Category Video

Nov 18 2019

Two Webinars on Border Imperialism and the Border-Industrial Complex

Witness for Peace Southwest in partnership with the Alliance for Global Justice and No More Deaths presented two educational webinars on the current state of private profiteering on the US/ Mexico border and border imperialism. If you missed the chance to catch them live, you can watch the recording below!

More Than A Wall Webinar:

Featuring acclaimed author and journalist Todd Miller and media coordinator for No More Deaths, Paige Corich-Kleim. In this webinar Paige and Todd discuss the report More Than A Wall in order to examine the role of the world’s largest arms, security and information technology in shaping and profiting from the militarization of US borders.

Empire of Borders Webinar:

In this second webinar Todd Miller spoke on his new book Empire of Borders, about the expansion and imperialism of the US border regime, along with Nellie Jo David J.D., an activist and educator and  co-founder of the O’odham Anti-Border Collective who spoke to the ways this ongoing colonialism is playing out in the traditional Tohono O’odham lands of the US/Mexico border.

Apr 28 2011
Video

Gerardo Torres: An Insider’s Perspective on Militarization, Repression, and Privatization in Honduras

Gerardo Torres is a representative of the International Commission of the National Front of Popular Resistance of Honduras, General Secretary of the Political Organization Los Necios/Las Necias (Organización Politica Los Necios — OPLN). Torres is also a member of the Analysis Commission of the FNRP and Ideological Education of the National Front of Youth Movements in Resistance of Honduras.

Gerardo Torres spoke with Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar on April 28, 2011.

Visit the National Front’s website at: www.resistenciahonduras.net

Martina Steiner recorded this interview.

Apr 20 2011
Video

Organizing Communities with “Chavo” Romero – part 2

Part 2 of interview with Francisco “Chavo” Romero, community activist, and Tanya Cole, Witness for Peace organizer. Discuss immigrant rights and workers rights, including militarization of the border and our communities. Also discuss active organizing work.

Filmed at CAPS TV in Ventura, CA on Mar. 5, 2011.

Apr 8 2011
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Organizing Communities with “Chavo” Romero – part 1

Interview with Francisco “Chavo” Romero, community activist, and Tanya Cole, Witness for Peace organizer. Discuss immigrant rights and workers rights, including militarization of the border and our communities.

Filmed at CAPS TV in Ventura, CA on Mar. 5, 2011.

Feb 7 2011
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U.S. and Central America – part 2 – interview with Tanya Cole on Dec. 17, 2010

Part 2 of interview with Tanya Cole, Witness for Peace Southwest District organizer, and Cindy Piester of Pulse TV. Discuss the history of U.S. involvement in Central America and migration and immigration.

Feb 7 2011
Video

Tanya Cole: The Brutal Face of U.S. Latin America Policy – Then & Now

Tanya Cole, Witness for Peace Southwest District organizer, and Cindy Piester of Pulse TV discuss the ongoing brutal history of U.S. involvement in Latin America.

Refresh yourself on the CIA’s role of replacing democratically elected Latin governments after overthrowing them, and the brutal campaigns of repression that followed.

Grim history in broad strokes. An update in current ways and means of the U.S. governments continued efforts to control through violence.