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Nightly News: AIDS Activism in SF and Police Brutality
Date: 1/1/1988Call Number: V 173Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This tape contains a nightly news story on two AIDS activist who outreach to poor people living with HIV and AIDS in San Francisco, providing them with medical care.
This tape also contains a broadcast of the show "Express" from PBS in which several San Francisco journalists and pundits discuss police brutality in San Francisco. One brutality case discussed is that of UFW organizer Dolores Huerta.
SFPD Out of the Castro
Call Number: V 191Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This video contains footage of a demonstration fro AIDS awareness and Queer rights in San Francisco's Castro district. Demonstrators occupy Market Street and refuse to disperse upon SFPD's request. Some arrests are made.
ACE Against the Odds
Date: 1/1/1996Call Number: V 370Format: VHSProducers: Debra LevineCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Women in the ACE Program - an inmate-operated counseling and educational program at Bedford Hills, NY designed both to prevent AIDS transmission and to provide counseling, guidance, and support for women inmates who have HIV or AIDS. ACE workshop in which participants conduct a role play that explores the dynamics of interactions among lesbian women involved in the feelings and decisions associated with AIDS transmission. ACE participants also provide services and support for AIDS patients who are in the prison hospital.
Women surviving prison, living with AIDS
Date: 1/1/1993Call Number: V 391Format: VHSProducers: Debra Levne, Catherine SaalfieldCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Women prisoners who are peer educators and counselors in an HIV/AIDS program at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, New York State's maximum security prison for women, describe the positive role of a peer support program. Using examples from their own experiences, the women discuss the strengths of the AIDS Counseling and Education Program (ACE) in meeting the psychosocial needs of the prison population concerning HIV/AIDS.
ACT-UP - NY-DIVA TV
Date: 1/1/1988Call Number: V 424Format: VHSProducers: DIVA-TVCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
DIVA-TV, a media contingent of ACT-UP/NY - interviews with ACT-UP/NY members about their political dedication to the group, a teach-in put together by the women’s caucus of ACT-UP, a safe-sex video for HIV+ gay men, and the disruption of the 1988 National Republican Convention.
1993 Dyke March - Window Dub
Date: 5/1/1993Call Number: V 480Format: VHSProducers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Interviews with lesbians and dykes in the Castro preparing for the march. Topics range from breast cancer, women only spaces, transgender politics, racism, anti-militarism, sexism, and AIDS/HIV. The march down follows.
1993 Dyke March - Window Dub
Date: 5/1/1993Call Number: V 481Format: VHSProducers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Interviews with lesbians and dykes in the Castro preparing for the march. Topics range from breast cancer, women only spaces, transgender politics, racism, anti-militarism, sexism, and AIDS/HIV. The march down follows.
Activision - Documents of Dissent
Date: 1/1/1990Call Number: V 482Format: VHSProducers: Lisa RudmanProgram: PCTVCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Compilation of Activism Shorts. Includes Pledge of Resistance's Coit Tower El Salvador Action in San Francisco; Stop AIDS Now or Else’s Golden Gate Bridge Action; Ladies Against Women and the Right Wing skit on abortion rights; International Women's Day 1988; and a music video documenting imperialism and resistance in the Philippines.
Tongues Untied
Date: 7/16/1991Call Number: V 487Format: VHSProducers: Marlon RiggsCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Film by Marlon Riggs that recounts his life history, intermixed with Essex Hemphill’s poetry, a visit to the Institute of Snap!thology, and a celebration of black men loving black men as a revolutionary act.
Golden Gate Bridge Action
Date: 1/31/1989Call Number: V 505Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Stop AIDS Now or Else - SANOE’s first direct action protest blocks morning rush hour traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge disrupting business as usual. Protesters call for increased action as opposed to increased work with AIDS service organizations criticizing that little beyond care work is being done. When asked if any of the activists have AIDS a protester retorts, “We are all living with AIDS.” Most of the demonstrators are arrested and charged with being a public nuisance and trespassing. Some stalled motorists agree with SANOE tactics to bring attention to the AIDS/HIV pandemic.
