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The Trials of Henry Kissinger
Date: 12/1/2002Call Number: V 112Format: DVDProducers: Alex Gibney, Eugene JareckiCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A Film by Alex Gibney & Eugene Jarecki
Is Henry Kissinger a war criminal? Featuring previously unseen footage, newly declassified U.S. government documents, and revealing interviews with key insiders from Henry Kissinger's White House years, this new film examines charges facing the former Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Focusing on his role in three key events - America's secret bombing of Cambodia in 1969, the approval of Indonesia's genocidal assault on East Timor in 1975, and the assassination of a Chilean general in 1970 - THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER also examines the possibility that Kissinger, by sabotaging the 1969 Paris peace talks to further Nixon's candidacy and his own concomitant rise to power, bears responsibility for all the deaths in Vietnam from 1969 to 1975.
To debate the issues, the film brings together Kissinger's friends, colleagues, and detractors, including Gen. Alexander Haig, Jr., Seymour Hersh, Christopher Hitchens, Walter Isaacson, William Safire, Lt. General Brent Scowcroft, and William Shawcross, as well as Vietnam peace talks delegate Daniel Davidson, former U.S. Ambassadors Edward Korry and David Newsom, National Security Council staffer Roger Morris, Human Rights Lawyer Geoffrey Robertson, and Professor of Law Michael Tigar, among others.
Shedding light on a career long shrouded in secrecy, the film explores how a young boy who fled Nazi Germany grew up to become one of the most powerful men in American foreign policy and now, in the autumn of his life, one of its most controversial figures.
Jenin, Jenin
Date: 1/1/2002Call Number: V 114Producers: Mohamed BakriCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
'Where is God,' an elderly man desperately wonders when surveying the debris in the Palestinian refugee camp Jenin.
The film, directed and co-produced by Palestinian actor and director Mohammed Bakri, includes testimony from Jenin residents after the Israeli army's Defensive Wall operation, during which the city and camp were the scenes of fierce fighting. The operation ended with Jenin flattened and scores of Palestinians dead. Palestinians as well as numerous human rights groups accused Israel of committing war crimes in the April 2002 attack on the refugee camp. "Jenin Jenin" shows the extent to which the prolonged oppression and terror has affected the state of mind of the Palestinian inhabitants of Jenin.
Bitterness and grief are the prevailing feelings among the majority of the population. Many have lost loved ones or are still searching for victims and furniture among the debris. A little girl, who does not seem to be much older than twelve, tells her story but knows no fear. The ongoing violence in her day-to-day life only nourishes her feelings of hatred and the urge to take revenge. She tells what she would do to Prime Minister Sharon if he visited the camp and she shouts that the Palestinians will never give up the struggle. They will keep on producing children, who can continue the fight against injustice.
The sad question forces itself on the spectator. What will become of a country, a people when its children are confronted with war and violence from a very early age?
Banned in Israel, "Jenin Jenin" is dedicated to Iyad Samudi, the producer of the film, who returned home to Yamun after the shooting of the film was completed. On June 23, as Israeli forces besieged Yamun, Samudi was shot and killed as he was leaving a military-closed area with three friends.
Anne Hansen: Direct Action - Reflections on Armed Resistance and the Squamish Five
Date: 10/1/2002Call Number: CD 160Format: CDProducers: G7 Welcoming CommitteeCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Recorded in October 2002, an unrepentant and eminently articulate Anne Hansen reflects on the successes and failures of the bombings she was convicted for as part of the anarchist armed struggle groups Direct Action, and the Wimmin's Fire Brigade; and dispels some f the common myths surrounding not only her actions, but armed struggle in general. She explores the differences between direct action and terrorism as means of affecting social change, laying the groundwork for defining what direct actions means, what its guiding principles are, and how it can be applied successfully and meaningfully in today's political climate.
Estadio Nacional - National Stadium
Date: 1/1/2002Call Number: V 123Format: VHSProducers: Gobierno de Chile, Carmen Luz ParotCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
In 1973, between September 11th and November 7th,in the biggest sports stadium in Chile ‘Estadio Nacional’, the Chilean military set up a concentration camp of death and torture. After the violent coup against the democratically elected Socialist government of Salvador Allende, more than 12,000 political prisoners were imprisoned. At least 7,000 prisoners were tortured and countless numbers were murdered.
