VEINS OF RESISTANCE - Weaving together frontline narratives from people facing the intergenerational traumas of a CIA-backed coup, Indigenous genocides, and forced migrations, the film raises pressing questions. What happens when students in over 200 high schools vote to occupy their own schools and use them as protest camps for the semester to demand free quality education? How does it feel to take back your families' Indigenous territory from a multinational company? What does it mean to be a working mother while serving as the volunteer treasurer for a committee made up of 104 families in an urban land occupation, seeking to help each other save the money to move from their hand-built shantytowns into public housing together?
On October 25th, 2020, Chile voted in favor of rewriting the nation's Pinochet dictatorship era constitution. Veins of Resistance premiered just prior to this and takes us to the streets as social movements unite in the years leading up to this pivotal moment for Chilean and Mapuche self-determination. (110 min, Chile, 2020, Director: Joshua Tucker)
https://veinsofresistance.net/
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THE WORLD'S WORST OIL RELATED DISASTER YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF - Deep in the Amazon Rainforest of Ecuador lies the "Amazon Chernobyl", a 1,700-square-mile environmental disaster brought on by oil extraction and production. After a visit to Ecuador in 1993, human rights lawyer Steven Donziger and other attorneys brought a class-action lawsuit against Texaco (later Chevron) on behalf of over 30,000 farmers and Indigenous people from this Amazon region who were affected by this disaster. Through his personal testimony and supporting footage, Steven recounts his experience advocating on behalf of the environment and affected communities and the personal toll this work has had on his life. https://climateuprise.vice.com (12 min, Director: Gabriela Dematteis, Produced by VICE Media Group, 2020)