| And
the Earth Did Not Swallow Him |
(99:00
minutes) color / 99 min / E184 .M5 A731 1997 |
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Brilliantly
adapted from Tomás Rivera's acclaimed novel ... y no
se lo tragó la tierra, this is a haunting and powerful
film about a twelve-year-old Mexican-American boy's coming of
age amid the poverty and adversity he and his family face as
migrant farm workers in the 1950s. After seeing innocent workers
die in the fields, his family nearly killed by heat exhaustion,
and the atrocities committed by the couple in whose care he
is entrusted, Marcos has little faith left in the superstitions
which rule his family's life -- and is willing to make a deal
with the devil to change his destiny. |
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The
Ballad of Gregorio Cortez |
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(46:00
minutes) |
It's
1901: nearly fifty years since Texas won its independence from
Mexico. Fear and distrust have led to an atmosphere rife with
tension as two cultures live side by side-but still very much
apart. Against this uneasy backdrop, a "stunningly photographed,
haunting and lyrical Western' (The Wall Street Journal) tells
the true story of the man who reluctantly became the object
of one of the most exhaustive manhunts in U.S. history. Gregorio
Cortez, a young Mexican farmer trying to scratch out a simple
living for himself and his family in a dusty border town. But
one fateful day, after a tragic misunderstanding sparks gunfire,
Cortez finds himself on the run from the law for a capital crime.
For eleven days, across 450 miles, with a 600-man posse of Texas
Rangers at his heels, Cortez's "heart-wrenching and poignant" El Corrido de Gregorio Cortez. |
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ESCUELA.
by Hannah Weyer |
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(53:00
minutes) |
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A
poignant portrait of the struggles and triumphs of a teenage
Mexican-American farm worker, ESCUELA shares the many additional
obstacles faced by Liliana Luis during her freshman year in
high school. As Liliana navigates the difficult terrains of
adolescence, puberty and migrant life, her story opens a revealing
and personal lens through which to view the complex issues surrounding
education for migrant students and the public school system
in which they inhabit. |
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Fight
In The Fields, The: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers' Struggle
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(120:00
minutes) |
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The
story of Cesar Chavez, the charismatic founder of the United
Farmworkers Union, and the movement that touched the hearts
of millions of Americans with the grape and lettuce boycotts,
a non-violent movement that confronted conservative politicians
like Ronald Reagan and the powerful Teamsters union. A story
of hope and courage against overwhelming odds. A story of poor
people taking control of their lives! |
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Latino Communities at Risk. A report from The Sierra Club |
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The Sierra Club's report tells the stories of Latinos throughout the United States who are suffering unnecessarily. Guillermo Ruiz and Jorge Fernández are farm workers incapacitated by their exposure to toxic pesticides. Michael Vallejo, Thania Delgado, and Nicholas Jaramillo are all suffering from the asthma epidemic that plagues our nation. Zeida Santana and Maria Nolasco are worried about exposing their children to dangerous toxins like mercury and lead. And Chris Velasquez and Miguel Davila are seeing the lands and waters that support their families be destroyed. |
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Matamoros The Human Face of Globalization |
| http://www.sierraclub.org/trade/ |
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| Steve Mills . 2001 . 11 min. Narrated by Edward James Olmos. |
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" This video reveals the alarming environmental and human toll of NAFTA, the free trade agreement of the Americas, initiated by the U.S. government, on the border-town, Matamoros, Mexico. Through NAFTA , U.S. companies are encouraged to build factories in border-towns like Matamoros , escaping tough pollution control laws, labor standards, and taxes that pay for social and environmental needs. The people of Matamoros , attracted by the promise of employment, suffer low wages, inadequate housing, poor sanitation and disease, revealing the true human face of globalization."
