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Changing Planet: the Great Debate or a Planet in Crisis
Date: 1/1/1989Call Number: KP 246AFormat: Cass AProducers: Ralph Steiner, Berry ScottProgram: Changing PlanetCollection: Eco-justice
Side A of the tape includes talks with two climate scientists who discuss the serious changes affecting the Earth which could lead to disastrous consequences. Topics include the green house effect, water toxins, energy consumption and waste (including their politics) in and between first world and developing countries, overpopulation of mass consumers, deforestation leading to less bio diversity the human ignorance and greed that caused these problems and allows them to continue, and potential ways to create "leaner, more efficient" person to help counter continued effects.
Mission to Planet Earth
Date: 1/1/1989Call Number: KP 246BFormat: Cass BProducers: Charles BloomerProgram: Human FutureCollection: Eco-justice
Side B of the tape discusses the use of space technology to help solves Earth's environmental problems. The proposed Mission to Planet Earth is an international and interdisciplinary approach to "monitor the Earth's health" creating models of Earth's systems from individual to global layers to understand their interaction and help make more accurate prediction of the effects humans have on the planet.
Favonius & Tony Toon
Date: 1/1/1989Call Number: V 306Format: VHSProducers: Claude Marks - aka Greg PetersCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Favonius - A short on a Pittsburgh, PA trombone quartet.
Tony Toon - a four-year old wakes up and turns on the TV. About the exposure of youth to violence on television.
Outcry LA, Favonius & Tony Toon - digital
Date: 1/1/1989Call Number: V 307Format: Mini DVProducers: Claude Marks - aka Greg PetersCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A special about the April 1992 Los Angeles rebellion in the wake of the Rodney King verdict and the exoneration of the cops.
opening 10 minutes only
Favonius - A short on a Pittsburgh, PA trombone quartet.
Tony Toon - a four-year old wakes up and turns on the TV. About the exposure of youth to violence on television.
Puerto Rico and the UN: What's Next?
Date: 1/1/1989Call Number: LA 172Format: Cass A & BProducers: Mario MurilloProgram: Wakeup Call, NY Latino JournalCollection: Puerto Rico
An explanation of the history of US involvement in Puerto Rico, from the 1898 invasion and acquisition of the islands to modern day issues facing the Puerto Rican independistas. Also includes a segment from the NY Latino Journal covering a 1989 march for Puerto Rican independence in New York (this is the final 20 minutes of material).
The Night Before New Years 1989
Date: 12/31/1989Call Number: KP 249AFormat: Cass AProducers: Lincoln BergmanCollection: General materials
To the meter of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas", the poem briefly comments on the main socio-political events and ills of 1989, highlighting the fall of the Berlin wall and communism. The poem concludes that the persistent conflicts and hallow "victories" over them can only be fixed through tolerance and understanding each other
Bobby Seale, Huey Dead, Reggie Major
Date: 8/23/1989Call Number: CV 005Format: Cass A & BProducers: Pacifica Radio, KPFACollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Panel discusion and Q & A about fair election laws and the media. Discussion about "Bad jacketing" - Cointelpro practice of labeling someone a snitch in an organization to disrupt it.
Interview with Enola Maxwell director of the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House. Ms. Maxwell discusses auto row protests in the 1960's, March on Washington with MLK, NAACP, and the Black Panther Party.
Ghosts ...Of The Civil Dead
Soundtrack to Australian film consisting of prisoners and guards speaking over music.
Leonard Peltier Interview
Leonard Peltier is interviewed about his case and history.
Leonard Peltier Interview
Leonard Peltier is interviewed about his case and history. Same as PM 326.
