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![House that Herman Built](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/2013Call Number: CD 862Format: DVDProducers: Jackie SumellCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Herman's House is a portrait of a man who won't give up fighting for his freedom and, inevitably, a critique of a justice system that has confined him for decades in solitary--a condition that some decry as torture. The film is even more the story of an unlikely artistic collaboration that brought thousands of Americans face-to-face with the harsh reality of Wallace's confinement and went on to change profoundly the lives of both the Louisiana prisoner and the New York artist.
New Orleans native and former Black Panther activist Herman Wallace went to jail in 1967 at age 25 for a robbery he admits committing. In 1972, he was accused of the murder of a prison guard, a crime he vehemently denies, and placed in solitary confinement in a 6-foot-by-9-foot cell in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola. Wallace was subsequently given a life sentence. Fellow Black Panther Albert Woodfox was also placed in solitary and then convicted of the same guard's murder. A third Panther activist, Robert King, was placed in solitary at that time though eventually convicted of a different murder. Together the three men became famous as the "Angola Three."
Except for a brief period, Wallace has remained in solitary confinement 23 hours a day for 40 years, and he has never stopped protesting and appealing his murder conviction. Over the years, as doubts about the men's guilt accumulated--King was freed in 2001, and in February of this year a judge ordered the release of Woodfox--concern has also grown that Wallace and an estimated 80,000 other prisoners in the United States are being subjected to solitary confinement. In 2002, Wallace received a letter that asked an extraordinary question. Jackie Sumell, a young New York artist, wrote, "What kind of house does a man who has lived in a 6-foot-by-9-foot cell for over 30 years dream of?"
![The Vinyl Project](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: Vin 102Format: VinylProducers: The Freedom ArchivesCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
The Vinyl project is a tool for DJs, musicians, MCs, activists and most of all the people. The sound bites on this record include chilling voices on repression and glimmering declaration of resistance. The Vinyl Project collective hopes these sounds will nourish your beats, noises, melodies and community.
![Black Flag: Organ of the Anarchist Black Cross](images/thumbnails//33926.jpg)
Publisher: Black Flag GroupYear: 1978Volume Number: Vol. 5-4Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Flag
This issues primary focus is on events in occuring in Spain, featuring articles from the Spanish anarchist journal "Bicicleta."
![Dragon](images/thumbnails//34149.jpg)
Publisher: Bay Area Research CollectiveYear: 1976Volume Number: No. 9 JuneFormat: PeriodicalCollection: The Dragon
Table of Contents: Feminism & Homosexuality: New World Liberation Front, The Women's Question is a Class Question: Weather Underground Organization, Responses from: BARC, Emily Harris, Left Bank Political Collective, Peoples' Information Relay-1 NWLF, A Working Class Lesbian Collective, Edward Mead, NWLF Scumlord Campaign, BARC Critique of NWLF Campigns, NWLF Open Letter to BARC, NWLF on Zapata Unit, Seattle Under Attack, To the George Jackson Brigade, Shorts, The Boston Courthouse Bombing, Criticism PIR-1, Fred Hampton Unit
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