Todos Somos Marcos
Public access TV show produced in the late 90s. Inspired by the Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas, it also covered local activists who shared Zapatista goals.
Acteal Massacre • Subcomandante Elisa • 1997 Elections • Don White • Civil Disobedience • Roberto Flores • Michael Novick • Javier Elorriaga • Paula Solomon • Ward Valley • Marc Cooper • Bernie Eisenberg • Maria Darlington • Kathryn Dowling • Democracy in Burma • Gary Webb • Greenpeace Action • Rosario Ibarra • US Dissidents Visit Nixon Shrine • Intercambio des Palabras • Amando Avendaño • Donald Leeper
Acteal Massacre
Press conference and demonstrations about December 22, 1997 massacre of 45 demonstrators in Acteal, Mexico. A compilation of two shows that were perhaps better left separate. In the second show, Zack de la Rocha and Blase Bonpane speak.
See also Acteal massacre, Wikipedia
Subcomandante Elisa
in Highland Park
Opening music – Todos Somos Ramona by Los Murcialogos. Talk by Subcomandante Elisa. Closing poem by Zack de la Rocha.
Video by Bruce Lohmann
HLP Report
1997 Elections in Mexico City and Chiapas
Interview with Don White
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CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE in the NORTH WOODS
Demonstrations and actions for the preservation of the Headwaters Redwood Forest. Ann Archy singing Dancing on the Ruins of Multinational Corportions
Video by Robb Rossetti
See also: HATE CRIMES IN FRESHWATER, HUMBOLDT COUNTY
by Adam Miller
Roberto Flores
talks about his year as a Fulbright scholar in Chiapas.
Interview with Michael Novick
Javier Elorriaga
Frente Zapatista de Liberación
Interesting interview, bad sound quality
Video by Clifford Mosby
See reporting by Elissa Rashkin on Javier’s imprisonment and release:
Paula Solomon
Vinceremos, Coalition in Solidarity with Cuba
Video by Bruce Lohmann
WARD VALLEY
Occupation by the Colorado River Native Nations Alliance against the low-level nuclear waste dump unnder consideration by the Bureau of Land Management.
Marc Cooper
On the media. Interview with thoughtful journalist Marc Cooper (The Nation, KPFK) on the media.
Bernie Eisenberg
Emergency Delegation to Acteal
Maria Darlington, Expulsado
May 1998
Chiapas observer expelled by Mexican
Kathryn Dowling
Environmental Toxologist, Revolutionary Tourist
Reporting for the Humanitarian Law Project on health and sanitation concerns in the refugee communities near Acteal.
Democracy Movement in Burma
1998 interview with Kevin Rudiger and Pye Nyein about the democracy movement in Burma.
“Use your liberty to promote ours.”
Gary Webb, Dark Alliance
In August 1996, The San Jose Mercury News published a report by Gary Webb about how the CIA worked with the Contras to bring crack to South Central LA.
Greenpeace Action
October 1998
Activists board a ship in LA Harbor to prevent unloading of newsprint made from old-growth forest,
Rosario Ibarra in Los Angeles
Jan. 23, 1999
with Don White, Roberto Flores, Rosa Martha, Quetzal and more. Closing song: “Todos Somos Ramona.”
US Dissidents Visit Nixon Shriine
Discussion with Don White at Nixon Library and Birthplace
Intercambio de Palabras
Visit with Zapatista at border. Discussion with Peter Brown, kicked out of Mexico by government while building schools in Zapatista communities.
Amando Avendaño and Rev. Philip Wheaton
NAFTA in Chiapas; the Victimization and Resistance of the Indian People
Donald Leeper
Misuse of Psychiatric Drugs Is a Human Rights Violation