This video of a migrant sit-in in a Barcelona church is part of a long-term project about the struggles of legal and illegal migrants. This segment describes the sit-in on a night in June 2004 as experienced inside the Iglesia del Pí, documenting the assemblies held by the migrants under pressure of the government, major trade unions and the police, followed by the declarations made through the press.
UntitledBetween 2000 and 2003, PROCIVESA, the property development company that is restructuring various areas in the old part of the city, expropriated various housing blocks in Barcelona?s La Ribera neighbourhood at a low price. And then demolished them. Local residents named the new empty space that remained where their houses used to be the "Forat de la Vergonya" (the Hole of Shame), as a way of denouncing a situation that they considered degrading for a number of reasons: the public authorities? abandonment of an area that was already problematic, the interminable construction work, the loss of rights of people relocated to new apartments, etc.
UntitledIbrahim, 24 years old, lives together with his family and friends trapped in a ghetto and under Israeli military occupation. The ghetto is known as Qalquilia. In reality, it is a city completely surrounded by a 9 meters concrete wall and a several kilometre-long wire fence where 40,000 Palestinians who are posed as a “security threat” by Israel are caged. Hassan lives also trapped in the cage. Qalquilia is the first caged city since the ghetto in Warsaw. A sad truth that the victim learns some of the worst practices from his killers...
A spot produced by the Enlazando Alternativas network on the policies implemented by the European Union as part of the campaign against the Europe of capital, war and its crises; in favour of solidarity between peoples. enlazandoalternativas.org hablamosdeeuropa.org
Beyond the Western discourse on Japan "The Great Pachinko" is a portrait of twenty young Japanese. Uninhibited talk about their emotions, their problems, love and culture. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show