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February 3: RIGHTS ON THE LINE Discussion; Flagstaff, AZ.
Ray Ybarra, co-producer of the seventh annual Media That Matters Film Festival winner Rights on the Line: Vigilantes at the Border, recently spoke at an event held at Northern Arizona University in February.
Jackcentral.com contributing writer Lee Hernandez evaluated the talk on their blog. Jackcentral.com is a production of The Lumberjack student newspaper in the University’s hometown of Flagstaff, Arizona.
In his talk, Ybarra discussed the militarization of the US-Mexico border in Arizona, also the subject of his festival winning film Rights on the Line: Vigilantes at the Border. Rights on the Line exposes the ugly anti-immigrant politics that lurk behind the Minuteman Project and also illustrates the continuum between official border militarization and vigilante action. Produced in order to halt the growth of the vigilante movement, as well as prompt a broader discussion around the impact of current U.S. immigration policies, Ybarra’s film and activism has been instrumental in bringing about a major civil rights lawsuit against one of the vigilantes, and created and coordinated the Legal Observer Project during the Minutemen’s operations.
Hernandez’s article quotes Ybarra calling out to students to start taking action - “Right now we are in the Alabama of the civil rights movement,” Ybarra said. “But who is doing the sit-ins? Who is doing the freedom marches? No one. Students are the ones with the time we are the ones who need to be more radical and creating and pushing forward.”
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Published on February 3, 2008
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