Sun, September 4, 6pm – 9pm
everywhere - internet broadcast (map)
* this is not meant to promote KQED in any way.
Fruits
of War is a documentary that explores the US government's role in
encouraging the creation of Salvadoran gangs in the 80s and 90s by
waging military and police wars on people in Central America and Los
Angeles.
this is a very good documentary that can spark
discussions, lend to broader self-defense or KNOW YOUR RIGHTS curriculum
and aid in community police accountability initiatives that help
victims of racial profiling, activists and human rights advocates
understand local and federal policing tactics that unleash violence in
Black and Latin@ communities. *
KQED's description: Fruits of
War explores a devastating cycle of gang violence that has plagued El
Salvador for more than thirty years. The film follows four reformed gang
members -- Bullet, Rebel, Weazel, and Duke, who escaped to the United
States as child refugees from El Salvador's bloody civil war. They
settled in the tough east side of Los Angeles, eventually becoming
involved in street gangs.
In an effort to suppress an epidemic
of gang violence, the US began an aggressive policy of deporting
undocumented gang members with felony records. When these four men
return to El Salvador, they discover a country ravaged by war, and
facing a new wave of violence as the LA street gangs take root in their
homeland.
The Salvadoran government, with support from the US,
begins a brutal crackdown on the gangs, and these four men find
themselves in the middle of a conflict eerily similar to the civil war
-- pitting the army and police against thousands of El Salvador's
poorest residents, now members of the gangs. As they come to terms with
their two countries' violent histories, these former gang members
redirect their lives towards helping young people deal with this legacy.
[Original air date: Sun, Oct 05, 2008]
Episode #404 | Duration: 56:24 | Closed Captioned | Stereo | TVG
KQED 9
Sun, Sep 4, 2011 -- 6:00pm PST
watch here: [http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/trulyca/episode.jsp?epid=205907]
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