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Ralph David Abernathy: Nixon Administration and the Vietnam War
Date: 1/1/1969Call Number: CD 053Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
A speech given to huge outdoor rally in SF Bay Area in 1969 condemning imperialism and the war in Vietnam. GREAT materials!
Ralph David Abernathy: Nixon Administration and the Vietnam War
Date: 1/1/1969Call Number: CD 054Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
A speech given to huge outdoor rally in SF Bay Area in 1969 condemning imperialism and the war in Vietnam. GREAT materials!
Noam Chomsky, Capital Rules
Call Number: CD 081Format: CDProducers: AK PressCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Noam Chomsky lecture "Capital Rules"—another articulate and immediately accessible description of Corporate America's unrelenting attack on poor and working class people. From the attack on unions to the well crafted business propaganda campaigns, Chomsky provides us with a clear picture of how US Capital is leading us down a path of a two-tiered society with islands of extreme wealth in a sea of poverty.
Malcolm X Unity Rally, United Black Front
Malcolm X gives an impassioned speech to a crowd in Harlem about the ills and abuses African Americans have endured by the "blue-eyed white devils" or "white-disease." He argues for complete separation and an independent nation, or back to Africa. Criticizes pacifist civil rights leaders like Dr. King and espouses eye-for-an-eye style of justice.
America’s War on Poverty
Call Number: V 097Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A history of welfare and the struggle of America's poor. Chronicles the dramatic welfare policy change after Nixon replaced LBJ, the protests and formation of the National Welfare Rights Organization trying to stop passage of Nixon's Family Assistance Plan, and the struggle for welfare recipients to regain a sense of dignity.
Finally Got the News
This Far by Faith
Call Number: V 096Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Two documentaries. The first, "Finally Got the News," is about the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and the formation of The Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM). The founders of the movement discuss the economic injustices and racism that lie at the heart of the American economic system. Filmed in Detroit with footage from the late '60s and early '70s, there are interviews with Marxist/Leninist socialists and radical organizers. It is the story of the black poor working on the production lines, underpaid and overworked, organize and fight for better wages and reasonable hours. Claims it is propaganda that keeps white and black poor workers enemies. The film is grainy and shot in black and white but is well organized and contains great dialogue and images of industrial America and factory life. The second, "This Far by Faith," is about the 1990 Delta Pride Catfish processing plant strike in Indianola, Mississippi- a struggle that ended in settlement and resulted in higher wages and more benefits for its workers. The majority of workers and strikers are single black women. They discuss the oppressive and dangerous working conditions, long hours, frequency of carpel tunnel, racial slurs and insubstantial wages endured at the factory. Footage of strikers at the picket line and interviews with civil rights leaders who discuss the meaning of this strike in the context of Mississippi's economically depressed and brutal slave-owning past.
Women in Prison
Intervew of Women in Prison, Dublin, CA 1995. Political prisoners Dylcia Pagan, Linda Evans, Ida Robinson, and Marilyn Buck are asked to speak about themselves and why they are in prison.
The women also discuss the GATT (General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs), NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), the lack of wages and benefits for the poor and oppressed, and the wrongs of the IMF (International Monetary Fund). Ida Robinson speaks about families of ethnic minorities, and Marilyn Buck speaks about how political prisoners aren’t violent, they are just casualties during the conflict. The women discuss the state of the poor white woman, how is marginalized because no one is fighting for her and she has no representation.
Focus on the Americas
Separation of Media and State with Blase Bonpane, Ph.D.
Call Number: JG/ 080AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Recorded in October 1990, Blase Bonpane uses the example of Liberation Theology to illustrate the need for a separation of media and state, or media and power. Uses misrepresentation of Liberation Theology, exemplified by October 9, 1990 LA Times article, "The Cross and The Gun" by Kenneth Freed, as a framework in which to discuss media as advocates of the agenda for the affluent. Bonpane discusses liberation theology from the perspective of the poor, focusing on Central American cases, which sharply contrasts the representation of it in the article. Discussion of media acceptance of institutional violence and Imperial Theology, and its rejection of oppressed people's response to institutional violence and liberation theology. Defines Liberation Theology as based on human need, not advocating violence and in opposition to Imperial Theology which advocates the relationship between the cross and gun or cross and crown.
Conditions in Puerto Rico and the US oppression of the Puerto Rican people
Jose Lopez of the New Movement Conference speaks about the movement in Puerto Rico within the world context. He talks about how most people do not recognize the importance to Puerto Rico’s movement and the struggle its people have been going through. He speaks about against the United States and Europe’s imperialist acts on the rest of the world, and speaks about against the myth of superiority of capitalism. He speaks about the poor conditions most Puerto Ricans live in, and how Puerto Rico consumes what it does not produce, and produces what it does not consume. Lastly, he asks what the political plans of the US are for PR? He asserts that the United States wants to see Puerto Rico tied to them economically as to disallow them complete independence, while not allowing them statehood rights either.
All Power to the People
Opening with a montage of four hundred years of race injustice in America, this powerful documentary provides the historical context for the establishment of the 60's civil rights movement. Rare clips of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton and other activists transport one back to those tumultuous times. Organized by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, the Black Panther Party embodied every major element of the civil rights movement which preceded it and inspired the black, brown, yellow, Native American and women's power movements which followed
The party struck fear in the hearts of the "establishment" which viewed it as a terrorist group. Interviews with former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, CIA officer Philip Agee, and FBI agents Wes Swearingen and Bill Turner shockingly detail a "secret domestic war" of assassination, imprisonment and torture as the weapons of repression. Yet, the documentary is not a paean to the Panthers, for while it praises their early courage and moral idealism. it exposes their collapse due to megalomania, corruption, drugs, and narcissism
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