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Resistance Conspiracy
Call Number: JG/ 012Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Tim Blunk, Susan Rosenberg, Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Laura Whitehorn, Alan Berkman on trial for capitol bombing in 1983, two military bases between 1983 and 1984.
Resistance Conspiracy
Date: 1/1/1990Call Number: V 053Format: VHSProducers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Alan Berkman, Tim Blunk, Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Susan Rosenberg and Laura Whitehorn are long-time activists in support of peoples’ liberation movements here and around the world.
Come visit behind prison walls to speak with six people who the U.S. government has labeled “terrorists”.
They discuss their lives, the politics of the armed actions they are accused of, the conditions they and other political prisoners face, and their vision for the times ahead.
Lexington Prison Interviews (1987)
Date: 5/1/1987Call Number: PM 184AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Lexington Control Unit for Women
Political prisoners Alejandrina Torres, Silvia Baraldini, and Susan Rosenberg describe their living conditions at the control unit of the federal women’s prison in Lexington which opened in 1986: radical isolation, constant surveillance, sensory deprivation, no personal property, limited visits, etc.
Defined by the government as the most dangerous women in prison for their political activities in various anti-war and liberation movements, Torres, Baraldini, and Rosenberg have been subjected to a sophisticated kind of psychological torture. According to them they have been used as examples of the consequences to be expected if one challenges the hegemony of US power.
The interviews stress the importance of public pressure to have the unit closed.
Lexington Prison Interviews (1987)
Date: 5/1/1987Call Number: PM 185AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Lexington Control Unit for Women
Same as PM 184
Political prisoners Alejandrina Torres, Silvia Baraldini, and Susan Rosenberg describe their living conditions at the control unit of the federal women’s prison in Lexington which opened in 1986: radical isolation, constant surveillance, sensory deprivation, no personal property, limited visits, etc.
Defined by the government as the most dangerous women in prison for their political activities in various anti-war and liberation movements, Torres, Baraldini, and Rosenberg have been subjected to a sophisticated kind of psychological torture. According to them they have been used as examples of the consequences to be expected if one challenges the hegemony of US power.
The interviews stress the importance of public pressure to have the unit closed.
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.
Resistance Conspiracy
Date: 1/1/1990Call Number: V 132Format: VHSProducers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Alan Berkman, Tim Blunk, Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Susan Rosenberg and Laura Whitehorn are long-time activists in support of peoples’ liberation movements here and around the world.
Come visit behind prison walls to speak with six people who the U.S. government has labeled “terrorists”.
They discuss their lives, the politics of the armed actions they are accused of, the conditions they and other political prisoners face, and their vision for the times ahead.
Female Political Prisoners - series of interviews
Call Number: JG/ 070Format: CassetteProducers: Judy Gerber, Lisa RudmanProgram: KPFACollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
This is a collection of different interviews and recordings of female political prisoners from around the world. Lisa Rudman collages them together to show the injustice towards political prisoners and to highlight some of the many tactics used by the US government and prison system to get information out of political prisoners.
Rudman defines political prisoners and interviews Laura Whitehorn and Linda Evans and speaks about their cases and the circumstances leading to their imprisonment.
The other political prisoners interviewed on the tape are: Dora Garcia, active in the national liberation struggles in the US colony of Puerto Rico; Mercedes Algado, a refugee active in the FSLM and FDR in El Salvador; Elizabeth Sebego, active in the Pan African Congress; Assata Shakur, active with the Black Panthers and now a refugee in Cuba; a Filipina imprisoned for her work with the church.
Interview with Susan Rosenberg about conditions in the women’s political prison, Lexington.
Call Number: PM 438AFormat: Cass AProducers: Sally O’Brian, Terry BissonCollection: Political Prisoners- General Info
Interview with Susan Rosenberg, an American revoluntionary anti-imperialist female political prisoner, about Lexington prison. . Susan Rosenberg describes the focus of Lexington as “the psychological element of incarceration to disintigrate the personality”. She speaks about the terribly harsh and restrictive conditions of Lexington, as well as the psychological impact of the prison. Rosenberg speaks about how every prisoner is there for political reasons, as the control unit is not based on disciplinary measures, but on classificationof who and what the prisoners are associated with.
Susan Rosenberg’s attorney, Michael Schubert, speaks about the isolation and solitary confinement the Lesington prisoners experience, and how such isolation is aimed at keeping the prisoners isolated from politics.
