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Finally Got the News This Far by Faith 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.
President Fidel Castro in Harlem President Fidel Castro in Harlem
Date: 9/8/2000Call Number: V 151Format: VHSProducers: Patrice Lumumba CoalitionCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Fidel Castro speaks at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem September 8, 2000
League of Socialist Puerto Ricans Tape 2 of 6 League of Socialist Puerto Ricans Tape 2 of 6
Date: 1/1/1985Call Number: V 207Format: UmaticCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
There exists no Tape 1 of 6 in our collection. Video footage of activities of the League of Socialist Puerto Ricans. Footage includes statement from Don Juan Antonio Corretjer regarding FBI's arrest and murder of Angel Cristobal in Vieques in 1976; poetry; information on the National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War; an analysis of the FALN in the US; conditions in US prisons; the story of Victor Urena; an analysis of the history of the US sedition law and the international legality of the Puerto Rican national liberation struggle; singing of the Puerto Rican national anthem; andinterviews with activists about different aspects of the Puerto Rican national liberation movement.
League of Socialist Puerto Ricans Tape 3 of 6 League of Socialist Puerto Ricans Tape 3 of 6
Date: 1/1/1985Call Number: V 208Format: UmaticCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Video footage of activities of the League of Socialist Puerto Ricans. Footage includes statement from Don Juan Antonio Corretjer regarding FBI's arrest and murder of Angel Cristobal in Vieques in 1976; poetry; information on the National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War; an analysis of the FALN in the US; conditions in US prisons; the story of Victor Urena; an analysis of the history of the US sedition law and the international legality of the Puerto Rican national liberation struggle; singing of the Puerto Rican national anthem; andinterviews with activists about different aspects of the Puerto Rican national liberation movement.
League of Socialist Puerto Ricans Tape 4 of 6 League of Socialist Puerto Ricans Tape 4 of 6
Date: 1/1/1985Call Number: V 209Format: UmaticCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Video footage of activities of the League of Socialist Puerto Ricans. Footage includes statement from Don Juan Antonio Corretjer regarding FBI's arrest and murder of Angel Cristobal in Vieques in 1976; poetry; information on the National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War; an analysis of the FALN in the US; conditions in US prisons; the story of Victor Urena; an analysis of the history of the US sedition law and the international legality of the Puerto Rican national liberation struggle; singing of the Puerto Rican national anthem; andinterviews with activists about different aspects of the Puerto Rican national liberation movement.
League of Socialist Puerto Ricans Tape 5 of 6 League of Socialist Puerto Ricans Tape 5 of 6
Date: 1/1/1985Call Number: V 210Format: UmaticCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Video footage of activities of the League of Socialist Puerto Ricans. Footage includes statement from Don Juan Antonio Corretjer regarding FBI's arrest and murder of Angel Cristobal in Vieques in 1976; poetry; information on the National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War; an analysis of the FALN in the US; conditions in US prisons; the story of Victor Urena; an analysis of the history of the US sedition law and the international legality of the Puerto Rican national liberation struggle; singing of the Puerto Rican national anthem; andinterviews with activists about different aspects of the Puerto Rican national liberation movement.
League of Socialist Puerto Ricans Tape 6 of 6 League of Socialist Puerto Ricans Tape 6 of 6
Date: 1/1/1985Call Number: V 211Format: UmaticCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Video footage of activities of the League of Socialist Puerto Ricans. Footage includes statement from Don Juan Antonio Coretejer regarding FBI's arrest and murder of Angel Cristobal in Vieques in 1976; poetry; information on the National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War; an analysis of the FALN in the US; conditions in US prisons; the story of Victor Urena; an analysis of the history of the US sedition law and the international legality of the Puerto Rican national liberation struggle; singing of the Puerto Rican national anthem; andinterviews with activists about different aspects of the Puerto Rican national liberation movement.
League of Socialist Puerto Ricans Tape 1 of 2 League of Socialist Puerto Ricans Tape 1 of 2
Date: 1/1/1985Call Number: V 212Format: Mini DVCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This is a digital transfer of the first half of V207 through V211. Video footage of activities of the League of Socialist Puerto Ricans. Footage includes statement from Don Juan Antonio Corretjer regarding FBI's arrest and murder of Angel Cristobal in Vieques in 1976; poetry; information on the National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War; an analysis of the FALN in the US; conditions in US prisons; the story of Victor Urena; an analysis of the history of the US sedition law and the international legality of the Puerto Rican national liberation struggle; singing of the Puerto Rican national anthem; andinterviews with activists about different aspects of the Puerto Rican national liberation movement.
League of Socialist Puerto Ricans Tape 2 of 2 League of Socialist Puerto Ricans Tape 2 of 2
Date: 1/1/1985Call Number: V 231Format: Mini DVCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This is a digital transfer of the second half of V207 through V211. Video footage of activities of the League of Socialist Puerto Ricans. Footage includes statement from Don Juan Antonio Corretjer regarding FBI's arrest and murder of Angel Cristobal in Vieques in 1976; poetry; information on the National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War; an analysis of the FALN in the US; conditions in US prisons; the story of Victor Urena; an analysis of the history of the US sedition law and the international legality of the Puerto Rican national liberation struggle; singing of the Puerto Rican national anthem; andinterviews with activists about different aspects of the Puerto Rican national liberation movement.
Adventures of a radical hillbilly Adventures of a radical hillbilly
Date: 1/1/1981Call Number: V 393Format: VHSProducers: Betsy McCarthyCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Myles Horton, an American educator, socialist and cofounder of the Highlander Folk School, describes becoming an activist. He was a pioneer in the cause of social justice in the South and played a significant role in the Civil Rights Movement.