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Showing videos filed under: apartheid
S'bu Zikode: Organizing South Africa's Shack Dwellers
November 20, 2010"The power of the poor starts when we as the poor recognise our own humanity," wrote S'bu Zikode, President of Abahlali baseMjondolo, the South African Shackdwellers’ Movement. Years after the end of apartheid, poor South Africans still struggle under a system that has yet to fulfill the promises it made to the people: redistribution of land has stopped, and the attention of the world subsided as the World Cup ended.Yoruba Richen: Promised Land
July 3, 2010Yoruba Richen made the film, “Promised Land,” to explore the black, the white, and the shades of gray of post apartheid tensions. The film follows the Mekgareng, and impoverished tribe, removed from their land forty years ago as they try to reclaim their land from wealthy, white farmers and developers. The land issue becomes a “ticking time bomb,” posing an ever-present threat to volatile post-apartheid South Africa.Anyone But Me, South Africa's Promised Land, and Courtney Young
July 2, 2010Anyone But Me is a hit teen show, viewed over 4.5 million times in its first two seasons. That's pretty impressive for a show that is only available on the Web. The drama, which was financed for two seasons by a private investor, was created by Susan Miller and Tina Cesa Ward to do something different, and with few models for a successful Web TV show to follow, they have had to chart their own course.Ellen Bravo and Sylvia Herrera: Feminists Against Apartheid
May 21, 2010America is the land of the free and the home of the brave that welcomes people of all creeds and colors and promotes family values, right? Nope. Think again. Ellen Bravo of the Multi State Working Families Consortium joins us in studio and Sylvia Herrera, organizer with Puente Arizona joins us via Skype from Arizona to discuss how just the atmosphere of SB1070 not only endorses racism and apartheid, but is tearing families of suspected illegal immigrants apart.Got Docs: We Want What's Ours
January 22, 2010In South Africa during the years of colonialism and apartheid, land was systematically taken from Africans and given to the white minority population. 16 years later, only 5 percent of that land has been redistributed. In this week's Got Docs segment, we look at a film in progress by Bernadette Atuahene, Sifuna Okwethu, which translates to "We Want What's Ours." The film looks at the difficulties of reclaiming stolen land under the continuing neoliberal control. The filmmakers are looking for support to finish the movie, and you can help them out at their website.Haiti and New Orleans, Raj Patel and We Want What's Ours
January 21, 2010The comparisons between the earthquake in Haiti and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans have come fast and furious, but often from people who've watched both disasters through the clean-cut white lens of Anderson Cooper broadcasts. Meanwhile, people in Haiti--and those in the Gulf Coast still struggling four years later--need more than blame and comparisons. They need real solutions.
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