Two Immigration Documentaries: Gigante Despierte (Giant, Awake) and Fuerza (Forces)<\/strong><\/p>\nThe US Senate agreed to end a week-long stalemate over a comprehensive immigration plan yesterday. The Senate had deadlocked last week, not because of the many obstacles in the bill for legalization, or the attacks on legal residents, but because the bill didn’t go far enough to crack down on immigrants. Now, the Senate has agreed to re-consider the bill, just hours after President Bush endorsed a plan to speed $4.4 billion in funding to border security projects. Meanwhile the Immigration and Customs Enforcement has continued its crackdown on immigrant workers through the use of surprise workplace raids, this time at a Fresh Del Monte Produce processing plant in Portland, Oregon just three days ago. 170 employees were arrested. <\/p>\n
On this special fund drive edition of Uprising, we’ll focus on immigration, one of the most polarizing and emotionally charged political issues today. <\/p>\n
Gigante Despierta is a collection of short films on the major immigration marches in 2006 that took place in cities across the country. The collection of short films covers Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and many other cities and has been put together by Indymedia on one DVD. <\/p>\n
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Produced by students at Goshen College, Indiana, Fuerza is a documentary that compares the effects of immigration on two towns from opposite sides of the border: Goshen, Indiana, and Apan, Mexico. Many workers in Goshen have emigrated from Apan to make ends meet, and send money back home to their families. Apan, on the other hand, is a poor rural town whose only source of employment are very low wage plastics factories. Fuerza, which is a completely bilingual documentary, brings to life a crucial microcosm of the immigration debate through the lives of ordinary people, both Mexican and American. <\/p>\n
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\u00a1Ask a Mexican!<\/strong>
\nGUEST: Gustavo Arellano, award winning columnist at the OC Weekly and contributing editor at the Los Angeles Times<\/p>\nWas there ever anything you wanted to know about Mexicans, but were too politically correct to ask? For two years now, Gustavo Arellano of the OC Weekly has fielded numerous questions from readers about Mexicans in his notorious column, \u201c\u00a1Ask a Mexican!\u201d Now newly released in book form, questions posed to \u201cThe Mexican,\u201d range from the curious such as, \u201cWhat\u2019s the song La Bamba about?\u201d\u009d to the downright racist, \u201cWhat part of Illegal don\u2019t Mexicans understand?\u201d\u009d Arellano navigates the long list of inquires, which he describes as being like a queue at the check out lane of a Northgate Supermarket, with unrestrained wit, sarcasm, and research. Not everyone is in favor of Gustavo\u2019s approach however. When the alternative OC Weekly first published the column in 2004, it angered left and right wingers alike. In one recent case, an Oregon man was suspended by his supervisors for five days for showing his fellow co-worker the \u201c\u00a1Ask a Mexican!\u201d column. The man\u2019s union refused to back him and his lawyer advised him to drop the case. Regardless of what controversies may follow, questions to \u201cThe Mexican,\u201d will surely keep pouring in and Gustavo Arellano will be more than happy to answer them. <\/p>\n
Thank you Gifts: <\/p>\n\u00a1Ask a Mexican! – Book – $50
\nGigante Despierte (Giant, Awake) – DVD – $50
\nFuerza (Forces) – DVD – $50
\nBest of Uprising – MP3 CD – $35
\nUprising T-shirts – $60
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Two Immigration Documentaries: Gigante Despierte (Giant, Awake) and Fuerza (Forces)<\/strong><\/p>\n