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An Interview with Veronza Bowers
Date: 12/29/2002Call Number: CD 544Format: CDProducers: KZYX Philo, CAProgram: Youth Speaks Out - Dan Roberts & Eda LevensonCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Veronza Bowers, a former Black Panther who has served over 30 years in prison despite having completed his sentence and gained the right to release by the US Parole Commission, remains locked up.
I Am My Momma's Son - a message to my family
Call Number: CD 545Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Two Flute pieces performed by political prisoner Veronza Bowers.
1- Eulogy 35:14
2 - Birthing Song 41:06
Veronza Bowers, a former Black Panther who has served over 30 years in prison despite having completed his sentence and gained the right to release by the US Parole Commission, remains locked up.
To Touch the Spirit - Healing music from Federal Prison
Date: 1/1/2005Call Number: CD 546Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Flute pieces performed by political prisoner Veronza Bowers & friends.
1- To Touch the Spirit
2 - Song for Alexis
3- Healing Heart
Veronza Bowers, a former Black Panther who has served over 30 years in prison despite having completed his sentence and gained the right to release by the US Parole Commission, remains locked up.
Columbia Strike Press Conference
Date: 5/1/1968Call Number: CD 547Format: DVDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
A 1968 Press Conference during the student-community strike at Columbia University with campus spokespeople David Gilbert and Joe Barthel.
Solidarity Not Charity
Date: 12/1/2005Call Number: CD 548Format: DVDProducers: Common GroundCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Made during the period of the Thanksgiving Road Trip by an amazing volunteer team of videomakers. It is a wonderful expression of Common Ground's overall mission as well as a document of the work achieved so far. With titles and music and footage of banging down walls as well as political analysis.
Welcome to New Orleans
Date: 1/1/2006Call Number: CD 549Format: DVDProducers: Rasmus HolmCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
The city of New Orleans is a ghost town after the Hurricane Katrina. While most people left the city in fear, racism and poverty is there to stay. In a city full of racists and vigilantes, we meet the 58-year-old former Black Panther Malik Rahim. All his life he has been struggling to make a difference, and been trying to pass on a better society to his children and grandchildren. In the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina, the need is greater than ever, and Malik uses the attention this brings, to begin the building of a long-term grassroots organization. The film starts in the days after the hurricane, and takes us on a journey to poor Afro-American neighborhoods where the mainstream media never goes. We meet despair, hate and a little hope despite all. But most of all it tells us the story about one man who wants to make a better world, and about his extraordinary fight for peace and justice.
July '64
Date: 1/1/2006Call Number: V 270Format: DVDProducers: Calvin EisonCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
JULY ’64 tells the story of a historic three-day race riot that erupted in two African American neighborhoods in the northern, mid-sized city of Rochester, New York. On the night of July 24, 1964, frustration and resentment brought on by institutional racism, overcrowding, lack of job opportunity and police dog attacks exploded in racial violence that brought Rochester to its knees. Combines historic archival footage, news reports and interviews with witnesses and participants to dig deeply into the causes and effects of the historic disturbance.
In the 1950s, millions of African Americans from the Deep South packed their belongings and headed north in search of a better life. The city of Rochester, New York, with a progressive social justice history and a reputation for manufacturing jobs, drew people like a magnet. Between 1950 and 1960, Rochester’s black population swelled by 300 percent. The city—dubbed “Smugtown USA” by a local journalist—groaned under the weight of unprecedented growth. City fathers ignored newcomers’ housing and education needs. The only openings for blacks at companies like Kodak and Bauch and Lomb, were “behind a broom.”
On the night of July 24, 1964, what community leader and minister Franklin Florence calls the African American community’s “quiet rage” exploded into violence. What began as a routine arrest at a street dance in a predominantly black neighborhood in downtown Rochester ended with the National Guard being called to a northern city for the first time during the era of the Civil Rights Movement. The uprising, which later came to be known as the Rochester Riot, sparked a series of summertime riots in small and mid-sized northern cities. As in many of those cities, the three days of unrest and civil disobedience in Rochester provoked actions and sentiments that reverberate to this day.
Sir! No Sir!
Date: 1/1/2006Call Number: V 271Format: DVDProducers: David ZeigerCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
In the 1960's an anti-war movement emerged that altered the course of history. This movement didn't take place on college campuses, but in barracks and on aircraft carriers. It flourished in army stockades, navy brigs and in the dingy towns that surround military bases. It penetrated elite military colleges like West Point. And it spread throughout the battlefields of Vietnam. It was a movement no one expected, least of all those in it. Hundreds went to prison and thousands into exile. And by 1971 it had, in the words of one colonel, infested the entire armed services. Yet today few people know about the GI movement against the war in Vietnam.
The Vietnam War has been the subject of hundreds of films, both fiction and non-fiction, but this story-the story of the rebellion of thousands of American soldiers against the war-has never been told in film. This is certainly not for lack of evidence. By the Pentagon's own figures, 503,926 "incidents of desertion" occurred between 1966 and 1971; officers were being "fragged"(killed with fragmentation grenades by their own troops) at an alarming rate; and by 1971 entire units were refusing to go into battle in unprecedented numbers. In the course of a few short years, over 200 underground newspapers were published by soldiers around the world; local and national antiwar GI organizations were joined by thousands; thousands more demonstrated against the war at every major base in the world in 1970 and 1971, including in Vietnam itself; stockades and federal prisons were filling up with soldiers jailed for their opposition to the war and the military.
Yet today, with hundreds of thousands of American GIs once again occupying countries on the other side of the world, these history-changing events have been erased from America's public memory.
Unidentified Woman Speaking On Immigrant Rights
Powerful statements concerning the inequitable legal system and the sparse rights and protection for immigrants in the United States. Her topics range from financial needs of immigrant workers to the exclusion of blacks and Latinos in the court system.
End of a Nightstick "Police Brutality"
Call Number: V 272Format: VHSProducers: Peter KuttnerProgram: PBSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
In the late 1980's and throughout the 90's Commander Jon Burge and the Chicago Police Department brutalized men of color on the streets. The people of the community organized and created the Task Force to Confront Police Violence. As a result of community organizing, Jon Burge was eventually removed as commander of the Chicago Police Department.
