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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: FRIDAY NIGHT VIDEOS: Central/Latin America
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- FRIDAY NIGHT VIDEOS: Central/Latin America
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- Note 10 RENT PANAMA iNVASiON ViDEO
- speakout@igc.org 12:06 am Mar 20, 1991
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- From the producers of the outstanding documentary
- "Cover Up: Behind the Iran-Contra Affair:
-
- The Empowerment Project's
- Documentary in Progress
-
- INVASION OF PANAMA
-
-
- is now available to rent for group showings. The video is
- excerpted from the works in progress. Additional funding
- is needed to complete the film, and the Empowerment Project
- needs your help. Your group can rent the video and sponsor
- a preview showing as both an educational and fundraising
- event. The Project will share the funds raised with the
- sponsoring group(s).
-
- For more information or to arrange video rentals, please
- contact the Southern California office of Speak Out! at:
- (619) 223-3219. Or write: Panama Video, c/o Speak Out!,
- P.O. Box 80847 San Diego, CA 92138.
-
- Description follows.
- _______________________________________
-
-
- "Big countries, with powerful military machines
- should not be permitted to invade, occupy and
- brutalize their peaceful neighbors."
-
- -- Secretary of State James Baker
- January 9, 1991, speaking about
- Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
-
- "One of the goals of the operation -- to minimize
- casualties and to minimize damage... But what you
- have to remember,...it was a war."
-
- -- Pentagon Spokesman Pete Williams
- August 1990, speaking about the
- U.S. invasion of Panama.
-
-
- Description of documentary in progress INVASION OF PANAMA:
-
- There are urgent comparisons between the U.S. invasion of
- Panama and the Persian Gulf war. _Invasion of Panama_ will
- serve as a tool for analysis of the crisis in the Persian
- Gulf.
-
- Mainstream U.S. media reports of the Panama invasion were
- grossly distorted. Most reports disregarded entirely the
- devastation and human rights violations which continue in
- Panama as the result of the U.S. military invasion. We are
- presenting a veiw of the invasion which differs widely from
- that portrayed by the U.S. media, and are showing how,
- through a calculated plan of misinformation, the media
- became not only an instrument of censorship and deception,
- but an advocate of U.S. foreign policy during and following
- the invasion.
-
- Thousands, not hundreds, of Panamanians died in the attack.
- Many were executed and almost all of the bodies were
- disposed of in violation of the Geneva Conventions. Five
- mass grave sights already have been uncovered and there are
- more. Nearly 20,000 war refugees are living in Panamanian
- refugee camps, their neighborhoods having been destroyed.
- These men, women and children live in squalor. The United
- States has neglected them and has done little to reconstruct
- their neighborhoods.
-
- Thousands of professionals, labor organizers and activists
- have lost their jobs because they participated in the
- governing of their country during the 21 year period that
- Torrijos and Noriega were in power. Hundreds have gone
- underground to escape arrest and political persecution.
-
- The film shows that the invasion, involving 26,000 U.S.
- troops and enormous fire power (including the Stealth
- fighter) was not principally designed or intended to
- realize the four officially-stated goals: to apprehend
- Noriega, to protect American lives, to protect the canal,
- and to restore democracy to Panama. Rather, the invasion's
- primary purposes were: to create an atmosphere and internal
- structure that would permit the United States to abrogate
- the Carter/Torrijos Treaty, ultimately allowing the
- military to maintain bases there after the year 2000; to
- improve George Bush's image by aggresively responding to
- the international embarrassment caused by Noriega's
- actions; and to neutralize the recent resurgance of
- Panamanian nationalism which had created problems for Bush.
-
- The invasion was used to install officially a Panamanian
- government that would publicly support U.S. objectives and
- the invasion itself. In addition, the Pentagon used the
- invasion as an opportunity to test out new weapons.
-
- The film will also explain Noriega's long standing
- intelligence relationship with the United States. Noriega
- was a key participant in an operation conducted in the
- early 1980s out of then Vice-President Bush's office,
- called Operation Black Eagle, which served to supply the
- U.S.-backed Contras via Israeli operatives, and employed
- drug traffickers to achieve its ends.
-
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-
- Funding for _Invasion in Panama_ has been provided, in
- part, by Rhino Home Video, the J. Roderick MacArthur
- Foundation, the Rex Foundation, the Peace Development Fund,
- the National Council of Churches, the Vietnam Veterans of
- America Foundation, the Funding Exchange/Paul Robeson Fund
- for Film and Video, the Vanguard Public Foundation and
- filmmaker Michael Mooer. Produced in association with
- Channel Four, London.
-
- The Empowerment Project can be reaced at:
- 1653 18th Street, Suite #3, Santa Monica, CA 90404.
- (213) 828-8807
-
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- Note 59 New Video*El Salvador*Guate*Hondur
- redclyde@gn.UUCP 9:08 pm Mar 13, 1992
-
-
- NEW VIDEO RESOURCE ON EL SALVADOR, GUATEMALA AND HONDURAS
-
- TESTIMONY
-
- The people of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras speak for themselves
-
- "a timely opportunity to witness the heroism of the Salvadoran people
- and makes the link with the daily struggle in Guatemamala and
- Honduras" - Victor Amaya, U.K. representative FMLN diplomatic
- commission
-
- "TESTIMONY" has just been completed. Filmed in February 1991, it
- illustrates that elections do not mean democracy in Central America.
- It puts the peace process in the context of the history of human
- rights abuse.
-
- n in Quiche language.)
