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Jalil Muntaqim interview (2 of 4)
Call Number: V 079Format: VHSProducers: John O’ReillyCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Continues about the tampering and destruction of evidence in his case. Once you’re convicted the burden is to prove yourself innocent. Discusses cases of Dhoruba and Geronimo, who spent almost 50 years together in prison after proving that the state had set them up. Calls the US a plutocracy, where the rich rule and control the government, operating under a hypocritical veneer of democracy. Hegemonic powers of the media, describes it as the wizard in the background. We need to break the illusion that the system works for the benefit of the people. All he sees in prison are black and brown faces because of the unequal distribution of wealth and poverty being an impetus towards “crime”, and institutional racism has created a mechanism for people of color to go to prison. Talks about bodies becoming commodities, his prison number is like his bar code, economics analysis of PIC. Discusses tax breaks for rural counties who can include prisoners in their population even though majority of prisoners come from NYC. Control units/SHU - for rebellious prisoners and mentally ill inmates who can’t be controlled among rest of general population. Discusses his own most recent experience in the “box”, where the state fabricated evidence that he was organizing a statewide prison strike. Talks about SHU, feed you through a slot in cell, 1 hour of recreation time, everything even food is a privilege, no phone use, visitation once a week but through glass. Talks about the extended effects of isolation and sensory deprivation, claustrophobia, loneliness, anxiety and panic disorders. There is no rehab/education/employment/therapeutic/skill s offered to prisoners, thus they leave embittered and destructive. Talks about manifest destiny and how it was turned into a country. Ideas are power if you know how to take control. Starts to talk about returning to San Quentin adjustment center post-sentencing, housed with San Quentin six. Talking about freeing political prisoners with Ruchell Magee, who just received a letter from Yuri Kochiyama about starting a movement around amnesty.
This is what Democracy Looks Like
Call Number: V 122Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Produced by the Independent Media Center, and Big Noise films, with footage shot by over 100 media activists, this is yet another great film on the Seattle/WTO protests. It's certainly the most 'professional' of the videos, with narration by Michael Franti and Susan Sarandon, and music from the likes of Rage Against the Machine, Company of Prophets, DJ Shadow, DJ Moosaka, Jim Page and more.
Wake Up Everybody
Date: 1/1/2004Call Number: V 258Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A wide variety of today's hottest hip-hop, R&B and rap stars. Among the standout performances are Missy Elliot, Jamie Foxx, Jadakiss, Fabolous, Jaheim, Faith Evans, Claudette Ortiz (City High) and Nate Dogg, with Floetry, Ben Jelen, Bilal, Akon, Bonnie McKee, DJ Quik, Ellie Lawson, Jon B, Julia Fordham, Kristine W., Marques Houston, MC Lyte, Omarion (B2K), Raphael Saadiq, S5, and Wyclef Jean providing backup vocals for the chorus.
A full CD with bonus tracks including "Give Peace A Chance 2004" by Yoko Ono, "Revolution" by Ben Jelen, "Why? What's Goin' On?" by the Roots, "Fear," by Lenny Kravitz, "Stop The Fighting," by Ellie Lawson, "Hell To Pay," by Bonnie Raitt, "Freedom," by Jurassic 5, "Get It Together," by Seal, "Raise This Land," by Freckles featuring Res and Mystic, 'Time in Babylon," by Emmylou Harris, "This Land Is Your Land," by Everclear, "Right on Time," by OAR, "The Wind," by Matt Nathanson and "Change The World" by Babyface and Eric Clapton, will be available in stores throughout the country on September 21. The CD also includes a full length DVD that will give viewers a glimpse at the historic recording of the chorus and individual performances.
Lincoln Bergman interviewed about the 1960s
Date: 1/1/2007Call Number: V 372Format: Mini DVProgram: Lincoln Bergman 1960s intercviewCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Spanish language TV in San Francisco speaks with Lincoln Bergman about the history of protest and events of the 1960s. Conducted on Sproul Hall steps at UC Berkeley.
International Womens Day 1984 - In the Name of Democracy - Taking to the Street - Armed Forces Day demos 1984
Date: 1/1/1984Call Number: V 476Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
International Womens Day march and protest at the Presidio organized by Women Against Imperialism.
In the Name of Democracy - short documentary on the US managed elections in El Salvador in 1982. Interviews with several US and international journalists, activists in Mothers Committee for the Disappeared, FMLN, and FDR.
Takin' to the Street - KQED special on radicals of the sixties who are still active in grassroots struggle today. Interviewees include Angela Davis, Ericka Huggins, Karen Koonan, Judy Gumbo-Albert, Dan Siegel, Mario Savio
Interview with artist and Puerto Rican independence activist Marta Rodriguez, who discusses Puerto Rico's history, US colonialism, and performs some of her music.
Members of National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War speak about the Puerto Rican independence movement and the imprisonment of Puerto Rican freedom fighters.
Anti-Armed Forces Day protests at Fisherman's Wharf in SF. Protestors attempt to board military ships but are violently pushed back by police and military personnel.
Cabildo De Mujeres – Women’s Townhall Meeting
Date: 1/1/1986Call Number: V 491Format: VHSProducers: Sistema Sandinista de TelivisionCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Women gather to discuss and debate proposed changes to the Nicaraguan constitution. They argue for and against legalized and decriminalized abortion, divorce, rape, domestic violence, and parental rights of mothers. Includes discussion of the opening of the constitution - that society is based on the equality of women.
Magda Enriquez of Nicaragua
Date: 1/1/1986Call Number: V 494Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
The Nicaraguan leader speaks to an assembly of north American feminists about women in Nicarauga and in the Sandinista revolution, as well as the role she has played as both a Sandinista Revolutionary and a feminist organizer in Nicaragua.
People's Park of Berkeley: Then and Now (1995)
Call Number: V 654Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Director Claire Burch presents a range of vies (past and present) of the People's Park in Berkeley, California. This was the location where the Free Speech Movement first took root in America.
Capitalism: A Love Story
Date: 10/2/2009Call Number: V 648Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Michael Moore investigates capitalism in America and the greed that feeds on it. America's love affair with capitalism has gone awry with lies, abuse, betrayal and the loss of thousands of jobs.
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