Harvest of Empire The Untold Story of Latinos in America

Trailer for film:

At a time of heated and divisive debate over immigration, Onyx Films is proud to present HARVEST OF EMPIRE, a feature-length documentary that examines the direct connection between the long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America and the immigration crisis we face today.

Based on the ground-breaking book by award-winning journalist Juan González, HARVEST OF EMPIRE takes an unflinching look at the role that U.S. economic and military interests played in triggering an unprecedented wave of migration that is transforming our nation’s cultural and economic landscape.

From the wars for territorial expansion that gave the U.S. control of Puerto Rico, Cuba and more than half of Mexico, to the covert operations that imposed oppressive military regimes in the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador, HARVEST OF EMPIRE unveils a moving human story that is largely unknown to the great majority of citizens in the U.S.

Screening from September 28 through October 4th in NYC and LA.

More information at:   harvestofempiremovie.com

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For direct scenes about different Countries here are some Start Times: 4:14 Puerto Rico 11:50 Guatemala 24:20 México 37:56 Cuba 47:15 República dominicana 54:07 Nicarágua 1:06:55 El Salvador

“We are all Americans of the New World, and our most dangerous enemies are not each other, but the great wall of ignorance between us.”
Juan González, Harvest of Empire

At a time of heated and divisive debate over immigration, Onyx Films is proud to present Harvest of Empire, a feature-length documentary that reveals the direct connection between the long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America and the immigration crisis we face today.

Based on the groundbreaking book by award-winning journalist and Democracy Now! Co-host Juan González, Harvest of Empire takes an unflinching look at the role that U.S. economic and military interests played in triggering an unprecedented wave of migration that is transforming our nation’s cultural and economic landscape.

From the wars for territorial expansion that gave the U.S. control of Puerto Rico, Cuba and more than half of Mexico, to the covert operations that imposed oppressive military regimes in the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador, Harvest of Empire unveils a moving human story that is largely unknown to the great majority of citizens in the U.S.

As Juan González says at the beginning of the film “They never teach us in school that the huge Latino presence here is a direct result of our own government’s actions in Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America over many decades — actions that forced millions from that region to leave their homeland and journey north.”

Harvest of Empire provides a rare and powerful glimpse into the enormous sacrifices and rarely-noted triumphs of our nation’s growing Latino community. The film features present day immigrant stories, rarely seen archival material, as well as interviews with such respected figures as Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Rigoberta Menchú, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Junot Díaz, Mexican historian Dr. Lorenzo Meyer, journalists María Hinojosa and Geraldo Rivera, Grammy award-winning singer Luis Enrique, and poet Martín Espada.

Harvest of Empire: The Untold Story of Latinos in America
Eduardo López & Peter Getzels
Producer: Wendy Thompson-Marquez -2012-Color-90 minutes-US-English/Spanish

HARVEST OF EMPIRE is the winner of the ABCNews Sourcevideo Award for the best use of news footage as an integral component in a documentary.
The Higher Education Institution DVD is intended for use by the acquiring educational institution only. With the purchase of this DVD, Higher Education Institutions are licensed to show this DVD in classrooms and libraries. In addition, acquiring educational institutions may host non-profit, on-campus screenings to staff, faculty and registered students only.
The K-12 & Public Library DVD is intended for use by the acquiring school or public library only.

-Interview with producers Eduardo López and Wendy Thompson-Marquez:===
http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/news…

– Producer Wendy Thompson-Marquez’s article on her own immigration experience:===
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wendy-t…
Reviews
Awards

• CINE Golden Eagle Award, 2012
• Best Documentary Film, Imagen Award, 2013
• 2015 ALA Notable Videos for Adults List
• ABC News Video source Award, 2012

Producer: Wendy Thompson-Marquez -2012-Color-90 minutes-US-English/Spanish Trailer and More –

Watch Trailer ===== http://vimeo.com/48145023 –

Democracy Now! Interview with Eduardo López and Juan González======== http://www.democracynow.org/2012/9/25…
-Press Packet===== https://twn.org/catalog/guides/Harves…
-Study Guide=====https://twn.org/catalog/guides/Harves…
HARVEST OF EMPIRE is the winner of the ABCNews Sourcevideo Award for the best use of news footage as an integral component in a documentary. The Higher Education Institution DVD is intended for use by the acquiring educational institution only. With the purchase of this DVD, Higher Education Institutions are licensed to show this DVD in classrooms and libraries. In addition, acquiring educational institutions may host non-profit, on-campus screenings to staff, faculty and registered students only.

