Programs with the subject 'Latin-American Studies'

• A Cry For Freedom and Democracy
  In January 1994, the Mayan people of Chiapas shook the world with an uprising against the brutal conditions of life in their impoverished Mexican state.
• A Different Vision
  Experimental approaches to video by Latin Americans and U.S. Latinos.
• A Dish Of Central America
  The goal of this video is to bring to light some of the popular misconceptions that people have about Central America. It brings together experpts to help people understand the various countries that make up the region.
• American Roots
  Victor Cruz grew up in Manhattan's lower East Side; Joy Harjo, a member of the Creek Indian Nation, was raised on a reservation in the Southwest; Philip Levine grew up in a working-class Jewish neighborhood in Detroit.
• Carolyn Forche and Larry Heineman
  The Ubiquitous Front-line Larry Heinemann, whose novel, "Paco's Story" won the National Book Award, and Carolyn Forche, whose searing poems about the war in El Salvador have won her wide critical acclaim, read excerpts from their work and speak forcefully about the consequences of imperialism on the peoples of the world.
• Casa Primavera
  This documentary highlights the struggle of a successful community-based mental health program, Casa Primavera, for Latinos in Boston, Mass.
• Central America Comes To Middle America
  Using images not usually explored on U.S. television, this tape confronts the mainstream media's distortion of what's going on in Central America.
• Communication and Journalism: The Difference
  Alfonso Gumucio Dagron, the author of Making Waves, a resource book on community media, interviewed by Victoria Maldonado in the Deep Dish office. This segment is part of our new series in production Waves of Change
• Culture and Identity
  Latino writers, musicians, painters and performers seize the TV screen and remind us to listen to Latino voices to hear our own conscience. With Maria Hinojosa.
• Elvia: The Fight for Land and Liberty
  Portrait of Elvia Alvarado, a campesino leader in Honduras who dedicated her life to organizing. Produced by Laura Rodriguez and Rick Tejada Flores The video aired in 1988 on PBS as part of the VISTAS series and in 1993 as part of Deep Dish TV's Democracy in Communication Series.
• Expansion, Intervention and Migration
  Operation Bootstrap: a 1950s precursor of NAFTA forced on Puerto Rico as an "industrialization" program. And a look at an evangelical crusade in Latin America
• Export TV
  This program investigates TV Marti, the US government propaganda broadcast aimed at Cuba.
• Flying South
  In January 1991, a group consisting of two African-Americans and one African-Colombian traveled from Boston, Mass. to the Pacific Coast of Colombia, South America. This program depicts the cultural and socio/economic conditions of the natives of the region.
• Haiti's Piggy Bank
  In the wake of Haiti's catastrophic January 2010 earthquake and the "military occupation first" response of the U.S. government it is instructive to watch this 1985 documentary that recounts the efforts of Haitians to recover from the U.S. eradication of the Creole pig, the sustaining asset of the peasants. Includes narration by Edwidge Danticat, author of Farming the Bones We are presenting this film to benefit Haitian relief. Please send donations through Grassroots International
• High Tech Baby Making
  This program examines how different reproductive issues are dealt with in both industrialized and developing countries.
• Ideas and Power: Tiempo de Hibridos
  Rigoberto Menchu, Jean Franco and others look at Mexico's increasing social divisions.
• Interview with Berta Rodriguez Santos
  Berta Rodriguez Santos discusses why it is important to have popular community radio in the Isthmus region of Mexico. This is a rough cut from one of the segments of a new Deep Dish series about community media around the world.This segment is part of our new series in production Waves of Change.
• La Voz de Guaicaipuro
  The Venezuelan government has opened the broadcast spectrum to many small community stations.This segment is part of our new series in production Waves of Change.
• Latino Images
  A compilation of video looking at the expectations, realities and loss that are part of the lives of recent Latin American immigrants. Produced by Yvette Nieves and the Latino Collaborative in association with Starfish Productions (NY, NY)
• Latinos and Labor
  Dramatic and moving stories of seemingly powerless laborers, many of them immigrants, all of them working in low paying jobs, uniting to achieve remarkable contract victories in the face of corporate power and police brutality. "Si Se Puede = Yes We Can!"
