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CFIR VHS & DVD Resources The following films can be checked out from the CFIR Resource Library free of charge. If you are interested in having a CFIR member join you for a film viewing and perhaps help with facilitate a discussion afterwards, please request a member of our Speakers Bureau by calling 303.623.3464 or emailing Jordan T Garcia at [email protected]. DOCUMENTARIES conservative factions before its ultimate defeat. The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez (2) The Big Sellout By Kieran Fitzgerald, 2007 By Florian Opitz, 2006 DVD: 90 minutes DVD: 94 minutes 25 Page Discussion Guide Available This film provides a sobering study of the human The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández tells a frightening impact of privatization schemes pushed by international and cautionary tale about the dangers of using military financial institutions. Bongani is a self-described as domestic law enforcement — a role that the military, "electro-rebel" in Soweto, South Africa, who illegally under the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, had been restores electricity to the homes of people too poor to prohibited from taking. That changed when, in 1989, pay the incessant bills of the newly privatized provider. the George H.W. Bush administration declared drug Simon, a train driver who since his beloved British Rail trafficking a "threat to national security" and authorized was privatized, recounts the steady decline in service the deployment of thousands of troops to the U.S.- and maintenance and the sharp increase in accidents Mexican border. In 1997, during the Clinton that have followed. In the Philippines, where the administration, Esequiel Hernández became the first privatization of health care has led to an exodus of American killed by U.S. military forces on native soil nurses and doctors, Minda struggles to afford the since the 1970 Kent State shootings. Shortly afterward, kidney dialysis treatments needed to keep her son alive. the administration suspended all military operations Meanwhile, martial law is declared in Cochabamba, along the border. Nearly 10 years later, the military Bolivia as protesters fight the privatization of water. returned to the border, this time as part of the war on terror and the George W. Bush administration's effort to Borders Lifted, Voices Raised stem illegal immigration. Fronteras Borradas, Voces Alzadas 2010, 108 Minute Running Time Ballot Measure 9 Language: English, Spanish English Sub-Titles By Heather Lyn MacDonald, 2008 In October 2009, Coloradans For Immigrant Rights and DVD: 72 minutes the American Friends Service Committee invited six Winner of the Sundance Film Festival Audience immigrants and four allies to tell their stories. In three Award, this documentary chronicles the fight over days this is what they created... Oregon's State Ballot Measure 9, an amendment put forth by the conservative group Oregon Citizens’ Alliance in 1992. Intended to revoke current laws and Brick by Brick….a civil rights story prohibit the passing of future laws protecting By Bill Kavanagh, 2007 homosexuals from discrimination, Measure 9 provoked DVD: 53 minutes an explosive battle between the gay community and Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story is a one- is America perpetuating the cycle of hate and ignorance hour television documentary about a contemporary which claimed so many innocent lives? This film American battle for civil rights. It follows three documents the impact of the September 11th tragedy on families in Yonkers, New York, in the middle of a Muslims and Arabs living in America. This confrontation about the politics and law of racial documentary follows a number of immigrants and discrimination in housing and schools that challenges American families as they struggle in the heightened and changes their hometown. climate of hate, FBI and INS investigations and Brick by Brick describes how a ghetto was economic hardships that erupted in America following created through public policies. The film initially the attacks on the World Trade Center and the paints a picture of isolation for many people of color in Pentagon. In interviews with immigrants, government the city, most of whom are living in segregated representatives (including Colorado congressman Tom neighborhoods served by failing schools. The primary Tancredo) and a select group of legal and historical storytellers are local people from different experts like Noam Chomsky and James Zogby, this backgrounds, who relate their personal encounters with film reveals how Americans' fear of terrorism has housing and educational discrimination, as well as provoked the passage of reactionary policies to a wave others who experience very different opportunities of racial intolerance that has compromised civil across town. liberties and will affect immigrants and US nationals in the years to come. The disc also includes a 1 hour Bringing Down A Dictator interview with Noam Chomsky titled “On Power, By Steve York, 2001 Dissent and