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![Decision in the Streets](images/thumbnails/HTM.jpg)
Call Number: V 732Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Decision in the Streets shows the tumultuous beginnings of the Bay Area civil rights and peace movements from 1960 to 1965. Segments include 1960's anti-HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) demonstrations; Hands-off-Cuba demonstrations during the Bay of Pigs invasion and Cuban missile crisis in 1962 & 1963; the 1963 march of 15,000 people protesting the Birmingham church bombings; mass arrests of protesters sitting in at the Sheraton Palace Hotel over racist hiring practices; the 1964 anti-Goldwater Republican convention protests; the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, California, and more.
![Everyman](images/thumbnails/HTM.jpg)
Call Number: V 720Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Everyman is the name of a boat built in Sausalito by the Bay Area peace movement to sail into the Pacific Ocean nuclear test zones to protest nuclear testing. The film covers Everyman's first and only voyage on May 27th, 1962 when it sailed out the Golden Gate only to be stopped twenty miles out by the U.S. Coast Guard who arrested the crew and impounded the boat. Protests included sit-in demonstrations at the U.S. Marshall's office where Joan Baez took part, singing "We Shall Overcome." The crew was eventually sentenced to 30 days in jail.
![Hot Damn!](images/thumbnails/HTM.jpg)
Call Number: V 733Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Hot Damn! is a short film with unique footage of the Bay Area peace movement at a time when the Vietnam War was escalating rapidly. Segments include the Berkeley troop train demonstrations; peace marches from Berkeley to Oakland, ending in a massive confrontation with local police; the Oakland Army Induction Center draft protests, draft card burning, and the sit-ins of 1964-1965.
![No Greater Cause](images/thumbnails/HTM.jpg)
Call Number: V 735Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
No Greater Cause chronicles the height of the anti-Vietnam war movement in the Bay Area. Footage shows the massive confrontations in Oakland between police and anti-draft protesters in 1967; the rally of 100,000 against the war at Kezar Stadium in April, 1967; and other events. Vietnam veteran David Duncan told demonstrators, "Protesters are the best friends the soldiers in Vietnam have."
![Women for Peace](images/thumbnails/HTM.jpg)
Call Number: V 721Format: VHSProducers: Estuary PressCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Women for Peace covers the founding of the organization and many of the first peace demonstrations that it sponsored. With narration by Frances Herring, a founder of Women for Peace, the film covers 1961 and 1962 anti-nuclear demonstrations in California, Nevada and many other activities undertaken by the group.
![David Gilbert – A Lifetime of Struggle](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesProducers: Lisa Rudman, Claude MarksCollection: Freedom Archives Productions
This 30-minute video was edited in March 2002 by Claude Marks and Lisa Rudman, and is based on an interview done in July of 1998 at Great Meadows Prison, Comstock, New York by Sam Green and Bill Siegel. Camera: Federico Salsano.
This is a rare opportunity to go behind prison walls for a discussion with David Gilbert, a lifelong anti-imperialist activist and former member of the Weather Underground Organization. David is now serving a life sentence in prison for activities in support of the Black Liberation Movement. He explains why he joined the movement, what led him to go underground, and frankly discusses the strengths and errors of the movement and the WUO.
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