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Women's Congress for a healthy planet - 3
Date: 2/1/1992Call Number: V 385Format: VHSProducers: Trella LaughlinCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
The Women's Action Agenda was organized to demand global gender balance and to build an international solidarity network of women on the environment and development.
Winona La Duke, Carrie Dann, and Marilyn Manibusan defend indigenous people’s values and their rights to live in harmony with nature. They denounce the massive and widespread devastation of the eco-system by the US and Canadian governments.
Women's congress for a healthy planet, - 4
Date: 2/1/1992Call Number: V 386Format: VHSProducers: Trella LaughlinCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
The Women's Action Agenda was organized to demand global gender balance and to build an international solidarity network of women on the environment and development.
Vandana Shiva, Ruth Lechte, Sissy Farenthold and Mal Johnson discuss global problems effecting women and raise awareness of environmental issues while suggesting concrete actions.
United Farm Workers - SF Protest
Date: 11/13/1992Call Number: CV 259AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Interviews with UFW demonstrators who are protesting pesticide use on grapes. Grape growers are selling their produce overseas since sales are down in the US. Cesar Chavez discuss his efforts to raise awareness about pesticides and their health effects among Hong Kong consumers. He also talks about how NAFTA may influence union organizing.
USP Florence-Pelican Bay SHU
Date: 1/1/1992Call Number: V 427Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Story on CNN in the 1990s. ADX Florence has been called “the Alcatraz of the Rockies” and CNN repeats the official government position that ADX Florence - the worst control unit prison - is a "place for prisoners who have committed crimes against other prisoners." One of the interviewee’s is political prisoner Oscar López-Rivera.
Special on Pelican Bay by 60 Minutes. Interviews include several prisoners and prison guards about their experiences in Pelican Bay. It also recounts how prisoners sued the state of California for human rights violations and torture.
Women Against Imperialism-Demos Actions etc.
Date: 1/1/1992Call Number: V 431Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Mixture of edited pieces shown on cable news media. Coverage of demos/actions and raw footage.
1984 International Women's Day 700 women march connecting abortion rights to US intervention in Central America and the Phillipines and political prisoners.
International Day to Stop Violence Against Women. Protest in Union Square chanting "Stop the silence no more violence women fight back!" Rallying support for FSLN and lesbian safe space.
International Womens Day 1988 at Pleasanton Prison calling for the release of women political prisoners and all prisoners.
Raw footage of arrests outside Armed Forces Recruitment Center in San Francisco. Protesting US intervention in Central America and the Phillipines.
International Women's Day 1991 "Wall of Women Against War." Raw footage of women protesting US support of Israel and war in Iraq and Kuwait.
International Women's Day 1992-"500 years of Resistance." March down Columbus Ave. in San Francisco to protest "Christopher Columbus Day."
Visionary Voices
Date: 1/1/1992Call Number: V 433Format: VHSProducers: Penny RosenwaaserCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Conference of writers published in Visionary Voices: Women on Power. Contains discussions of interracial coalition building, lesbian identity, race, spirituality, shamanism, anti-imperialism, indigenous struggle, and women's power. Features Papusa Molina of Women Against Racism and Winona LaDuke.
International Women's Day - 1992
Date: 3/7/1992Call Number: V 436Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Women celebrate 500 years of resistance and protesting the recognition of Christopher Columbus Day. March takes place on Columbus Ave in San Francisco. Andrea Carmen of National Indian Treaty Council is interviewed and is a keynote speaker.
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights - Part 4
Maria Flores of Centro Obrero of El Paso, speaks on the lack of immigration rights and access to education. Robert Martinez of the American Friends Service Committee discusses hate crimes being committed against Mexican and Central American immigrants in border cities and southern Florida. Jorge Hinojosa on tracking immigrant abuse by the INS.
Dan Connell on Eritrea
Date: 3/25/1992Call Number: JG/ 141AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Describes Eritrea’s 30-year fight for independence from Ethiopia and the political and social changes that the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front has made. Discusses how US and UN aid is used to oppose and destabilize Eritrean independence.
Judith Ortiz Cofer on being a Latina Writer
Date: 1/1/1992Call Number: JG/ 144BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Self-described “angry storyteller” discusses the politics of place, the dichotomy she feels being a Puerto Rican living in the US, and the influence of matriarchal heritage in her writing and other Latinas' work. Reads excerpts from several essays including “I Find Myself a Latina Writer,” focusing on the importance of her grandmother in her artistic and political life.
