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Mobile Lynching, John Trudell Speech
Date: 3/28/1981Call Number: FI 148Producers: Lincoln Bergman, Barbara Lubinski, Heber DreherProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Reports on US Department of Defense plan for war casualties, a lynching in Mobile, Alabama, strong speech by Native activist John Trudell, on overcoming capitalist materialism and living in harmony with Mother Earth.
United Framer Workers: Boycott Against Safeway - 2
Date: 8/25/1989Call Number: CV 248AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Cesar Chavez, along with other organizers and community leaders rally and demand that Safeway stop selling grapes grown with pesticides. Chavez explains that the pesticides are contributing to cancer among farm workers.
United Farm Workers - SF Protest
Date: 11/13/1992Call Number: CV 259AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Interviews with UFW demonstrators who are protesting pesticide use on grapes. Grape growers are selling their produce overseas since sales are down in the US. Cesar Chavez discuss his efforts to raise awareness about pesticides and their health effects among Hong Kong consumers. He also talks about how NAFTA may influence union organizing.
Oscar Mondragon - Frank Curil Interview
Date: 4/6/1988Call Number: CV 263Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Oscar Mondragon and Frank Curil discuss the UFW's third major grape boycott. Curil explains the union's stance on workers' rights, the new method of boycotting and the health risk of pesticides.
Mismanagement in the Richmond Unified School District
Date: 1/1/1992Call Number: CV 290BFormat: Cass BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Environmental Conservation and its effects on different indigenous populations. Discussion of the mismanagement of funds in the Richmond Unified School District, as well as racism in high schools by faculty members and the school board.
Lilias Jones and Madonna Thunderhawk
Call Number: CD 728Format: CDProducers: Carole TravisCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Lilias Jones speaks about the uranium spills on the Black Hills Native American reservation and how privately owned corporations neglect the toxic spills. No studies have been funded to determine its effects. Also Native Americans lack power to resist these large corporations.
Interview with Madonna Thunderhawk discussing how sterilization, loss of land, and radiation exposure are all elements of genocide committed against Native American populations. Also Native American's refuse to assimilate because of spirituality and connection to the land also the importance of self-determination in resisting forced removals of indigenous populations.
Toxic Waste Incineration
Call Number: JG/ 149Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Documentary on controversy surrounding proposals for toxic waste incineration in San Francisco Bay Area, near Martinez, including interview with representative of Contra Costans Against Toxic Pollution.
Trade Secrets: The Hidden Costs of the FTAA
Date: 1/1/2002Call Number: V 539Format: VHSProducers: UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research, EducationCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
On the FTAA from the perspective of workers. Narrated by Mike Farrell, it covers the NAFTA Chapter 11 cases on UPS, and Methanex' attack on California's environmental laws banning MTBE from gasoline, and how the FTAA will affect us. There is also a set of fact sheets and a great interactive role-play on the impacts on the public and private sectors of the FTAA
Los Nukak Maku: Los Ultimos Nomadas
Date: 6/6/1993Call Number: V 553Format: VHSProducers: Cine ColombianoProgram: Los Nukak Maku: Los Ultimos NomadasCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Documentary about the Nukak Maku, one of the last nomadic tribes in the Amazon, "discovered" in 1988.
Butterfly
Date: 1/1/2000Call Number: V 579Format: VHSProducers: Doug WolensProgram: POV, PBSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Living 180 feet off the ground in an ancient redwood tree for over two years, Julia Butterfly Hill, was interviewed for over two years, including six nights with Hill on her 180-foot high platform, reveal an intensely spiritual and articulate woman determined to accomplish her goal. The horror of being assaulted by lumber company helicopters, and of the strangeness of fierce media scrutiny seeking out a woman in a tree.
