[IMA] Film Screening and Panel Discussion: Resistancia y Solidaridad

Deep Dish TV Presents Part Four of DIY Media: Movement Perspectives

on Critical Moments

 

Resistancia y Solidaridad:

El Salvador, Colombia, and the U.S. Solidarity Movement

A Retrospective Film Screening & Discussion

 

April 7th, 7:00pm

Labowitz Theater of New York University

715 Broadway (at Washington Place),

New York City

 

Presented in Collaboration with WBAI's Wake Up Call, and NY CISPES,

this special community forum is a retrospective film screening and

panel discussion where filmmakers, activists and scholars will get

together to discuss the U.S. role in Latin America, and how

grassroots, solidarity organizing by U.S. activists has made a

difference in resisting those policies. We will specifically examine

how video and other popular media forms have been used as a tool of

resistance and solidarity.

 

Recent elections in El Salvador put the FMLN - the former guerilla

group and long-time opposition movement - in control of the government

after years of right wing domination, supported by Washington. In

Colombia, the indigenous and popular Minga of 2008 has sparked a

renewed call for broad-based change in a country that for years has

been dominated by repressive, militarist leaders. In both these

countries, as in other parts of the region, social movement activists

have used video technology and other alternative media to promote

their calls for change. As part of Deep Dish TV's commitment to using

media as a tool for community empowerment, panelists will discuss some

of the lessons learned over the last 20 years of resistance and

solidarity, and their efforts to resist militarism, corporate

globalization and U.S. interventionism in the hemisphere.

 

Moderator: Mario A. Murillo

Mario A. Murillo is associate professor and Chair of the Radio,

Television, Film Department of Hofstra University in New York, and the

Friday morning host of Wake Up Call on WBAI Pacifica Radio (99.5FM).

The author of "Colombia and the United States: War, Unrest and

Destabilization," he is finishing a book about the indigenous movement

in Colombia.

 

Panelists:

Greg Grandin is a professor of history at New York University, and the

author of several books on the U.S. Role in Latin America, including

"The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War," and

"Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of

Imperialism."

 

Roberto Arevalo is a Columbian-born filmmaker and the founder of

Beyond Documentary. He has produced over 20 documentaries about

youth, public health, mental health, immigrant experiences, education

and art. He is currently an artist-in-residence at Georgia State

University.

 

Victoria Maldonado is a Columbian-born independent filmmaker and human

rights activist based in New York City. She helped create the Latino

Film/Video Collaborative, and is a founding member of Columbia Media

Project. She is currently working on the Deep Dish TV series "Waves of

Change: A Survey of Global Community Media."

 

Phil Josselyn has been involved, in leadership roles, with the

Committee in Support of the People of El Salvador (CISPES) since 1982.

He recently returned from participating in an international observer

mission of the historic March 15th Salvadoran elections where the

Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) won the Presidency of

the country.

 

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the NYU Humanities

Initiative, the NYU Center for Media, Culture and History, and the

Community Learning Initiative of the Gallatin School.

 

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