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AMY GOODMAN: Juan, your book, Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America, came out in 2000. So, it’s 2011. You have completely revised it. Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle. Learn more.
HARVEST OF EMPIRE is a documentary that astutely examines the role that U.S. military and corporate intervention in Latin America played in triggering massive waves.
Harvest of Empire”: New Book Exposes Latino History in America as Obama Campaigns for Latino Vote. Guests. Juan Gonz. álezaward- winning journalist, Democracy Now! New York Daily News columnist. His updated edition of his book, Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America, will be released May 3.
This is viewer supported news. Donate. President Obama’s trip to Puerto Rico was announced at a time when he is making a concerted push to win the Latino vote in 2. Earlier this month, Obama gave a major address to a mostly Latino audience in El Paso, Texas, calling for immigration reform. Juan Gonzalez joins us to discuss the history of Latinos in the United States and how it relates to U.
S. political and military intervention in Latin America. Gonzalez, a Democracy Now!
New York Daily News columnist, has just published an updated edition of his book, Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America. Originally released in 2. Latinos from Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua and around the region. We air a few clips from a new documentary in production based on Harvest of Empire. This is a rush transcript.
Copy may not be in its final form. AMYGOODMAN: Juan, your book, Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America, came out in 2. So, it’s 2. 01. 1. You have completely revised it. Why put it out again? JUANGONZALEZ: Well, first of all, it has continued to be adopted by many colleges across the country in college courses, and my publisher felt that a lot of the data had sort of gotten outdated in terms of some of the studies that I had been citing.
But I also think that the main reason is that the Latino presence in America continues to grow at an astounding level, and most Americans still feel remarkably insecure and lack knowledge as to why this is happening. And you can see it by all the right- wing shows that are constantly stoking anti- immigrant fervor against undocumented immigrants in the country. And I think — I felt that it was necessary not only to update the figures, but to re- emphasize the enormous transformation that is occurring in the United States, that, for instance, the Census Bureau now projects that before 2. United States will be of Latino origin. And if the current trends continue, it is entirely possible that by the end of this century, by 2. United States will trace its origins not to Europe, but to Latin America.
This is an enormous transformation, when you consider that there were only a few million Latinos in the 1. And of course, this is not just happening in the United States. The reality is that there’s been an enormous transformation of the advanced countries of the world since World War II as the third world has come to the West. England doesn’t know what to do about all the Indians, the Pakistanis and the Jamaicans. France doesn’t know what to do about all the Algerians, Tunisians and Moroccans. Germany doesn’t know what to do about all the Turks.
The peoples of the colonial countries have come to the West since World War II, and they are transforming the very compositions of these nations, raising all kinds of questions about language and religion and culture. And in the United States, it’s largely been the Latin Americans. As I show, between 1. United States, whether legally or illegally, and half of them were from Latin America, so that really the thrust of the immigration situation in the United States and the growth area is among the Latinos of the southern half of the hemisphere. AMYGOODMAN: Juan, a documentary about Harvest of Empire is in the works right now. It won’t be completed for a number of months.
But I wanted to play a few of the rough cuts from the film. This is the indigenous Guatemalan activist Rigoberta Mench. Гє, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1. Guatemala’s indigenous people under the brutal U. S.- backed government.
RIGOBERTA MENCHГљ: [translated] Guatemala was unbelievable. Two hundred thousand dead that we have accounted for, 5. Eighty- three percent of the disappeared and executed were Mayas.
I left Guatemala after they burned my father alive in the embassy of Spain. They were asking for political asylum from the Spanish government. They were trying to save their lives by entering the embassy. But at that moment the Guatemalan security forces attacked the embassy.
They burned everyone alive. No one survived — not the students, no one who was there.
Is it possible that we can be safe from genocide? Can it be that we will not be victims of genocide tomorrow? I do not have any guarantees. If what exists in Guatemala is persecution, murder, killing, if what you have is insecurity, then I prefer to cross the border and go to a place with more security.
