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Lenora Fulani in Babylon - The battle of New York City
Date: 6/8/1990Call Number: CV 261BFormat: Cass BProducers: Castillo International TapesCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Dr. Lenora Fulani discusses the media's bias against Al Sharpton, police brutality in New York City and the isolation of African American and Latino youth.
Immigrant Rights, A Civil Right Issue For the 1990's - Part 5
Date: 10/28/1990Call Number: CV 266Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Discussion of the HIV tests imposed on immigrants from Mexico and Central America at border detention centers. Forum on refugee communities from Guatemala and Haiti. Also discussion of the Cuban-Haitian Adjustment Act and the Motley Bill which impacts on refugees from Guatemala. Raids on day laborers are criticized.
Immigrant Rights: A Civill Rights Issue For the 90's - Part 2
Date: 10/25/1990Call Number: CV 269Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
About xenophobia and racism against immigrants across the world (in the US, France, Italy, and England) and the attacks on civil rights. The fight for multi ethnic unity in the face of anti-immigrant mobilizations and opposing attempts to pit different ethnic groups against one another. The 1986 Immigration Reformation and Control Act is discussed, which introduces I-9 Forms and grants some immigrants amnesty. INS abuses on the borders are also addressed.
Latinas in the 90s - Dolores Huerta Tribute
Date: 12/12/1990Call Number: CV 273AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
2nd annual Latinas in the 1990s event, organized by the Contra Costa Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. Acknowledges and cultivates women's accomplishments in human rights and social advancement on the Feast Day of the Lady of Guadalupe. Dolores Huerta, the keynote speaker, discusses how women have been at the forefront of social justice and that more women are needed in leadership for social justice to advance.
Activision - Documents of Dissent
Date: 1/1/1990Call Number: V 482Format: VHSProducers: Lisa RudmanProgram: PCTVCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Compilation of Activism Shorts. Includes Pledge of Resistance's Coit Tower El Salvador Action in San Francisco; Stop AIDS Now or Else’s Golden Gate Bridge Action; Ladies Against Women and the Right Wing skit on abortion rights; International Women's Day 1988; and a music video documenting imperialism and resistance in the Philippines.
ROTC Instructor Teaching
Date: 1/1/1990Call Number: V 485Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
ROTC instruction followed by a PSA featuring members of Women Against Imperialism calling on people to join a demonstration against the gulf war.
Various features focusing on Libya and Gaddafi's foreign relations and anti-Israel politics.
Judy Gerber: El Salvador Report-Back
Date: 7/20/1990Call Number: JG/ 145AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Gerber shares her impressions of the political and popular climate in El Salvador during her visit at the time of the Civil War (1979-1992). She discusses the government’s propaganda campaign and their coercive enlistment of young men into the military, the poor living and working conditions, and the importance of efforts to demilitarize the country.
Ann Marie Mann & Cindy Lutenbacher on Nicaragua
Date: 1/1/1990Call Number: JG/ 145BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
The activists met with many groups in Nicaragua after the election of Violeta Chamorro and the Contra government. They explain how people feel as though they are still in wartime because of economic crisis and increases in hunger and disease. The activists lament the abandonment of many Sandinista institutions and massive firings under the new regime, but they say there is no sense of defeat among the people, who declare, “Not one step back.”
Resistance Conspiracy - Tape 1 - Alan Berkman, Tim Blunk
Date: 1/1/1990Call Number: V 497Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Alan Berkman, Tim Blunk, Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Susan Rosenberg and Laura Whitehorn are long-time activists in support of peoples’ liberation movements here and around the world.
Come visit behind prison walls to speak with six people who the U.S. government has labeled “terrorists”.
They discuss their lives, the politics of the armed actions they are accused of, the conditions they and other political prisoners face, and their vision for the times ahead.
Resistance Conspiracy - Tape 2 - Tim Blunk, Linda Evans, Laura Whitehorn
Date: 1/1/1990Call Number: V 498Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Alan Berkman, Tim Blunk, Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Susan Rosenberg and Laura Whitehorn are long-time activists in support of peoples’ liberation movements here and around the world.
Come visit behind prison walls to speak with six people who the U.S. government has labeled “terrorists”.
They discuss their lives, the politics of the armed actions they are accused of, the conditions they and other political prisoners face, and their vision for the times ahead.
