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Gay and Lesbian Anti-Recruiters - Long Version
Date: 9/25/1987Call Number: V 426Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Gay and Lesbian anti recruiters protest outside of the Armed Forces Recruiting Center in downtown SF. Carrying banners stating “No Contra Aid” and “No US Intervention in Latin America” and chanting “We’re Dykes and Fags and we’re here to say: Down with the army and CIA” The protesters smear the door and windows of the recruitment center with yellow and red paint protesting US intervention in El Salvador and Honduras. G/L anti recruiters momentarily block the recruitment centers door, but they disperse as SFPD arrive.
Demos Against US Troops to Honduras - ACT UP/SF
Date: 3/16/1988Call Number: V 430Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
News coverage of speak out in Union Square opposing US military intervention in Central America. Features interviews with members of the Nicarauga Information Center and speech by Catherine Cusick of NIC.
Members of Pledge of Action occupy Coit Tower attempting to hang a banner. Due to Wind they are not able to finish the action.
Protests in 1988 are documented, ranging from speak outs in Union Square, protests outside of the Armed Forces Recruitment Office, marches and police violence in downtown SF. CISPES, Pledge of Resistance, Nicarauga Information Center, and supporters of FSLN protest US troops in the Honduras.
Footage of Anti-Contra Aid protestors blocking the federal building met with police violence.
Pledge of Action’s peaceful march from the Castro to the Mission District in SF. Calls for an end to US intervention in Central America and funding for AIDS research.
Coverage of ACT UP/SF’s direct action protest at St. Mary’s Cathedral in SF. Part of ACT UP’s “Stop the Church” campaign. Stickers stating “No More War on Women” are visible as are “bloody” hand prints on the wall.
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.
Vivan Las Mujeres - Update with the BCTF - Fight Racism
Date: 2/16/1986Call Number: V 472Format: VHSProducers: Trella LaughlinCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Vivan Las Mujeres features two feminist activists that spent six months in Central America meeting and working with women. Discusses the creation of the Women's Skills and Resource Exchange Center in Seattle that directed monetary and organizational resources to women in Central America.
An interview with Dorothy Nell Turner and Velma Roberts of the Black Citizens Task Force of Austin about housing, development, busing, and conflicts within the Black community.
Fight Racism Musical Benefit was a tribute to Malcolm X on the anniversary of his assassination. BCTF and Let the People Speak sponsor the event that features local bands and WC Clark. Trella Laughlin opens Fight Racism.
International Womens Day 1984 - In the Name of Democracy - Taking to the Street - Armed Forces Day demos 1984
Date: 1/1/1984Call Number: V 476Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
International Womens Day march and protest at the Presidio organized by Women Against Imperialism.
In the Name of Democracy - short documentary on the US managed elections in El Salvador in 1982. Interviews with several US and international journalists, activists in Mothers Committee for the Disappeared, FMLN, and FDR.
Takin' to the Street - KQED special on radicals of the sixties who are still active in grassroots struggle today. Interviewees include Angela Davis, Ericka Huggins, Karen Koonan, Judy Gumbo-Albert, Dan Siegel, Mario Savio
Interview with artist and Puerto Rican independence activist Marta Rodriguez, who discusses Puerto Rico's history, US colonialism, and performs some of her music.
Members of National Committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War speak about the Puerto Rican independence movement and the imprisonment of Puerto Rican freedom fighters.
Anti-Armed Forces Day protests at Fisherman's Wharf in SF. Protestors attempt to board military ships but are violently pushed back by police and military personnel.
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.
Let the People Speak - Enough Crying of Tears
Date: 1/1/1986Call Number: V 488Format: VHSProducers: Trella LaughlinCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A history of the work since 1977 of the Committe of the Mothers Monsignor Ryan and the disappeared of El Salvador. Features testimonies of COMADRES activists who had been tortured by the puppet government. They demand accountability for the disappeared as well as their release.
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.
Campanile Action
Date: 5/17/1989Call Number: V 495Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Bay Area Pledge of Resistance drops banner at Campanile Tower on UC Berkeley's campus. Interviewees seek to draw attention to the UC System's stake in the US intervention in El Salvador, exposing that the ROTC at UC Berkeley helps train the Death Squads in El Salvador.
Coit Tower Action
Date: 5/15/1989Call Number: V 496Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Bay Area Pledge of Resistance occupies Coit Tower and unfurls banner in order to draw attention to the election of the ARENA party in El Salvador, the party which organized the death squads that killed thousands of El Salvadorians. Members of Pledge are carrying out this action to do the work the mass media doesn't in their coverage of El Salvador.
