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Under the Radar
Date: 1/1/2005Call Number: V 259Format: DVDProducers: J Plunky BranchCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Documentary introducing viewers to the history of Afro-Cuban music and samples Cuba's current music scene. The film's producer/director, jazz saxophonist J. Plunky Branch, documents and highlights the musical collaborations of Afro-Cuban musicians and rappers with noted Afro-American jazz musicians and hip-hop producer Sir Fire. Branch, Sir Fire, and executive producer Alvin Bailey traveled to Havana, Guantanamo and Santiago de Cuba, to record a variety of Afro-Cuban artists performing and sharing music, history, and culture; and interacting Under the Radar.
To Touch the Spirit - Healing music from Federal Prison
Date: 1/1/2005Call Number: CD 546Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Flute pieces performed by political prisoner Veronza Bowers & friends.
1- To Touch the Spirit
2 - Song for Alexis
3- Healing Heart
Veronza Bowers, a former Black Panther who has served over 30 years in prison despite having completed his sentence and gained the right to release by the US Parole Commission, remains locked up.
Solidarity Not Charity
Date: 12/1/2005Call Number: CD 548Format: DVDProducers: Common GroundCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Made during the period of the Thanksgiving Road Trip by an amazing volunteer team of videomakers. It is a wonderful expression of Common Ground's overall mission as well as a document of the work achieved so far. With titles and music and footage of banging down walls as well as political analysis.
Venezuela: Talking of Power
Date: 1/1/2005Call Number: V 286Format: VHSProducers: Global Women's StrikeCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Sex, race & class in revolutionary Venezuela. From the hills of Caracas to the banks of the Orinoco, the grassroots tell us how they are changing our world. Clips of President Chavez; Nora Castañeda, Women’s Development Bank, and others.
Rise of the Right
Forum at the Women's Building in San Francisco connects the losses and defeats of social and political justice movement in the face of a growing militia movement and a national security state.
Venezuela Rising
Date: 1/1/2005Call Number: CD 611Format: DVDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
The documentary starts five days before it is to be decided by popular referendum whether Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will continue in office or step down. The entire nation has been mobilized – will it be SI – yes he will be recalled, or NO – he will remain in office. Issues of democracy and politics, what constitutes a free and fair election. Venezuela Rising gets behind the headlines and into the neighborhoods of Caracas to find out how participatory democracy works on the ground.
El Enemigo Común (The Common Enemy)
Date: 1/1/2005Call Number: CD 614Format: DVDProducers: Simón Sedillo, Austin IndymediaCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
An exposé of repression and resistance in Oaxaca, Mexico which documents paramilitary activity against indigenous communities in Oaxaca from 2002 through 2005. Also provides historical context for the expansion of capitalism and empire in Oaxaca. It is a call to action for international civil society to stand in solidarity against state sponsored repression and for human peace, dignity and justice, in Oaxaca.
King's Candy - A New Orleans Kitchen Vision
Date: 1/1/2005Call Number: CD 618Format: CDProducers: Kitchen sistersProgram: NPR Morning editionCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Robert Hillary King, former political prisoner and one of the Angola 3 talks about making candy in prison and out.
La Raza de Colorado - La Historia
Date: 1/1/2005Call Number: V 356Format: DVDProducers: Rocky Mt PBS - Lisa OlkenCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Explores the history and heritage of Colorado's Latino culture from the 1500s to the 1940s - from the Aztecas and the Spanish Conquistadors to the 1846 US war on Mexico, from the rise of the migrant farm workers to the zoot suit rebellion. Includes rare footage and extensive interviews.
Say it Plain
Date: 1/1/2005Call Number: CD 737Format: DVDProducers: Catherine Ellis, Stephen Drury SmithCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Speeches by: Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey , Mary McLeod Bethune, Walter White, Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, Howard Thurman, Dick Gregory, Fannie Lou Hamer, Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King, Jr., John Hope Franklin, Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, Benjamin L. Hooks, Joseph Lowery, Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Johnetta Cole, Lani Guinier, Clarence Thomas, Randall Robinson, and Julian Bond.