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Golden
Cage: A Story of California's Farmworkers |
(29:00 minutes). |
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The
Golden Cage examines the impact of the new immigration law
which some say will create a new and even more exploited group
of illegal workers. This poignant portrait of exploration is
underscored by haunting songs of the 30's. |
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Migrant
Farmworkers in the Northeast: Coming Up on the Season |
(60:00
minutes) |
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This
video represents an important compilation of the voices of today's
working people as they sit in homes, fields and workplaces to
discuss their work and our perception of it. For the project,
almost fifty interviews were conducted in English and Spanish
with both workers from Mexico, Honduras, Dominican Republic,
Puerto Rico and Canada and growers in New York, New Jersey and
Maine. The various segments shown are: Apple Harvesting, Workers'
Stories, Where Does Your Food Come From?, Who Makes Money in
Agriculture?, What Do We Think About Farmworkers? |
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Migrant Labor Corridos |
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http://www.sp.utexas.edu/jrn/cwp/mlg/pagprin.html http://www.arhoolie.org/ http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/CC/lhc1.html
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The Invisible Mexicans of Deer Canyon . |
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| (73min.) |
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A film by John Carlos Frey. "The Invisible Mexicans of Deer Canyon portrays intimate details of several individual undocumented day laborers who live in sub-human conditions amongst multi-million dollar homes in San Diego , CA ."
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The
Milagro Beanfield War |
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(120:00
minutes). |
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A
film is based on the novel by John Nichols. A poor farmer, Joe
Mondragon wakes up his unchanged community in Milagro, New Mexico,
by illegally using water “owned” by developers to
irrigate a dry ground that was once his father’s beanfield.
The developers, not pleased with Mondragon’s actions began
a series of long confrontations in which authorities and town
people are involved. |
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No
Grapes: United Farm Workers |
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15:00
minutes - Spanish |
Celebrities
like Martin Sheen and Dr. Marion Moses team up with Cesar Chavez
just before his death to tell this story. In small farming communities
across California, children are dying. They are born with birth
defects: open spines, missing limbs. Etc. Children cancer is
1200 percent above the national average. The cause: the eight
million pounds of unnecessary toxic pesticides used on table
grapes each year, pesticides that corporate growers refuse to
stop using despite the rising loss of human life. The government
has turned its back of the tragedy, preferring to side with
politically-influential grape growers. Statistics, footage of
chemical sprayings and heart-breaking case studies of young
victims help communicate an urgent message. Points out how communities
near the farms and consumers are also endangered. Calls for
a grape boycott to force growers to stop poisoning farm workers.
Produced by United Farm Workers of America. |
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The
Gatekeeper- Synopsis |
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A
drama based on numerous reports and accounts of a drug enforcement
agency and USA Border Patrol on migrant struggles and civil
turmoil occurring in the Mexican-USA Border. |
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The
Grapes of Wrath |
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John
Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath tells the specific story
of the Joad family in order to illustrate the hardship and oppression
suffered by migrant laborers during the Great Depression. It
is an explicitly political tract that champions collectivist
action by the lower classes over expressions of individualist
self-interest and chastises corporate and banking elites for
shortsighted policies meant to maximize profit even while forcing
farmers into destitution and even starvation. |
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Viva
la Causa! 500 Years of Chicano History |
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(30
minutes each) - Two education videos |
PART
ONE of the video depicts Mexican Americans from their
pre-Columbian origins through Spanish colonization, the U.S.
take-over of today's Southwest I 1848, the people's resistance,
workers creating great wealth, their massive strikes, up to
World War II.
PART TWO includes the 1943 " Zoot Suit
Riots," and early efforts to fight discrimination, then
the farm workers' struggle, student protest, the Chicano Moratorium
against the Vietnam War, and new Chicano art. Today's Latino
struggles bring the video up to date. |
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What
the Future Holds for Farm Workers and Hispanics in California.
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Cesar
Chavez President of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO
Speaking at the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco November 9,
1984. |
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| César
E. Chávez. |
| http://www.colapublib.org/chavez/links.htm |
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This is a great collection of online resources, internet sites, and educational institutions honoring Cesar Chavez name and legacy. |
