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Campanile Action
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
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
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
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!”
Wall of Women Against the War
Date: 10/11/1993Call Number: V 570Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Annual celebration and demonstration on International Women's Day, Wall of Women Against the War connect anti-abortion legislation, the Gulf War, and political prisoners to the struggle for women’s self-determination.
International Women's Day 1987
Date: 3/5/1987Call Number: V 571Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Annual celebration and demonstration on IWD. Speakers make point to call for an end to the Lexington Control Unit and a release of all political prisoners. Connect the struggles for independence in Central America to the struggle of political prisoners in the US.
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