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El Salvador in Focus
Date: 10/6/1989Call Number: LA 118AFormat: Cass AProgram: El Salvador in FocusCollection: El Salvador
Wounded FMLN combatants are evacuated to Cuba, an action seen as a diplomatic victory for FMLN and defeat for the Christiai Government. In response, the government increases repression of civilians across the country, targeting workers, peasants, and religious organizations. The FMLN ends a 10-day cease fire and launches their largest offensive to date on September 25. On October 2 Christiani addresses the United Nations General Assembly. His words contradict many of the actions his government has been taking against poor people in El Salvador.
El Salvador in Focus
Date: 10/28/1989Call Number: LA 119AFormat: Cass AProgram: El Salvador in FocusCollection: El Salvador
More allegations arise implicating the El Salvador military and their direct involvement with the Death Squads torturing, executing, and terrorizing the civilian population. Members of the military and the national police have been repeatedly identified as active in the Death Squads. A deserter from the First Infantry Brigade and former Death Squad member testifies that high ranking military officials and U.S. advisors directly support Death Squad activity. Students at the National University are targeted. Sixteen hundred refugees begin a long march home from Honduras. Refugee and repatriation leaders are captured by the El Salvador military on their way to the border and their whereabouts are unknown. In San Jose, Costa Rica, peace talks between the FMLN and the Christiani government end with no resolution.
El Salvador in Focus
Date: 1/13/1990Call Number: LA 117Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: El Salvador in FocusCollection: El Salvador
FMLN seeks united nations mediation in any future peace talks with Salvadorian Government. The Catholic archdiocese denounces Christiani’s investigation of the murder of six Jesuit priests. The Salvadorian military seeks to expand it’s economic holdings. Radio Farabundo Marti celebrates it’s eighth anniversary.
El Salvador in Focus
Date: 9/23/1989Call Number: LA 121Format: CassetteProgram: El Salvador in FocusCollection: El Salvador
Members of the FMLN and the Christiani Government met in Mexico City. They reached an agreement to open formal negotiations in San Jose, Costa Rica in October, negotiations aimed at finding peaceful political solutions to the current conflict. This tape includes a recording of a speech delivered by an FMLN commander in Mexico City. In San Salvador, 100,000 people march in support of the peace talks. Protesters are abducted by the military on their way to the march and health workers are abducted by the national guard.
US Out of El Salvador: News Montage
Call Number: V 172Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This tape contains a collection of corporate news footage of a demonstration against the US war on El Salvador and its support for death squads and El Salvador's terrorist regime in the late 1980s. Demonstrators battle police as they try to blockade the entrance of the Federal Building in San Francisco.
CISPES Federal Building Blockade: News Footage
Call Number: V 174Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Corporate news coverage of a demonstration against the US war on El Salvador at the San Francisco Federal Building shows footage of undercover SFPD officers using mace against protesters and violently arresting them. Both anchorperson and SFPD spokesperson place the blame on anarchists, referring to them as "outside agitators" and "goons."
V.P. Bush Visits San Francisco
Date: 9/19/1988Call Number: V 176Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This tape contains footage of a 1988 demonstration against a visit to San Francisco by then Vice President George Bush and the US government’s war on El Salvador and Central America. SFPD officers use batons and barricades to corral protesters.
U.S. Out of El Salvador
Date: 11/21/1989Call Number: V 179Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This video contains footage of demonstrators protesting the U.S. war on El Salvador by linking arms and sporadically impeding traffic at the San Francisco Federal Building. Some are arrested by SFPD.
U.S. Out of El Salvador II
Date: 11/21/1989Call Number: V 180Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Demonstrators protest at the San Francisco Federal Building against the U.S. war on El Salvador. Footage contains brief barricade of Market Street.
US Navy Out of Central America
Date: 5/19/1984Call Number: V 185Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This video contains footage of demonstrators protesting US war on Central America at a dock porting a US warship, demanding an end to US military aid and intervention in Central America and the Caribbean and freedom for Puerto Rico. Police use batons against the demonstrators and several are violently arrested.
