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Especial El fuego y la palabra
Special The Fire and the Word with Gloria Muñoz Ramírez. Broadcast in audio and video during a community event in Santa Rosa, California, with simultaneous events in Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco and Davis, to celebrate the arrival in the United States of the campaign The Fire and the Word.
Testimonies of activist groups during a mitote organized by Acción Zapatista, Humboldt, CA
- Artist Resistance Collective: Collective working with print and multimedia to support other activist organizations. (3:45 min)
(Descarga aquí) - Aztec Dance Troupe: Group that uses Aztec dance as a means of healing and reconnection with indigenous roots and traditions. (2:45 min)
(Descarga aquí) - Teatro Campesino: Community-based guerrilla theater group based on the tradition of teatro campesino. (1:10 min)
(Descarga aquí) - Industrial Workers of the World (IWW): Workers union established 2 years ago in the northern California coast. (3:12 min)
(Descarga aquí) - Cop Watch: Community organization for defense against police violence. (3:45 min)
(Descarga aquí) - Street kids: “Street kid” community that reivindicates the right to live outside the system. (3:05 min)
(Descarga aquí) - Black Student Union: A student organization at Humboldt State University to build community among black students. (2:30 min)
(Descarga aquí) - Traditional Urok village at Blue Creek: A traditonal indigenous village being created on the Klamath river… a place of healing and tradition that “points ahead toward the past. (3:30 min)
(Descarga aquí) - Longest Walk, DQ University and Mujeres de Maíz: A compañera talks about the Longest Walk, the history and actuality of indigenous DQ University, and of the Mujeres de Maíz collective. (4:10 min)
(Descarga aquí) - Advanced Seminar on Women, Power, and Autonomy: Space of encounter to address issues faced by women of color and other underrepresented peoples. (5 min)
(Descarga aquí) - Women of Color Liberation Army (WCLA): Student organization at Humboldt State University that serves as a space for reflection and support among women of color. (7:15 min)
(Descarga aquí) - Transformative Theater / Creating Unity through Non-violent Transformation: A group applying transformative justice theory to struggle against violence through community-building. (3:15 min)
(Descarga aquí) - Klamath Salmon Media Collaborative: Media collective to bring attention to the destruction of the Klamath river and the plight of indigenous river dwellers who depend on salmon fishing. (2:20 min)
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“Low Intensity War” in Chiapas
Special documentary on the aggressions and threats of eviction against Zapatista communities in Chiapas: Testimonies from Bolon Ajaw, Nuevo Progreso Agua Azul, and 24 de Diciembre.
Program in Spanish – Feb 2008
Low intensity war and threats of land eviction in Chiapas. Campaign The Fire and the Word in the U.S. Evictions in the Mission District in San Francisco.
Programa en inglés
Report on two communities affected by the Mexican government’s undeclared war against Zapatista territory, in conjunction with paramilitary forces and pro-government peasant organizations (Bolon Ajaw and 24 de Diciembre). Interview with Prof. Marlon Sherman (Ogala Lakota) from Humboldt State University, who talks about the Lakota Indian declaration of autonomy.
Program in Spanish
Lakota Indians declare autonomy; Remembering the massacre of Acteal; Commemorating women’s resistance and Comandanta Ramona; Repression and paramilitarization in Chiapas.
Program in English
Gang Injunction – what it really means for poor and people of color communities; Paramilitary activities in Chiapas (update) – Opddic; Update on the housing situation in New Orleans (Katrina).
Program in Spanish
Update on the No Borders Camp; Situation in Chiapas (Opddic); Invitation to the Women’s encounter in La Garrucha; Indigenous struggle at the University of California, Berkeley; Struggle in New Orleans – Katrina victims.
Campamento Sin Fronteras, Mexicali/Calexico
Report on the No Borders Camp (Nov 5-11) at the border between Mexicali and Calexico, and the violent repression by the Border Patrol against peaceful demonstrators in Calexico.
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