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Make Your Movie! Participants to Screen Shorts
When: Thursday, August 12
Where: The Screening Room, 127 East Congress
Time: 6:30 to 8:30 pm


Tucson youth have a lot to say about what is happening in their communities. From topics as diverse as SB1070 to skateboarding and drug abuse, 10 Tucson youth will screen their video shorts and participate in a discussion on local issues and filmmaking.

Levi is one of the filmmakers. He is also the son of one of the police officers suing the State of Arizona over SB1070. In his timely documentary, Levi explores how the passage of the law has affected his family and his neighborhood. On the day the law is scheduled to take affect, Levi is there with the camera to personally document the response from a personal and intimate point of view—spending the day with his dad.

Another filmmaker is also exploring issues through family ties. Kareem’s grandfather is Pinki Vargs, a baseball legend in Barrio Viejo. Using old photographs and interviews, Kareem documents his grandfather’s achievements and the discrimination he faced as one of the first Latino baseball players trying to make it into the major leagues in the United States.

Other shorts to be screened include:
Gone is a music video about feeling lonely, caged and stuck.
Obama, Lenin and Hitler seeks to dispel myths about the similarities between the three leaders put forth by the extreme right wing.
Trick Tips in an action-packed, informative and music-filled skateboarding video.
• An exploration of how the practice of Jui Jtsu Alma has spent most of her life living in Mexico, with Tucson as a second home. As she prepares to enter high school in the United States, her documentary compares both culturally and economically her life in Mexico to that in Tucson.
• A documentary that explores the hard music and sober lifestyle that is part of the Straight Edge movement.

 

Free Summer Camp for Youth
Youth are often the target of media messages, yet few know how to create effective media to tell their own story in their own words. Pan Left will be hosting a FREE summer youth camp, Make Your Movie!, this summer. Starting July 19 and running for three weeks, youth ages 11-20 can learn how to use professional equipment to make their own short video. From shot lists to editing and DVD production youth will use new tools to make their stories heard in our community. For more information and registration contact marycharlotte@panleft.org or call us at 520.792.9171. This program was made possible by a grant from Kresge Tucson Initiative and Tucson Pima Arts Council.

 

Pan Left is Movin' on Up!
The time has come for us to move on out and get a new studio for Tucson's favorite media collective. It's been a fun ride living in shared homes and a tiny guest house, but we've gotten bigger and stronger since then and the lion wants out of the cage. We're going to get a new habitat with enough space for screenings, production, performances, art, and anything else that helps wake the masses. We need to raise $10,000 to meet our goal of moving.

The timing couldn't be better. Right now in Tucson the arts are under attack. The budget crisis has hit our community hard, but we're not taking it lying down. We're ready to make our mark in a new space that shows this town that grassroots art is alive and not going anywhere. But we need your help. You know we make sure media is in the hands of the people that need it and not the people that buy it. Please donate today towards our move.

 

Special THANKS To Our Funders
Our work to date has been made possible by the invaluable support of:


And generous contributions from individual donors.

 

Media Cafe/ From the Pan Left Blog

Arpaio Cancels Sweep for July 29

From Puente via J. M. Aragon

Several arrested in Phoenix. Street outside of Wells Fargo blocked. Human chain in front of Arpaio's jail were arrested including Salvador Reza of Puente. Arpaio canceled sweep for today.

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Direct Action Disrupts Arizona Racism

I received this communication this morning with photos via email from "Freedom for Arizona."

DIRECT ACTION DISRUPTS ARIZONA RACISM!
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Partial justice is no justice at all! Despite Judge ruling to block parts of SB 1070, racial-profiling, raids, deportations and the militarization of the border will continue unchallenged. This is why today we shut down Interstate 19 (I-19)

July 29, 2010 Tucson, AZ—On the morning that SB1070 is scheduled to take effect in the state of Arizona and three days before Obama deploys 1,200 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, a group of concerned community members blocked traffic on I-19 south of Ajo Rd. in Tucson, AZ. A blockade of tires covered in tar and broken glass were placed across both southbound lanes along with a banner reading “Stop All Militarization! The Border is Illegal!†This blockade is a temporary shutdown of the very road that is used to deport people deemed “illegal†as well as a direct disruption of the flow of capital. By blocking I-19 we have halted the transportation of migrants and the profits Whack-n-hut and Corrections Corporation of Amerikkka make by these inhumane acts of separating families, communities and loved ones. This morning we interrupt the privatization of the criminalization of people of color.

The State of Arizona ruthlessly disrupts and terrorizes the lives of non-white communities on a daily basis. SB 1070 is yet another example of how migrants and people of color are criminalized. Today’s action is a declaration of resistance to the criminalization of affected communities and the militarization of indigenous land.

Neither SB 1070 nor the deployment of National Guard troops to the border do anything to address the root causes as to why people migrate. U.S. economic policies and wars have displaced and impoverished millions of people all over the world. Capital-driven policies, such as NAFTA, create poverty. These policies and laws not only consume and exploit land and people, but they also displace us from our homes, forcing us to migrate in order to survive. If policymakers were serious about stopping “illegal immigration,†they would end these capitalist exploitations and stop their military invasions abroad.

