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US Goes to War Against Iraq
Date: 1/16/1991Call Number: V 056Format: VHSProgram: Channel 7 NewsCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Channel 7 news coverage of United States going to was in Iraq. Statement from Mohammed Hijazi from the Arab Cultural Center. Footage of Saddam Hussein and George Bush as well as comments on war strategy.
Date: 1/12/1991Call Number: V 061Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Documentaries about white supremacist organizations. With footage of Tom Metzger and David Duke.
Behind the Burning Cross, Racism USA
Date: 1/1/1991Call Number: V 130Format: VHSProducers: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee, George LippmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This brief history of the most notorious hate groups in the U.S. not only provides some interesting background on the Ku Klux Klan and its origins as a tool for rolling back the African-Americans' gains of the reconstruction period but also portrays its widespread activities today and its links with Nazi and nativist skinheads. Examines the violence being used by these hate groups in the 1990's to further racism, anti-semitism, gay-bashing, nativism and pushing back the womens movement. Footage of interviews with David Duke and Tom Metzger reveals their efforts to repackage hate within the bosom of so-called "All American Values." Examines the phenomenon of "white" rock'n roll and the right-wing media establishment to mobilize whites against blacks, gays, foreigners and Jews. Quickly examines the relationships between the FBI and the Klan. Also shows that many skinheads condemn the fascist skinhead movement.
Quiet Rage - The Stanford Prison Experiment
Date: 1/1/1991Call Number: V 354Format: VHSProducers: StanfordProgram: SITNCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A look back at a prison simulation experiment conducted at Stanford in 1971. Footage from the original experiment is shown and combined with commentary from the leading psychologist.
Guatemala: Carmen Camey
Date: 1/1/1991Call Number: V 383Format: VHSProducers: Trella LaughlinCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Interview with Carmen Camey of the Guatemala’s Human Rights Commission. She appeals to the world to put an end to the huge number of assassinations and disappearances which have taken place in her country since 1954. This genocide/ethnocide is part of a military strategy to remove the base of support for the popular guerilla movement. She also discusses the terrible working and living conditions of poor Guatemalans.
The Texas Civil Rights Project
Date: 10/1/1991Call Number: V 388Format: VHSProducers: Trella LaughlinCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Jim Harrington, Sissy Farenthold and Craig Washington discuss the Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP), founded in 1990 and are part of Oficina Legal del Pueblo Unido. They promote racial, social, and economic justice through education.
Can't Jail the Revolution - Leonard Peltier
Date: 1/1/1991Call Number: V 378Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Interviews with many US political prisoners about revolutionary politics and actions. Includes Black Panther Assata Shakur, Puerto Ricans Guillermo Morales, Alejandrina Torres & Dylcia Pagan, Native American Bob Robideau, and anti-imperialist Laura Whitehorn. Ahmed Obafemi explains how maximum security jails are intended to break political prisoners down mentally and physically. Safiya Bukhari-Alston also talks about her own experiences being locked down in a maximum security prison for eight years. Others include Kwame Ture, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Mutulu Shakur, and Fred Hampton.
Interview with Native American activist Leonard Peltier conducted in 1990 by Trella Laughlin in Leavenworth USP.
Shield for Abuse - Update
Date: 4/1/1991Call Number: V 479Format: VHSProducers: Spencer MichelCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Special for KQED about police brutality and rare instances of SFPD accountability. Footage of the Castro Sweep, were cops beat Dolores Huerta so badly that she had her spleen removed, and an incident involving the macing of a legal observer.
Tongues Untied
Date: 7/16/1991Call Number: V 487Format: VHSProducers: Marlon RiggsCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Film by Marlon Riggs that recounts his life history, intermixed with Essex Hemphill’s poetry, a visit to the Institute of Snap!thology, and a celebration of black men loving black men as a revolutionary act.
Political Prisoner Installation - International Women's Day
Date: 10/21/1991Call Number: V 492Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Street celebrations of International Women’s Day include the Women Against Imperialism Quilt, a political prisoner and prisoner of war street installation and street theater. Activists portray various figures like Linda Evans, Alejandrina Torres, Ricardo Flores Magon as well as pay tribute to the indigenous peoples of California, the Caribbean, Central America, and Mexico. The performance is part of the International Women’s Day theme of 500 Years of Resistance.
