the definitive look at the Zapatista uprising, its historical roots and its lessons for the present and the future.
January 1, 1994. The day the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) comes into effect. A few minutes after midnight in Southeastern Mexico,several thousand Mayan soldiers take over half the state of Chiapas, declaring a war against the global corporate power they say rules Mexico. They call themselves the Zapatista National Liberation Army(EZLN).
Zapatista is the definitive look at the uprising in Chiapas. It is the story of a Mayan peasant rebellion armed with sticks and their word against a first world military. It is the story of a global movement that has fought 175,000 federal troops to a standstill and transformed Mexican and international political culture forever.
FeaturingInterviews with: Subcomandante Marcos, Noam Chomsky, Comandante Tacho,David and Zebedeo, Mayor Insurgente Ana Maria, Javier Elorriaga, Zachde la Rocha.
Rivera In America (1988)
Call Number: V 650Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This film follows painter Diego Rivera and his travels through the United States. Rivera made lasting impressions in San Francisco, Detroit and New York. One of his most famous pieces was both commissioned and destroyed by the Rockefellers.
Granito de Arena (Grain of Sand)
Call Number: V 713Format: DVDProducers: Corrugated FilmsCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Granito de Arena is the story of hundreds of thousands of public schoolteachers whose grassroots, nonviolent movement took Mexico by surprise, and who have endured brutal repression in their 25-year struggle for social and economic justice in Mexico's public schools.
The Harvesters
Call Number: V 719Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
The Harvesters documents late 1950's farm labor conditions in California's fields when 14- to 16-hour days paid workers at eighty-five cents to a dollar per hour. The film photographs people working many different crops. It also exposes how the bracero program imported Mexican nationals to work at wages lower than the sub-minimum rates available to American workers. The film was used by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) and the United Packinghouse Workers Union as an organizing film.
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