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Justice/Injustice
Date: 1/1/1996Call Number: V 273Format: VHSProducers: Ron Hunnings, Lisa FromartzCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Former prisoners, activists and advocates speak out on the U.S. criminal justice system. Topics include political prisoners, women in prison, the death penalty, and the politics of incarceration. Music, art and poetry are from Art Against Death: the art and writings of political prisoners, traveling exhibition to benefit the legal defense of Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Warning: The Media May Be Hazardous to Your Health
Call Number: V 274Producers: Jenai LaneCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Images of commercials and media protestors are woven together to create a humorous, yet sobering look at sexism in the 90's. Based on a slideshow by activist, writer and national lecturer Ann J. Simonton.
The Move Organization
Call Number: V 276Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Two part film on Move. Move Confrontation in Philadelphia: This behind the scenes documentary made by a supporter captures the historic confrontation between the revolutionary MOVE Organization and the Philadelphia city government. The Bombing of West Philly: A television documentary of the second confrontation between MOVE and the Philadelphia city government in 1985.
Chicago Conspiracy Trial
Date: 12/13/1973Call Number: CD 553Format: CDProducers: Claude Marks, Andy TruskierCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Documentary about the Chicago eight conspiracy trial, includes amazing actual courtroom recordings including the exchange between prosecutors, Judge Hoffman and Black Panther Bobby Seale - resulting in Hoffman having Seale bound and gagged, Bobby Seale tring to speak while bound and gagged, the outrage expressed by Attorney William Kunstler in Court at Bobby Seale's treatment and the refusal of the court to allow Ralph Abernathy to testify. Other interviews include Attorney Leonard Weinglass and defendant Tom Hayden.
Geronimo Pratt
Through an exclusive interview with Geronimo Pratt at San Quentin Prison, archival footage of the Black Panthers, family photos, interviews with Geronimo's defense attorneys, and scenes from demonstrations for his release, a warm and vivid portrait of Geronimo is sketched.
Black & Gold: The Latin King and Queen Nation
Call Number: V 280Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
In 1994 the Latin Kings, the largest and most powerful street gang in New York, became the Latin King and Queen Nation. They claim to have abandoned their criminal past and to be following in the footsteps of the Black Panthers and Young Lords. With over 3,000 members in New York, some see the Nation as the most important political voice to rise from the streets in decades. Unsurprisingly, the NYPD doesn't agree, calling it a vicious gang with a PR campaign. Made in 1999.
The Jena 6
Date: 1/1/2008Call Number: V 281Format: DVDProducers: Big NoiseCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Jena, LA - In a small town in Louisiana, six families are fighting for their sons' lives.
Two nooses are left as a warning to black students trying to integrate their playground, fights break out across town, a white man pulls a shotgun on black students, someone burns down most of the school, the DA puts six black students on trial for attempted murder, and the quiet town of Jena becomes the site of the largest civil rights demonstration in the South since the 1960s.
The Jena 6 is the story of hidden racial inequality and violence becoming visible. It is a powerful symbol for, and example of, how racial justice works in America where the lynching noose has been replaced by the DA's pen.
Narrated by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Black August
Date: 1/1/2008Call Number: V 282Format: DVDProducers: T Cinque SampsonCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
The story of Black Panther George Jackson's life through to his murder in 1971 at the hands of San Quentin Prison guards.
This is dramatized & fictionalized.
What We Want, What We Believe: The Black Panther Party Library
Date: 1/1/2006Call Number: V 284Format: DVDProducers: Roz Payne, Newsreel FilmsCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
For the first time on DVD, AK Press is proud to present three acclaimed Newsreel Films on the Black Panther Party: Off the Pig; Mayday; and Repression.
Formed in 1967, the Newsreel film collective was dedicated to chronicling and analyzing current events. In their time, they produced more than three dozen films throughout the US and abroad. By working directly with the Black Panthers, Newsreel was able to explore realities often ignored by traditional media outlets, while producing documents that the Panthers and other activists could use in organizing their own communities. The results speak for themselves and stand as true testimonials to the spirit of community self-defense and political savvy the Panthers are celebrated—and were targeted—for.
Accompanying the Newsreel films is a massive quantity of rare and exclusive materials culled from Roz Payne's extensive collection of FBI documents, correspondence, and interviews with Black Panthers and their supporters. It's all here, the government-sponsored repression, the trials, exile, triumph, and reunion.
What We Want, What We Believe is not a straight-forward documentary—the additional materials are like Roz Payne's home movies—but more like a tapestry woven from fragments of cloth. As a whole, these fragments present a rich and provocative history, straight from the mouths of Panthers, their supporters, and even the agents charged with neutralizing them.
These materials—over 12 hours—are crucial to our continuing understanding of the Black Panther Party and their legacy. Any student of American History, Black Studies, Political Science & Law, Film Studies, or Civil Rights struggles will find a wealth of valuable information in the Library.
This 12-hour DVD features three films on the Black Panther Party and additional footage on their history and legacy.
Special bonus features: Documents from the Roz Payne Archives chronicling the movement and repression against it.
Disc One:
Three Newsreel Films, Interviews with Field Marshall Donald Cox, Footage from 35th Anniversary Reunion
Disc Two:
Interviews with Former FBI Agents discussing COINTELPRO tactics, Footage from the Wheelock Academic Conference on the BPP
Disc Three:
Interviews with various movement lawyers discussing Panther cases
Disc Four:
Interviews with Newsreel members, DVD-Rom extras from the Roz Payne Archives
The Black Panther Party Suite: All Power to the People
Date: 1/1/2003Call Number: V 285Format: DVDProducers: Fred HoCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Founded in the wake of the assassination of Malcolm X, the Black Panther Party came to symbolize the apotheosis of the explosive late-1960s in American society. Everything about the Panthers was provocative: their Mao-ist inspired political slogans, their ubiquitous black berets and leather jackets, their clenched fist Black Power salute, their big Afro-hairstyles, their practice of openly bearing firearms, and their disciplined militancy and revolutionary political vision. The Black Panthers not only fired the imagination of their generation but also shifted the strategy of the African American struggle and all movements for justice and social change in the United States by seeking solutions rooted in a basic redistribution of power.
A composer/musician and Asian American, I came of age as a teenager in the late-1960s and early-1970s. The energy of this movement and the music of that time set the direction for both my life and my music. I even joined an Asian American counterpart to the Black Panthers (c.f., Legacy to Liberation: Politics and Culture of Revolutionary Asian Pacific America, AK Press). I believe that the same issues of 30 years ago continue today with even more urgency and intensity. That is why I envision ALL POWERTO THE PEOPLE! THE BLACK PANTHER MUSIC/VIDEO AND MARTIAL ARTS BALLET SUITE not as a docu-drama looking back to the late-1960s/early-1970s, but as an occasion to continue the energy, spirit and vision of that period and link it to today. This, I feel, would be the real and sincere way to commemorate and celebrate the Panthers.
Combining live music performed by the Afro Asian Music Ensemble with electric guitar and African percussion (eight musicians), live interactive digital video mixing and martial arts ballet choreography, the interactivity and dynamism of this one hour performance work creates a revolutionary VISION QUEST. The video component collages newspaper images, posters, flyers, video clips and text in a gigantic scenescape to serve as the only scenic design and narrative element for the music and martial arts ballet.
The martial arts ballet is based upon Chinese kung fu and wushu, to evoke and pay homage to the inspiration of the Chinese revolution and Mao Zedong upon the Black Panthers.
