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Incident at Oglala Clips
Documentary directed by Michael Apted on Native American activist Leonard Peltier. Following 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee, and amid tensions between US government and Lakota Sioux, two FBI agents and one Native American killed by gunfire on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975. Peltier was later arrested and imprisoned, although there was little direct evidence, and others charged earlier were found not guilty on the basis of legitimate self-defense. Narrated by Robert Redford (also the executive producer), the film revisits the scene of the shooting and assembles archival footage and interviews to show how Peltier was never granted a fair trial, while painting a larger portrait of social injustice in view of the contemporary living conditions of Native Americans.
Interview with Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt (#3)
Date: 1/1/1986Call Number: C 10 110Format: DV CamProducers: Lisa Rudman, Judy GerberCollection: Geronimo Pratt
Filmed in San Quentin Prison.
Comments on Vietnam, Martin Luther King, police as occupiers and the concept of self defense and similarity of the war against the Vietnamese peole and the racism and resistance in the Black community. He also talks about prison isolation and meditation.
Comments on international struggles, South Africa, Black solidarity in the U.S.. Additional remarks about Revolutionary nationalism, New Africans, the importance of a land base for the Black nation, how the Black liberation movement is thinking about drugs and violence in Black communities as well as establishing community and family values.
Interview with Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt (#4)
Date: 1/1/1986Call Number: C 10 111Format: DV CamProducers: Lisa Rudman, Judy GerberCollection: Geronimo Pratt
Filmed in San Quentin Prison.
Comments on Bernard Goetz, Henry Kissinger and Operation Tar Baby, Howard Beach incident in Queens, right-wing white groups and how the Black community needs to build a new model taking lessons from the Panthers and self defense.
Mainly questions and cutaways.
Comments about Vietnam vets in prison.
What Really Killed Rosebud?
Date: 1/1/2001Call Number: V 656Format: DVDProducers: Claire BurchCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Claire Burch's documentary investigates what really killed Rosebud Denovo, a 19 year old homeless girl killed by an Oakland police officer when she broke in to someone's house. Through interviews with her personal friends and images and video from hr life, we see what or who really killed this young homeless activist.
Akinyele Umoja COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage
Call Number: C 10 136Collection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Educator and activist - worked with the New Afrikan Independence Movement and founding member of New Afrikan Peoples Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement.
Free Norma Jean Croy Benefit
Date: 7/20/1991Call Number: V 742Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A benefit focused on raising awareness for political prisoner Norma Jean Croy. This benefit was sponsored by allies in the LGBTQ community. Program includes, prayers, poetry, and speakers.
Paramilitary White Organizations
This recording is of a meeting organized by the National Committee Against Repression to discuss the nature of white paramilitary organizations and how to organize against them. The meeting consists of speakers from the National Committee to Free the Puerto Rican Prisoners of War and the National Committee to Defend the New Afrikan Freedom Fighters.
Both speakers discuss the KKK and its connection to the police and the state, the growing repression in American society, the role of corporations, and the limits of reforms. They also discuss global imperialism and the role paramilitary organizations play in re-enforcing the interests of the state. During a question and answer discussion, audience members ask about survivalists, Mormons, death squads in Latin America, white involvement in the anti-imperialist movement, and other topics. Members of the meeting then pass a four-part resolution taking a position against liberal reform organizations, recommending self-defense and preemptive defense against white paramilitary organizations, recommending that women focus on countering the recruitment of women into white paramilitary organizations, and recommending that whites engage in campaigns discouraging white supremacy. Tape cuts out.
The Palestinian Revolution - Part 1 & 2
Date: 4/1/1970Call Number: CD 709Format: CDProducers: Colin EdwardsProgram: The Palestinian RevolutionCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
An introduction to the history of Zionism in Palestine. Interviews with officials from Palestinian revolutionary organizations about relations among their organizations their goals, philosophies, and political, social, and military activities.
The Trials of Norma Jean Croy
Publisher: The RecorderDate: 8/13/1990Volume Number: 13-AugFormat: ArticleCollection: Norma Jean Croy
"At his retrial in May a jury found Hooty Croy acted in self-defense when he killed a police officer. But Norma Jean, convicted as her brother's conspirator, remains imprisoned. The prospects for winning her release soon seem unpromising."
Freedom for Norma Jean Croy
A timeline, important issues behind the case and what you can do to help
