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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: FRIDAY NIGHT VIDEOS: Around the World
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- FRIDAY NIGHT VIDEOS: Around the World
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- Note 13 Video on Women in South Africa
- peacenet@igc.org 2:10 pm Jan 28, 1992
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- Subject: Video on Women in South Africa
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- /* Written 2:09 pm Jan 28, 1992 by peacenet in cdp:pn.announcemen */
- /* ---------- "Video on Women in South Africa" ---------- */
- /* Written 7:49 pm Jan 26, 1992 by dschechter in cdp:aia.samples */
- /* ---------- "SOUTH AFRICA Essential Services" ---------- */
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- SOUTH AFRICA WOMEN"S VIDEO AVAILABLE
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- Globalvision hs produced a new 30 minute video called
- "Fighting for Change" reporting on the fight by South Africa's
- women for full equality. It's the revolution inside the revolution.
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- For copies write:
- Southern Africa Information Foundation
- 361 West Broadway
- NY NY l0013
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- Danny Schechter
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- Note 113 'Cold Blood' Video Available
- apakabar@igc.org 9:29 am Apr 12, 1992
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- Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting April 2-5, 1992 flyer:
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- New Video
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- From Yorkshire Television, UK
- Producer: Peter Gordon
- 55 minutes
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- Cold Blood: The Massacre in East Timor
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- Filming of this documentary on the human rights tragedy in East
- Timor began in September, 1991. In November, a Yorkshire
- Television cameraman returned to cover a Portuguese parliamentary
- delegation that was to have visited under U.N. auspices, but the
- delegation's investigation of the human rights situation in East
- Timor was postponed indefinitely.
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- The cameraman, along with two American journalists and an
- Australian student, was caught in the November 12, 1991
- lndonesian army attack on unarmed Timorese civilians gathered for
- a memorial service outside a cemetery. The cameraman captured the
- massacre in part on film, burying the tape and returning later to
- take it out of the country.
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- Scheduled to be shown on the Discovery Channel in April or May
- 1992.
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- Copies for educational showings: Contact Arnold Kohen.
- Phone: 202/363-1649. Fax: 202/363-3658.
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- Note 111 Videos and pro-Tibetan Propaganda
- robbieb@igc.org 11:25 pm Aug 24, 1990
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- (Part II of III - Topgyal Arrest) The Propaganda Problem -
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- Police in Tibet have been showing increasing concern recently about
- the growing circulation of videos relating to the Dalai Lama. Sources
- in Lhasa reported last February that Tibetans will pay large amounts
- of money in the capital, sometimes over 1,000 yuan, for videos of the
- exiled Tibetan leader to be brought into their county; other accounts
- report a continuing debate amongst Tibetans about whether it is
- morally correct to charge money for re-printing nationalist or
- pro-Dalai Lama documents in Tibet.
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- The authorities last year described the dissemination of material by
- or about the Dalai Lama as a major cause of the unrest in Tibet.
- According to the Chinese magazine `Hainan Bao' in August 1989,
- official statistics for items seized at Tibetan border posts from 1986
- to 1989 were:
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- products 'containing religious propaganda with splittist
- content'............................................ 12,782
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- leaflets .............................................. 615
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- video tapes with Dalai Lama prayers .................... 415
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- titles of printed books in Tibetan language ............ 40
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- The books were described as including the Dalai Lama's auto-biography,
- `My Land and My People', a book of `Sayings of the Dalai Lama', and a
- study called `The Meaning of the Flag of Tibetan Independence'. The
- prayers shown on the video tapes were all said to have "a strong
- political message", and a description was given of one video.
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- The video, shown to the Chinese press in the safety of Lhasa Police
- Station, was said to be an account of the Dalai Lama's visit to
- Holland in 1986. It included speeches in which "he was continuously
- giving warnings to the religious population to be aware of politics
- and prophesying that Tibet's destiny as an independent entity would be
- fulfilled".
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- The `Hainan Bao' journalist commented that "according to the official
- analysis, the main reason for the unrest in Tibet is the existence of
- the Dalai Lama and his `Exile Government'. As I found out myself, the
- number of sound tapes and video cassettes of the Dalai Lama, as well
- as books and other propaganda materials, circulating thorughout the
- whole of Tibet is astonishing."
