CALIFORNIA NEWSREEL
produces and distributes cutting edge, social justice films that inspire, educate and engage audiences. Founded in 1968, Newsreel is the oldest non-profit, social issue documentary film center in the country, the first to marry media production and contemporary social movements.
***PBS PREMIERE***
March 27 & April 3, 10, 17
(Check your local listings)
A documentary series by California Newsreel that explores the root causes of our alarming socio-economic and racial/ethnic disparities in health-and searches for solutions.
To learn more about this new health series go to:
www.unnaturalcauses.org
www.youtube.com/unnaturalcausesdoc
Join the UNNATURAL CAUSES Campaign
2008 LIBRARY OF AFRICAN CINEMA
Films from Africa made by Africans offer restorative images and a new film language.
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AFRICAN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES
The high quality video resources in this collection are, themselves, testimony to the richness, diversity, dynamism and universality of the African American experience. They provide valuable historical, cultural, political and sociological chronicles about the people and events that have shaped America from slavery to present day.
BANISHED
tells the story of three counties that violently expelled African American families from their towns a century ago--and the descendants that return to learn a shocking history.
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CORPORATE POWER IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION
Watch clips of films on the World-wide impact of Neo-liberal Economics.MADE IN L.A.
follows the remarkable story of three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles garment sweatshops as they embark on a three-year odyssey to win basic labor protections from a mega-trendy clothing retailer.BLACK GOLD
After oil, coffee is the most actively traded commodity in the world. But for every $2 cup of coffee, a farmer receives only a few pennies.
THE BIG SELLOUT
Traveling throughout both the developing and industrialized world, we are brought face-to-face with the architects of the reigning world economic order, as well as with the people bearing the brunt of their policies.
MAQUILAPOLIS
The inspiring story of women workers in Tijuana who, though laboring for poverty wages, still stand up to transnational corporations to win severance pay and to clean up toxic waste sites.A KILLER BARGAIN
The killer bargain referred to by this documentary’s title is the availability of cheap consumer goods, imported by Western companies, whose prices don’t reflect the human and environmental costs of their production.
THE DEBT OF DICTATORS
The first film to expose the nefarious lending of billions of dollars by multinational banks and international financial institutions to brutal dictators throughout the world.