AMYGOODMAN: That was Rigoberta Menchu, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, from the forthcoming documentary, Harvest of Empire. Father Roy Bourgeois is also interviewed in the documentary, who is the founder of the group School of the Americas Watch, speaking about El Salvador in the 1. FATHERROYBOURGEOIS: I had never seen anything like El Salvador.
I was more frightened there than Vietnam. I mean, I had never seen such brutality of a military toward their people. The death squads were running wild. What was going on there was the slaughter of the innocents. It was genocide. JUANGONZALEZ: It was a war that was fought everywhere. FATHERROYBOURGEOIS: Anyone against U.
S. foreign policy or talking about land reform, they were labeled subversive, el enemigo, the enemy. AMYGOODMAN: That was Father Roy Bourgeois. This is a film that’s being made based on Harvest of Empire, just a very rough cut. How this fits into immigration, Juan? JUANGONZALEZ: Well, I think the central theme of my book is that the — you cannot understand the enormous Latino presence in the United States unless you understand America’s role in Latin America, and in fact that the Latino presence in the country is the harvest of the empire. It is the result of more than a century of domination of many of these countries.
And in fact, those countries that were most dominated by the United States are the ones that have sent the most migrants to this country. And Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Salvador, Guatemala, these are the countries that have provided the bulk of the migration from Latin America, largely many of them fleeing from the civil wars, as in the cases of Guatemala and Nicaragua and El Salvador, in which the United States government played a key role in backing one side or the other, others coming here as a result of the needs of American businesses that established migration and recruiting, actually recruited people to come here to fill jobs — that’s more so in the case of the Puerto Ricans and the Mexicans.
And so, in essence, the migration flows, the mass migration flows of Latin Americans to this country were a direct response to the needs of the empire. Most Americans are not aware of that, because most Americans don’t even think of our country as an empire. But I think that what I’ve tried to do in the book is chart how each of the different Latino groups came, what was happening in their country that forced them to leave, how did — what cities did they first arrive in, how did they establish their communities, what kind of hostility or welcome did they meet when they arrived in these various cities around the country, and basically tried to sort of like paint a picture, the human picture, of how it was that this country is now facing this enormous explosion of Latino population. AMYGOODMAN: We played the clip of Rigoberta Mench. Гє and the images of the burning of the Spanish embassy in 1. Explain its significance and how it fits into this larger picture. JUANGONZALEZ: Well, I mean, as we have said often on Democracy Now!, the United States played a key role in all of the political events that happened in Guatemala going back to 1.
CIA, through Operation Success, basically organized the overthrow of a democratically elected government, the Arbenz government, and that led to a civil war that lasted —- the worst civil war in Latin America’s history. And in the process, some people at one point tried to occupy the Spanish embassy. And the Guatemalan, the right- wing Guatemalan government attacked the embassy, burned it down, and killed many of the people inside, including relatives of Rigoberta Mench.
Гє. And - —AMYGOODMAN: Her father was killed. JUANGONZALEZ: Yes, her father was killed there. And so, you had this enormous ferment, a lot of it in response to U. S. government policies. In fact, it’s only recently that the new popular government of Guatemala has actually apologized to the Arbenz family and agreed to pay compensation to the family. And it was only a few years ago that President Clinton himself finally acknowledged the genocide that had occurred in Guatemala of the Mayans.
So that you have this long history that most Americans are not aware of. But when you ask, "Well, why are all those Guatemalans working in chicken plants in North Carolina or in other parts of the country?" or, "Why is there such a huge Guatemalan population in Houston, Texas?" it really was the people fleeing those civil wars that basically established those communities and sought refuge in the United States from the very policies that the United States government was behind. And so, you know, I try to sort of chart that in the book and show how now basically, though you have these migrants who are here in the United States, are really the main sustenance, economic sustenance, of many of their countries through the remittances they send each month or each week back to maintain members of their families back home. AMYGOODMAN: The significance of the protests of this month, May, several years ago here in the United States, the largest ever? JUANGONZALEZ: Right.
Well, as I’ve said repeatedly, I believe they are the largest series of mass protests in the history of the United States. Between March and May of 2.