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Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials

Documents

Naval Weapons Naval Weapons
Date: 3/5/1987Call Number: V 184Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This tape contains footage of a demonstration against the US war on Nicaragua. The tape also appears to contain sabotage of a railroad track.
Steps to Freedom--Presidio Army Base Steps to Freedom--Presidio Army Base
Date: 10/15/1988Call Number: V 187Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This video contains footage of a demonstration at the Presidio Army Base in San Francisco against the US war on Central America. Protesters sit in the street and attempt to build a barricade and are arrested by SFPD.
US Out of El Salvador VI US Out of El Salvador VI
Date: 9/9/1987Call Number: V 196Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This video contains footage of a demonstration in San Francisco against the US war in El Salvador in which protesters knock over a police barricade and use projectiles against the SFPD. SFPD makes violent arrests.
Interview with Gladys Baez Interview with Gladys Baez
Call Number: V 236Collection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Tape Two: Students interview Gladys Baez, Vice President of the Commission of Women, Children, Youth, and Family in Nicaragua, at Leon Legal Office. Baez speaks on Women's contributions to Nicaraguan economy. This tape has partial translation.
Female Tobacco Workers Interviewed Female Tobacco Workers Interviewed
Call Number: V 237Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Tape Three: Nicaraguan women working in Tobacco fields are interviewed. This tape is in Spanish only.
Sofia Montenegro Interview Sofia Montenegro Interview
Call Number: V 238Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Tape Four: Sofia Montenegro one of the founders of the Sandinista Daily Paper, Barricada, is interviewed. She speaks on the development of a feminist movement in Nicaragua since the 1979 U.S. supported the insurgence of counterrevolutionaries. The women's movement originated out of necessity changed old military, economic and social values.Women began working manual labor jobs normally only given to men, lobbied for a national referendum on abortion, and participated in guerrilla warfare.
Cara el Pueblo Cara el Pueblo
Call Number: V 239Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Tape Five: "Cara el Pueblo" (Face the People) was a tradition of the Nicaraguan revolution. Once a week top Sandinista leaders met face to face with hundreds of people to discuss their questions, complaints, demands and suggestions. This meeting focuses on the particular concerns of women fighting in the revolution. This tape also has footage from The Mother's March. Spanish only.
Las Nicas & Home Life Las Nicas & Home Life
Call Number: V 353Format: VHSProducers: Carol Isacs, Julia LesageCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Las Nicas - A dramatization of experiences and conversations the director had with Nicaraguan women, set to a slide show. Home Life - a documentary on the experience of a white man doing a home stay with a Nicaraguan family
Women's rights in Nicaragua Women's rights in Nicaragua
Date: 11/14/1987Call Number: V 396Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Women working with Nicaraguan organizations in the struggle to transform society, discuss violence against women. They also discuss women’s role in Nicaraguan society and the inequalities they face. In Spanish.
Woman to Woman Campaign Woman to Woman Campaign
Date: 8/1/1987Call Number: V 417Format: UmaticCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Short segment of a larger project depicting a popular assembly in Nicaragua where women critique the new constitution, emphasizing the need for a stronger and feminist commitment to reproductive rights, family structure, and work.