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THIRD WORLD COMMUNITY INFORMATION SHEET
Volume I, Number 8

April 1, 1976

Robin West is asking for a community effort in organizing a Spring conference on Third
World people and the American legal system. Some suggested topics and speakers are: Red
Nation Legal Defense, Wendy Yoshimura Fair Trial, Affirmative Action, immigration a nd
citizenship laws. If you are interested . in getting involved, contact Robin \~est, 866-6033.
Robin could a lso use help in organizing a pilgrimage to the State capitol for a cherry
blossom viewing festival in April. The Japanese usually celebrate this time by composing
Haiku while walking among the blossoming cherry tree s. Besides composing Haiku, Robin is
also interested in having a workshop on kite making so we could fly kites at the capitol.
If anyone is interested in seeing this gig come off, and is willing to help organize it,
contact Robin West, 866-6033.
The following are the remaining films of the Third World Film Series.
Wednesdays at noon in Lecture Hall 4. Please be there!!!

Films are shown

April 7
HEY CAB: A dramatization of a true experience of Black journalist Bob Teague. The
film describes some of the pragmatics of racism. A cab deliberatel y by-passes the Black
~ stranded on the rain-swept curb, another goes by within splashing distance, a third
.... ~ finally stppped by a traffic light. A cabbie doesn't want to chance the ghetto at
hight; the Black man needs a cab. Who is right? And where does it stop? Based on
Letters to a Black Boy, published by Walker and Co.
PEOPLE'S WAR : A portrait of daily life in North Viet-Nam. Shows the Vietnamese
people working together to increase production and make a better life under the daily
threat of U.S. bombs.
April 14
BLACK HISTORY: LOST, STOLEN OR STRAYED: Bill Cosby guides us through a history of the
attitudes, Black and White, that has shaped the life of the Black American. Explores the
complex feeling that Black and White peop le have for each other, discus ses Black achievements that went unrecorded in American history, and reviews the tradit io nal non-recogn ition
of Africa's influence on Western culture. Concluded by pointing out Hollywood's Negro
stereotype, deeply rooted in American cons c iousness .
April 21
HUELGA: In September, 1965, a small loosely-knit group of Mexican and Filipino-Amer ican
grape pickers bega n a walkout from their jobs demanding union recognition, the ri gh t to
collective bargaining, and a minimum wage. Thus began the famous Delano~Gr~pe Strike.
HUELGA (Spanish for Strike) is a moving histor ica l documentary about all farm workers.
April 28
THE INDIAN SPEAKS : A film about Indians in many parts of Canada who are concerned
about pre serving what is left of their own culture and restoring what is gone. It is
1e consciousness of the Indian tradition slipping a~vay, with nothing equally satisfying
or signifjcant to take its place, that this film discovers wherever it goes. One of th e
speakers is an artist who for a time lived in Toronto but returned to his re se rvAtion to
devote his efforts to his own peo ple another is a business girl in Van couver.

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SI SE PUEDE: Cesar Chavez's 24 day fast in Arizona was a non-violent response to the
passage of legislation designed to destroy the United Farm Workers Union. The film traces
Cesar's fast and the organizing campaign that grew out of it. Support for the farm worker's
struggle came from all over Arizona and throughout the world. As the fast continued, the
people began a campaign to recall the governor of Arizona. The Santa Rita Center where
Cesar fasted in the Phoenix barrio welcomed thousands of farmworkers and friends, and
supporters such as George McGovern, Mrs. Caretta King, Joan Baez and Joseph Kennedy .
As the melon workirs left the fields in solidarity, both they and Cesar were viciously attacked
by the Farm Bureau. The fast for love and justiceended at a memorial mass for Robert
Kennedy, but the farmworker's struggle goes ·on.
May 12: last films of this school year
LITTLE WHITE SALMON INDIAN SETTLEMENT: Examines aspects of Native American life, past
and present, in the Pacific Northwest, interspersing historical material with a report
from the Indian's point of view, on their current struggle for fishing rights on the
Columbia River. Although the Indians have used the river in an ecologically sound manner
for thousands of years, they are now fighting attempts by Oregon and Washington officials
to regulate their fishing rights and give economic advantages to commercial fisheries.
Aspects of Native American culture depicted include traditional fishing and foraging
methods, and colorful ceremonial dancing.
FORTY SEVEN CENTS: Documents how officials of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Indian
Claims Commission, and a lawyer representing the Pit River Indian Nation of Northern Califnia obtained from the tribe a land settkmentof 47 cents per acre that many, perhaps most,
nf its members did not want.
Relates ho~ the J.S. violated the · 1848 Treaty of Gu~dalupe
dalgo in 1853. Pit River Nation members voted in an open meeting in 1963 to reject
the government's offer of compensation; but their lawyer, wishing to end the lengthy proceedings and settle the matter, engineered a second ballot by mail that many tribal
members consid.e red highly questionable and that narrowly reversed the vote. Some who have
refused to accept settlement money are interviewed; they are more interested in having
their land and have repeatedly tried to have the case r~-opened. Former Attorney General
Ramsey Clark, Senator John Tunney of California, and other officials explain the
government's position. A timely, well researched and informative production.