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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.
Finally Got the News
This Far by Faith
Call Number: V 096Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Two documentaries. The first, "Finally Got the News," is about the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and the formation of The Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM). The founders of the movement discuss the economic injustices and racism that lie at the heart of the American economic system. Filmed in Detroit with footage from the late '60s and early '70s, there are interviews with Marxist/Leninist socialists and radical organizers. It is the story of the black poor working on the production lines, underpaid and overworked, organize and fight for better wages and reasonable hours. Claims it is propaganda that keeps white and black poor workers enemies. The film is grainy and shot in black and white but is well organized and contains great dialogue and images of industrial America and factory life. The second, "This Far by Faith," is about the 1990 Delta Pride Catfish processing plant strike in Indianola, Mississippi- a struggle that ended in settlement and resulted in higher wages and more benefits for its workers. The majority of workers and strikers are single black women. They discuss the oppressive and dangerous working conditions, long hours, frequency of carpel tunnel, racial slurs and insubstantial wages endured at the factory. Footage of strikers at the picket line and interviews with civil rights leaders who discuss the meaning of this strike in the context of Mississippi's economically depressed and brutal slave-owning past.
America’s War on Poverty
Call Number: V 097Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A history of welfare and the struggle of America's poor. Chronicles the dramatic welfare policy change after Nixon replaced LBJ, the protests and formation of the National Welfare Rights Organization trying to stop passage of Nixon's Family Assistance Plan, and the struggle for welfare recipients to regain a sense of dignity.
Enough is Enough - The Story of All of Us or None
Date: 1/1/2003Call Number: V 473Format: VHSProducers: Eve GoldbergCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Recounts the beginning of the national organizing initiative by and for former prisoners and their families.
Fights and organizes against discrimination that prisoners experience as a result of their felony convictions - including lifetime welfare bans, restricted voting rights, denial of financial aid, and employment.
Enough is Enough - The Story of All of Us or None
Date: 1/1/2003Call Number: V 474Format: VHSProducers: Eve GoldbergCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Recounts the beginning of the national organizing initiative by and for former prisoners and their families.
Fights and organizes against discrimination that prisoners experience as a result of their felony convictions - including lifetime welfare bans, restricted voting rights, denial of financial aid, and employment.
Trade Secrets: The Hidden Costs of the FTAA
Date: 1/1/2002Call Number: V 539Format: VHSProducers: UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research, EducationCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
On the FTAA from the perspective of workers. Narrated by Mike Farrell, it covers the NAFTA Chapter 11 cases on UPS, and Methanex' attack on California's environmental laws banning MTBE from gasoline, and how the FTAA will affect us. There is also a set of fact sheets and a great interactive role-play on the impacts on the public and private sectors of the FTAA
Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
Date: 6/29/2005Call Number: V 646Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Two documentary filmmakers travel to the red light district of Sonagchi, Calcutta. The film follows their time spent with the children of prostitutes, most of whom are expected to join the line of prostitution themselves within a few years. The filmmakers develop friendships with these children through a photography class they start.
Two Trevors Go to Washington
Call Number: V 751Format: VHSProducers: Ben CashdanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This film shows the IMF/World Bank meetings and protests in April 2000 through the eyes of two South Africans. One the inside Finance Minister Trevor Manuel, champion of of South Africa's conservative economic policy and chair of the IMF/World Bank board and in the streets dissent Johannesburg Metro Government Councillor and African National Congress member, Trevor Ngwane from Soweto.
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