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Chicano Moratorium 1991 #3
Date: 8/25/1991Call Number: CV 208Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Commemorating the 21st anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium. Artists include Aztlan Nation
Also part of a discussion on US involvement in the Middle East.
La Guerra En El Golfo Persico
Panel at Modern Times on the Persian Gulf War and Latin American perspectives. The panel is led by Argentinian economist Enrique Mario Asis and includes Edwin Rodriguez, director of the Centro para Refugiados Centroamericanos (CARECEN), Mexican author Sara Levi Calderon, and Guatemalan prfessor and novelist Arturo Arias. The panel discusses the US military-industrial complex and the impetus for war.
Edwin Rodriquez discusses how war in the middle east impacts El Salvador. Levi Calderon discusses the role of the left and the mass media. Arias talks about the historical and political impact of US intervention role in undermining the regional sovereignty and the stability of Latin America.
Middle East Q&A
Q&A on the Gulf War and situation in the Middle East.
Quiet Rage - The Stanford Prison Experiment
Date: 1/1/1991Call Number: V 354Format: VHSProducers: StanfordProgram: SITNCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A look back at a prison simulation experiment conducted at Stanford in 1971. Footage from the original experiment is shown and combined with commentary from the leading psychologist.
Union Workers
Date: 1/29/1991Call Number: CV 225AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Alicia Sanchez, Director of the Sonoma County Industrial Union which protects mostly women workers in fishery and ornament making, talks about the union's role in ensuring worker rights as well as changing gender roles in families when women go out to work.
Rally Against Persian Gulf War
Date: 1/17/1991Call Number: CV 227AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
A rally organized at the beginning of the Persian Gulf war in 1991.
Chicano Veterans
Date: 2/15/1991Call Number: CV 230Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
An interview with Charlie Trujillo, a Chicano veteran, about his experience serving in the Vietnam War and his work in the anti-war movement.
Stetson Kennedy Interview on anti-racism
Date: 1/1/1991Call Number: JG/ 117Format: CassetteCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Explains his experience resisting racism and white supremacy in Depression-era, Jim Crow and poverty stricken South in the 1930s. He talks about the class construction and expansion the Ku Klux Klan, as well as the growth of antiracist organization, including his personal investigation of Klan activity.
El Salvadorian National Debate 1988
Date: 1/1/1991Call Number: JG/ 124AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
An overview of the El Salvadorian National Debate of 1988, organized by the Catholic Church. 72 grassroots and social organizations joined forces to form the Committee for the National Debate, discuss peace and produce a consensus document with a socioeconomic platform to be addressed by both sides of the debate. Committee members also discuss obstacles to peace negotiations, such as the presence of armed forces, the corruption of the judicial system and the structural problems created by foreign loans.
Ramsey Clark – Invasion of Iraq
Former Attorney General exposes events of brutality, colonialism, imperialism, and greed funded by the US upon his return from the Persian Gulf. He discuses the urgency for people to become enraged, passionate, and involved in the struggle to end the Gulf War and US imperialism altogether.