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We want an end to the militarization of indigenous land, I.C.E. raids, deportations, the attacks on ethnic studies, violence against women and queer people, the expansion of prisons and immigration detention centers, empire, the border wall and the genocide at the Arizona-Sonora border that has claimed the lives of over 153 people during the first 8 months of this fiscal year alone.

Today we interrupt the flow of Arizona’s traffic to bring attention to the following points:

* ABOLISH ALL OF SB 1070 AND OTHER ANTI-MIGRANT LAWS.
* STOP ALL MILITARIZATION. NO NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS ON INDIGENOUS LAND
* BORDERS AND THE ARIZONA GOVERNMENT ARE ILLEGITIMATE.
* NO HUMAN BEING IS ILLEGAL—THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM IS TO BLAME.
* WE WANT RESPECT AND JUSTICE FOR ALL PEOPLE.

We affirm our dignity and promote the well-being of all people. We stand for solidarity, peace, self-determination and autonomy. We assert the rights of all people everywhere to feel safe and live free of oppression and state violence.

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ACCIÓN DIRECTA INTERRUMPE EL RACISMO DE ARIZONA!

A pesar de la decisión de la Juez de bloquear componentes polémicos de la medida SB 1070, el perfil racial, las redadas, deportaciones y la militarización de la frontera continuaran sin ser desafiadas. Es por eso que hoy bloqueo la Interestatal 19 (I-19).

29 de Julio 2010 Tucson, AZ—En la mañana que la SB 1070 esta programada para entrar en vigor en el estado de Arizona y tres días antes de que Obama desplegue a 1,200 tropas de la Guardia Nacional, un grupo de miembros comunitarios bloquearon el tráfico hacia en la I-19, sur de La Calle Ajo en Tucson, AZ. Un bloqueo de llantas cubiertas con alquitrán y vidrio quebrado fueron colocadas en los dos carriles que van hacia el sur. En la carretera se ubicó un cartelón que declara “¡Alto a toda la Militarización! ¡La Frontera es Ilegal!†Este bloqueo es un paro temporal de la misma carretera que es usada para deportar a personas consideradas “ilegalesâ€, al igual que es una interrupción directa del flujo de los productos y mercancía. Al interrumpir el tráfico de la I-19 hemos logrado suspender el transporte de migrantes y las ganancias que empresas como Wackenhut y Corrections Corporation of Amerikkka ganan al cumplir actos inhumanos como separar a nuestras familias. Esta mañana nosotr@s interrumpimos la privatización de la criminalización de las comunidades de color.

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El Estado de Arizona sin piedad perturba y aterroriza a diario la vida ñde nuestras comunidades. La SB 1070 es otro ejemplo de cómo los migrantes y las personas de color somños criminalizadas. La acción de hoy es una declaración de resistencia a la criminalización de nuestras comunidades y la militarización de tierras indígenas.

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Ni la SB 1070, ni el desplegue de tropas de la Guardia Nacional hacen nada para combatir las causas de por qué la gente emigra. Las guerras y las pólizas económicas de los EE.UU. han desplazado y empobrecido a millones de personas en todo el mundo. Pólizas impulsadas por ganancias, como el Tratado de Libre Comercio, causan la pobreza. Estas políticas y leyes no sólo consumen y explotan la tierra y la gente, pero también nos desplazan de nuestros hogares, obligándonos a emigrar para sobrevivir. Si los políticos tuvieran la seriedad de frenar la "inmigración ilegal", pondrían fin a su sistema económico que empobrece al mundo y acabarían con sus invasiones militares en el extranjero.

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Queremos poner un fin a la militarización de tierras indígenas, redadas, deportaciones, los ataques a los estudios étnicos, la violencia contra las mujeres y gente gay, lesbiana, bisexual, transgenero, la expansión de las cárceles, los centros de detención, el imperio, el muro fronterizo y el genocidio en la frontera entre Arizona y Sonora, que ha cobrado la vida de más de 153 personas durante los primeros ocho meses de este año fiscal. Hoy interrumpimos el flujo del tráfico de Arizona para llamar a la atención los siguientes puntos:

* SUPRIMIR COMPLETAMENTE LA SB 1070 Y OTRAS LEYES ANTI-MIGRANTES.
* FRENAR TODO LA MILITARIZACIÓN. FUERA TROPAS DE LA FRONTERA.
* LAS FRONTERAS Y EL GOBIERNO ARIZONENSE SON ILEGITIMOS.
* NINGUN SER HUMANO ES ILEGAL—ESTE SISTEMA ECONÓMICO ES EL PROBLEMA.
* QUEREMOS RESPETO Y JUSTICIA PARA TODAS LAS PERSONAS.

Afirmamos nuestra dignidad y promovemos el bienestar de todas las personas. Estamos a favor de la solidaridad, la paz, la auto-determinación y la autonomía. Afirmamos el derecho de todos los pueblos del mundo a sentirse seguros y vivir libres de la opresión y libres de la violencia estatal.

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