The K-12 & Public Library DVD is intended for use by the acquiring school or public library only.

-Interview with producers Eduardo López and Wendy Thompson-Marquez:=== http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/news…
– Producer Wendy Thompson-Marquez’s article on her own immigration experience:=== http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wendy-t…

Reviews Awards • CINE Golden Eagle Award, 2012 • Best Documentary Film, Imagen Award, 2013 • 2015 ALA Notable Videos for Adults List • ABC News Video source Award, 2012

See:

• Harvest of Empire: Juan González on Landmark Book, Immigration & Consequences of U.S. Imperialism
  and
• Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America: Juan Gonzalez

Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America: Juan Gonzalez

A sweeping history of the Latino experience in the United States- thoroughly revised and updated.

The first new edition in ten years of this important study of Latinos in U.S. history, Harvest of Empire spans five centuries-from the first New World colonies to the first decade of the new millennium. Latinos are now the largest minority group in the United States, and their impact on American popular culture-from food to entertainment to literature-is greater than ever. Featuring family portraits of real- life immigrant Latino pioneers, as well as accounts of the events and conditions that compelled them to leave their homelands, Harvest of Empire is required reading for anyone wishing to understand the history and legacy of this increasingly influential group.

Review

“A serious, significant contribution to understanding who the Hispanics of the United States are and where they came from.” –The New York Times Book Review

“Required reading, not simply for Latinos but for everyone.” –Kansas City Star

About the Author

Juan Gonzalez is one of this country s best-known Latino journalists. He was a staff columnist for New York s Daily News from 1987 to 2016 and has been a co-host since 1996 of Democracy Now! He is the author of Harvest of Empire, News for All the People, Fallout, and Reclaiming Gotham. Born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, he was raised in East Harlem and Brooklyn, New York.”

• Publisher‏ : ‎ Penguin Books; Revised edition (May 31, 2011)
• Language‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback‏ : ‎ 416 pages
• ISBN-10‏ : ‎ 0143119281
• ISBN-13‏ : ‎ 978-0143119289
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.6 ounces
• Dimensions‏ : ‎ 5.42 x 0.92 x 8.36 inches

See related:

• Harvest of Empire: Juan González on Landmark Book, Immigration & Consequences of U.S. Imperialism

Harvest of Empire: Juan González on Landmark Book, Immigration & Consequences of U.S. Imperialism

Jun 13, 2022

As the Summit of the Americas wrapped up in Los Angeles with President Biden announcing a plan to address migration in the Western Hemisphere that includes a series of so-called bold actions, we spend the hour with Democracy Now! co-host, professor, longtime journalist and author Juan González, who has just released the newly revised edition of his landmark 2000 book, “Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America.” González’s best-seller has been expanded to include more contemporary Lantix history, such as U.S. immigration policy under Presidents Trump and Biden, the overpolicing of non-U.S. citizens and how it connects to a history of Western colonialism in the region. While European colonization caused Latin America to be “the incubator of the American empire,” the millennial immigration apparatus has become fixated on “kicking out Latin Americans, and no one is doing anything about it,” says González. He also examines the culture and history of Latinos and discusses the history of U.S. involvement and imperialism in countries like the Dominican Republic, where many of the immigrants here in New York City hail from, and the conditions of Guatemala’s Indigenous peoples under the brutal U.S.-backed government that drove many of them to leave their country and head north in search of safety.

