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The film follows a movement of homeless people who organized to take over government housing in eight cities across three days in May, 1990....
The forces of impunity in Guatemala are roaring back with a vengeance and their closing of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala on September 3, 2019 is a stark manifestation of that. ...
We were in the holding cell behind the courtroom – Jeff, Lam Choi and I. It was tense, you could see it in Jeff’s face, the way he clenched his jaw, the way he held his head. ...
Yalitza Aparicio photoshopped and made to look whiter and thinner on the cover of ¡HOLA! magazine (left). Yalitza untouched (right). The ¡HOLA! cover has generated much controversy. By Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj The well-deserved recognition for Yalitza Aparicio, who through her performance in “Roma” shows...
Supporters of the defendants outside the courtroom at the No More Deaths trial Post by Pamela Yates, January 18, 2019 The verdict came quickly and it was harsh: Guilty. Flashback one day to the closing arguments that summed up the case. Nathaniel Walters, the US government prosecutor is blunt. “This case...
Water drop in the Sonora desert in southern Arizona Post by Pamela Yates, January 16, 2019 Oona Holcomb is 39 years old, a masters degree student in Public Health with a global perspective at St. Catherine’s University in St. Paul, Minnesota and the first defendant to testify...
Press conference by No More Deaths volunteers outside the Federal Courthouse in Tucson AZ by Pamela Yates January 15, 2019 Four of the No More Deaths/No Más Muertes defendants went on trial today in Federal Court in Tucson, Arizona charged with trespassing onto designated wilderness and littering....
An Open Letter to President Donald J. Trump and the Government of the United States of America By Irma. A. Velásquez Nimatuj [caption id="attachment_20432" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo Credit: Skylight from the film series “Defiance"[/caption] Mr. President, I am a Mayan-K'iche' woman from Western Guatemala, and I am one...
500 Years has launched into the world, with Mayan protagonists Irma Alicia Velásquez Nimatuj and Andrea Ixchíu receiving standing ovations at every stop on the festival circuit! With 5 sold out screenings at our Sundance world premiere, we saw enthusiastic crowds connecting with the film’s...
There’s a scene from our film “The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court” where Luis Moreno Ocampo, the ICC Prosecutor at the time, is giving his bi-annual report to the UN Security Council. Referring to the genocide in Darfur, he’s trying to convince...
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