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Footage from National Archives (II)
Date: 3/23/2004Call Number: JB 112Format: DV CamCollection: Materials shot and collected in the making of The Forest for the Trees
"You Can't Get Away With It," a Universal short on the FBI, as referred to as 'G-men.'- positive spin with footage of J. Edgar Hoover. "Courtroom Demeanor and Testimony," by the Peace Officers' Association of the State of California, Inc. is an informative short on what title suggests. Footage of unknown case, courthouse packed. Unedited clips of J. Edgar Hoover giving an address to US public about internal threats.
Footage from National Archives (III)
Date: 3/23/2004Call Number: JB 113Format: DV CamCollection: Materials shot and collected in the making of The Forest for the Trees
Footage of FBI Academy, FBI Firearms Ranges, and FBI training simulations. FBI presents "Document Examination," a short on what title suggests. Discover Magazine presents "Highlights from Conference on 'Terrorism in a Technological World,'" with footage of President Ronald Reagan's speech on US policy towards terrorists; Edwin Meese III, US Attorney General, on the necessity of an antiterrorism policy, Vice President George Bush on the language of the policy and terrorism as greatest threat to democracy. Army-Navy Screen Magazine presents "Battle of the United States," with J. Edgar Hoover.
Interview with Harwood Products
Call Number: JB 114Format: DV CamProducers: Bernandine MellisCollection: Materials shot and collected in the making of The Forest for the Trees
Harwood Products is a family-owned sawmill company who consciously works with environmentalists. Current president, Art Harwood, discusses issues with trying to be environmentally ethical while being competitive, explaining tensions among forest industry and environmentalists, differences among a company such as his and large corporations, Earth First! in the schools of his community, praise for Judi Bari - how she framed them and their subsequent working relationship, the bombing, monkey wrenching, community response to building bridges, Jerry Philbrick, his political views on old-growth/global-warming/etc.
Interview with Harwood Products (II)
Call Number: JB 115Format: DV CamProducers: Bernandine MellisCollection: Materials shot and collected in the making of The Forest for the Trees
Interview with Harwood Products President, Art Harwood, continued. Topics include: clear cutting, worker's opinion and response, ecosystem management, Forest Stewardship Counsel, his personal response and the Timber's Industries' response to the bombing of Judi Bari (betrayal). Art gives tour of operations.
Interview with Howard Zinn
Date: 3/31/2004Call Number: JB 116Format: DV CamProducers: Bernandine MellisCollection: Materials shot and collected in the making of The Forest for the Trees
Howard Zinn was not allowed to testify as a witness in the Judi Bari v. FBI trial, so Mellis asks Zinn to discuss what he would have said if he had testified. Testimony was designed to show that the FBI on basis of its past activities has made up stories, gone outside the law, and violated constitutional rights, and that its about the protection of the system as is. Zinn gives detailed history of FBI and of US government justifying violations of constitutional rights on basis of national security. Goes into specifics on Church Committee. Says that when Bari was bombed he was immediately suspicious of FBI.
Logging Footage
Date: 9/12/1990Call Number: JB 117Format: DV CamCollection: Materials shot and collected in the making of The Forest for the Trees
Footage of logging in Osprey Grove, Enchanted Meadow.
Interview with Dennis Cunningham
Date: 2/24/2006Call Number: JB 118Format: DV CamProducers: Bernandine MellisCollection: Materials shot and collected in the making of The Forest for the Trees
Mellis interviews her father, Dennis Cunningham. He describes what it feels like to win the case, complexity of his relief, ominousness of victory based on current political setting, disappointment by lack of media/public response to verdict, how he felt having his daughter filming, feelings on his life work, his work with Black Panthers and Attica, activism vs. consciousness, his activism as a vocation and how he chose law.
Interview with Dennis Cunningham (II)
Date: 2/24/2006Call Number: JB 119Format: DV CamProducers: Bernandine MellisCollection: Materials shot and collected in the making of The Forest for the Trees
Dennis Cunningham interview continued. Describes his disgust with Bush administration, the necessity to continue despite hopelessness (spirituality), how he got involved in case, explains FBI's claims, Geronimo Pratt's and Fred Hampton's case, and COINTELPRO documents.
Dennis Cunningham and Judi Bari Footage
Call Number: JB 120Format: DV CamCollection: Materials shot and collected in the making of The Forest for the Trees
(not good quality - buzzing and jittery) Footage from K. Rudin - Set to music, shots of California coast line and redwood forests, Earth First! rally, logging, arrests of environmentalists, Cunningham and Bari leaving courthouse, Cunningham talking to press, two women singing outside courthouse, Cherney and Littletree perform. Bari, Cherney, and Littletree perfrom, "The FBI Stole My Fiddle." Bobby Castillo speaks about involvement in American Indian Movement, Judi Bari talks about Geronimo Pratt, Cherney leads rally in singing "Oh Freedom." Stills of court drawings.
Dennis Cunningham and Judi Bari Footage (II)
Call Number: JB 121Format: DV CamCollection: Materials shot and collected in the making of The Forest for the Trees
Footage from K. Rudin. Dennis Cunningham in courtroom, making argument, but no sound. Sound comes in at some points, but generally incoherent. Cunnigham passionately explains to judge the environmental issues at hand. At rally, confrontation between Judi Bari supporters and loggers.
