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Immigration- Centro Legal and the Immigration Clinic
Date: 1/1/1986Call Number: CV 190AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
The volunteer attorneys at the La Raza Centro Legal and the Immigration Clinic in SF speak after the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) and Immigration Marriage Fraud Amendments (IMFA) passed.
Trial of the AVCO Plowshares
Date: 1/1/1986Call Number: V 332Format: VHSProducers: John Reilly, Julie GustafsonCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
In July of 1983, seven Americans entered AVCO Systems Division, a manufacturing plant for MX and Pershing II missiles in Wilmington, Massachusetts, and damaged weapon parts in a protest against the build-up of nuclear arms. This work documents the ensuing trial. With minimal commentary, Reilly and Gustafson examine the American judicial system, the tradition of non-violent civil disobedience, and the question of a higher moral imperative, beyond the letter of the law.
Let the People Speak
Date: 2/1/1986Call Number: V 359Format: VHSProducers: Trella LaughlinCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Photos and testimonies from Co-madres and Let the People Speak in solidarity against disappeared activists.
Nicaraguan Revolution Anniversary
Date: 7/19/1986Call Number: FI 106Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Emiliano Echeverria, Nina SerranoProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Seventh anniversary of Nicaraguan Revolution marked by reading by poet Carlos Rigby.
Beyond Acceptance: Interview With the Wirths
Date: 6/1/1986Call Number: JG/ 114AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Carolyn W. Griffin and Marian J. Wirth, authors of “Beyond Acceptance: Parents of Lesbians & Gays Talk About Their Experiences” and founders of P-FLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays). They discuss the complexities and issues of gay parenting. Book includes interviews with members of P-FLAG. They are joined by their son, Scott Wirth, who first came out to them as a homosexual at age 22.
(July 1986).
Interview with Sandy Levinson
Date: 9/1/1986Call Number: LA 183AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberProgram: Defiant HeartCollection: Cuba
The director of the Center for Cuban Studies in New York, speaks after Soviet Union Prime Minister, Mikhail Gorbachev announced the country would end assistance to Cuba. She describes the Soviet Union's "aid" as a mutual trade agreement which benefitted both countries. Also about UN Representative, Francisco Alarcon's, call for the UN to intervene in ending the 30-year economic embargo of Cuba for violating international law.
Marion Wirth- Beyond Acceptance
Date: 7/3/1986Call Number: JG/ 120Format: Cass A & BCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Co-author of Beyond Acceptance: Parents of Lesbians & Gays Talk About Their Experiences and cofounder of P-FLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), talks about her son's coming out process and her increasing interest in organizing as a parent of an LGBT child.
Bashir Hameed - Prison Hearing
Date: 12/2/1986Call Number: CD 675Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
BLA Political Prisoner fights prison write-up in this hearing recorded in a New York State prison. Hameed defends himself against charges in hearing with prison officials.
Elizabeth Sibeko of the Pan African Congress - Part 1
Date: 10/8/1986Call Number: V 403Format: UmaticProducers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Pan African Congress (PAC) organizer, Elizabeth Sibeko, talks about the work of the PAC in Tanzania. She discusses the violence of the South African state against the colonized Black population, and about repression against liberation fighters. Sibeko also talks about the work of the PAC with refugee communities in Tanzania; the conditions of the Bantustans; and the origins of the PAC.
Elizabeth Sibeko of the Pan African Congress - Part 2
Date: 10/8/1986Call Number: V 404Format: UmaticProducers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Pan African Congress (PAC) organizer, Elizabeth Sibeko, talks about the work of the PAC in Tanzania. She discusses the violence of the South African state against the colonized Black population, and about repression against liberation fighters. Sibeko also talks about the work of the PAC with refugee communities in Tanzania; the conditions of the Bantustans; and the origins of the PAC.