- Running time is 30 minutes;
-
- presented in three sections, by country. There is a natural break
- half way through so that discussion can be spread over two sessions.
-
- The participants stress the effectiveness of international solidarity
- and simple actions. Their message is addressed to union, church and
- human rights activists.
-
- Amongst others it features:
-
- - Indigenous widows continue 500 years of resistance.
-
- - The doctor in a union run clinic.
-
- - The mother who searches for her disappeared son.
-
- - The priest who runs a radio station.
-
- - The journalist whose newspaper has been destroyed.
-
- - The refugees rebuilding their lives after 11 years in exile.
-
- - Representatives of union and popular organisations looking for
- solidarity in Scotland.
-
- These are the ordinary people behind the peace process whose struggle
- for daily life is not considered newsworthy. These are the people who
- will have to reconstruct their countries when peace comes.
-
- Their dignity and determination is an inspiration.
- This video let's them speak to us directly.
- They tell us we can make a difference.
-
- Price including postage & packaging: 25.00 or US$40.00
- PLEASE SPECIFY VERSION: ENGLISH/SPANISH & PAL/NTSC
-
- Make cheques payable to: Scotland El Salvador Solidarity.
- Send to and for further details contact:
- West of Scotland Central America Network
- P.O. Box 18, Glasgow G2 2UE. Scotland.
-
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-
- Note 181 el salvador peace accords video
- elrescate@igc.org 10:40 am Jun 11, 1992
-
- RThe FMLN Flies In With PeaceS
-
- A new 30 minute video - raw and exciting !
- (available in English or Spanish)
-
- A historic moment captured for you on video!
- See the events at the start of the ceasefire in El Salvador this
- year. Get a behind-the-scenes look at
- Ferman Cienfuegos...Schafik Handal...Roberto Roca...Joaquin
- Villalobos...Leonel Gonzales and many more of the leadership of
- the FMLN as they fly to San Salvador on the Mexican
- presidential jet the day before the February 1st ceasefire.
- This unique video captures -
-
- *the excitement on that historic flight, including interviews..
-
- *The triumphant crowds with bouquets and red banners at the
- airport.
-
- * The high-speed cavalcade of U.N. vehicles transporting the
- Comandancia General into San Salvador.
-
- *All sides of the conflict sitting down together at the
- inauguration
- of COPAZ, the Commission for the Consolidation of Peace,
- including highlights of VillalobosU and otherUs speeches.
-
- *The huge crowds at the Plaza Civica when the FMLN leaders
- and some of their troops celebrate the beginning of peace on
- February 1st 1992.
-
- To buy this unique and historic video make a $20 check out to
- El Rescate, mark it TvideoU and send it with your address to:
- El Rescate/Video
- 1340 South Bonnie Brae,
- Los Angeles, CA 90006
-
- [Please specify English or Spanish version]
-
- Proceeds from the sale of this remarkable video will go to El
- RescateUs community center project and material aid to El
- Salvador.
-
-
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- Note 69 NEW VIDEO ON AIDS IN CUBA
- kwald@igc.org 6:26 pm Jul 6, 1990
-
- Subject: NEW VIDEO ON AIDS IN CUBA
-
- NEW VIDEO ON AIDS IN CUBA AVAILABLE!!
-
- WORKING TITL::LIVING WITH AIDS IN CUBA"
- NEW HORIZONS VIDEO
- KAREN WALD, DAVID BEATON, IVAN AROCHA
-
- This video explores the highly controversial policy Cuba has been
- following to control the AIDS epidemic from the unique perspective
- of the people with AIDS and HIV.
-
- Karen Wald is an American journalist who has written about Cuba
- for the last 21 years and has lived there with her children as a
- foreign correspondent since 1982. She began writing about AIDS in
- Cuba in 1987, and decided to branch into video after her first
- visit to the AIDS sanitorium in Santiago de las Vegas in 1989.
-
- David Beaton is an independent video producer who works with the
- Chicago community organization "Fair Share". He has visited Cuba
- several times, and was filming interviews in Cuba in December 1989
- when Wald approached him about doing a video on AIDS.
-
- Ivan Arocha is a Cuban film editor and artist who works at the
- Cuban Film Institute ICAIC.
-
- The speakers in this documentary are the real-life patients at the
- sanitorium, their families, plus the directors of the sanitorium
- and the National Center for Sex Education.
-
- The video is still in the production stage while the producers try
- to scrape up the money for more editing-room time. You can order
- advance copies of the 40-minute video (approx. running time--
- final version may be slightly longer) and thereby help contribute
- to its completion by sending a check to
-
- David Beaton, New Horizons Video c/o All Chicago City News
- 1140 West Montrose
- Chicago, Illinois 60613
-
- Individual price $35. Institutions $50.
-
- If you have further questions you can contact David Beaton by
- telephoning at 312-489-5996, faxing 312-275-6132, or via EMail on
- PeaceNet to account jratner, attention David Beaton or Karen
- Wald.
-
-
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-
- Note 131 Video: Living w/AIDS in Cuba
- crosenberg@igc.org 3:25 pm Apr 3, 1992
-
- From: Charlie Rosenberg <crosenberg>
- Subject: Video: Living w/AIDS in Cuba
-
- Living with AIDS In Cuba
-
- A 40 minute video tape which explores Cuba's
- controversial sanitorium policy surrounding HIV
- infection and AIDS. The issues are examined through
- the experiences and testimony of doctors, patients,
- and families.
-
- M.I.T. Building 4, Room 231
- Thursday, April 9, 1992 7:00 p.m.
-
- Cambridge, Massachusetts
-
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