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KKK & Neo-Nazis: Armageddon Interviews (Crusaders for ignorance, bigotry and war)
Expose includes compilation of interviews with the KKK in the early 80's. Explains newer white power groups and how they get their message across. Includes Florida Grand Wizard Tony Vistanzio and Tom Metzger who distributes a California show called Race & Reason. Also discusses new white power groups such as the Order and the Posse. These Neo-Nazi cults are obsessed with arming for the racial Armageddon. Jim Wickston of the Posse explains hatred of Jews, 'minorities,' and warns of the end of the nonwhite world. Similar groups such as the Aryan Warriors and Euro-American Brigade replace old Klan ideas and preach Christian identity and the overthrow of the "Zionist" run government and economy. To reinforce hatred towards Jews, the Christian identity is the claim that Aryans are a lost tribe of Israel and will survive Armageddon. Ends with Ronald Reagan's concurring.
Ward Churchill: Pacifism and Pathology in the American Left
Date: 9/17/2002Call Number: CD 437Format: CDProducers: AK PressCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Liberal activism often embraces non-violent resistance in response to State-sponsored terrorism at home and abroad. In this emotional critique, Churchill urges activists to support any and all tactics in order to stop the tyranny of the State. Churchill argues that the terrorist attack of 9/11 disrupted US global capitalism more radically than any peaceful protest the Left has been able to organize. Recorded at a packed and fired up AK Press warehouse in Oakland.
Born of the People: Ho Chi Minh & Malcolm X
Date: 5/19/1975Call Number: V 217Format: UmaticProducers: Nothing is More Precious ThanProgram: Open Studio - KQEDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Tribute to Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh who share a birthday - May 19th. Utilizes historical Soviet film footage of Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese National Liberation Front and film and stills of malcolm X.
African Liberation music and poetry
Liberation music in African and African Jazz styles, all the songs have a political message. Issues raised are about the oppressed black people living under white rule, limits to land and political power, and how oppressed people in countries like South Africa, Namibia, El Salvador, and Guatemala are being called to rise up against oppression, racism, and classism, and to liberate themselves.
Malcolm X: Words from the Frontlines - Exerpts From the Great Speeches
"We Want Complete Separation" (13:33)
"You Got What's Know as 'White's Disease'" (12:20)
"Keep That White Man's Claws off Our Women" (5:25)
"There's No Such Thing as a Non-Violent Revolution" (4:26)
"I'm a Field Negro" (8:37)
"... Stop Singin' and Start Swingin" (7:42)
"... By Any Means Necessary" (14:03)
"You Can't Hate the Roots of a Tree and Not Hate the Tree" (5:55)
[Untitled] (:40)
Let it Burn - Robert Franklin Williams Interview
Interview Highlights include:
The KKK's plan to murder Williams & destroy his NAACP Branch. The basis of the kidnapping charges. Why Castro granted Williams political asylum in Cuba. The Communist Party's opposition to his advocacy of Black Nationalism. Che Guevara's friendship & support, & why Guevara left Cuba. Why Williams changed from struggling for integration to advocating revolution. The Cuban leaders he believes aided the CIA by sabotaging his work. Why he left Cuba for China, rather than a neutral nation. His denial that he functioned as a Chinese propagandist. Why he feels that Afro-Americans should support Mao Tze Tung. Why he urged Black GIs in Viet Nam to turn their weapons against racists in the USA. His reaction to the assassinations of the Kennedys & Martin Luther King. His prophecy of the coming destruction of a racially divided USA.
I Won't Drown on that Levee and You Ain't Gonna Break My Back
Date: 1/1/2006Call Number: CD 512Format: DVDProducers: Ashley HuntCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
30 minute video documents the evacuation of Orleans Parish Prison, the building of the "Greyhound Jail" inside the New Orleans' Greyhound Station, and the criminalization of survivors of Hurricane Katrina, placing overwhelming stress on families and loved ones and hindering their 'right to return.' It uses footage from our October Human Rights delegation on the status of prisoners, interviews with family members, news clips and archival film.
4 Little Girls - The Story of Four Girls Who Paid the Price for a Nation's Ignorance
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: V 222Format: DVDProducers: Spike LeeCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Recounts the people and events leading up to the one of the most despicable hate-crimes during the height of the civil-rights movement, the bombing of the 16th Street Church in Birmingham, Alabama. In that attack, four little African-American girls lost their lives and a nation was simultaneously revolted, angered and galvanized to push the fight for equality and justice on.
A Huey Newton Story - He Defied and Defined Generations
Date: 1/1/2001Call Number: V 223Format: DVDProducers: Spike LeeCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Originally born in a small town in Louisiana and later moving with his family to Oakland, California as an infant, Huey P. Newton became the co-founder and leader of the Black Panther movement for over 2 decades.
Director Spike Lee and Roger Guenveur Smith collaborate for the 7th time to bring Newton's thoughts, philosophies, history and flavour to life in A Huey P. Newton Story.
Produced by Luna Ray Films, A Huey P. Newton Story is the film adaptation of Smith's Obie Award-winning, off-Broadway solo performance of the same name. It was filmed before a live audience and Spike Lee directs the film with his signature mix of film and archival footage to capture the thoughts of this revolutionary political leader.
Some good documentary footage during the opening minutes.
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Date: 1/1/1973Call Number: V 224Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
In order to improve his standing with Black voters, a White Senator starts a campaign for the CIA to recruit Black agents. However, all are graded on a curve and doomed to fail, save for a soft-spoken veteran named Dan Freeman. After grueling training in guerrilla warfare, clandestine operations and unarmed combat, he is assigned a meager job as the CIA's token Black employee. After five years of racist and stereotyped treatment by his superiors, he quietly resigns to return to his native Chicago to work for a social services agency...by day. By night, he trains Black youth to be the vanguard & Freedom Fighters in an upcoming revolutionary struggle, using all that the CIA has taught him...
This film was suppressed after its release.