See book:

• Harvest of Empire The Untold Story of Latinos in America
• Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America: Juan Gonzalez

“Attempted Coup”: First Public Jan. 6 Hearing Puts Trump at Center of Plan to Overturn 2020 Election

Jun 10, 2022

The House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection held its first public hearing Thursday night, televised in primetime by all major networks except Fox News. We spend the hour featuring excerpts from the hearing, starting with Committee Chair Bennie Thompson’s opening statement, in which he argued January 6 was the “culmination of an attempted coup” by Donald Trump, comparing the insurrection to the ransacking of Washington, D.C., by British forces more than two centuries ago.

Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy: Elizabeth Popp Berman,

For decades, Democratic politicians have frustrated progressives by tinkering around the margins of policy while shying away from truly ambitious change. What happened to bold political vision on the left, and what shrunk the very horizons of possibility? In Thinking like an Economist, Elizabeth Popp Berman tells the story of how a distinctive way of thinking―an “economic style of reasoning”―became dominant in Washington between the 1960s and the 1980s and how it continues to dramatically narrow debates over public policy today.

Introduced by liberal technocrats who hoped to improve government, this way of thinking was grounded in economics but also transformed law and policy. At its core was an economic understanding of efficiency, and its advocates often found themselves allied with Republicans and in conflict with liberal Democrats who argued for rights, equality, and limits on corporate power. By the Carter administration, economic reasoning had spread throughout government policy and laws affecting poverty, healthcare, antitrust, transportation, and the environment. Fearing waste and overspending, liberals reined in their ambitions for decades to come, even as Reagan and his Republican successors argued for economic efficiency only when it helped their own goals.

A compelling account that illuminates what brought American politics to its current state, Thinking like an Economist also

offers critical lessons for the future. With the political left resurgent today, Democrats seem poised to break with the past―but doing so will require abandoning the shibboleth of economic efficiency and successfully advocating new ways of thinking about policy.

Review

“It turns out this kind of thinking ― what Berman calls ‘the economic style of reasoning’ ― has taken over not just environmental policy but the entire US policy bureaucracy, to dismal results. It’s as much something Democrats have done to themselves as anything forced by the right. One always enjoys having one’s priors validated by scholars of much greater distinction than oneself, so I was delighted to read the book.”—David Roberts, Volts

“Berman is at her best as an archeologist of ideas, digging through archives to excavate the origins of the economic style of reasoning and its takeover of federal policymaking.”—Idrees Kahloon, New Yorker

“Indispensable. Deeply researched and powerfully argued, it is easily one of the most important studies of American governance in many years.”—Simon Torracinta, Boston Review

Review

“In what is sure to become a classic, Berman unravels how economists, and their way of thinking, came to exert such a powerful influence on the institutions that shape U.S. policymaking. Her sharp analysis shows how the resulting fixation on efficiency, a single-minded focus on market-oriented solutions, and the abandonment of political claims based on universalism, rights, and equality has undermined our ability to solve major social problems.”―Pamela Herd, Georgetown University

“This book deserves to make waves. It is original, finely written, provocative, and right. Fragments of this story have been told before―but Berman has done the hard work of crafting a compelling new narrative about where some of the most crucial aspects of our modern world have come from. Thinking like an Economist deserves a wide readership, not just among sociologists, but political scientists, economists, and everyone interested in how the economic approach came to dominate American policy debate.”―Henry Farrell, Johns Hopkins University

“If you want to understand modern policy debates in economics, you need to go beyond the shopworn neoliberalism narrative and explore what economists really are thinking. Elizabeth Popp Berman’s book provides a wonderful guide for doing just that.”―David Colander, Middlebury College

“The compass by which a nation sets its public policy tells us a good deal about its values and priorities. In this remarkable book, Elizabeth Popp Berman tells the story of how, for the United States, efficiency became the North Star with the economist as navigator. Less a partisan story than one of a shift in the culture of governance, this book sheds important new light on how economic thinking has infused both our policy priorities and the mechanisms for attempting to implement them.”―Steven G. Medema, Duke University

• Publisher‏ : ‎ Princeton University Press (April 5, 2022)
• Language‏ : ‎ English
• Hardcover‏ : ‎ 344 pages
• ISBN-10‏ : ‎ 0691167389
• ISBN-13‏ : ‎ 978-0691167381
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.5 pounds
• Dimensions‏ : ‎ 6.3 x 1.4 x 9.4 inches

Are we entering a post anthropocentric era? – BBC Reel

19 May 2022|Humanity

Are we at the centre of the universe? This question is an essential theme this year at the Venice Biennale, an art show often praised for being able to capture the Zeitgeist.

