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Interview with Eddie Hatcher
Eddie discusses conditions that prompted him to takeover a North Carolina newspaper, specifically police and state complicity in the drug trade and murders of poor Black and Native peoples in Robeson County, North Carolina. Additionally he speaks on his numerous trials, his incarceration and his current political activity.
Interview with Jean Peters
Date: 12/4/1992Call Number: KP 476AFormat: Cass AProgram: A Defiant Heart Collection: General materials
Jean Peters talks about her recent trip to Russia and her investigation of women’s rights issues. Peters outlines the social conditions and details their struggles at home and in the employment sector. She further discusses Abortion, AIDS, LGBT issues and Russia’s anti-gay law. Peters gives an overview of strategies women are taking to extend their access to resources, specifically sexual health resources, and secure and strengthen their legal rights.
Walter Turner on Somalia
Walter Turner discusses the political and humanitarian situation in Somalia. He provides historical background and context, then covers a number of issues including Western perception of Somali culture, an explanation of clans and their role in the conflict, and the role cold war politics played in destabilizing Somalia. He also discusses the role of the US in the current crisis and the need to reevaluate the purposes of Western interventions in Africa.
ACT UP Anti-Inaugural Demonstration
Date: 1/20/1989Call Number: V 567Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Protesters perform guerrilla theater outside the San Francisco stock exchange in response to the inauguration of George H. Bush. They mock Bush and his wife Barbara and perform an educational game show that acts out the inaccessibility to AIDS/HIV drug treatments.
HIV/AIDS Forum - US Women of color
Panel covers global statistics on growing number of women with HIV/AIDS. Focuses heavily on women of color in the US. Includes second-hand accounts of individual women with HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS Forum - US Women of color
Panel speaking on HIV/AIDS affecting women of color in the US. Includes a first-hand account of a woman with HIV/AIDS.
Activision
Call Number: V 598Format: VHSProducers: Lisa Rudman, Peralta Colleges TelevisionCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A compilation of short pieces documenting dissent and activism surrounding issues in El Salvador, the Phillipines, AIDS, women's liberation and reproductive rights. Film includes, but not limited to, footage of the Golden Gate Bridge blockade for AIDS awareness, and a music video about American imperialism in the Phillipines.
Aids in Cuba, Mi Hermano Fidel, Los Ojos Como Mi Papa
Date: 1/1/1977Call Number: V 608Format: VHSProducers: Santiago Alvarez, Pedro ChaskelCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Aids in Cuba: Successful Cuban efforts to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS. Interviews and forums with HIV/AIDS patients that live in a sanatorium and their families. Statistics on who has AIDS, the most common ways to get AIDS, and who gets tested for AIDS in Cuba. The need for sexual education, condom use, and the misinterpreted linkage between HIV/AIDS and homosexuality.
Mi Hermano Fidel. (1977) Fidel Castro interviews an old man who participated in the Sierra Maestra campaigns. Man has poor eyesight and does not realize that it is Fidel Castro who is interviewing him.
Los Ojos Como Mi Papa:(1979) - Conversations among young adults and children of political refugees. Discuss Cuba and Latin America Topics include the Cuban Revolution, US influence, and socialism.
Stonewall 2nd Annual Gay and Lesbian Special
Date: 6/1/1992Call Number: JG/ 153Format: Cass A & BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
African American Lesbian Gay Alliance and Atlanta Lesbian Gay Pride Committee discussion of Black Gay identity and how it pertains to education and impact on the gay rights movement; Jeff Graham of ACT UP, Duncan Teague of ALGPC, Shelley Robbins and Stan Moadley on events happening at the 1992 Atlanta Gay pride celebration
Cuba and Gay Liberation Forum
Margarita Benitez from the Venceremos Brigade on her visit to Cuba, her account of their statistics and policies of AIDS prevention, and the differences between US Capitalist and Cuban Socialist care of AIDS patients; Oran Ivlan of ACT UP on quarantine as poor public health policy; Bernardo Garcia Pandavenes on growing up Cuban and Gay, his activism and experiences; Deeg Gold from Lesbians and Gays Against Intervention on the relationship between the Lesbian/Gay community and the Cuban solidarity movement.
