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You can always type what you’re looking for into the search bar. Certain searches may generate hundreds of results, so sometimes it will help to use quotation marks to help narrow down your results. For instance, searching for the phrase Black Liberation will generate all of our holdings that contain the words Black and Liberation, while searching for “Black Liberation” (in quotation marks) will only generate our records that have those two words next to each other.
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You’ll notice that under the heading KEYWORDS, there are a number of words, phrases or names that describe content. Sometimes these are also called “tags.” Clicking on these words is essentially the same as conducting a basic search.

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Abortion issues Abortion issues
Call Number: JG/ 009Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Very short tape (less than 1 minute) about harassment of abortion service providers and regulation
Abortion issues Abortion issues
Call Number: JG/ 010Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Very short tape including footage of harassment of service providers
"The Rape of Burma" by WINGS "The Rape of Burma" by WINGS
Call Number: SS 042Format: CassetteProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
"The Rape of Burma" is a WINGS program about the suspension of family planning aid in Burma.
Interview with Stan West Interview with Stan West
Date: 4/19/1988Call Number: SS 093Format: CassetteProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Stan West's documentary, "Children of Angola," looks at the physical and mental impacts on African children at an orphanage in Bengo Province caused by the civil war.
Pajaro Latino Pajaro Latino
Date: 4/27/1984Call Number: JH 165Format: CassetteProducers: Jorge HerreraCollection: “Pajaro Latino” Programs produced by Jorge Herrera
Nicaragua: the other invasion, Jackie Reiter and Wof Tirado, filmmakers working in Nicaragua
Pajaro Latino Pajaro Latino
Date: 5/31/1984Call Number: JH 166Format: CassetteProducers: Jorge HerreraCollection: “Pajaro Latino” Programs produced by Jorge Herrera
Committee for Health Rights in Central America-CHRICA: Ayuda Medica a Centro America
Pajaro Latino Pajaro Latino
Date: 3/14/1985Call Number: JH 188Format: CassetteProducers: Jorge HerreraProgram: Pajaro LatinoCollection: “Pajaro Latino” Programs produced by Jorge Herrera
Members of AMNLAE (Associacion de Mujeres Nicaraguenses Luisa Amanda Espinoza - the women's organization of the Sandinista revolution) discuss contra abuses in an event at the SF Women's Building. CHRICA (Committee for Health Rights in Central America) protest at San Francisco CIA office against contra kidnapping of health workers in Nicaragua. Ray Hooker, a Nicaraguan educator and a member of the Nicaraguan National Assembly from the country's Atlantic Coast, speaks in San Francisco against US aid to the contras. Hooker was captured by the contras and held for 40 days. Report on El Salvador FMLN guerrilla forces. Report from FMLN Radio Venceremos on labor abuses, including mass firings of workers, and workers' protests.
Pajaro Latino Pajaro Latino
Date: 11/7/1985Call Number: JH 210Format: CassetteProducers: Jorge HerreraCollection: “Pajaro Latino” Programs produced by Jorge Herrera
Nora Roman informe de CHRICA, Committee for Health rights in Central America
Pajaro Latino Pajaro Latino
Date: 8/19/1987Call Number: JH 259Format: CassetteProducers: Jorge HerreraCollection: “Pajaro Latino” Programs produced by Jorge Herrera
COPROSAL: miriam Rodriguez & Nora Roman of CHRICA, health in the conflicted zones of El Salvador
Abortion interviews outside Midtown Hospital Abortion interviews outside Midtown Hospital
Call Number: JG/ 066Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: Pacifica RadioCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
This is a series of interviews with different people inside and outside of an abortion clinic in Atlanta, Georgia. The clinic is called Midtown Hospital and Judy Gerber begins her interviews inside with an abortion worker who has been at the hospital for the past nine years. She talks about how the pro-life protesters are not deterring women from getting abortions, they are just making a difficult decision more uncomfortable then it need be. Next Judy goes outside and talks to a handful of pro-life and pro-choice people outside. The pro-life organization protesting outside are known as Operation Rescue. Underneath the interviews are Christian songs being sung loudly by Operation Rescue. Many of the female pro-life protesters claim they are there because they had abortions when they were younger and now regret their decisions. Almost all of the pro-life people interviewed claim that if women knew what really happened to the fetus they may change their mind and blame the abortion clinics as spreading lies. Whereas, ironically, many of the pro-choice people interviewed claim that women have already made up their mind when they come to the clinic, and the pro-life protesters do not sway their decision, but rather they only make it more difficult to physically enter the clinic.