ZAPA-CALIFO: Atenco Film

Hey everyone! Just wanted to try out this blog and also offer this amazing video about police brutality in Mexico. I found it intriguing. Let me know if you have ever been in a situation like that or just your thoughts on the event. Peace!

 

http://salonchingon.com/cinema/otra_canal6atenco.php?city=ny



Synopsis (from the Canal 6 de Julio website):

This video analyzes the events in San Salvador Atenco during the
first
days of May, 2006 and denounces the violation of the civilian
population’s human rights by state and federal police forces. The
documentary deconstructs the mass media’s operating methods, which
were responsible for creating a climate of fear and an information
blockade on the events in San Salvador Atenco, in the midst of an
especially delicate situation: the 2006 process of presidential
succession in Mexico.

NOTE: Much of the violence in Atenco was captured by television
cameras,
but few outside of Mexico have seen this footage. The filmmakers
present
not only the in-the-street shots of police savagely beating “anything
that moved,� but also clips of the commercial news anchors flagrantly
calling out for more repression of the popular movement from the state.
Combined with Canal 6 de Julio and Promedios’ own work investigating
the
scene in Atenco and interviewing many of the townspeople, this is a
powerful document of a turning point in Mexican history.

The film is available for download from this website as a large,
high-resolution AVI video file or broken down into three parts, in
lower-resolution Windows Media and QuickTime formats for faster
download.

According to Canal 6 de Julio and Promedios, the copying, distribution
and
use of this video is permitted for non-profit purposes, as long as full
credit is given to the filmmakers.