Racism.” DVD: 56 minutes Documents the spectacular defeat of Slobodan Caminos: The Immigrant’s Trail Milosevic in October, 2000, not by force of arms, as By Food First, 2008 many had predicted, but by an ingenious nonviolent DVD: 20 minutesStudy Guide Available strategy of honest elections and massive civil This film traces a group of U.S. and Canadian citizens disobedience. retracing the immigrant trail from El Paso, Texas to Milosevic was strengthened by patriotic fervor Oaxaca, Mexico. This documentary, based on our when NATO bombed Yugoslavia in early 1999, but a summer 2007 trip led by Food First executive director, few months later, a student movement named Otpor! Eric Holt-Giménez, reveals some of the factors that (“Resistance” in Serbian) launched a surprising drive these migrants to leave their families and risk offensive. Audaciously demanding the removal of their lives to seek work in the U.S. Hear the stories of Milosevic, they recruited where discontent was Mexican farmers who were driven off their land by strongest, in the Serbian heartland. U.S. farm subsidies and the globalization of food trade. Trained in nonviolent action and partially financed by the US and Western Europe, they forged a The Children's March unified political opposition, fought to stop vote fraud, A project of Southern Poverty Law Center, 2005 and systematically undermined police and army loyalty. DVD: 40 minutes When Milosevic refused to accept defeat at the polls, "The power to rebel. The power to resist. And the the opposition called a general strike. As normal life power to love." By May, 1963, 3,000 children in ground to a halt, Serbs by the hundreds of thousands Birmingham were in jail. They could claim the largest poured into the capital on October 5 to seize the Federal Civil Rights victory of their day. The Children's March Parliament in a dramatic triumph for democracy. tells the story of how the young people of Birmingham, Narrated by Martin Sheen, this program aired on Alabama braved fire hoses and police dogs and brought national PBS in 2002, and was honored with a George segregation to its knees. Their strategies and actions Foster Peabody award. were shaped by the power of love and the spirit of freedom. They found a way when the adults around them didn't know what to do. Their heroism Brothers and Others complements discussions about the ability of today's By Nicolas Rossier, 2002 young people to be catalysts for positive social change. DVD: 54 minutes By jailing thousands of Arabs, Muslims and South China Blue Asians without evidence or due process following 9/11, By Micha X. Peled, 2005 DVD: 86 minutes The Corporation Educational Resources Available on DVD-ROM Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott & Joel Bakan, 2003 16 Page Study Guide Available DVD: 145 minutes This film is a powerful and poignant journey into the A film about the creation of the American corporation: harsh world of sweatshop workers. Shot clandestinely, its legal organizational model, its global economic this is a deep-access account of what both China and dominance, its psychopathic tendencies, and its the international retailers don't want us to see: how the incredible ambition to influence every aspect of culture clothes we buy are actually made. It takes us inside a in its unrelenting pursuit of profit. blue-jeans factory, where Jasmine and her friends Orchid and Li Ping, are trying to survive the harsh Crossing Arizona working environment. Their lives intersect that of the By Joseph Mathew & Dan DeVivo, 2006 film's other protagonist and factory owner, Mr. Lam. DVD: 95 minutes The film brings complex issues of globalization to the “Crossing Arizona” examines the crisis through the human level by linking the power of the U.S. consumer eyes of those directly affected by it. Frustrated ranchers market to the daily lives of a Chinese factory owner and go out day after day to repair cut fences and pick up the two teenaged female factory workers. Part of a massive trash that endangers their livestock and livelihoods. internal migration from rural areas to cities, Jasmine Humanitarian groups place water stations in the desert leaves her Sichuan village to help her family with a job in an attempt to save lives. Political activists rally in a far-away factory. Filmed both in the factory and in against anti-migrant ballot initiatives and try to counter the workers' faraway village, this documentary provides rampant fear mongering. Farmers who depend on the a rare, human glimpse at China's rapid transformation illegal work force face each day with the fear that they into a free market society. may lose their workers to a border patrol sweep. And now there are the Minutemen, an armed citizen patrol Community Patrols and Corners of group taking border security into their own hands. As Resistance up-to-date as the nightly news, but far more in-depth, Raza Rights Coalition / Coalicion Pro-Derechos de la “Crossing Arizona” reveals the surprising political Raza, 2006 stances people take when immigration and border DVD: 38 minutes policy fails everyone.