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- He quoted a Tibetan official whom he described as "a close friend of
- mine who is working on propaganda in Tibet" as saying that the exiles
- spent a lot of money on their propaganda, that it had enormous
- influence, and that "the Dalai Lama`s propaganda is more vivid".
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- Customs officials were said to believe that the illegal items are
- brought in mainly by Tibetans returning from visiting relatives in
- exile. The customs officers added that some materials are brought in
- by "overseas Chinese", but these are usually handed over to customs
- "spontaneously" by the overseas Chinese visitors. The journalist was
- particularly struck by the fact that the illegal documents and tapes
- were all provided to Tibetans free of charge.
-
- The danger of carrying pro-independence or pro-Dalai Lama documents in
- Tibet is illustrated by the case of Tashi Dolma, a 28 year old Tibetan
- woman from Markham, a town now in the Chinese Province of Sichuan.
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- Tashi Dolma, who has since escaped to India, was stopped at a
- checkpoint on 7th March 1988 and found to be carrying a cassette with
- speeches by the Dalai Lama as well as some pro-independence leaflets.
- She refused to disclose the name of the person who had supplied the
- documents, and was held for interrogation at Sethog Chang prison in
- Chamdo for 6 weeks.
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- She was then transferred to Gutsa prison in Lhasa, where she was in
- solitary confinement for four months. She described a number of forms
- of torture inflicted on her and others, which are routinely applied in
- Tibetan prisons during or before interrogation sessions.
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- She also gave details of another form torture not previously recorded
- in recent years. On eight occasions during the winter of 1988-89 the
- Chinese authorities in Gutsa poured water onto the cement floor of her
- cell and forced the prisoners to stand for 12 hours at a time with
- their feet immersed in several inches of water.
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- In a move of appareently unintentional irony, Tahsi Dolma was also
- used by the Chinese to produce propaganda for their own purposes. Just
- before February 1989 a video was made of conditions in the prison, and
- the inmates were given new clothes, provided with tables and chairs,
- allowed to wash, and seated in front of shelves full of food. All the
- food, clothes and furniture were removed immediately after the filming
- was finished. According to detailed accounts supplied by the Office of
- Information of the Tibetan Government-in-exile, Tashi Dolma was
- released in July 1989.
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- Tibet Information Network/News Update/London/17 August 1990
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- Note 7 Video on Eritrea/Ethiopian War
- ebecker@igc.org 10:47 pm May 26, 1988
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- Video Screening
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- ERITREA: THE FORGOTTEN WAR
- Washington Premier
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- Tuesday, June 14 12:30
- At the Institute for Policy Studies, 1601 Connecticut Avenue
-
- Inside look at the longest fought guerilla war in history
- with footage shot with both the Ethiopian Authorities and
- the Eritrean Peoples Liberation Front.
- Q & A with a member of the film crew and others.
- Distributed by-National Film Board of Canada.
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- Note 65 Northern Ireland Video Program
- emcelroy@igc.org 6:36 pm Dec 2, 1991
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- A CELEBRATION OF RESISTANCE
- Central New Jersey Irish Northern Aid
- (Antoin Mac Giolla Bhrighde Unit)
- invites you to a Premiere Screening of two films from Ireland
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- "The Will to Resist"
-
- The stunning new video made by the H-Block prisoners who
- were on the blanket, the no-wash protest and the Hunger Strike of
- 1981 with Bobby Sands. All new material never before seen.
- Witness the contest of will unfold between the cells of Long Kesh
- and the Halls of Westminster as ten men died naked and alone.
- Witness how the successes of the Hunger Strike continued to fuel
- the Republican Movement.
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- "Against Her Majesty: The Irish Underground Army"
- See the Irish Republican Army in field training, conducted
- by the IRA General Headquarters Staff, for the amazing motar
- attack on the British War Cabinet at #10 Downing Street. Join the
- IRA on patrol in the Creggan, conducting a road block in South
- Armagh.
-
- date: December 8, 1991
- time: 6-10pm
- place: Nugent's Tavern
- 844 Newark Ave
- Elizabeth, NJ
-
- for information call:
- Tom Gartland (908) 351-4522
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