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Green with a Vengeance
Call Number: V 144Format: VHSProducers: Date Line AustraliaCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
News piece by an Australian TV news team about the environmental justice movement in the Northwest. Focus includes the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) and the case of Jeff ‘Free’ Luers, who received a sentence of 22 years 8 months for a political arson, burning 3 vehicles in a Eugene, Oregon car lot. Luers is interviewed in prison. Craig Rosebraugh, who makes public ELF statements, is interviewed as is John Zerzan of Green Anarchy in Eugene.
W.I.N.G.S- Women’s International News Gathering Service Report
Date: 11/11/1989Call Number: JG/ 038BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
WFRG Judy Gerber talks with CISPES alert editor Mike Silinsky about El Salvador’s FMLN “peace talks” and the insistence that the US government stop aid to their military. He outlines some of the demands of the FMLN, including, removing all officers from the military involved in the death squads.
Focus on the Americas with Blase Bonpane, Ph.D. Interview with Reverend Father Ernesto Cardenal Martínez
Call Number: JG/ 081AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
1990 Interview with Father Ernesto Cardenal of Nicaragua. Father Cardenal established a Solentiname island community that was destroyed by the Somoza Dictatorship in 1977. He became a supporter/ambassador for the Sandinista Front. After the victory of the FSLN he became the Minister of Culture. Father Cardenal reads two poems in Spanish with English translation. One is about Marilyn Monroe and one on the effect the revolution has had on the ecology. The interview discusses the factors that lead to the FSLN loss in recent election including intense US pressure and embargoes, the loss of constitutional rights under the new government in Nicaragua, and the House of Three Worlds cultural center
Rivers That Were: Working Water & Beaver Taught Salmon How to Jump
Date: 1/1/2002Call Number: CD 199Format: CDProducers: Feather, Fin ProductionsCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
The Columbia River, flowing through the Pacific Northwest, is the fourth largest river in North America. The Colorado River, the major river in the desert Southwest, is a tiny stream compared to the Columbia, but it is probably the most litigated river in the world. Both these rivers once flowed with a force that overwhelmed the people who tried to navigate their rapids or control their currents and flood flows. That was until the Hoover, Bonneville and Grand Coulee Dams were built in the 1930s, finally taming these wild rivers and conscripting them into industrial service.Alternative Radio presents Rivers That Were, a two-part documentary by Oregon-based award-winning producer Barbara Bernstein. These two hours explore the long-term consequences of over a century of redesigning nature to suit commercial and industrial needs. The programs contrast these historic mindsets with new approaches that try to design with nature. The programs juxtapose the voices and viewpoints of Native Americans, barge operators, water engineers, environmentalists, policy makers and others who live and work in the watersheds of these two mythic Western rivers.Part One:Ê Working Water compares two environmental crises. On the Colorado River Basin, it's the ongoing effort to restore the Salton Sea. On the Columbia, it's the confounding crisis of how to clean up one of the most toxic sites in the world, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.Part Two:Ê Beaver Taught Salmon How To Jump recreates the once natural and free-flowing tributaries and mainstem of the Columbia River, the Great River of the West and compares what was with a transformed landscape of culverted urban creeks, inundated waterfalls and rapids and industrialized waterways.
The Forest for the Trees: Judi Bari v. the FBI
Date: 7/5/2005Call Number: CD 274Format: DVDProducers: Redbird Films - Bernadine MellisCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
In 1990, Earth First! organizer Judi Bari's car was bombed. Within three hours of the bombing, Bari was accused of transporting the explosives that had nearly killed her. Still in the hospital, she was arrested, and labeled a terrorist in the national media. The Forest for the Trees follows the bombing and arrest of Judi Bari, and her subsequent civil suit against the FBI. At the heart of the film, made by Bari’s lawyer’s daughter, is Bari, a folk hero with an electrifying onscreen presence, and the legal battle against law enforcement that few believed she could win.
Vieques: Paradise lost?
Call Number: CD 277Format: DVDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Film about the lasting effects of many decades of US bombing of Vieques on the ongoing health of the residents.
VIEQUES: THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES
The suffering in Vieques continues. The Navy's departure from Vieques did not solve the health crisis and environmental destruction it left behind in Vieques. If the Navy thinks they can skirt their responsibility toward the people of Vieques and the damage the Navy caused simply by leaving the island, the Navy is wrong.
Science reveals intensive contamination in the food and in the environment in Vieques. The people are dying of cancer, diabetes, hypertension and a host of other diseases.
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus has demanded that the Secretary of the Navy help the people of Vieques with their health claims against the Navy.
Many others see this as a matter of Hispanic respect citing the way the US citizens of Vieques have been treated versus the way mainland populations have been treated. To many, the treatment of Vieques by the Navy simply smacks of arrogance and environmental racism.
Several Members of Congress have publicly supported the health claims by the people of Vieques. At the same time, Democratic presidential candidates are poised to make this an issue in states where Bush needs some of the Hispanic vote.
The 15 minute video VIEQUES PARADISE LOST details the tragedy that continues in Vieques.
On the Record with Ed Kowas
Date: 1/13/1993Call Number: V 194Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This video contains an episode of a Northern California public access television program. Host Ed Kowas and guest, photojournalist Nick Wilson, discuss photos portraying the "liquidation logging" techniques used by timber companies in a forest area called Enchanted Meadow, located in Albion, CA. There is also footage of a tree-sit site in the same area.
Break the Chains
Date: 6/16/2004Call Number: CD 321Format: CDProducers: Circle A RadioCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
An interview with Ramona Africa and Kevin Price of the MOVE Organization & Claude Marks with the Jericho Movement before an event in Eugene, Oregon supporting the case of environmental liberation movement political prisoner, Jeff “Free” Luers.
22/8: The Jeffrey Luers Story
Date: 3/1/2005Call Number: CD 490Format: DVDProducers: Cascadia Media CollectiveCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Documentary features the background of Jeff Luers case and the motives for his actions from his perspective. "Free" is an environmental activist and political prisoner. The film explains how the state has attempted to portray Jeff as an eco-terrorist leader, and the effects this has had on both the length of the sentence and his life behind bars.
The Forest for the Trees: Judi Bari v. the FBI
Date: 1/1/2004Call Number: V 228Format: DVDProducers: Redbird Films - Bernadine MellisCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
In 1990, Earth First! organizer Judi Bari's car was bombed. Within three hours of the bombing, Bari was accused of transporting the explosives that had nearly killed her. Still in the hospital, she was arrested, and labeled a terrorist in the national media. The Forest for the Trees follows the bombing and arrest of Judi Bari, and her subsequent civil suit against the FBI. At the heart of the film, made by Bari’s lawyer’s daughter, is Bari, a folk hero with an electrifying onscreen presence, and the legal battle against law enforcement that few believed she could win.
