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You can always type what you’re looking for into the search bar. Certain searches may generate hundreds of results, so sometimes it will help to use quotation marks to help narrow down your results. For instance, searching for the phrase Black Liberation will generate all of our holdings that contain the words Black and Liberation, while searching for “Black Liberation” (in quotation marks) will only generate our records that have those two words next to each other.
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Vivan Las Mujeres - Update with the BCTF - Fight Racism Vivan Las Mujeres - Update with the BCTF - Fight Racism
Date: 2/16/1986Call Number: V 472Format: VHSProducers: Trella LaughlinCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Vivan Las Mujeres features two feminist activists that spent six months in Central America meeting and working with women. Discusses the creation of the Women's Skills and Resource Exchange Center in Seattle that directed monetary and organizational resources to women in Central America. An interview with Dorothy Nell Turner and Velma Roberts of the Black Citizens Task Force of Austin about housing, development, busing, and conflicts within the Black community. Fight Racism Musical Benefit was a tribute to Malcolm X on the anniversary of his assassination. BCTF and Let the People Speak sponsor the event that features local bands and WC Clark. Trella Laughlin opens Fight Racism.
Let the People Speak - Enough Crying of Tears Let the People Speak - Enough Crying of Tears
Date: 1/1/1986Call Number: V 488Format: VHSProducers: Trella LaughlinCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A history of the work since 1977 of the Committe of the Mothers Monsignor Ryan and the disappeared of El Salvador. Features testimonies of COMADRES activists who had been tortured by the puppet government. They demand accountability for the disappeared as well as their release.
Cabildo De Mujeres – Women’s Townhall Meeting 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 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 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.
Roberto Vargas Speech and Poetry Roberto Vargas Speech and Poetry
Date: 3/22/1986Call Number: FI 186Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Emiliano Echeverria, Heber DreherProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Speech with several poems by Roberto Vargas on the situation in Nicaragua. He is a noted San Francisco poet and community activist who fought with the Sandinista revolution and then became cultural attache for the Sandinista government.
In the Midst of Struggle - 12 In the Midst of Struggle - 12
Date: 6/28/1986Call Number: FI 192Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Emiliano EcheverriaProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Marks 16th anniversary of the program. Focus on Nicaragua and South Africa. Opens with "Mantra Contra Contras" poem by Lincoln Bergman and song "Yankee Go Home!" followed by musical selections from Central America and southern Africa and closing antiwar song by Pete Seeger.
Grupo Mancotal and The Weavers Grupo Mancotal and The Weavers
Date: 11/22/1986Call Number: FI 198Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Nina SerranoProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Musical selections from Nicaragua (Grupo Mancotal) and the US (The Weavers.
The Archives of Freedom - 3 The Archives of Freedom - 3
Date: 12/13/1986Call Number: FI 199Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Emiliano EcheverriaProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Commentary on Contragate followed by rebroadcast of a December 1982 program that includes the "ad" for the Ronald Raygun and news on Central America and US intervention, the Graham and Allen trial, the Klan and racism in US. Theme: How to transform justified anger into energy.
The War in El Salvador Current Situation and Outlook for The Future. The War in El Salvador Current Situation and Outlook for The Future.
Author: JOAQUIN VILLALOBOSPublisher: Frente Farabundo Marti Para La Liberacion NacionalYear: 1986Format: ArticleCollection: El Salvador
"The war in El Salvador" by Joaquin Villalobos originally appeared in spanish as "El Estado Actual de la Guerra y sus Perspectivas".