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 This film is a chilling testimony of the soldiers who fought beside Emiliano Zapata in the 1910 Mexican Revolution. Almost one hundred years later, these survivors speak of the failure of the Revolution, of today’s neoliberal governments, of the agrarian and ecological disaster threatening their country and of imminent civil war if the Zapatistas’ ideals continue to be ignored. This documentary includes the historic encounter between the members of the modern Zapatistas and the Zapatista veterans. Since the release of this film 8 of the veterans have since died. Spanish with English subtitles. Special presentation by the director Francesco Taboada Tabone. Don’t miss it.

 

 

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SF INDYMEDIA presents

Within recent years, the formerly bright line separating U.S. military operations from domestic police work has become increasingly blurred. From Waco, to the WTO protests, tactics once reserved for wartime combat are being used in domestic law enforcement operations with increasing frequency.

The United States has traditionally recognized a separation of the roles and jurisdictions of its police and military forces. The Posse Commitatus Act, which provides much of the legal foundation for military-police separation in America, has been severely eroded by numerous executive orders and congressional actions, opening the way for military involvement in civilian law enforcement.

During the 1980s and 90s, the Pentagon began supplying both military training and surplus military hardware to domestic law enforcement agencies. Paramilitary SWAT teams, utilizing urban combat tactics, sub-machine guns, and armored personnel carriers, now exist in 90% of American cities with a population of 50,000 or more.

In addition to providing weaponry and support, the military has also become involved in domestic law enforcement in an operational capacity.

“Urban Warrior” investigates the history of this trend as it has evolved over the last three decades, and examines case studies of militarized policing ranging from the Seattle WTO protests, to the Elian Gonzalez raid, to the SWAT team shooting of Miami resident Richard Brown.  http://www.geocities.com/urbanwarrior_northwest/film.html

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“Pagan Rhapsody”

Starring Jane Elford, Lloyd Williams, Bob Cowan, Donna Kerness, Brad Bell, John Collyer, Dave Somerset, Janine Soderhjelm, Phillip Weiner.

Since this was Jane and Lloyd’s first big acting roles, I made the music very loud so it would sweep them to stardom.  She once hurt Bob Cowan’s back by sitting on it so this time I had her laying on his stomach.  My stomach was the same as always except it contained more mocha cake than usual since that type of cake was usually around when I filmed inBrooklynHeights.  Being that the picture was made in winter, there are no outdoor scenes because it’s too cold and when the characters have to suddenly flee a tense situation, it’s too time consuming to have them put on a coat and gloves.

Originally not scheduled as a tragedy, things swiftly changed as the months made me more and more sour as I plummeted down that incinerator shaft I call my life.

-George Kuchar

1970, 16mm color/so, 23.5 minutes

“The Sunshine Sisters”

THE SUNSHINE SISTERS looks like a 1944 postcard that was shot in black and white, but was colored with garish grease pencil reds, yellows and greens.  Likewise the film sounds like the scores of at least two-dozen grade B melodramas mixed together with an eggbeater.  The results are hilarious, ludicrous, and incongruous…a love comic book of doomed women and a movie star disease is seen alternating clutching her waning heart and being taken unfair advantage of in some of the most bizarre places imaginable.

Program notes, Film Forum, New York

1972, 16mm color/s0, 36 minutes

“Blips”

An enigmatic move that’s like an enigmatic enema.

1979, 16mm b&w/so. 30 minutes