The curator, Cecilia Alemani, imagines a world where humans are ‘not at the top of the pyramid’, and live in a more horizontal relationship not only with each other, but also with nature and animals, with organic and non-organic beings. Alemani is the first Italian woman to be the curator of the Biennale, arguably the most important art event in the world, and the 213 artists in the show are mostly female and gender non-conforming.

In this piece, we asked rising stars Jamian Juliano-Villani, Tau Lewis, Máret Ánne Sara and Wu Tsang, as well as revered artist Cecilia Vicuña, how they imagine a post human-centric world.

Video by Anna Bressanin
Filmed by Ilya Shnitser

Ukraine war: Global wheat prices jump after India export ban – BBC News

By Peter Hoskins
Business reporter

Published 16 May

The price of wheat has jumped on international markets after India banned the export of the staple cereal.

The benchmark wheat index rose as much as 5.9% in Chicago, the highest it has been in two months.

The export ban comes after a heatwave hit India’s wheat crops, taking domestic prices to a record high.

The cost of everything from bread and cakes to noodles and pasta has risen in recent months as wheat prices soared on world commodity markets.

India’s government said it would still allow exports backed by letters of credit that have already been issued, and to countries that request supplies “to meet their food security needs”.

Government officials also said the ban was not permanent and could be revised.

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Food-matters,

Ukraine war: WTO boss warns of global food crisis – BBC News

 

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A food crisis kicked off by the Ukraine war could last for years without intervention, the head of the World Trade Organization has said.

African countries could be hit especially hard by wheat and fertilizer shortages, WTO director general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told the BBC.

Millions of tonnes of grain are sitting in warehouses and Ukrainian ports unable to be exported due to the war.

She said that was “really sad” to see as grain prices soar.

Ukraine is a major global exporter of wheat, contributing to 9% of the global market. It also accounts for a massive 42% chunk of the global sunflower oil market, and 16% of the world’s maize.

Because of gridlock due to a Russian blockade of Black Sea ports, and Russian and Ukrainian mines along the coast, between 20 and 25 million tonnes of wheat are stuck in Ukraine while global grain prices spiral upwards.

• Ukraine calls for safe passage for grain exports
• How can Ukraine export its harvest to the world?
• Ukraine war: World Bank warns of ‘human catastrophe’ food crisis
• India wheat export ban: Why it matters to the world

Ms Okonjo-Iweala said wheat prices had risen 59% compared with last year, sunflower oil was up 30%, while maize was 23% higher.

The United Nations is leading efforts to try to establish a “grain corridor” with a Turkish naval escort for tankers leaving Odessa and other Ukrainian ports.

But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said Ukraine needs to clear mines from its Black Sea ports.

“We state daily that we’re ready to guarantee the safety of vessels leaving Ukrainian ports and heading for [Turkish waters], we’re ready to do that in cooperation with our Turkish colleagues,” he said on Wednesday.

Meanwhile Ukraine has said it needs “effective security guarantees” before it can start shipments, voicing concerns that Moscow could use the potential corridor to attack Odessa from the sea.

‘Fingers crossed’

Only two million tonnes of grain have been exported from Ukraine via train and in trucks, and Ms Okonjo-Iweala said it was “critically important to see if we can get an answer” to the problem.

UN secretary general Antonio Guterres has formed a task force looking at these issues, she said.

“He’s spent a lot of time trying to work with Russia to see if an arrangement can be made, so, we’ll keep our fingers crossed,” she said.

