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Four families who live in Bon Pastor, a Barcelona neighbourhood, refuse to leave their single-storey houses. Some refuse because they've lived there for their whole lives, others because they feel they've been duped by the Board of Housing. This video shows the action carried out by the support group “Asemblea de Apoyo a Bon Pastor” in solidarity with the four families who resisted, at a time when it is seen as “politically incorrect” to ask for what you believe is right.
UntitledBack in the old days, a 'maquila' was a “millers portion”, the amount of grain that farmers paid millers to process their grain. Now maquilas are tax-free factories set up in underdeveloped countries to produce their goods using cheap labour. In Nicaragua, 100,000 people work in maquilas, which pay $0.32/hour and violate all workers rights. The Nicaragua maquilas are virtually unknown to international public opinion, and essential to the supply of the US consumer market.
UntitledOkupa is the Spanish word for squat. This is a short video of two very large demonstrations that took place in Barcelona against evictions and property spectulation.
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“On Translation: Miedo/Jauf is not a work on African/European emigration/immigration. Nor is it a work on religion or on terrorism. Two different realities separated not by the sea but by border fences and boundaries on both sides. The search for the north, with its man-made paradises that for many remain lost; fear as an emotion/sensation inserted in the decision of crossing. The construction of the south as a fiction/reality linked to phenomena of the unknown, exoticism and difference”.
UntitledVisit Panama. For one dollar you can buy a gram of cocaine, a dose of crack and even try “El Pegón”, the new toxic substance -a mix of marijuana with battery acid, diesel, gasoline and other chemical components- that's invading the cities of Panama City. Ten years after the North American military operation called “Just Cause”, tonnes of weapons were found distributed among Panama's civil population. Since then, there have been confrontations between armed gangs of young people for the control of weapons and chemical drugs. Confrontations that are increasingly frequent and bloody. This film is divided into three parts. In the first the first part the soundtrack of the local rappers illustrates the daily violence in the ghettoes. The second part centers on Fat, a functionary that roams the city collecting corpses. Lastly we meet Lolo, leader of the Krazy Killa gang. We can see the inner workings of one of the most dangerous gangs, under police siege in the midst of a war to maintain supremacy.
A promotional documentary by Yanapi, an NGO based in El Alto where it provides support to poor and disadvantaged teenagers. This documentary shows how 2000 euros a month are enough to support and feed 60 girls at risk of social exclusion, give work to 15 people, and help a group of mothers to set up their own cooperative.
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