Overview
Symbols of Resistance illuminates the untold stories of the Chican@ Movement with a focus on events in Colorado and New Mexico. The film engages student activists, the effect of police repression, and how issues of identity, land, and community still resonate in the Chican@ struggles of today. Through interviews with those who shaped the movement and rare historical footage, Symbols of Resistances offers a window into a dynamic moment in history and movement building. Interviews include prominent Chicana leader Priscilla Falcn, activist lawyer Francisco ""Kiko"" Martnez, Mexican Liberation organizer Ricardo Romero, former director of El Pueblo History Museum Deborah Espinosa, and veteran reporter, photographer, and newspaper editor Juan Espinosa. Closed captions and with Spanish subtitles.
Full Product Details
Author: Freedom Archives
Publisher: PM Press
Imprint: PM Press
ISBN: 9781629635040
ISBN 10: 1629635049
Pages: 75
Publication Date: 01 December 2017
Audience:
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Format: DVD
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Symbols of Resistance is a reminder that struggles for justice demand determination and commitment, and sometimes even lives. --Ron Jacobs, counterpunch.org We are indebted to the recent documentary Symbols of Resistance for bringing to life courageous student leaders in Colorado engaged in the newly formed Chicano movement for respect and justice. --Kathleen Cleaver Symbols of Resistance is an important contribution to the critical understanding of the 1960s/1970s Chicano Movement. --Dr. Carlos Munoz, Jr., author, Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement This is a brilliant project of un-forgetting the paradigm shifting Chicana/o movement of the 1960s and 1970s, essential history to be celebrated and emulated. --Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, author, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
This is a brilliant project of un-forgetting the paradigm shifting Chicana/o movement of the 1960s and 1970s, essential history to be celebrated and emulated. --Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, author, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Symbols of Resistance is an important contribution to the critical understanding of the 1960s/1970s Chicano Movement. --Dr. Carlos Munoz, Jr., author, Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement We are indebted to the recent documentary Symbols of Resistance for bringing to life courageous student leaders in Colorado engaged in the newly formed Chicano movement for respect and justice. --Kathleen Cleaver
Author Information
The Freedom Archives is a non-profit media archive located in San Francisco, dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of historical audio and video documenting progressive movements and culture from the 1960s to the present.
