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Saul Landau
Saul Landau, an internationally-known scholar, author, commentator, and filmmaker, is the Director of Digital Media Programs at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He is known for his work on foreign and domestic policy issues, Native American and South American cultures, and science and technology. Landau's most widely praised achievements are the over forty films he has produced on social, political and historical issues, and worldwide human rights, for which he won the Letelier-Moffitt Human rights Award, the George Polk Award for Investigative Reporting, and the First Amendment Award, as well as an Emmy for "Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang." Landau has written over ten books, short stories and poems. He received an Edgar Allen Poe Award for Assassination on Embassy Row, a report on the 1976 murders of Chilean Ambassador Orlando Letelier and his colleague, Ronni Moffitt.
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
April 2, 2018
The late journalist Saul Landau once posited that the difference between revolutionaries and progressives is that revolutionaries tell you exactly what they want, while progressives tell you exactly what you want. I've just outlined a credible progressive option. Next time around I'll talk about how the rest of usÃâà...
Press Herald
December 27, 2017
Others affiliated with the institute included 1972 Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern, writer and civil rights activist Roger Wilkins, documentary filmmaker Saul Landau, writer Barbara Ehrenreich and poet Ethelbert Miller. Raskin and the institute were sometimes under surveillance by theÃâà...
Common Dreams
December 22, 2017
By my count, I get 13 more holidays before the sea threatens to swallow my family's home. by. Victoria Borneman. Tweet. Share. Share. Share. Pin. Mail. Share. 10 Comments. Waves and rushing water flows out of the Miami River to flood a walkway as Hurricane Irma passed through Miami earlier this year.
Aljazeera.com
October 9, 2017
Writing in the Washington Post in 1997, documentary filmmaker Saul Landau described Guevara as a "tough disciplinarian who impassively dispatched traitors [but] also refused to let enemy wounded go untreated" - a man who built hospitals and schoolrooms, whose "love for the unknown masses" droveÃâà...
WKBN.com
July 16, 2017
The publicist for Oscar-winning actor Martin Landau says he has died following short hospitalization. He was 89. (AP). LOS ANGELES (AP) – A publicist for Martin Landau says the Oscar-winning actor and star of the “Mission: Impossible” TV series has died. Dick Guttman said Landau died Saturday ofÃâà...
UNM Newsroom
June 22, 2017
She has field produced films like Saul Landau's Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up?, Eugene Corr's From Ghost Town to Havana, served on the production crew of Gay Cuba; and subtitled Stealing America by Dorothy Fadiman, Jaime Kibben's The Greening of Cuba, and Out and Refusenicks by SonjaÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
May 30, 2017
"For some of Panama's poor, even the flawed Noriega stood as a nationalist symbol," Saul Landau, a California-based scholar and filmmaker, wrote in The Times in 2001. "But bereft of the charisma or character to become a true national leader like Torrijos, … Noriega remained an almost caricaturedÃâà...
Democracy Now
December 25, 2014
award-winning journalist, filmmaker, author, professor, who has made more than 45 films and written 14 books, many about Cuba. His latest film is Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up, about U.S. support for violent anti-Castro militants.
The Guardian
September 16, 2013
In 1970, New York's Fifth Avenue Cinema was bombed and the Haymarket theatre in Los Angeles was burned down in order to prevent a certain movie from being screened. The inflammatory film was Fidel, a documentary directed by Saul Landau, who has died aged 77 of bladder cancer. Fidel, the causeÃâà...
New York Times
September 11, 2013
Saul Landau, a determinedly leftist documentary filmmaker and writer whose passion for asking what he called “the most intrusive questions” yielded penetrating cinematic profiles of leaders like Fidel Castro and Salvador Allende, died on Monday at his home in Alameda, Calif. He was 77. The cause wasÃâà...
New York Times
September 11, 2013
Saul Landau, a determinedly leftist documentary filmmaker and writer whose passion for asking what he called “the most intrusive questions” yielded penetrating cinematic profiles of leaders like Fidel Castro and Salvador Allende, died on Monday at his home in Alameda, Calif. He was 77. The cause wasÃâà...
CounterPunch
January 29, 2013
The time has come and almost gone for Washington to repair its broken relations with Cuba. For 53 years the White House has maintained a punishing embargo on trade with Cuba. Its proponents, with the goal of removing Cuba's revolutionary government, still plead: “give it time.” In 2001 PresidentÃâà...
CounterPunch
November 25, 2011
As a kid I listened on the radio to “The FBI in Peace and War.” My parents had listened during the mid 1930s to “G-Men.” FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover helped produce those programs and, in the new biopic film, “J. Edgar”, we also learn that Hoover orchestrated several other radio and TV shows so as toÃâà...
WBEZ
December 31, 1999
Cabrera Infante's cinematic, jazz-like writing, comes to life in this story rich with music and interviews with cinematographer Nestor Almendros, painter Jesse Fernandez, activist Saul Landau, and the writer himself. Actors Lazaro Perez, and Ilka Tanya Payan are heard in dramatizations from CabreraÃâà...
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