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CISPES Federal Building Blockade: News Footage
Call Number: V 174Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Corporate news coverage of a demonstration against the US war on El Salvador at the San Francisco Federal Building shows footage of undercover SFPD officers using mace against protesters and violently arresting them. Both anchorperson and SFPD spokesperson place the blame on anarchists, referring to them as "outside agitators" and "goons."
CISPES Federal Building Blockade: News Footage II
Call Number: V 192Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Footage begins 1/2 way through tape.
This video contains footage of corporate news coverage of police brutality at a demonstration against the US war in El Salvador at the San Francisco Federal Building. Contains an interview with Julie Sinai of Bay Area Call to Action and various violent tactics employed by SFPD. The blame for violence is place on "anarchists."
Of tangential interest is a episode of NBC nightly news previous to above footage containing stories on the bombing of Winnie Mandela's home, the Iran-Iraq War, Israeli-Soviet relations, the Dukakis presidential campaign, and US hostages in Lebanon.
KGO-SF: Crime Scene Investigation
Call Number: V 198Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This video contains extremely brief and unedited ABC News (KGO-SF) footage of police investigating a crime scene.
Totalitarian Control
J. C. Lewis speaks in front of the Trilateral Commission about totalitarian control: media, education, and the police state, and why farmers should get parity. Side B music.
“Malcolm X: The Last Message”
Malcolm X delivered this speech in Detroit, Michigan February 14, 1965: the same evening his home was attacked in New York. In his speech, Malcolm X provides an extensive and in depth analysis and explanation of the condition of Black people both in the United States as well as around the world. He examines the colonial powers and provides several examples of terror committed on the part of the United States and other Imperial powers against Africans, African Americans, Latinos, Asians, Central and South American and all other non-white people across the globe. An extensive portion covers important issues in Africa and their direct relation to struggles in the US. Malcolm defines his view of Power in an oppressive society and speaks to the issue of religion, specifically Christianity and Islam. The idea of fear and false propaganda created by ruling powers are highlighted as methods "the man" employs in hopes to create a permanent and unchallenged vibe of ignorance in the Black community. The Media and press are thoroughly explored, discussed and critiqued. He explains how the media removes all responsibility of society and places it on the Black community. He continues on to compare and contrast situations of political and racial oppression in the US as well as all around the globe. He describes organized attacks of genocide against innocent villages at the aid of United States political, military and economic forces. He continues on to interpret the situation of Black people in the US and focuses on how all images given to Black people of themselves are always negative or uncivilized. This very extensive speech covers much of Malcolm X's thoughts on the situation of Imperialism and what must be done immediately to protect not civil rights, but human rights across the globe.
Real Dragon
Call Number: RD 007Format: 1/4 1 7/8 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Report on the release of "Word Is Out" about 26 gay men and women across the United States, directed by Peter Adair and the Mariposa Film Group of San Francisco. Made in the 1970s, this is the first film made shedding light on the lives of gay people on an individual basis, unmasking traditional and conventional stereotypes over what it is to be gay or lesbian. Includes actuality of an interview with Pat, a 53 year lesbian woman who spoke of her experiences growing up with the full knowledge and acceptance that she was a lesbian, and several stories from her days in WAAC (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps), and her perception of the lines of gender roles as she had seen them to be from the 40s to the 70s. Also speaks of the contained feeling felt by women who moved to San Francisco as their only refuge, and feared being trapped within only those bounds where they were accepted.
Ward Churchill and Natsu Saito Uncut! Tape 1 0f 2
Ward Churchill Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University
of Colorado gives a speech, primarily to discuss the controversy
swirling around him, but also to promote his book On the Justice of
Roosting Chickens: Reflections on the Consequences of U.S. Imperial
Arrogance and Criminality. The first of these speeches took place on
the evening of March 25 at The Women's Building in San Francisco's
Mission District. Churchill's wife and fellow professor Natsu Saito gives a short speech preceding Churchill's.
Televison News Response to East Bay Serial Rapist of 1997
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: V 260Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Clips of the local news coverage of the East Bay serial-rapist case of 1997 in which 12 women were raped. Clips included come from KTVU, KPIX and KGO San Francisco Bay Area television stations. The clips highlight the grassroots response to the serial rapist, including scenes of the "Fear Is Not the Answer" rally held at Macarthur BART station and local activists pleading for a non-racist response from the public to the rapes. Small blurbs from the mayors of Oakland and Berkeley (Elihu Harris and Shirley Dean, respectively) and Oakland policeman Captain Pete Dunbar are also included.
Warning: The Media May Be Hazardous to Your Health
Call Number: V 274Producers: Jenai LaneCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Images of commercials and media protestors are woven together to create a humorous, yet sobering look at sexism in the 90's. Based on a slideshow by activist, writer and national lecturer Ann J. Simonton.
Frente inserts/Elsa Knight Thompson interview
Date: 2/8/1972Call Number: KP 240AFormat: Cass AProducers: Lincoln BergmanCollection: General materials
Four inserts used by Lincoln Bergman in presentation to Front of Cultural Workers conference in San Francisco. Includes two recordings of Radio Rebelde, one of Radio Havana, and one of Voice of Vietnam. Two songs of Paul Robeson.
