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![Campanile Action](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 5/17/1989Call Number: V 495Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Bay Area Pledge of Resistance drops banner at Campanile Tower on UC Berkeley's campus. Interviewees seek to draw attention to the UC System's stake in the US intervention in El Salvador, exposing that the ROTC at UC Berkeley helps train the Death Squads in El Salvador.
![Coit Tower Action](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 5/15/1989Call Number: V 496Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Bay Area Pledge of Resistance occupies Coit Tower and unfurls banner in order to draw attention to the election of the ARENA party in El Salvador, the party which organized the death squads that killed thousands of El Salvadorians. Members of Pledge are carrying out this action to do the work the mass media doesn't in their coverage of El Salvador.
![El Salvador Consulate Action](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 11/16/1990Call Number: V 507Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Pledge of Resistance leads other organizations including the Bay Area Religious Task Force, Center for International Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, and Trece to occupy the El Salvador Consulate in San Francisco, commemorating the anniversary of the brutal murder of six Jesuit priests and two women. Protesters drop a banner from the consulate's balcony and occupy the front offices, calling for an end to US backed Death Squad violence in El Salvador, the overthrow of the ARENA government, and an end to US intervention in Central America. Several members of the demonstration chain themselves to the desks and chairs in the office, while other protesters demonstrate outside of the consulate.
![Red Dragons Penny Carnival](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1988Call Number: V 508Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Progressive childcare program called the Red Dragons holds a penny carnival and a game night. A puppet show featuring the story of a red dragon who goes to Central America looking for peace and witnesses the oppression local people face by US-funded violence. The children declare “El Salvador will win!”
![Chasky Quilt - 500 years of resistance](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 10/12/1991Call Number: V 528Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
The quilt is displayed at International Women's Day march. The progressive women of color drum performance group Sistah Boom also performs.
![Red Dragons protest war toys - Geronimo Pratt Parade and Press Conference](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 12/1/1986Call Number: V 529Format: Hi-8Producers: David SternCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Red Dragons, a children's group, protest against the selling of war toys like Rambo and GI Joe because they promote war as normal and fun. They attempt to go into a toy store to show the owners their petition and the owners then call San Francisco police to break up the demonstration.
The Committee to Free Geronimo Pratt picket outside San Francisco's World Trade Center where the California Parole Board hears cases. Press conference held afterwards features actor Danny Glover, Pratt's attorney Stuart Hanlon, Pratt's wife Ashaki Pratt, and various activists from prisoner rights organizations, all calling for the release of Geronimo.
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