Resist

Mexico- migrant's stories ...

http://www.youtube.com/migranates

by anonymous on 08/03/10 | Read More

Around the globe, walls spring up to divide neighbors

Alrededor del mundo aparecen paredes para dividir vecinos
Por Bernd Debusmann, corresponsal especial
TIJUANA, Mexico, April 30 (Reuters) - What do Tijuana, Baghdad and Jerusalem have in common?
TIJUANA, México, 30 de abril (Reuters) - ¿Qué tienen en común Tijuana, Bagdad y Jerusalén?
They all have walls that divide neighbors, cause controversy and form part of an array of physical barriers around the world that dwarf the late, unlamented Iron Curtain.
Todas ellas tienen muros que dividen barrios, causan controversia y forman parte de una serie de barreras físicas en todo el mundo que hacen que la antigua y no lamentada Cortina de Hierro parezca pequeña.
There are walls, fences, trenches and berms. Some are reinforced by motion detectors, heat-sensing…

by Bernd Debusmann on 26/02/10 | Read More

Something there is that doesn't love a wall ...

I’d like to make a film for this too….
beckycoley@hotmail.com ... Reminded me of a poem I studied at school by Robert frost -

Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbour know…

by anonymous on 03/02/10 | Read More

Mexico - Transborder Immigrant Tool

FOLLOW THE GPS, ÉSE:THE TRANSBORDER IMMIGRANT TOOL HELPS MEXICANS CROSS OVER SAFELY
http://www.viceland.com/int/v16n11/htdocs/follow-the-gps-225.php
Vice magazine wrote a long article this month about Ricardo Dominguez and the b.a.n.g. lab. The article covers numerous Border Disturbance Art projects but focuses on the Transborder Immigrant Tool. We’ve been getting a lot of good feedback from this article, so thanks! It is really fantastic to see your film and we at bang.lab will work to see if we can bring to our community.
Best,
bang.lab
http://bang.calit2.net

by bang.lab on 04/12/09 | Read More

The walls of Shame

Hi,
We are two french director and have recently finished a 52’ documentary called “The walls of Shame”.
The fall of the Berlin Wall gave us hope for the end of divisions. However, 20 years later, many walls, be it of concrete, metal or wire, have been erected thoughout the world. In the U.S.A., in Israel, in Europe, and in many other parts of the world. The aim of these new walls is not to prevent people from going out, like in Berlin, but to prevent them from coming in. In our so-called global world, these walls are for us the evidence of a global crisis.
In Mexico, in Israel, in Berlin, we met those who live near these walls,…

by The Walls of Whame on 04/12/09 | Read More

Mexico - Which Way Home

Which Way Home shows the personal side of migration through the eyes of children who face harrowing dangers trying to cross the border ...
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/which-way-home/4od#3009422

by anonymous on 18/11/09 | Read More

Mexican activist fights for the rights of migrants as town is split

by mexicoreporter.com on 15/11/09 | Read More

Peru - the core values of a campesino community

I have recently finished a 23 minute film exploring the social conflict caused by mineral mining in the north of Peru. Laguna Negra is a film that explores the core values of a campesino community through the stories of two farmers, the way the fabric of this society has been threatened by large scale mining and the destructive outcome of imposing a capital intensive model of development on a society based on traditional values.  The link to see it is: http://www.vimeo.com/6942613

by Michael Watts on 28/10/09 | Read More

Mexico - The Frontier-Wall Between the United States and Mexico.

The “Anti-Immigration” Wall of the Tercera Nacion: Between Wealth and Poverty
Extract from a book “Des murs entre les hommes” (published at La Documentation française, 2007) translated by David Chuter.

The frontier between the United States and Mexico, 3,200 kilometres long, crosses the whole continent, from the Pacific Ocean on the West of California to the Gulf of Mexico, off Texas in the East. We have chosen to start our tour from San Diego, fourth largest city in California, and Tijuana, the fourth largest city in Mexico.
San Diego is a peaceful town by the sea, clean and colourful. Its extension, the town of San Isidro, is the main entry point to Tijuana, a sprawling city under constant development. Every…

by Alexandra Novosseloff & Frank Neisse on 12/10/09 | Read More

Gaza - Gazan voices demand to be heard

Time inside Gaza is like being transported back to a different age. A small area under siege, ruled by Hamas, attacked by Israel and the 1.5 million people continue to suffer. I went there to report on daily life and document a world that much of the Western media prefers to ignore or caricature. It was not what I expected. Desperate at times and often infuriating, but also a people that are exhausted of conflict and crave local and international engagement. For example, Israel deliberately targeted the educational institutions during the January conflict.

Gazan voices demand to be heard.

My following work is now available:

- An article in US magazine The Nation about the landscape of destruction in Gaza.…

by Antony Loewenstein on 09/08/09 | Read More