• Latinos and Labor
  Two programs explore labor struggles in Puerto Rico. The first a look a Puerto Rican labor history through the eyes of retired workers. The second chronicles a victorious 1970 General Strike.
• Latinos and Labor
  The U.S.Mexican border: zone of hope, brutalization and exploitation. Does "free trade" free people or only capital? Two half hour programs explore U.S. Mexico relations on key issues.
• Let Nicaragua Speak!
  In the midst of the US aggression against Nicaragua, Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega speaks live to public access stations and solidarity groups throughout the United States.
• Nicaragua
  An analysis of mainstream media coverage of the recent national elections in Nicaragua.
• No Hay Paz (There is No Peace)
  A portrait of Salvadoran refugees living in the U.S.
• Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes
  Mexico City: home of the Nobel Prize winning poet Octavio Paz and Latin American essayist Carlos Fuentes. For both writers, Mexico City, the largest metropolitan city in the world, becomes a metaphor for all that is right and all that is wrong with contemporary society and culture.
• Radio Victoria–Sigue Siendo Victoria
  Radio Victoria is a community radio station managed by young people in the northeastern province of Cabanas in El Salvador. This short video (Parts I and II) will be included in our new series Waves of Change
• RASA FM : Perifery Voices
  Indymedia South Africa initiated a community radio project in Soweto which was eventually closed down by SABC. This is a segment from our new series in production Waves of Change
• Rebuilding Our Communities: A Vision for the Future
  Six indigenous leaders from Central and South America discuss the 500 Years Campaign, which began as indigenous people's response to the Quincentenary celebration and has developed as an ongoing dialogue among indigenous activists.
• Resistencia Latinoamericana
  A comprehensive critical analysis and re-evaluation of Latin American history by Latin Americans.
• Resistencia y Solidaridad
  Resistencia y Solidaridad examines the U.S. role in Latin America, and the work that solidarity activists in the United States have played in challenging their own government's agenda, frequently using video and film as a tool for galvanizing public opposition to U.S. policies. Part Four of DIY Media: Movement Perspectives on Critical Moments.
• Sopa De Videos
  LAVA is a unique project involving student edited tapes produced in Latin America. The tapes explore interconnections between history, politics, and culture of North, South and Central America.
• Stirring Up the Myth of the Melting Pot
  Part 5 of the Spigot for Bigot series presents different perspectives on the notion that this is a multi-cultural and pluralistic society.
• Stirring Up the Myth of the Melting Pot
  Part 5 and 6 of the Spigot for Bigot series presents different perspectives on the notion that this is a multi-cultural and pluralistic society. segment of "Stirring up the Melting Pot" focuses on racism initated and fostered in the media.
• Stone's Throw
  This program is an answer to the US sponsored Tele-Marti, which attempts to beam US programming into Cuba in violation of all international electronic transmission laws. Stone's Throw presents excerpts from game shows, music videos, telenovelas and children's programming to give a sense of the daily fare on Cuban TV.
• The Border: Where Do you Draw the Line?
  This video describes the violence and harrassment experienced in many locations around the world: Northern Ireland, Panama, Mexico and the South Bronx, illustrating the arbitraty nature of "where the line is drawn".
• The Debt Game
  This program analyzes the crisis of external debt in Latin American countries from the point of view of the debtor nations.
• The Empire Strikes Out!
  Part 3 of the Spigot for Bigot series, The Empire Strikes Out!, focuses on the white hate organizations themselves, their history, their tactics and their ideology.
• The Underground Voices of the Panamanian People
  A look at the US invasion of Panama, from the view of Panamanian citizens.
• Vibrant Voices: People of Color Speak Out
  The struggle of African-Americans and Native, Latino and Asian peoples for control of their heritage and communities in the face of acculturation and assimilation.
• Waves of Change Excerpts
  This is a short preview of the new series, Waves of Change. It features selections from the many interviews, clips and graphics which will make up the series.