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The Take - In the wake of Argentina's 2001 spectacular economic
collapse, Latin America's most prosperous middle class finds itself
in a ghost town of abondoned factories and mass unemployment. In
The Take, director Avi Lewis and writer Naomi Klein combine the
workers' stories with comments from factory owners, politicians,
and judges, to form an examination of the macro-economic policies
of globalization. The result is an exhilerating political thriller
about people forging genuine alternatives to a brutal economic model;
a story whose implications are universal.
This is What Democracy Looks Like - At the WTO protests
in Seattle, we had a collective vision. We saw beyond the borders
that divide us. We saw people come together across every kind of
political and cultural difference and stand up in a way that we
have not seen in this country for decades. We saw peaceful protests
shut down one of the most powerful institutions in the world and
we saw a system dazed and frightened by the sound of our voices.
We left Seattle energized, believing that we had taken part in the
birth of a new movement.
Three Dynamic Economies: Peru Road to Recovery - Despite
political problems, rampant terrorism, and hyper-inflation, Peru
is somehow managing to turn itself around economically. This program
explores that about-face and Peru's newfound economic and social
stability. Also discussed are the many challenges that remain, the
most urgent of which is how the country can release all of its 25
million people from the grip of cyclical poverty.
Tierra Mexicana - Description N/A
Unheard Voices - Description N/A
US and Mexico: Neighbors - Description N/A
US Policy in el Salvador p1 and 2 - Description N/A
Waiting for the Messiah - Someone hits the wrong key in Hong
Kong and a bank in Buenos Aires goes under. In an increasingly globalized
world, a financial breakdown in the Far East instantly reverberates
in the Third World, and modern-day Argentina is no exception. Some
lose their savings, others their jobs. The film centers on the stories
of Ariel, a young Jew proud of his origins but suffering an identity
crisis; and of Santamaria, a bank employee whose dignity is at stake
after losing his job, his house, and his wife. Ariel wants to discover
the world, and Santamaria wants to get his back. 'Waiting for the
Messiah' is an urban tale about the relationships between people
who live in the small universes hidden within Buenos Aires
War on Nicaragua: Frontline 4-21-87 - Description N/A
We are Guatemalans - Description N/A
Welcome to Colombia - In Welcome to Colombia, filmmaker Catalina
Villar travels across her country - through territory held by guerrillas,
paramilitaries and government forces - during the course of Colombia's
2002 presidential election. Everywhere she finds people who are
tired of the fighting and the blaming, and who simply want peace.
Although Villar herself shows little sympathy for the guerrillas,
she also offers a counterpoint to sensational television coverage
and government propaganda that obscures the fact that the vast majority
of the killings in the civil war are perpetrated, not by guerrillas,
but by paramilitaries.
Where Teachers are Targets - Description N/A
Without Fear of Being Happy - Description N/A
Women of Latin America: To be a Mother in Latin America -
This program discusses reproduction and motherhood in the hyper-patriarchal
societies of Latin America. Women on different economic and social
levels discuss such topics as working mothers, and how the extended
family contributes to child-rearing; the sterilization movement;
abortion; gay parenting; manipulation of women's reproductive rights
by governments; and how access to medical services varies from country
to country
Women in Nicaragua, Nicaraguan Journey, Development Under Fire
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A World of Ideas: Victims of Two Cultures Richard Rodriguez
- Richard Rodriguez, a writer who in 1990 had just published his
autobiography, Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez.
He talks about his growing up in the American melting pot society.
He denounces affirmative action and bilingual education, and advocates
the melting pot ideal. He believes that children who use their "family
language" in school will not be able to enter the public realm
in an adequate way. According to Rodriguez, family and school should
remain separate. He discusses the impact of language on life, and
the use of language as a force of separation.
Zapatista - It is New Year's night 1994, the day the North
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) comes into effect. To the
Mayan Indian communities in the Lacandon Jungle of Southeastern
Mexico, NAFTA symbolizes the culmination of over 500 years of exploitation.
That night, 2,000 Indian soldiers occupy several cities in the state
of Chiapas and declare political and economic independence. They
call themselves the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN).
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