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Fruits of War
Date: 1/1/2007Call Number: CD 637Format: DVDProducers: Josiah Hooper - The Rake ProductionsCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Tells the stories of members of Mara Salvatrucha (MS 13) and 18th Street gangs after they were deported from the US to El Salvador.
Follows four young men as they transition from gang members to deportees, and ultimately into activists.
Shield For Abuse and Born to Hate
Date: 8/7/1990Call Number: V 352Format: VHSProducers: KQED Current AffairsProgram: KQEDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Shield for Abuse - an expose on how brutal cops are rarely reprimanded or disciplined for their behavior and the millions San Francisco has paid to settle brutality cases.
Born to Hate - the story of Greg Withrow, a former Neo-Nazi youth leader who has renounced his life as a white supremacist.
Panel on Race and Justice
Date: 6/3/1992Call Number: CV 222Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
A forum on race and justice in light of the Los Angeles riots of 1992. Eva Jefferson Patterson, of the Lawyers Committee on Urban Affairs, UC Berkeley professor Carlos Muñoz, and Paul Igazaki of the Asian Law Caucus. The media's representation of different communities of color and the police role in those communities is emphasized.
Lockdown USA
Call Number: V 360Format: VHSProgram: Deep Dish TVCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Investigates how the media portrays the prisons and prisoners and discusses why so many people of color are locked up.
Law and Order Hysteria and the US Imprisonment Binge
Date: 8/22/1994Call Number: V 361Format: VHSProducers: The Campaign to Confront the Racist Imprisonment Binge, the National Lawyers Guild Chicago ChapterCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Forum held at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois about racism in prisons - includes testimonies of formerly incarcerated people. Moderated by Erica Thompson, Speakers: Jerome Miller, Carlos Vega, Randolph Stone.
I Have A Dream: Portrait of Martin Luther King's Life and Message
Date: 1/1/1968Call Number: KP 394Format: Cass A & BProducers: Pacifica National ProgramsCollection: Martin Luther King Jr.
This documentary focuses on major events in his life such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott to his incarceration in the Birmingham jail. The documentary covers his life up until the "I Have A Dream" speech and his death.
From Iran to Greensboro
Date: 11/10/1979Call Number: FI 110Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara Lubinski, Heber DreherProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Rise of anti-Iranian racism with reports on Iranian students in LA march for extradition of the Shah, with racist spectator comment, and anti-Iranian demonstrators in Houston. Opposing demonstrations in Washington, DC. Roundup of rising Klan activity. including Greensboro, NC assassination of five anti-Klan demonstrators with moving detailed phone interview.
Samouri Marksman on African and Caribbean people, Part 1
Date: 1/16/1985Call Number: CD 652Format: CDProgram: African Activists in AmericaCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Michael Warren, chairman of African Activists in America, speaks about Maurice Bishop, and introduces Samouri Marksman. Marksman speaks about struggles of African people around the world; how Europeans control Latin American economies, cultures, and societies, and the struggle for Latin American independence; the struggle to alter the slave relationship with Europeans in the Carribean and Africa; critisizes the IMF (International Monetary Fund) ; and American politics in South Africa and the struggle against Apartheid.
Samouri Marksman on African and Caribbean people, Part 2
Date: 1/16/1985Call Number: CD 653Format: CDProgram: African Activists in AmericaCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Michael Warren, chairman of African Activists in America, speaks about Maurice Bishop, and introduces Samouri Marksman. Marksman speaks about struggles of African people around the world; how Europeans control Latin American economies, cultures, and societies, and the struggle for Latin American independence; the struggle to alter the slave relationship with Europeans in the Carribean and Africa; critisizes the IMF (International Monetary Fund) ; and American politics in South Africa and the struggle against Apartheid.
Against the Klan
Date: 2/9/1980Call Number: FI 111Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara Lubinski, Heber DreherProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Anti-Klan report, Klan Watch; Blue Shield clerical workers strike and women workers; sterilization of Native American women and exploitation of resources on Indian land, uranium, environmental degradation.
