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This DVD contains two 30-minute documentaries.
LAND, RAIN AND FIRE tells the story of the police attack on more than fifty thousand teachers were on strike in Oaxaca, Mexico. The attack backfired as public anger transformed the strike into an unprecedented democratic insurgency, demanding the resignation of the Governor and the creation of a new constitution.
2007, 30 minutes, color
FROZEN HAPPINESS recounts the struggle of a mother and children to gain the freedom of their husband and father. Charged with the 2006 assassination of New York-based Indy-reporter Brad Will, grassroots activist Juan Manuel Martinez endured sixteen months of imprisonment. Set against the first democratic change of government in eighty years in Oaxaca, Mexico.
2012, 30 minutes, color
Documentaries by Mariano Wainsztein, Gerardo Renique and Tami Gold
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"This film takes us from the events of May 22, 2006 to October 29, 2006 when 5000 federal troops were sent to Oaxaca City. … At dispute is the privatization of public education; foreign ownership of land; political corruption; and the gap between rich and poor; all exacerbated by NAFTA. This video is recommended for high school and adults seeking clarification of recent events in Mexico particularly Oaxaca. Mostly Spanish with English subtitles."
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"Definitely effective against Mexican political corruption."
P. Hall, Video Librarian
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"… provides on-the-ground coverage of the conflict that has heretofore been found only in bits and pieces via the Internet and analyzes the structural violence and poverty that motivates the ongoing struggle, and makes clear, with every Oaxaqueo interviewed, that the movement in Oaxaca is a struggle against neoliberalism and its tangible effects on the lives of the people, particularly since the passage of NAFTA."
Christy Thornton, NACLA
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