Gender and Sexuality
This collection features materials from a number of sources focusing on struggles revolving around gender and sexuality. These struggles are not separate from larger struggles for liberation but specifically incorporate unique voices and perspectives.
Subcollections
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Connexions
Connexions is the collective product of feminists of diverse nationalities and political perspectives committed to contributing to an international women\'s movement. -
Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
This collection contains materials focusing on radical feminist and lesbian politics. While diverse in medium and subject matter, this collection contextualizes women’s liberation highlighting issues of class, race, sexuality and imperialism. -
Materials shot and collected in the making of The Forest for the Trees
Raw materials from the documentary "The Forest for the Trees" which details the amazing story of the fight to clear Earth First! activist Judi Bari's name after her car was bombed and she was arrested as a terrorist. -
Out of Control: Lesbian Committee to Support Women Prisoners
Out of Control (OOC) was a self-supporting committee formed in 1987 to organize resistance to the Lexington Control Unit for women. -
Prisons - Women
This collection contains materials relating to the specific conditions, challenges and struggles facing women in prison. Topics are varied but materials include conference papers, informational materials, legal perspectives and audio recordings. -
Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
This collection contains grassroots radio programming produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms. This programming primarily occurred during the 1980s and 1990s. -
Sterilization
This collection contains materials focusing on the sterilization of women and efforts to resist this practice. -
Violence Against Women
This collection contains materials focusing on violence against women. Specific topics covered include women who fight back against their abusers, rape, pornography, sexism and self-defense. -
Women Against Imperialism
Women Against Imperialism was a grassroots, feminist, anti-imperialist solidarity organization formed in San Francisco in 1981. Women Against Imperialism’s work primarily consisted of direct action organizing and political education activities.
Documents
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Bolivia: Drug War
Date: 8/25/1989Call Number: JG/ 033AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
ACLA (Atlantic Committee on Latin America) show. Covers Bolivia following the murder of 2 Mormon missionaries the crackdown on left wing guerilla organizations and the US War on Drugs , FBI involvement and $11 million for War on Drugs in 1989. Uruguay from a article in the "Guardian" on massive unemployment, the exodus of youth and youth withdrawal from activism. El Salvador on the ARENA party and Salvadorian refugees in the US and the repression they face when trying to organize against right wing ARENA. Vieques: 4 month stand off between Puerto Rican residents and the US Navy, history of resistance on Vieques and the living/environmental conditions.
Female Political Prisoners - series of interviews
Call Number: JG/ 070Format: CassetteProducers: Judy Gerber, Lisa RudmanProgram: KPFACollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
This is a collection of different interviews and recordings of female political prisoners from around the world. Lisa Rudman collages them together to show the injustice towards political prisoners and to highlight some of the many tactics used by the US government and prison system to get information out of political prisoners.
Rudman defines political prisoners and interviews Laura Whitehorn and Linda Evans and speaks about their cases and the circumstances leading to their imprisonment.
The other political prisoners interviewed on the tape are: Dora Garcia, active in the national liberation struggles in the US colony of Puerto Rico; Mercedes Algado, a refugee active in the FSLM and FDR in El Salvador; Elizabeth Sebego, active in the Pan African Congress; Assata Shakur, active with the Black Panthers and now a refugee in Cuba; a Filipina imprisoned for her work with the church.
Ward Churchill (II)
Date: 4/11/2002Call Number: JB 020Format: DV CamProducers: Bernandine MellisCollection: Materials shot and collected in the making of The Forest for the Trees
Churchill gives history of FBI, framing of Geronimo Pratt and Dhoruba bin Wahad, history of COINTELPRO, Oklahoma City, discovery of COINTELPRO documents by a break-in in Media, PA, Bernardine Dohrn, neutralization, communism, Stokely Carmichael, Leonard Peltier, and Homeland security.
Footage from National Archives (II)
Date: 3/23/2004Call Number: JB 112Format: DV CamCollection: Materials shot and collected in the making of The Forest for the Trees
"You Can't Get Away With It," a Universal short on the FBI, as referred to as 'G-men.'- positive spin with footage of J. Edgar Hoover. "Courtroom Demeanor and Testimony," by the Peace Officers' Association of the State of California, Inc. is an informative short on what title suggests. Footage of unknown case, courthouse packed. Unedited clips of J. Edgar Hoover giving an address to US public about internal threats.
Footage from National Archives (III)
Date: 3/23/2004Call Number: JB 113Format: DV CamCollection: Materials shot and collected in the making of The Forest for the Trees
Footage of FBI Academy, FBI Firearms Ranges, and FBI training simulations. FBI presents "Document Examination," a short on what title suggests. Discover Magazine presents "Highlights from Conference on 'Terrorism in a Technological World,'" with footage of President Ronald Reagan's speech on US policy towards terrorists; Edwin Meese III, US Attorney General, on the necessity of an antiterrorism policy, Vice President George Bush on the language of the policy and terrorism as greatest threat to democracy. Army-Navy Screen Magazine presents "Battle of the United States," with J. Edgar Hoover.
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