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![Judy Gerber's Report on El Salvador](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 3/29/1992Call Number: JG/ 112Format: Cass A & BProducers: Judy GerberProgram: slide show presentationCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Audio recording of a slide show presentation. Gerber describes the country two months after the Feb. 1st cease-fire, particularly in terms of women's conditions and rights. Issues of health care, land ownership, sexual and domestic abuse, single female heads of households, illiteracy, and women-as-property are addressed amid discussion of El Salvador's path to reconstruction.
![Rigoberta Menchu's Speech in Mexico about](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1992Call Number: CV 032Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy ValeraCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Rigoberta Menchu speaks in Mexico in 1992 about her first novel, "I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala". She refers to it as an instrument of peace and justice for those who suffer inequality socially, economically, culturally and politically in the world and a portal the denounce the human rights violations that had been going on in Guatemala and the world. Among other things she talks about the contributions the Mayan Civilization, the significance of respecting the earth, the need for peace, the need for discourse between different global communities and the dire situation facing indigenous communities (especially women) in Guatemala. Her speech is followed by music.
![Ernesto Cardenal interview](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 10/13/1992Call Number: CV 092Format: CassetteProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Interview in Spanish with Ernesto Cardenal, leading Nicaraguan poet and Minister of Culture.
![The Iran - Contra Affair: and when did you first know?](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 3/1/1992Call Number: V 384Format: VHSProducers: Trella LaughlinCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Sissy Farenthold and John C. Mattes discuss the Iran-Contra affair, a political scandal in the US which came to light in 1986. It involved President Reagan and his administration which organized and financed an armed opposition group (the Contras) who waged war against Nicaragua to overthrow their government.
![Women Against Imperialism-Demos Actions etc.](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1992Call Number: V 431Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Mixture of edited pieces shown on cable news media. Coverage of demos/actions and raw footage.
1984 International Women's Day 700 women march connecting abortion rights to US intervention in Central America and the Phillipines and political prisoners.
International Day to Stop Violence Against Women. