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![Ireland’s Struggle Liberates Women](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: V 098Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Documentary about Ireland's long history of struggle for liberation and the role which women have played in the movement and in Irish culture. Provides a history of Ireland's conquest and offers a noble image of its women, as warriors and as ancient leaders with rights equal to those of men. Discusses the manifold abuses at the hands of the English, Gaelic legend, the potato famine, the renewed struggle for a United Ireland in 1798 and the current status of the struggle. The film consists of a number of still images and short video footage narrated from historical texts. Made on low budget by amateur filmmakers.
![Imperialist oppression in Southern African countries](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Judy Jensen of the Material Aid Campaign for ZANU makes a speech about Southern Africa. She speaks about ZANU’s defeat of white settler colonialism in Zimbabwe and also women’s contributions to the struggle. She discusses the different fronts in the war for the liberation of Southern Africa, and the struggle against the US’s attack on their independence. She talks about struggles in Namibia, South Africa’s control over Southern African countries, and calls for solidarity with Southern African countries. Lastly, she draws comparisons and similarities between the oppression of blacks in America and Africa. Next, Serge Mukendi, US Representative of the Workers and Peasants Movement of the Congo (MOP), speaks about weaknesses in natural and human resources in Africa because they are not in the hands of the Africans. He speaks about the struggles in Congo and tells the audience that it is our duty to strengthen the fight for liberation in Congo through support and solidarity.
On Side B, Eve Rosahn, political activist, Students Against Government Misconduct, speaks about political activists for black liberation who have been tortured and beaten for their actions. Next, a member of the Anti-Springbok 5 chants “Up With Azania, Down With South Africa!”, and speaks about her experiences as an ASB-5, and tells the audience about the Springbok 5 and what they represent. The Springboks are an elite white supremacist South African rugby team traveling the US, representing the spread of white imperialism. Lastly, PAC (Pan African Congress) representative Jackie Mazibuko, speaks about white alliances between Ian Smith of Zimbabwe, the South African government, and the US in their oppression of black Africans. She also speaks about the land issues in Africa, and that all land originally, and still should, belong to black Africans, and that people must have the ideology of revolution to struggle against oppression.
![Machismo in La Raza](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Format: mp3Collection: Xican@
Evelina Alarcon speaks about how machismo functions in La Raza and how society perpetuates machismo. Taken from CD 826.
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