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Take Back the Night
Call Number: V 058Format: VHSProgram: City Visions- Public Access TelevisionCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Raw footage of ”Take Back the Night” an annual rally/march/vigil held by women to protest violence against women.
Tape of various television clips
Call Number: V 060Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
0-1150 People for the American Way- Radical right 1/2 hour.
1200-newsclip of viacom demonstration
1288-1425 CNN on abortion controversy
1425 News on women’s demonstration
Ireland’s Struggle Liberates Women
Call Number: V 098Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Documentary about Ireland's long history of struggle for liberation and the role which women have played in the movement and in Irish culture. Provides a history of Ireland's conquest and offers a noble image of its women, as warriors and as ancient leaders with rights equal to those of men. Discusses the manifold abuses at the hands of the English, Gaelic legend, the potato famine, the renewed struggle for a United Ireland in 1798 and the current status of the struggle. The film consists of a number of still images and short video footage narrated from historical texts. Made on low budget by amateur filmmakers.
Berkeley in the Sixties
Date: 12/10/2002Call Number: V 111Format: DVDProducers: Mark KitchellCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
The 1960’s come to life in this gripping film. Berkeley in the sixties caputres the decades event’s - the birth of the Free Speech movement, civil rights marches, anti-vietnam War protests, the counter-culture, the women’s movement, and the rise of the Black Panthers- in all their immediacy and passion. Dramatic archival footage interwoven with present-day interviews and 18 songs from the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, The Band and Jefferson Airplane make “Berkeley in the Sixties “probably the best documentary on the sixites to date!”
This is a DVD :) 117 minutes.
Women in Prison
Date: 1/1/1993Call Number: V 160Format: VHSProducers: A, E - Bill Kurtis ProductionsCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
For years, they were a tiny fraction of America's prison population. But now, the number of women behind bars is growing substantially, and the penal system is ill-equipped to deal with them.
Go inside some of America's most troubled jails for a firsthand look at WOMEN IN PRISON. Within any prison's walls, daily life among gangbangers and drugs causes fear and anxiety. But for female convicts, there is the added pain of days spent worrying about their children. Many female prisoners are single parents whose children are cast into the abuse-ridden child-welfare system when they are incarcerated. Interviews with inmates, prison officials and psychologists highlight the many shortcomings of the current system and point to the changes that must be made as more and more women are sentenced to jail time. Meet activists who are campaigning for prison reform, and repeat offenders who exemplify the worst effects of the reality of WOMEN IN PRISON.
It's a revealing look at a little-known aspect of the justice system.
Interview with Gladys Baez
Call Number: V 236Collection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Tape Two:
Students interview Gladys Baez, Vice President of the Commission of
Women, Children, Youth, and Family in Nicaragua, at Leon Legal Office. Baez speaks on Women's contributions to Nicaraguan economy. This tape has partial translation.
Female Tobacco Workers Interviewed
Call Number: V 237Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Tape Three:
Nicaraguan women working in Tobacco fields are interviewed. This tape is in Spanish only.
Sofia Montenegro Interview
Call Number: V 238Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Tape Four:
Sofia Montenegro one of the founders of the Sandinista Daily Paper, Barricada, is interviewed. She speaks on the development of a feminist movement in Nicaragua since the 1979 U.S. supported the insurgence of counterrevolutionaries. The women's movement originated out of necessity changed old military, economic and social values.Women began working manual labor jobs normally only given to men, lobbied for a national referendum on abortion, and participated in guerrilla warfare.
Abortion for Survival
Date: 7/23/1989Call Number: V 240Format: VHSProducers: Fund for Feminist MajorityCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Martin Agronsky narrates a Pro-Choice documentary produced by the Fund for Feminist Majority. The Documentary shows a first trimester abortion, outlines the history of victims of anti-abortion laws, and interviews representatives from Population Crisis Committee, The School of Public Health at Columbia University, the American Psychiatric Association, and Planned Parenthood. The tape ends with a panel discussion mediated by Agronski with Faye Wattleton, former president of Planned Parenthood, Eleanor Smeal, former president of National Organization for Women, Republican Congressman, Bob Dornan of California, and Nellie Gray from March for Life.
Televison News Response to East Bay Serial Rapist of 1997
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: V 260Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Clips of the local news coverage of the East Bay serial-rapist case of 1997 in which 12 women were raped. Clips included come from KTVU, KPIX and KGO San Francisco Bay Area television stations. The clips highlight the grassroots response to the serial rapist, including scenes of the "Fear Is Not the Answer" rally held at Macarthur BART station and local activists pleading for a non-racist response from the public to the rapes. Small blurbs from the mayors of Oakland and Berkeley (Elihu Harris and Shirley Dean, respectively) and Oakland policeman Captain Pete Dunbar are also included.
