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The secret side of Free Trade
General Agreement on Terms and Trade (GATT) November 1994
Noam Chomsky analyzes the effects of Free Trade on the global economy and the population. Yanique Joseph discusses right-wing opposition to GATT, and GATT's potential for good as well as it's potential for harm with Lawrence Feiner. They also discuss the popular assumption that economic growth and sustainable development are mutually exclusive and shed light on the great potential for Third World countries to experience great economic growth in ways that support sustainable development. Incomplete, mid-show recording.
Festival at the Lake: Channel 2 News
Date: 6/6/1994Call Number: V 168Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This tape contains corporate news coverage of the 1994 Festival at the Lake in Oakland. Describing the incident as a "riot," coverage includes footage of Oakland police using pepper spray, concussion grenades, batons, and police motorcycles, against festival goers.
Residents interviewed describe the incident as a "police riot" and refute OPD blame of "young people," with residents noting that "young people" happen to be black people. On resident also notes, "when the African American community comes to an urban festival, martial law is instituted in a larger effort to repel them from the community."
Festival at the Lake: Channel 2 News
Date: 6/6/1994Call Number: V 169Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
**SAME AS V168**
This tape contains corporate news coverage of the 1994 Festival at the Lake in Oakland. Describing the incident as a "riot," coverage includes footage of Oakland police using pepper spray, concussion grenades, batons, and police motorcycles, against festival goers.
Residents interviewed describe the incident as a "police riot" and refute OPD blame of "young people," with residents noting that "young people" happen to be black people. On resident also notes, "when the African American community comes to an urban festival, martial law is instituted in a larger effort to repel them from the community."
Festival at the Lake: KTVU
Date: 6/6/1994Call Number: V 170Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
KTVU footage of 1994 Festival at the Lake “mini-riot.”
Virtually identical to V168 and V169
Festival at the Lake: Channel 7
Date: 6/6/1994Call Number: V 171Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Channel 7 footage of Festival at the Lake incident. Anchorperson describes the event as a “full-scale riot.”
This tape is virtually identical to V170, V169, and V168.
Food Not Bombs Restraining Order
Date: 2/4/1994Call Number: V 177Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
In this tape, Food Not Bombs activists serve a SFPD officer with a restraining order then chat it up with a “sympathetic” officer.
Allen Ginsberg at Solo Mio Festival in San Francisco
Excerpt of performance given by Allen Ginsberg in 1994. Ginsberg performs songs and poetry written after 1976.
Prop. 187 Protest 11/9/1994 taped by Sammy Leigh Webster
Interviews with protesters during a march in San Francisco against the passing of California Proposition 187. Gauging their reactions to the proposition, which would have required those who seek social services to have their immigration statuses verified. With this proposition the state hoped that without social services, undocumented people would leave California.
Event held in Honor of Elombe Brath’s Birthday
Date: 1/1/1994Call Number: CD 387Collection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
same as KP 157.This is a recording of an event held in honor of Elombe Brath. Elombe himself speaks as well as others including Vickie Garvin.
Event held in Honor of Elombe Brath’s Birthday
This is a recording of an event held in honor of Elombe Brath. Elombe himself speaks as well as others including Vickie Garvin.
