From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: FRIDAY NIGHT VIDEOS: Around the World
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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 16:02:45 GMT

FRIDAY NIGHT VIDEOS: Around the World


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Note 13       Video on Women in South Africa      
peacenet@igc.org                                          2:10 pm  Jan 28, 1992
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From: <peacenet>
Subject: Video on Women in South Africa

/* Written  2:09 pm  Jan 28, 1992 by peacenet in cdp:pn.announcemen */
/* ---------- "Video on Women in South Africa" ---------- */
/* Written  7:49 pm  Jan 26, 1992 by dschechter in cdp:aia.samples */
/* ---------- "SOUTH AFRICA Essential Services" ---------- */

SOUTH AFRICA WOMEN"S VIDEO AVAILABLE

Globalvision hs produced a new 30 minute video called 
"Fighting for Change" reporting on the fight by South Africa's 
women for full equality. It's the revolution inside the revolution. 

For copies write: 
Southern Africa Information Foundation 
361 West Broadway 
NY NY l0013

Danny Schechter

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Note 113      'Cold Blood' Video Available        
apakabar@igc.org                                          9:29 am  Apr 12, 1992


Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting April 2-5, 1992 flyer:

New Video

From Yorkshire Television, UK
Producer: Peter Gordon
55 minutes

Cold Blood: The Massacre in East Timor

Filming of this documentary on the human rights tragedy in East
Timor began in September, 1991.  In November, a Yorkshire
Television cameraman returned to cover a Portuguese parliamentary
delegation that was to have visited under U.N. auspices, but the
delegation's investigation of the human rights situation in East
Timor was postponed indefinitely.

The cameraman, along with two American journalists and an 
Australian student, was caught in the November 12, 1991
lndonesian army attack on unarmed Timorese civilians gathered for
a memorial service outside a cemetery.  The cameraman captured the
massacre in part on film, burying the tape and returning later to
take it out of the country.

Scheduled to be shown on the Discovery Channel in April or May
1992.

Copies for educational showings:  Contact Arnold Kohen.
Phone: 202/363-1649.  Fax: 202/363-3658.

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Note 111      Videos and pro-Tibetan Propaganda   
robbieb@igc.org                                          11:25 pm  Aug 24, 1990

(Part II of III - Topgyal Arrest) The Propaganda Problem -

Police in Tibet have been showing increasing concern recently about
the growing circulation of videos relating to the Dalai Lama. Sources
in Lhasa reported last February that Tibetans will pay large amounts
of money in the capital, sometimes over 1,000 yuan, for videos of the
exiled Tibetan leader to be brought into their county; other accounts
report a continuing debate amongst Tibetans about whether it is
morally correct to charge money for re-printing nationalist or
pro-Dalai Lama documents in Tibet.

The authorities last year described the dissemination of material by
or about the Dalai Lama as a major cause of the unrest in Tibet.
According to the Chinese magazine `Hainan Bao' in August 1989,
official statistics for items seized at Tibetan border posts from 1986
to 1989 were:

products 'containing religious propaganda with splittist
content'............................................  12,782

leaflets  .............................................. 615

video tapes with Dalai Lama prayers .................... 415

titles of printed books in Tibetan language ............  40

The books were described as including the Dalai Lama's auto-biography,
`My Land and My People', a book of `Sayings of the Dalai Lama', and a
study called `The Meaning of the Flag of Tibetan Independence'. The
prayers shown on the video tapes were all said to have "a strong
political message", and a description was given of one video.

The video, shown to the Chinese press in the safety of Lhasa Police
Station, was said to be an account of the Dalai Lama's visit to
Holland in 1986. It included speeches in which "he was continuously
giving warnings to the religious population to be aware of politics
and prophesying that Tibet's destiny as an independent entity would be
fulfilled".

The `Hainan Bao' journalist commented that "according to the official
analysis, the main reason for the unrest in Tibet is the existence of
the Dalai Lama and his `Exile Government'. As I found out myself, the
number of sound tapes and video cassettes of the Dalai Lama, as well
as books and other propaganda materials, circulating thorughout the
whole of Tibet is astonishing."

