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National Campaign to Stop Control Units
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: CD 790Format: CDProducers: Prison Activist Resource CenterProgram: On The OutsideCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Members of the National Campaign to Stop Control Unit Prisons speak about control unit prisons and movements seeking to abolish them.
Pelican Bay Prison
Date: 11/25/1994Call Number: CD 796Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
About the inhuman conditions of Pelican Bay control unit prison. Prisoners describe how the prison prevents them from receiving pictures from home. The prison also prohibits having books, because they can be used as weapons. Also mentioned was the lack of health services and the difficulty of obtaining medications.
Political Prisoners in US Control Units
Date: 1/24/1992Call Number: CD 797Format: CDProgram: KPFA BrainstormCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Discussion of Control Unit prisons with interviews by Bo Rita Brown. Interview with Dr. Corey Weinstein, and Political Prisoners Susan Rosenberg and Sylvia Baraldini while imprisoned at Marianna, Florida.
Palestine Refugees: Bagar Camp
Date: 3/1/1971Call Number: CE 480AFormat: Cass AProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Interviews with Swedish doctor and others on conditions for Palestinian refugees, including emphasis on children
Jordan Government View
Date: 3/1/1971Call Number: CE 481AFormat: Cass AProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Interview with Director-General of Information of Jordan; a short report on Black September, and other short narrations.
Jordan Under Fire
Interview with Jordan's Director of Planning and Research; interview with man deported from West Bank on conditions in Israel under occupation and torture.
Israeli Occupation and Torture
Interview with man deported from West Bank on conditions in Israel under occupation and torture.
CEML Conference Workshop #1: Racism, Youth and Police Torture
Date: 11/4/1989Call Number: V 618Format: VHSProducers: CEMLCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
CEML moderator Mariel Nanasi, presenters Jeffrey Haas and Zulma Ortiz discuss police brutality in Chicago, the complicity of city officials, the police code of silence and high ranking police commander John Burge. Also present is a comparison between prison policies and school policies and the public school system is analyzed as a training ground for police repression of 3rd world communities. Q and A follows presentations.
CEML Program (10-21-1995) Keynote Address
Date: 10/21/1995Call Number: V 620Format: VHSProducers: CEMLCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
MC Nancy Kurshan, speakers Dr. Alan Berkman, Nozomi Ikuta, and Jose Lopez. Topics discussed include proliferation of the criminal justice system and control units, control units and social control, physical and psychological conditions in control units, and prisons as reflections of America as a colonial power and its historical roots in racism and white power. There is also a taped video statement by Sanyika Shakur and his 60 minutes interview is shown.
Transcript available for download.
CEML: Marion Conf 10-24-1987 Tape #1
Date: 10/24/1989Call Number: V 621Format: VHSProducers: CEMLCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Footage of the Tribunal. Steve Whitman introduces the event and the judges, Jose Lopez presents the indictment. Testimony is heard from family members of prisoners in Marion and Lexington. This video also contains audio of the NPR interview with ex-guard David Hale.