If an agreement can’t be made, “this is really going to be a dire situation worldwide”, Ms Okonjo-Iweala said.

She said 35 countries in Africa import food from that Black Sea region, while 22 import fertilizer.

“You can imagine what a big impact this is going to have, even just on the African continent,” she said. “I hope that we don’t go into a really severe food crisis for the next couple of years.”

She said grain can’t be exported from the region at the moment, and there is a harvest coming up in July, “with a similar quantity that will go to waste, so you can see that this will work its way through for the next year or two, and that will be really disastrous for certain parts of the world”.

She added that supply chain bottlenecks caused by the Covid pandemic and labour shortages exacerbate the issue.

In addition, she called on leaders to relax export restrictions on foodstuffs, which can worsen food price spikes.

Related:

• Is Russia exporting grain from Ukraine?
•  
• Ukraine war could cause global food crisis – UN
• Bank chief in ‘apocalyptic’ warning on food prices
• Global wheat prices jump after India export ban
• Why are prices rising so quickly?
• Ukraine calls for safe passage for grain exports

…(read more)

Food-matters,

World’s largest plant discovered in Australia – CNN

(CNN)The world’s largest livingplant has been identified in the shallow waters off the coast of Western Australia, according to scientists.

The sprawling seagrass, a marine flowering plant known as Posidonia australis, stretches for more than 112 miles (180 kilometers) in Shark Bay, a wilderness area protected as a World Heritage site, said Elizabeth Sinclair, a senior research fellow at the School of Biological Sciences and Oceans Institute at The University of Western Australia.That’s about the distance between San Diego and Los Angeles.

Meet an ‘extreme’ plant that thrives and grows faster under stress

The plant is so large because it clones itself, creating genetically identical offshoots. This process is a way of reproducing that is rare in the animal kingdom although it happens in certain environmental conditions and occurs more often among some plants, fungi and bacteria.

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The World’s Largest Plant Is a Self-Cloning Sea Grass in Australia – The New York Times

By Kate Golembiewski, May 31, 2022

In Shark Bay, off the westernmost tip of Australia, meadows of sea grass carpet the ocean floor, undulating in the current and being nibbled on by dugongs, cousins of Florida manatees. A new study revealed something unexpected about those sea grasses: Many of them are the same individual plant that has been cloning itself for about 4,500 years.

The sea grass — not to be confused with seaweed, which is an algae — is Poseidon’s ribbon weed, or Posidonia australis. Jane Edgeloe, a University of Western Australia Ph.D. candidate and an author of the paper, likens its appearance to a spring onion.

Ms. Edgeloe and her colleagues made their discovery as part of a genetic survey of Posidonia grasses in different areas of Shark Bay, where she SCUBA dived in the shallow waters and pulled up shoots ofPosidonia from 10 different meadows. On land, the researchers analyzed and compared the grasses’ DNA.

They published their results Wednesday in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. It turned out the DNA of many of those seemingly different plants was virtually identical. Elizabeth Sinclair, also of the University of Western Australia and an author of the study, recalled excitement in the lab when she realized: “It’s only one plant.”

While some of Shark Bay’s northern meadows reproduce sexually, the rest of its Posidonia clones itself by creating new shoots that branch off from its root system. Even separate meadows were genetically identical, indicating that they were once connected by now-severed roots. Based on how old the bay is and how quickly sea grasses grow, the researchers surmise that the Shark Bay clone is about 4,500 years old.

In addition to being a clone, the grass seems to be a hybrid of two species and possesses two complete sets of chromosomes, a condition called polyploidy. While polyploidy can be lethal for animal embryos, it can be harmless or even helpful in plants. However, it can result in sterility: Much of the clonal grass does not flower and can only reproduce by continuing to clone itself.

This combination of extra genes and cloning might have been the key to the grass’s survival during a period of ancient climate change: Cloning made reproduction easier because the grass did not have to bother finding a mate. The extra genes could have given the sea grass “the ability to cope with a broad range of conditions, which is a great thing in climate change,” Dr. Sinclair said.

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