He quoted a Tibetan official whom he described as "a close friend of
mine who is working on propaganda in Tibet" as saying that the exiles
spent a lot of money on their propaganda, that it had enormous
influence, and that "the Dalai Lama`s propaganda is more vivid".

Customs officials were said to believe that the illegal items are
brought in mainly by Tibetans returning from visiting relatives in
exile. The customs officers added that some materials are brought in
by "overseas Chinese", but these are usually handed over to customs
"spontaneously" by the overseas Chinese visitors. The journalist was
particularly struck by the fact that the illegal documents and tapes
were all provided to Tibetans free of charge.

The danger of carrying pro-independence or pro-Dalai Lama documents in
Tibet is illustrated by the case of Tashi Dolma, a 28 year old Tibetan
woman from Markham, a town now in the Chinese Province of Sichuan.

Tashi Dolma, who has since escaped to India, was stopped at a
checkpoint on 7th March 1988 and found to be carrying a cassette with
speeches by the Dalai Lama as well as some pro-independence leaflets.
She refused to disclose the name of the person who had supplied the
documents, and was held for interrogation at Sethog Chang prison in
Chamdo for 6 weeks.

She was then transferred to Gutsa prison in Lhasa, where she was in
solitary confinement for four months. She described a number of forms
of torture inflicted on her and others, which are routinely applied in
Tibetan prisons during or before interrogation sessions.

She also gave details of another form torture not previously recorded
in recent years. On eight occasions during the winter of 1988-89 the
Chinese authorities in Gutsa poured water onto the cement floor of her
cell and forced the prisoners to stand for 12 hours at a time with
their feet immersed in several inches of water.

In a move of appareently unintentional irony, Tahsi Dolma was also
used by the Chinese to produce propaganda for their own purposes. Just
before February 1989 a video was made of conditions in the prison, and
the inmates were given new clothes, provided with tables and chairs,
allowed to wash, and seated in front of shelves full of food. All the
food, clothes and furniture were removed immediately after the filming
was finished. According to detailed accounts supplied by the Office of
Information of the Tibetan Government-in-exile, Tashi Dolma was
released in July 1989.

Tibet Information Network/News Update/London/17 August 1990

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Note 7        Video on Eritrea/Ethiopian War      
ebecker@igc.org                                          10:47 pm  May 26, 1988

Video Screening

ERITREA: THE FORGOTTEN WAR
Washington Premier

Tuesday, June 14  12:30
At the Institute for Policy Studies, 1601 Connecticut Avenue

Inside look at the longest fought guerilla war in history 
with footage shot with both the Ethiopian Authorities and 
the Eritrean Peoples Liberation Front.  
Q & A with a member of the film crew and others.  
Distributed by-National Film Board of Canada.

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Note 65       Northern Ireland Video Program      
emcelroy@igc.org                                          6:36 pm  Dec  2, 1991

                   A CELEBRATION OF RESISTANCE
              Central New Jersey Irish Northern Aid
                (Antoin Mac Giolla Bhrighde Unit)
  invites you to a Premiere Screening of two films from Ireland


                      "The Will to Resist"

     The stunning new video made by the H-Block prisoners who
were on the blanket, the no-wash protest and the Hunger Strike of
1981 with Bobby Sands. All new material never before seen.
Witness the contest of will unfold between the cells of Long Kesh
and the Halls of Westminster as ten men died naked and alone.
Witness how the successes of the Hunger Strike continued to fuel
the Republican Movement.

        "Against Her Majesty: The Irish Underground Army"
     See the Irish Republican Army in field training, conducted
by the IRA General Headquarters Staff, for the amazing motar
attack on the British War Cabinet at #10 Downing Street. Join the
IRA on patrol in the Creggan, conducting a road block in South
Armagh.

               date: December 8, 1991
               time: 6-10pm
               place: Nugent's Tavern
                      844 Newark Ave
                      Elizabeth, NJ

                      for information call:
                  Tom Gartland  (908) 351-4522

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