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Military Myths
Call Number: V 083Format: VHSProducers: ROOTS (War Resisters League)Collection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Youth-produced informational video on alternatives to military service, “real stories” of former service-people, and the existence of racism, sexism, and homophobia in the military.
US Out of El Salvador: News Montage
Call Number: V 172Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This tape contains a collection of corporate news footage of a demonstration against the US war on El Salvador and its support for death squads and El Salvador's terrorist regime in the late 1980s. Demonstrators battle police as they try to blockade the entrance of the Federal Building in San Francisco.
CISPES Federal Building Blockade: News Footage
Call Number: V 174Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Corporate news coverage of a demonstration against the US war on El Salvador at the San Francisco Federal Building shows footage of undercover SFPD officers using mace against protesters and violently arresting them. Both anchorperson and SFPD spokesperson place the blame on anarchists, referring to them as "outside agitators" and "goons."
U.S. Out of El Salvador
Date: 11/21/1989Call Number: V 179Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This video contains footage of demonstrators protesting the U.S. war on El Salvador by linking arms and sporadically impeding traffic at the San Francisco Federal Building. Some are arrested by SFPD.
U.S. Out of El Salvador II
Date: 11/21/1989Call Number: V 180Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Demonstrators protest at the San Francisco Federal Building against the U.S. war on El Salvador. Footage contains brief barricade of Market Street.
George W. Bush Addresses the U.N. General Assembly
Date: 9/12/2002Call Number: V 182Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This video contains George W. Bush's 2002 address to the U.N. General Assembly in which Bush attempts to make links between the Iraqi state and the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In his address, Bush claims that crimes of Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi regime's "expanding" chemical weapons production and stockpiles, WMD programs, and supposed nuclear weapons capabilities, mark a "grave and gathering danger" and threat to world security. Bush also blames Iraqi civilian death from imposed sanction on Hussein's refusal to comply with the sanctions regime. He also threatens the U.N. itself stating that it "will serve its purpose or be irrelevant," and
Claims that liberty for Iraqi people is a "great cause" and a "great strategic goal."
Tape also contains footage of Democratic leader Thomas A. Daschle applauding and supporting Bush's statements.
Naval Weapons
Date: 3/5/1987Call Number: V 184Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This tape contains footage of a demonstration against the US war on Nicaragua. The tape also appears to contain sabotage of a railroad track.
US Navy Out of Central America
Date: 5/19/1984Call Number: V 185Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This video contains footage of demonstrators protesting US war on Central America at a dock porting a US warship, demanding an end to US military aid and intervention in Central America and the Caribbean and freedom for Puerto Rico. Police use batons against the demonstrators and several are violently arrested.
US Out of El Salvador III
Date: 3/20/1989Call Number: V 186Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This video contains footage of a demonstration against the US war on El Salvador in which protestors attempt to disrupt traffic into and around the San Francisco Federal Building. The SFPD is seen using batons against demonstrators and undercover officers make violent arrests.
Steps to Freedom--Presidio Army Base
Date: 10/15/1988Call Number: V 187Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This video contains footage of a demonstration at the Presidio Army Base in San Francisco against the US war on Central America. Protesters sit in the street and attempt to build a barricade and are arrested by SFPD.