Filmed 30 years later, this documentary is the first investigation conducted about the Stadium and the events taking place inside. It includes interviews with the eyewitnesses of that time (prisoners, nurses, soldiers and journalists). The film also utilizes historical footage that is truly amazing.
Directed by Carmen Luz Parot who made an exhaustive search of audiovisual archives from 5 countries as well as cultural institutions around the world.
90 minutes - in Spanish and subtitled in English.
Rivers That Were: Working Water & Beaver Taught Salmon How to Jump
Date: 1/1/2002Call Number: CD 199Format: CDProducers: Feather, Fin ProductionsCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
The Columbia River, flowing through the Pacific Northwest, is the fourth largest river in North America. The Colorado River, the major river in the desert Southwest, is a tiny stream compared to the Columbia, but it is probably the most litigated river in the world. Both these rivers once flowed with a force that overwhelmed the people who tried to navigate their rapids or control their currents and flood flows. That was until the Hoover, Bonneville and Grand Coulee Dams were built in the 1930s, finally taming these wild rivers and conscripting them into industrial service.Alternative Radio presents Rivers That Were, a two-part documentary by Oregon-based award-winning producer Barbara Bernstein. These two hours explore the long-term consequences of over a century of redesigning nature to suit commercial and industrial needs. The programs contrast these historic mindsets with new approaches that try to design with nature. The programs juxtapose the voices and viewpoints of Native Americans, barge operators, water engineers, environmentalists, policy makers and others who live and work in the watersheds of these two mythic Western rivers.Part One:Ê Working Water compares two environmental crises. On the Colorado River Basin, it's the ongoing effort to restore the Salton Sea. On the Columbia, it's the confounding crisis of how to clean up one of the most toxic sites in the world, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.Part Two:Ê Beaver Taught Salmon How To Jump recreates the once natural and free-flowing tributaries and mainstem of the Columbia River, the Great River of the West and compares what was with a transformed landscape of culverted urban creeks, inundated waterfalls and rapids and industrialized waterways.
Chile materials
Date: 1/1/2002Call Number: CD 250Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Salvador Allende's last speech
Eye Witness from La Moneda
Neruda Poems
Chile - The Day of the Coup - radio ads
Interview with Isabel Allende
Date: 12/10/2002Call Number: CD 251Format: CDProducers: Freedom ArchivesProgram: Chile: Promise of FreedomCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Isabel Allende, well-known author, interviewed by Isabel Alegria about her experience in Chile before and after the Coup in Chile and her reflections looking back. Done for the 30th anniversary of the coup and used extensively in Chile: Promise of Freedom.
Part 1 & 2
Who Needs Prisons & Who do the Prisons Need
Date: 12/29/2002Call Number: CD 299Format: CDProducers: Dan Roberts, Eda LevensonCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Eda Levenson conducted a 57-minute interview with Veronza Bowers, Jr. that was aired on radio station KZYX on Sunday, December 29, 2002.
Who Needs Prisons, And Who Do The Prisons Need?
George W. Bush Addresses the U.N. General Assembly
Date: 9/12/2002Call Number: V 182Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This video contains George W. Bush's 2002 address to the U.N. General Assembly in which Bush attempts to make links between the Iraqi state and the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In his address, Bush claims that crimes of Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi regime's "expanding" chemical weapons production and stockpiles, WMD programs, and supposed nuclear weapons capabilities, mark a "grave and gathering danger" and threat to world security. Bush also blames Iraqi civilian death from imposed sanction on Hussein's refusal to comply with the sanctions regime. He also threatens the U.N. itself stating that it "will serve its purpose or be irrelevant," and
Claims that liberty for Iraqi people is a "great cause" and a "great strategic goal."
Tape also contains footage of Democratic leader Thomas A. Daschle applauding and supporting Bush's statements.
Fanny Howe reads “Acrobatic” by Marilyn Buck & her own, “Bliss” .
Date: 11/4/2002Call Number: WP 004Format: CDCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Poet, Fanny Howe, reads Marilyn Buck’s “Acrobatic” and her own poem “Bliss”.
There are 3 takes for each poem.
