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Cabildo De Mujeres – Women’s Townhall Meeting
Date: 1/1/1986Call Number: V 491Format: VHSProducers: Sistema Sandinista de TelivisionCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Women gather to discuss and debate proposed changes to the Nicaraguan constitution. They argue for and against legalized and decriminalized abortion, divorce, rape, domestic violence, and parental rights of mothers. Includes discussion of the opening of the constitution - that society is based on the equality of women.
Magda Enriquez of Nicaragua
Date: 1/1/1986Call Number: V 494Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
The Nicaraguan leader speaks to an assembly of north American feminists about women in Nicarauga and in the Sandinista revolution, as well as the role she has played as both a Sandinista Revolutionary and a feminist organizer in Nicaragua.
Red Dragons protest war toys - Geronimo Pratt Parade and Press Conference
Date: 12/1/1986Call Number: V 529Format: Hi-8Producers: David SternCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Red Dragons, a children's group, protest against the selling of war toys like Rambo and GI Joe because they promote war as normal and fun. They attempt to go into a toy store to show the owners their petition and the owners then call San Francisco police to break up the demonstration.
The Committee to Free Geronimo Pratt picket outside San Francisco's World Trade Center where the California Parole Board hears cases. Press conference held afterwards features actor Danny Glover, Pratt's attorney Stuart Hanlon, Pratt's wife Ashaki Pratt, and various activists from prisoner rights organizations, all calling for the release of Geronimo.
Corazon Aquino at Moscone
Date: 1/1/1986Call Number: CV 286Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Corazon Aquino, president of the Philippines, speaks to a large Filipino-American audience at Moscone Center asking for support to overcome the high poverty rate after the 14-year dictatorship of the Marcos Regime.
Corazon Aquino Press Conference
Date: 1/1/1986Call Number: CV 287AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Corazon Aquino gives answers questions at press conference after her speech at the Moscone center in San Francisco in 1986.
Corazon Aquino
Date: 1/1/1986Call Number: CV 288AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Philippine president Corazon Aquino speaks to the Asian Foundation.
Silicon Valley: Company Town
Date: 1/1/1986Call Number: V 534Format: VHSProducers: Valerie LandauProgram: KTEHCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Silicon Valley: Company Town: Part 2 of an award winning Silicon Valley trilogy originally broadcast in 1986. Includes interview with Steve Wozniak, one of the original founders of Apple Computer, who discusses the Valley's boom.
Malcolm X Tribute Event - Part 1
Speeches and cultural performances at tribute event for Malcolm X, and for Mutulu Shakur, by New Afrikan People's Organization, including main speech by Chokwe Lumumba.
Malcolm X Tribute Event - Part 2
Speeches and cultural performances at tribute event for Malcolm X, and for Mutulu Shakur, by New Afrikan People's Organization, including main speech by Chokwe Lumumba.
Dolores Huerta Interview
Huerta discusses the third grape protest and a new documentary. Also about pro’s and con’s of the new Immigration Bill, the status of women in the Labor Movement and the ongoing strike in Watsonville.