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Videos in Law Library Collection
Go back to Mexico!
Produced by Galan
Productions, Inc. for Boston: WGBH Educational Foundation; distributed
by] PBS Video, c1994.
Notes: Videocassette - 57 min. Series: Frontline
(Television
program) Producer and director, Hector Galan; Correspondent,
William Langewiesche. Originally broadcast June 7, 1994.
Summary: The story of one woman's attempt illegally to
immigrate from Mexico to the
United States amidst the background of growing public opposition to
illegal immigration, particularly in California.
So goes a nation: lawyers and communities
Director, Jacob Bender; producer, director of photography, Jim
Simmons; executive producer, Joan Vermeulen; produced at Sight Effects,
Inc.; New York, N.Y.: Fordham University School of Law: New York Lawyers
for the Public Interest, c1997.
Notes: Videocassette - 30 min.
Summary:
Examines three examples of legal assistance to low-income communities in
the New York area. The Brownsville Family Health Care Center was
established in a poor area of Brooklyn after Paul J. Acinapura, of
Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A, found a way to fund it. Eddie
Bautista and Sam Sue, of New York Lawyers for the Public Interest,
provided assistance to various communities in Brooklyn to stop the
building of environmentally hazardous projects in poor neighborhoods,
based on the "fair share" provision of the New York City charter. In
Hempstead, Long Island, Jennifer Gordon, founder and executive director of
the Workplace Project, and Omar Hendriquez, a labor organizer, helped
immigrant workers and got labor laws enforced.
"Stories of Immigrant Survivors of Abuse: Remedies Under the
Violence
Against Women Act" = "Las Historias de Inmigrantes Sobrevivientes de Abuso
Domestico: Proteccion Bajo la Ley en Contra de la Violencia de las
Mujeres." Published by the Political Asylum Project
of Austin. Located in the Law Librayr's Reserve/AV
collection Call number: KF4758.P6S72001
Los trabajadores = The workers
Produced, directed, edited
by
Heather Courtney. Distributed by Heather Courtney, c2001.
Notes:
Videocassette - 48 min.
English and Spanish with English subtitles.
Winner SXSW 2001 Film Festival Audience Award.
Winner Great Plains Film Festival Humanities Award.
Summary: Los trabajadores/The workers tells the story
of immigrant day laborers,
placing their struggles and contributions in the context of the economic
development of Austin, Texas. Through the stories of two men, Ramon and
Juan, and through the controversy surrounding the relocation of a day
labor site from downtown to a residential neighborhood, the film examines
the misperceptions and contradictions inherent in America's paradoxical
history of both dependence on and abuse of immigrant labor.
The trial of Sacco & Vanzetti
Producer/writer, Mary Dore; produced
by Cinetel Productions in association with Courtroom Television Network.
New York : Courtroom Television Network, c1998.
Notes:
Videocassette - 47 min.
Series: Greatest trials of all time
SummaryExamines the Sacco-Vanzetti case involving two
Italian immigrants who were
arrested in 1920 for robbery and murder. Politics and anti-immigrant
prejudice denied them a fair trial, leading to protests across the
country.
Well-founded fear
Produced and directed by Shari
Robertson and Michael Camerini.
[New York, N.Y.] : Epidavros Project, c2000.
Notes:
Videocassette - 119 min. In English with parts spoken in various foreign
languages with English subtitles.
Summary:
Illustrates the process of seeking asylum in the United States. Presents
the side of the asylum seeker, who gets one hour to discuss his or her
case, as well as the side of the asylum officer, who gets assigned cases
at random, and has an additional 90 minutes after the interview to
research and compose the decision to grant asylum or deport the person.
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