[IMA] TOMORROW: Resistencia y Solidaridad: Film Screening and Panel

*THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Deep Dish TV Presents

Part Four of DIY Media: Movement Perspectives on Critical Moments

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*Resistencia 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

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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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 Colombian-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 Colombian-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

CENTER FOR MEDIA, CULTURE AND HISTORY, AND THE COMMUNITY LEARNING INITIATIVE

OF NYU'S GALLATIN SCHOOL.

 

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