Breakthrough
About this original series
Lets Breakthrough : building human rights culture is an international media organization that uses popular culture to teach human rights. Our mediums include animations, podcasts, music videos, documentaries, video games, theatre arts, and visual workshops. For more information, please visit our website at www.breakthrough.tv Check our our newest video game on immigration: ICED - I Can End Deportation.
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Episodes of Breakthrough
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Does a woman have to die to get justice?
Samshad was a woman from Bangalore, India. She was facing an acute domestic violence situation. She had appealed to the police and the law several times, but her plea had fallen on deaf ears. Breakthrough had been trying to help her for the last six months. Our staff in Bangalore has been accompanying her to the police, protection officers and was trying to find a way out for her. Unable to go on any longer, faced with the complete apathy of the police and the law, Samshad set herself ablaze o...
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Release date
Dec 10, 2009
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Runtime
03:03
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Esmeralda: A transgender asylum seeker speaks ou...
Courage comes in many different forms. For Esmeralda a transgender asylum seeker from Mexico who faced horrific circumstances in immigration detention, it came in the form of seeking justice. Kept in a segregated cell with other transgender detainees, Esmeralda never realized that her experience in detention would match the trauma of discrimination she had faced back home. But her story is also one of hope for change.
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Release date
Nov 11, 2009
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Runtime
04:05
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Let's Breakthrough Together 2009 - A Night of Au...
On October 22, 2009, Breakthrough held Let's Breakthrough Together 2009, at the Harvard Club in NYC.Watch highlights from the event, a benefit to support human rights, with authors and performers including: Ishmael Beah, Sarita Choudhury, Elizabeth Gardner Hines, Carol Jenkins, Suketu Mehta, Andrew Solomon, Barton Biggs, Urban Bush Women and auction by Sandhya Jain-Patel.
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Release date
Nov 2, 2009
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Runtime
04:37
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Let's Breakthrough Together 2009
On October 22, 2009, Breakthrough hosted Let's Breakthrough Together 2009, a benefit for human rights at the Harvard Club in NYC. Please watch the video that was screened at the event that highlights our instrumental work in India, namely our current campaign, Bell Bajao, that calls on men and boys to bring domestic violence to a halt in their communities.
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Release date
Nov 2, 2009
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Runtime
03:51
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Restore Fairness: bring back due process to the ...
The “Restore Fairness” documentary is produced by Breakthrough in partnership with 26 leading organizations and calls for the U.S. government to bring back due process and fairness to the immigration system. The video features the powerful voices of Congresswomen Zoe Lofgren and Lucille Roybal-Allard, Judges Dana Marks and Bruce Einhorn, as well as civil society leaders like Anthony Romero, Donald Kerwin, Karen Narasaki and Mallika Dutt. It also gives a human face to harsh immigration laws thr...
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Release date
Sep 14, 2009
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Runtime
09:09
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Restore Fairness: bring back due process to the ...
The “Restore Fairness” documentary is produced by Breakthrough in partnership with 26 leading organizations and calls for the U.S. government to bring back due process and fairness to the immigration system. The video features the powerful voices of Congresswomen Zoe Lofgren and Lucille Roybal-Allard, Judges Dana Marks and Bruce Einhorn, as well as civil society leaders like Anthony Romero, Donald Kerwin, Karen Narasaki and Mallika Dutt. It also gives a human face to harsh immigration laws thr...
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Release date
Sep 10, 2009
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Runtime
09:09
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Vote for Breakthrough's Immigration Video!
Breakthrough's immigration video, "Death by Detention", has been selected as a finalist for the 2009 DoGooderTV Nonprofit Awards from over 400 entries! Help us win by voting for the video here. Be sure to submit the vote by midnight on April 25th!Please spread the word. Ask friends, members, and bloggers to vote through your blog, facebook, twitter, and website. These stories need to be heard!
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Release date
Apr 15, 2009
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Warren Joseph: Military Man Faces Deportation
Warren Joseph from Trinidad, received a green card and served the U.S. Army in Iraq; detained and threatened with deportation because of violations to the conditions of his green card due to behavior and actions caused by post-traumatic-stress-syndrome; spent three years in detention where he observed and encountered serious physical and psychological abuse from immigration officers and jail officials.
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Release date
Feb 4, 2009
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Runtime
03:33
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Ali: HIV+ man suffers in detention
Ali Pakistani-born, HIV+ gay man, living in New York City for 30 years with a green card; after serving a brief term in jail for a minor crime, he was immediately turned over to immigration authorities and spent more than a year in detention where he witnessed the worst kind of physical abuse and medical mistreatment, including constantly fighting to get his HIV medication which he needed to survive and often being given the wrong medications or doses.
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Release date
Feb 2, 2009
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Runtime
05:09
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Call to Action: Fight Against Hate!
Hey everyone, It is hard to forget the Ecuadorean Jose Sucuzhanay beaten to death in New Jersey back in December, or recently, the 37-year old Marcelo Lucero who was stabbed by teenagers just because he was Mexican. Hate crimes against immigrants are on the rise and need to be stopped--and YOU can help! Visit this site to read, learn, and act against all forms of hate in the immigration debate. You can also visit our own Breakthrough site to find out more about immigration and human rights. Ac...
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Release date
Jan 28, 2009
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