Rights Action recommends this four-part HBO documentary series (filmmaker Raoul Peck) that looks at the history and legacy of white, Christian-led, violent European imperialism and colonialism - and very specifically settler colonialism.
I recommend this series, particularly in the US and Canada. It provides a clear historical analysis that helps explain on-going US-led imperialism and economic exploitation and violence in Central America, particularly in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, and in a different fashion in Nicaragua.
“There is something we need to talk about.
Three words that summarize the whole of humanity: civilization, colonialization, extermination. I just want to understand why do I bring myself into this story,
because I am an immigrant from a shithole country.”
(Raoul Peck, narrating film)
“Exterminate All the Brutes”: Filmmaker Raoul Peck Explores Colonialism & Origins of White Supremacy: Democracy Now, May 4, 2021
Exterminate All The Brutes helps explain the inequalities, racisms, discriminations and violences that characterize life inside the US today (and in important ways inside Canada). It helps explain the huge inequalities, discriminations and violences of the global political, economic, military order, imposed in large by rich powerful countries and their institutions on regions of the ‘global south’, regions like Central America.
Rights Action’s work takes place in the historical and present day context of what “Exterminate All The Brutes” lays bare.
Grahame Russell
grahame@rightsaction.org
Rights Action (US & Canada)
Since 1995, Rights Action: funds human rights, environment and territory defense struggles in Guatemala and Honduras; funds victims of repression and human rights violations, health harms and natural disasters (Covid19, hurricanes, etc.); and works to hold accountable the U.S. and Canadian governments, multi-national companies, investors and banks (World Bank, etc.) that help cause and profit from exploitation and poverty, repression and human rights violations, environmental harms, corruption and impunity in Honduras and Guatemala.
