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Incident at Oglala
Date: 1/1/1988Call Number: CD 205Format: DVDProducers: Michael AptedCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
This powerful documentary by director Michael Apted chronicles the troubling story of Native American activist Leonard Peltier. Amid tensions between the federal government and the Lakota Sioux and within the Indian population itself dating back to the occupation of Wounded Knee in 1973, two FBI agents and one Native American were killed in a hail of gunfire on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975. Peltier was subsequently arrested and jailed for the crime although the evidence against him was questionable. Narrated by Robert Redford (also the executive producer), the film revisits the crime scene and assembles archival footage and interviews to show how Peltier was never granted a fair trial, while painting a larger portrait of social injustice in view of the contemporary living conditions of Native Americans.
Resistance Conspiracy
Call Number: JG/ 058Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Interviews with Laura Whitehorn, Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Tim Blunk, Susan Lisa Rosenberg, and Alan Berkman part of the Resistance Conspiracy case of the late 80s. Charged with "conspiracy to protest and alter government policies through use of violence," these prisoners discuss their sentences, prison conditions, life on the outside, movement strategy, the U.S. justice system, and the need for continued struggle.
Resistance Conspiracy
Call Number: JG/ 059Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
SAME AS JG/LS058. Interviews with Laura Whitehorn, Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Tim Blunk, Susan Lisa Rosenberg, and Alan Berkman part of the Resistance Conspiracy case of the late 80s. Charged with "conspiracy to protest and alter government policies through use of violence," these prisoners discuss their sentences, prison conditions, life on the outside, movement strategy, the U.S. justice system, and the need for continued struggle.
Buried Alive: Lexington Control Unit
Call Number: JG/ 061BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Judy Gerber interviews political prisoners/prisoners of war housed at the Lexington Control Unit in Kentucky. Puerto Rican Independista Alejandrina Torres and North American anti-imperialists Sylvia Baraldini and Susan Rosenberg, all inmates in Lexington, discuss the psychological torture they have endured in this unit including the absence of natural sunlight, denial of personal property, limited contact with family and the outside world, pointless and humiliating strip searches and other sexual torture, and medical neglect. Also discussed is the importance of public pressure in the form of national and international campaigns against these horrendous conditions.
Profiles: A series on U.S. Political Prisoners
Date: 12/1/1990Call Number: PM 219Format: CassetteProducers: Zenzile Khoisan, Sally O’BrienCollection: Political Prisoners- General Info
A series on U.S Political Prisoners produced for the Special International Tribunal on the Violation of Human Rights of Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War in United States Prisons and Jails. The series of profiles offer insight into the political activity, incarceration, and prison conditions of: Dr. Alan Berkman, Sekou Abdullah Odinga, Marilyn Buck, Assata Shakur, Bashir Hameed and Susan Rosenberg. They individually discuss their treatment as prisoners and specifically political prisoners. Other issues brought up are Black Liberation Movement, Panther 21 case, the relationship of revolutionary struggle to the mass movement, government and media depictions of revolutionaries, life in prison, and continued struggle and action within the prison system.
Profiles: A series on U.S. Political Prisoners
Date: 12/1/1990Call Number: CD 167Format: CDProducers: Zenzile Khoisan, Sally O’BrienCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
A series on U.S Political Prisoners produced for the Special International Tribunal on the Violation of Human Rights of Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War in United States Prisons and Jails. The series of profiles offer insight into the political activity, incarceration, and prison conditions of: Dr. Alan Berkman, whose discussion includes his work as a doctor and his treatment of fugitive and captured members of Liberation movements, the torture of political prisoners, his movement into underground activity, the nature of national liberation struggles in the U.S. and elsewhere, his experience as a grand jury resister, and the relationship between spontaneous political action and organized political action; Sekou Abdullah Odinga, who discusses his work as a "soldier of Black Liberation," his involvement in the Panther 21 case, his capture and torture, the popular depiction of radicals in the U.S., and the use of the legal and prison system in defusing radical activity; Marilyn Buck, who discusses her work as a North American Anti-Imperialist, her work with Black Liberation Army and her role in the liberation of Assata Shakur, political prisoners' depiction as terrorist, the disparate sentencing of political prisoners and prisoners of war, the prison conditions faced by political prisoners, and strategies for the furtherance of political struggle; Bashir Hameed, who discusses his work with the Black Panther Party, His role in the Black Liberation Movement, his multiple trials and the racist and biased treatment he received during these trials, media depiction of revolutionaries and liberation struggles, and the propensity of the general population to support revolutionary struggles; and Susan Rosenberg, who discusses her work as and what it means to be a "revolutionary humanist," the relationship of revolutionary struggle to the mass movement, government and media depictions of revolutionaries, life in prison, and continued struggle and action within the prison system.
Pelican Bay Program (1 of 2)
Corey Weinstein and Catherine Campbell discuss their trip to Pelican Bay Prison in Northern California as part of a legal delegation affiliated with the Real Dragon Prison Project. Included are descriptions of Control Units and the infamous "SHU de-briefing” techniques, as well as the prison system’s use of informants and the effects of the psychological torture used against prisoners. Weinstein and Campbell also dispel some of the myths surrounding the "worst of the worst" label put on many prisoners housed in Pelican Bay and expose the roundup of anti-authoritarian and prisoner with organizing and leadership potential.
Pelican Bay Program (2 of 2)
CONTINUED FROM PM 220: Corey Weinstein and Catherine Campbell continue their discussion of the conditions within the Pelican Bay Prison. Weinstein and Campbell elaborate on the relationships between different prison groups, guard torture and brutality, and the economic condition and opinions of the communities surrounding Pelican Bay Prison.
The Resistance Conspiracy
Date: 4/13/1989Call Number: PM 222Format: CassetteProgram: In our VoicesCollection: Political Prisoners- General Info
Judy Greenspan, Mary O’Melviney, and Nikichi Taifa -- lawyers and activists-- discuss the Resistance Conspiracy Case and the struggles for Laura Whitehorn, Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Tim Blunk, Susan Rosenberg, and Alan Berkman, all charged with "conspiracy to protest and alter government policies through use of violence," specifically stemming from a bombing of the Capitol Building in 1983.
This broadcast explores the political nature of the case, the lack of evidence and due process involved in this case, as well as the horrendous conditions faced by these prisoners of war. Judy Greenspan, Mary O'Melviney, and Nikichi Taifa also try to contextualize the actions of these prisoners with a broader justice movement against the crimes of the U.S. nationally and internationally.
Freedom Now Prison Event
Note: Tape at 0331.
Muhjah Shakir hosts a Freedom Now event in commemoration of the Attica Uprising, the murder of George Jackson and the 21st year of Geronimo Ji-Jaga's imprisonment. The commemorative event is related to the ongoing conditions of the U.S. prison system and includes; updates on the lawsuit in behalf of Attica prisoners tortured after the uprising by Dennis Cunningham; recording of Leonard Peltier speaking on the Attica uprising, presented by Bobby Castillo; and an update on the conditions in the Special Housing Unit in Pelican Bay Prison by Corey Weinstein.
