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Abortion for Survival
Date: 7/23/1989Call Number: V 240Format: VHSProducers: Fund for Feminist MajorityCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Martin Agronsky narrates a Pro-Choice documentary produced by the Fund for Feminist Majority. The Documentary shows a first trimester abortion, outlines the history of victims of anti-abortion laws, and interviews representatives from Population Crisis Committee, The School of Public Health at Columbia University, the American Psychiatric Association, and Planned Parenthood. The tape ends with a panel discussion mediated by Agronski with Faye Wattleton, former president of Planned Parenthood, Eleanor Smeal, former president of National Organization for Women, Republican Congressman, Bob Dornan of California, and Nellie Gray from March for Life.
Interview with Lolita Lebron
Lolita Lebron on Puerto Rican independence speaks in San Francisco, date unknown. Subjects include abortion, forced sterlization of Puerto Rican women, and genocide. Draws from her own experience as a political prisoner and discusses their feelings of abandonment, isolation and obscurity. Makes parallels between Vietnam's victory over the US (in which the American people were complicit) and Puerto Rico's own liberation.
Operation Rescue
Date: 1/1/1992Call Number: JG/ 113Format: Cass A & BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
This radio show discusses Operation Rescue and other antiabortion movements that utilize sometimes violent intimidation and harassment of abortion clinic workers and women coming into the clinics. It analyzes the shifting the argument focus from preserving the rights and well being of the woman to a moral issue of murdering a fetus. Includes interviews with religious activists who previously had abortions and concludes that the movement is really a way for white males to regain control over women.
Human Rights, Puerto Rico Day in Chicago
Date: 6/11/1977Call Number: FI 070Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara Lubinski, Heber DreherProgram: Freedom Is a Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Speech on human rights violations in Philippines, Iran, Argentina - "torture widespread and systematic," with US support. Threat to abortion rights in Congress. Police shootings at Puerto Rico Day celebration in Chicago, Humboldt Park. Oakland protests against shooting of Chicano. Prison summary, including Joe Remiro. Eviction notices at International Hotel.
Abortion Issues
Date: 11/13/1976Call Number: FI 030Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara Lubinski, Heber DreherProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Lead story on US government actions to make abortion more difficult. Readings of statements from Susan Saxe for her trial on political bank appropriation charges.
Sara Diamond: "Elections: The Christian Right"
A talk about the emergence of the Christian Right in US politics and the influence that the movement holds over Republican and the Right Wing. Focus on the "family values" agenda of the Republican party during the 1992 Presidential election, the structuring of the movement as a grassroots activist campaign, and the prominence of evangelical Christian broadcasting.
Fighting For Our Lives I, II & III
Call Number: V 346Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A three-part program on women's abortion rights
Furious Funeral From Hell
Date: 8/17/1982Call Number: V 350Format: VHSProducers: Kathy Katz, Katrina FullmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A protest for women's abortion rights in San Francisco. Protesters blocked access to the Bohemian Club and many women were arrested.
Anti- Recruitment Protests - Operation Rescue Protests - SF War supports Lorena Bobbit
Date: 1/1/1993Call Number: V 437Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Women Against US Military Intervention in El Salvador protest. Protestors storm Armed Forces Recruitment Center in San Francisco resulting in police attack and several arrests.
Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights protest at meeting between anti-abortion organizations including Operation Rescue. BACORR attempts to block the entrances of meeting place resulting in several arrests.
CNN coverage of Lorena Bobbitt's trial. Jaime Lee Evans of SF Women Against Rape is interviewed stating that Bobbitt acted in self-defense and should be seen as a hero for fighting back against her husband.
Stop Child Sexual Abuse
Date: 1/1/1988Call Number: V 439Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Speak Out organized to oppose sexual violence against children and women's. Organizations include Mothers Against the Rape of Children, Sanctuary, and Stop Child Abuse. References Dorrie Singley who refused to return her daughter to her ex-husband who was sexually abusing their child. The courts denied her custody but she fled from the police with her daughter, only to die while in hiding.
