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![Women for Peace](images/thumbnails/HTM.jpg)
Call Number: V 721Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Women for Peace covers the founding of the organization and many of the first peace demonstrations that it sponsored. With narration by Frances Herring, a founder of Women for Peace, the film covers 1961 and 1962 anti-nuclear demonstrations in California, Nevada and many other activities undertaken by the group.
![Freedom March](images/thumbnails/HTM.jpg)
Call Number: V 727Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Freedom March features the San Francisco civil rights protest march of May 26, 1963, sponsored by Bay Area black churches and the labor movement in the shocked aftermath of the Birmingham, Alabama bombing of a black church, killing five children. The film shows the march down Market Street and the rally with speakers at the Civic Center.
![Freedom Bound](images/thumbnails/HTM.jpg)
Call Number: V 728Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Freedom Bound tells the story of the SNCC voter registration campaign in Mississippi in 1963. Through interviews with poor black farmers who risked everything to register to vote, the film conveys the courage, determination and sacrifice which the common people of the South used to help end racial segregation. Containing much of the same interviews as We'll Never Turn Back, this film features rare footage of SNCC volunteers telling their stories of crossing the color line in rural Mississippi.
![We'll Never Turn Back](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: V 729Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
We'll Never Turn Back was filmed in Mississippi in 1963 during the dangerous voter registration drives of that era. Appearing in the film are Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) leaders Bob Moses and Julian Bond, as well as local civil rights leaders Curtis Hayes, Hollis Watkins, Amzie Moore and E.W. Steptoe. There are interviews with black farmers and share croppers, including Fannie Lou Hamer, on their experiences (often bloody) trying to register to vote.
![Dream Deferred](images/thumbnails/HTM.jpg)
Call Number: V 731Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Dream Deferred was produced by SNCC for its southern voter registration drive in 1964, the year of the Mississippi Summer. It contains interviews with activists, voter registrants and leaders, and features Fannie Lou Hamer's speech, including her famous line: "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired."
![No Greater Cause](images/thumbnails/HTM.jpg)
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!](images/thumbnails/HTM.jpg)
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](images/thumbnails/HTM.jpg)
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](images/thumbnails/HTM.jpg)
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.
![Tale of Two Systems](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: V 739Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Tale of Two Systems is the last film made by Richards in which he analyzes the issues involved in the acquisition and usage of raw materials in our market oriented society. The film features photography of seldom seen US strip mining operations and open pit mines with their immense machinery and gigantic holes in the earth.
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