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Decision in the Streets
Call Number: V 732Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Decision in the Streets shows the tumultuous beginnings of the Bay Area civil rights and peace movements from 1960 to 1965. Segments include 1960's anti-HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) demonstrations; Hands-off-Cuba demonstrations during the Bay of Pigs invasion and Cuban missile crisis in 1962 & 1963; the 1963 march of 15,000 people protesting the Birmingham church bombings; mass arrests of protesters sitting in at the Sheraton Palace Hotel over racist hiring practices; the 1964 anti-Goldwater Republican convention protests; the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, California, and more.
The Land is Rich
Call Number: V 734Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
The Land is Rich documents the United Farm Workers struggle to organize California farm workers in the early 1960's. It includes their march from Delano to Sacramento in the spring of 1966. The film contrasts the economic strength of California agribusiness with the migrant workers' poverty shown in bread lines, living conditions and the impact of extensive exposure to agricultural chemicals. This film was used by the United Farm Workers Union.
No Greater Cause
Call Number: V 735Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
No Greater Cause chronicles the height of the anti-Vietnam war movement in the Bay Area. Footage shows the massive confrontations in Oakland between police and anti-draft protesters in 1967; the rally of 100,000 against the war at Kezar Stadium in April, 1967; and other events. Vietnam veteran David Duncan told demonstrators, "Protesters are the best friends the soldiers in Vietnam have."
Warning! Warning!
Call Number: V 736Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Warning! Warning! focuses on San Francisco Bay ecological conditions and threats to the Bay caused by the dumping of municipal, farming and industrial wastes into its tributary rivers and into the Bay itself.
Timber Tigers
Call Number: V 737Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Timber Tigers resulted from a national tour of forest areas. It shows seldom seen giant forest-cutting machinery that harvests and hauls trees of all sizes across the country. The film exposes the forestry industry's approach to logging: "After us, the deluge and the desert."
Vanishing Redwoods
Call Number: V 738Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Vanishing Redwoods depicts the delicate natural balance required for the growth and survival of redwood forests. Photographed in northern California and Oregon, it shows how the logging industry's traditional practice of clear cutting threatens the very survival of redwood trees as a species.