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Battle of People’s Park May 15. 1969.
Date: 5/15/1969Call Number: CD 584Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Live recording of the events that took place at People’s Park in Berkeley, California on May 15th, 1969. The battle is between the people of the community, who built it from a muddy parking lot into a park, versus the University and the Berkeley Police for trying to rip it down. Although the land was owned by the University, the people claimed it had been a muddy mess for years, and the people needed a park in South Berkeley. People were injured and killed by police in full riot gear, by guns as well as tear gas.
Radical News Hour
Date: 1/1/1995Call Number: PM 304Format: Cass A & BProducers: Free Radio BerkeleyProgram: Radical News hourCollection: Political Prisoner Periodicals
Program includes stories on indigenous struggles, ecological defense, and police brutality.
World Trade Watch: Corporate Globalization
Date: 1/1/1999Call Number: KP 279BFormat: Cass BProducers: National Radio Project, Corporate Watch, Insitute for Public AccuracyCollection: Eco-justice
Recorded before the WTO Summit in Seattle in 1999. Speakers Norman Soloman and Julie Light moderate brief interviews and clips from a number of activists who have are critical of the WTO and the dissolution of trade barriers. Arif Jamal, a Sudanese scholar and activist, speaks about farmers and agriculture. Colin Raja, a Malaysian national in the US, discusses inflation and Malaysian economic collapse. Kevin Danaher, author of 10 Reasons to Abolish the IMF and World Bank, discusses who gets representation at the summit. Paige Fischer of the Pacific Environment and Resource Center speaks about the timber lawsuit against US trade representatives and the Department of Commerce that her organization filed. Peter Rosset, executive director of Food First, Oakland, presents the problem of access to food that has manifested because of free trade and deregulation. There is also a clip from Renato Ruggiero, former director general of the WTO.
Meridel Le Sueur & Judi Bari
Date: 4/20/1994Call Number: KP 390Format: Cass A & BProducers: KPFAProgram: Morning ShowCollection: Eco-justice
People oppose proposed tire burning by the Kaiser Cement company. An obituary of author Meridel Le Sueur.
Judi Bari talks about her case against the FBI. Also a discussion of US foreign weapons trade and Lockheed Martin.
Strange Culture
Date: 7/27/2007Call Number: CD 615Format: DVDProducers: Lynn Hershman LeesonCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
The surreal nightmare of internationally-acclaimed artist and professor Steve Kurtz began when his wife Hope died in her sleep of heart failure. Police who responded to Kurtz's 911 call deemed Kurtz's art suspicious and called the FBI. Within hours the artist was detained as a suspected "bioterrorist" as dozens of federal agents in Hazmat suits sifted through his work and impounded his computers, manuscripts, books, his cat, and even his wife's body. Today Kurtz and his long-time collaborator Dr. Robert Ferrell, stand exonerated.
The Flickering Flame
Date: 1/1/1999Call Number: CD 623Format: DVDProducers: Jason Corwin, Janet CavalloCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
The Life and Legacy of Chief Turkey Tayac
Family members recall Chief Turkey Tayac, 27th hereditary sagamore (chief) of the Piscataway Indian Nation, who fought for protection of an ancestral burial ground, now Maryland's Piscataway National Park.
Food Justice - a Growing Movement
Date: 1/1/2006Call Number: CD 624Format: DVDProducers: Martina Brimmer, Zora TuckerCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Issues of urban food security ae discussed in relationship to systemic oppression, environmental racism, health issues and the failure of our conventional food system. Focuses upon several of many Bay Area grassroots projects that are part of the food justice movement.
Bari/Cherney Bombing
Date: 5/7/2002Call Number: V 362Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Media news about the bombing of Judi Bari and Daryl Cherney, the police accusations that they carried a pipe bomb.
Zimbabwe and Love Canal
Date: 9/29/1979Call Number: FI 108Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara LubinskiProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Vulnerability of ruling class commentary by representative of Zimbabwe African National Union on US and British efforts to divide revolutionary forces. Section on pollution with detail on Love Canal from Workers World newspaper.
Who Bombed Judi Bari?
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: CD 664Format: CDProducers: Alternative Tentacles: Darryl Cherney, Penelope AndrewsCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
From the redwood timber wars of Northern California, Judi Bari was a key rabble rouser in the battle to save the forests of the Pacific Northwest. The late Earth First! organizer and activist speaks in her own powerful, provocative, and inspirational voice. Find out why both King Timber and the FBI wanted her kept quiet. Who did bomb Judi Bari? Ask the FBI.
