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Behind the Burning Cross, Racism USA
Date: 1/1/1991Call Number: V 130Format: VHSProducers: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee, George LippmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This brief history of the most notorious hate groups in the U.S. not only provides some interesting background on the Ku Klux Klan and its origins as a tool for rolling back the African-Americans' gains of the reconstruction period but also portrays its widespread activities today and its links with Nazi and nativist skinheads. Examines the violence being used by these hate groups in the 1990's to further racism, anti-semitism, gay-bashing, nativism and pushing back the womens movement. Footage of interviews with David Duke and Tom Metzger reveals their efforts to repackage hate within the bosom of so-called "All American Values." Examines the phenomenon of "white" rock'n roll and the right-wing media establishment to mobilize whites against blacks, gays, foreigners and Jews. Quickly examines the relationships between the FBI and the Klan. Also shows that many skinheads condemn the fascist skinhead movement.
Assata Shakur: clips from her 1980 address to the people after her escape from prison
Same as PM 227. This program is an edited version of her address to the people after she escaped. She begins the recording by stating that she loves everyone and encourages everyone to continue to struggle for our liberation. Assata talks about how Black people are constantly under attack by the poor school system, infiltration of drugs, welfare system, police state, etc. She talks about the necessity for a Black Nation and how Black women must play a key role in the struggle for liberation. She says that they are the most closely related to the struggle because of their position in White American society. Assata talks about the direction of the US government and how it is continually becoming more racist and fascist; how the government sees Black peoples as expendable and just "a thorn in their side."
A Conversation with Mabel Williams at Chabot College
Date: 3/17/2004Call Number: V 148Format: VHSProducers: Chabot CollegeCollection: Robert F. Williams!
Mabel Williams speaks with a college audience about the origins of the Black liberation movement. Includes questions and answers.
United League Speech
Date: 2/1/1981Call Number: KP 250Format: Cass A & BProducers: Skip Robinson, Arnold TownsendCollection: Black Liberation
A fundraiser speech given by Skip Robinson and Arnold Towensend focusing on the need for blacks across the country to unify and assist each other in changing and defeating the racist system. Special attention is given to the loss of land in Mississippi owned by blacks, gentrification in the Fillmore District and elsewhere in San Francisco, and the deliberate attacks by whites in power (from the local police to the CIA) to set blacks against each other to keep them fractured and weak as well as encouraging drug problems in such communities.
County Jails and Repression
Call Number: PM 350Format: Cass A & BProducers: Prison Activist RadioProgram: On the OutsideCollection: Political Prisoner Periodicals
Michael Novick, a member of LA-based People Against Racist Terror (PART), talks about police abuse and repression. He discusses KKK members who stand trial without their political affiliations revealed and political prisoners such as Geronimo Pratt whose role as a Black Panther led to his prosecution and criminalization.
Behind the Burning Cross - In the Face of Hate
Date: 11/6/1992Call Number: V 333Format: VHSProducers: Workers' Film, Video ForumCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Two films from the Workers' Film and Video Forum cover issues of racist hate crimes in America. "Behind the Burning Cross" presents the history and present actions of the Ku Klux Klan, the New Klan, WAR and Neo-Nazi skinheads. "In the Face of Hate" discusses hate crimes in the Pacific Northwest.
Center for Democratic Renewal Workshop
Date: 1/1/1988Call Number: JG/ 140Format: Cass A & BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Speakers focus on white supremacist political campaigns, particularly that of David Duke. Also discuss the political and cultural trends that make election of white supremacists possible. Support tactics to defeat racist campaign strategies such as the “appropriation of the language” which uses new terminology to mask racism.
Paramilitary White Organizations
This recording is of a meeting organized by the National Committee Against Repression to discuss the nature of white paramilitary organizations and how to organize against them. The meeting consists of speakers from the National Committee to Free the Puerto Rican Prisoners of War and the National Committee to Defend the New Afrikan Freedom Fighters.
Both speakers discuss the KKK and its connection to the police and the state, the growing repression in American society, the role of corporations, and the limits of reforms. They also discuss global imperialism and the role paramilitary organizations play in re-enforcing the interests of the state. During a question and answer discussion, audience members ask about survivalists, Mormons, death squads in Latin America, white involvement in the anti-imperialist movement, and other topics. Members of the meeting then pass a four-part resolution taking a position against liberal reform organizations, recommending self-defense and preemptive defense against white paramilitary organizations, recommending that women focus on countering the recruitment of women into white paramilitary organizations, and recommending that whites engage in campaigns discouraging white supremacy. Tape cuts out.
Women and the Klan
On the recruitment of women in the KKK, their leadership role and how the Klan's strategy of exploiting the women's movement aids white male supremacy.
Smash the Klan: Support the Struggle of Black People for Human Rights!
Publisher: The Moncada Library and John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeVolume Number: 23-FebFormat: FlyerCollection: Moncada Library
Flyer with information on the back about recent white supremacist and Klan activity, with graphic.
