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Ricanstructing Vieques
Date: 1/1/1999Call Number: V 005Format: VHSProducers: Ugly planet mediaCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
a punkumentary featuring the band Ricanstruction, directed by Vagabond.2/3 of the island is being destroyed by the Navy, the women and children have cancer, there is little employment. “ Another example is... you are at the beach, relaxing...one time we were at Sunbay this was in ‘87 or ‘88..we were with kids playing, and a few tanks came out of the water, various kinds of tanks..everybody was in shock, I grabbed my daughters and everybody was screaming then they went back in to the water, so if somebody would have been where they came out that person would have been dead. So it’s a mistake- there are many mistakes.”
Jalil Muntaqim interviews (4 of 4)
Call Number: V 081Format: VHSProducers: John O’ReillyCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Last of the 4 interviews. Only about 10 minutes. Asked about what he does to keep his soul intact in prison. Describes music, exercise, prayer, keyboard, congo drums, martial arts (in the past) - all help to make him feel human. Interviewers drive around prison, brief footage of perimeter of Auburn Correctional Facility.
Art in the Struggle for Freedom
Date: 4/17/2000Call Number: V 045Format: VHSProducers: Abe OsheroffCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Focuses on the heart-tearing poetry and astoundingly dynamic poster art produced by Republicans during the war in Spain.
The posters were a principal weapon in the Spanish people's heroic struggle against fascism. Since large sections of the population were illiterate, a flexible, effective means of mobilizing the people was needed.
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
Date: 1/1/1999Call Number: V 101Format: VHSProducers: WNETProgram: American MastersCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
The life and achievements of Paul Robeson - athlete, singer and scholar. Robeson is also the champion of human rights, Black people and the disenfranchised.
Victor Jara - El derecho de vivir en paz
Date: 1/1/1999Call Number: V 161Format: VHSProducers: Carmen Luz ParotCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This documentary, released in 1999, remembers the life of the Chilean folk singer Victor Jara. It documents his life from his infancy in the campo to his adolescent years spent living in a marginal community in Santiago, his work in the theater, and his support of the beliefs of the socialist president Salvador Allende. His death in the National Stadium as well as the exile of his widow Joan Turner and many others, not to mention the torture and death of thousands, were all a result of the military coup led by Augusto Pinochet following the death of President Allende. The documentary draws a parallel between the history of Jara and the transformations that his country suffered after September 11, 1973.
Pearl Ubungan Dancers 1997 on Kearny street, Jackson 20 year anniversary I Hotel eviction (EH)
Date: 8/4/1997Call Number: IH 030Format: VHSCollection: The International Hotel struggle and the Filipino community
A video recording of a street performance by the Pearl Ubungan Dancers at the 20th year commemoration of the International Hotel Eviction. The performance includes live dancing accompanied by live music, and poetry. Event takes place on Kearny and Jackson street by the vacant lot where the International Hotel once stood. The video is recorded on VHS.
Dame la Mano
Date: 1/1/2004Call Number: V 290Format: VHSProducers: Heddy HonigmannCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
On Sunday nights, Union City's La Esquina Habanera restaurant is the place to be for New Jersey's Cuban community. Here, professional and amateur dancers gyrate to the sensual and spirited rhythms of the rumba, a dance veteran practitioners credit for everything from curing cancer to sexual vigor in old age.
Award-winning Dutch documentarian Heddy Honigmann listens to the stories of several Cuban exiles in this joyous cinematic celebration of Latin life, music, and dance that culminates with an exuberant nightclub finale.
Favonius & Tony Toon
Date: 1/1/1989Call Number: V 306Format: VHSProducers: Claude Marks - aka Greg PetersCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Favonius - A short on a Pittsburgh, PA trombone quartet.
Tony Toon - a four-year old wakes up and turns on the TV. About the exposure of youth to violence on television.
I-Hotel Celebration
Date: 8/6/2000Call Number: IH 038Format: VHSCollection: The International Hotel struggle and the Filipino community
Demonstration, talks, music, dance and poetry at Cloud House in San Francisco.
Vivan Las Mujeres - Update with the BCTF - Fight Racism
Date: 2/16/1986Call Number: V 472Format: VHSProducers: Trella LaughlinCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Vivan Las Mujeres features two feminist activists that spent six months in Central America meeting and working with women. Discusses the creation of the Women's Skills and Resource Exchange Center in Seattle that directed monetary and organizational resources to women in Central America.
An interview with Dorothy Nell Turner and Velma Roberts of the Black Citizens Task Force of Austin about housing, development, busing, and conflicts within the Black community.
Fight Racism Musical Benefit was a tribute to Malcolm X on the anniversary of his assassination. BCTF and Let the People Speak sponsor the event that features local bands and WC Clark. Trella Laughlin opens Fight Racism.
