Texans United for Families & Grassroots Leadership host this screening of "Lost in Detention," an hour-long PBS Frontline expose on the immigration detention and enforcement system. Last year, the Obama administration set new records for detaining and deporting immigrants who were inside the country illegally. The government plans to best those numbers in 2011, removing more than 400,000 people. In partnership with American University's Investigative Reporting Workshop, Frontline contributing correspondent Maria Hinojosa takes a penetrating look at Obama's vastly expanded immigration net, explores the controversial Secure Communities enforcement program and goes inside the hidden world of immigration detention in “Lost in Detention.” The screening will be followed with a discussion and call to action for a December 10th vigil outside an immigration detention center in Waco, Texas.
A 2011 documentary film by Katerina Kitidi and Aris Hatzistefanou. The documentary mainly focuses on two points: the causes of the Greek debt crisis in 2010 and possible future solutions that could be given to the problem that are not currently being considered by the government of the country.
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resulting street demonstration which brought on a police massacre. Based on the historical events the movie tells the story of a riot at the battleship Potemkin. What started as a protest strike when the crew was given rotten meat for dinner ended in a riot. The sailors raised the red flag and tried to ignite the revolution in their home port Odessa.
Anne Braden (1924-2006) was an organizer, teacher, journalist, agitator,
socialist, and most dedicated and effective fighter for human rights and
civil liberties. This is a final draft screening of a feature documentary
based on her life and ideas followed by discussion with filmmaker, Anne
Lewis. It's an opportunity for Austin folks and visitors to have input into
the film before it's locked, supported by a City of Austin cultural
contract.
Learn about the lives and trials of Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti who came to symbolize what can happen when prejudice hinders the civil liberties and the rights of immigrants.
Join us for a screening of the documentary END:CIV followed by a Q&A with the director Franklin Lopez. The film examines our culture's addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, as well as the resilience of the people hit hardest by war and repression and the heroism of those coming forward to confront the crisis head-on.
END:CIV features interviews with Paul Watson, Waziyatawin, Gord Hill, Michael Becker, Peter Gelderloos, Lierre Keith, James Howard Kunstler, Stephanie McMillan, Qwatsinas, Rod Coronado, John Zerzan and more.
In the indie comedy "The Trotsky," Leon Bronstein is not your average Montreal West high school student. For one thing, none of his peers can claim to be the reincarnation of early 20th century Soviet iconoclast and Red Army hero, Leon Trotsky. When his father sends Leon to public school as punishment for starting a hunger strike at Papa's clothing factory, Leon quickly lends new meaning to the term 'student union', determined as he is to live out his pre-ordained destiny to the fullest and change the world.
MonkeyWrench presents the 2010 documentary "Promised Land," in partnership with the award-winning documentary series P.O.V.
"Promised Land" tells the story of two bellwether legal struggles over land in today’s South Africa. With behind-the-scenes access to landless blacks, white landowners and beleaguered government functionaries, Promised Land is a gripping insider’s account of the social and human stakes in South Africa’s struggle over land. An impoverished community seeks the return of 42,000 acres of rich farmland now in the hands of white farmers and developers; in the other, an extended, middle-class black family claims 3,800 acres owned by a few white farmers.
