"The Reality seen through this camera is more Real." - Subcomandante Marcos. A look at the Zapatista uprising, its historical roots and its lessons for the present and the future.
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A video about Mumia Abdul Jamal, an Afro-American journalist condemned to death for an incident that has never been cleared up.
Songs and images taken from video games are used as a parable to approach the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Eddo Stern bases his work on the use of "bugs" or errors in the computer games he uses to construct his work.
UntitledThis critically acclaimed video exposes how the foreign policy interests of American political elites work in combination with Israeli public relations strategies to exercise a powerful influence over news reporting about the Middle East conflict. Combining American and British TV news clips with observations of analysts, journalists and political activists, Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land provides an historical overview, a striking media comparison, and an examination of factors that have distorted U.S. media coverage and, in turn, American public opinion.
Part indictment, part redemption tale, the film offers startling insight into the role of the Black Panther Party in a social revolution, and the New York Police Department and the FBI's devious targeting of one of the organization's most fervent leaders -Dhoruba Bin Wahad (born Richard Moore). Emerging from the Bronx ghettos and a life of petty crime, Dhoruba dived headfirst into the Black Power movement, serving breakfast to school children with one hand while wielding a gun with the other.
UntitledThe UN votes to partition Palestine. Riots in the face of the partition of Palestine. The Suez Canal is handed over to Egypt after 72 years of British control. Incidents on the Israel-Egypt border. The Egyptian Crisis. Israel withdraws from Sinai.
UntitledFrom conflicts and uprisings in Cincinnati, racism and misery, to the events that have shaken the start of this new century. Until there is justice there will not be peace. NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE offers a window into the world of today's politically active youth. This compelling video presents portraits of four Ohio college students who are active in a variety of issues including the fight for equal education, affirmative action, affordable housing, civil liberties, and women's rights; an end to racial profiling and police brutality; and the Israeli-Palestine conflict. While all four share a passion for justice and equality, their perspectives, strategies and tactics differ - offering the audience a look at the complexity of youth activism in the new millennium.
Katrina was called the worst natural disaster in America in 100 years... but the hundreds who died here were not killed by the storm - they were left for days to drown as flood waters rose around them. And today, the storm isn't what's keeping most of the city's former residents from returning home. A richer, whiter New Orleans is being built in which the city's poor and black majority have no place. While the city moves ahead with its plans to destroy public housing, scattered former residents fight a desperate battle for their right to return home.
Video footage questioning who is the terrorist and why. Reflection on the daily conflict in the occupied territories accompanied by Rap music produced by youth under occupation and inspired by the Intifada.
UntitledStatement by Subcomandante Marcos in the Lacandona jungle, the role of neo-liberalism and the mass media. Such statements constitute a landmark document in that they were important to confirm the ability of coordination between media and independent platforms of resistance.
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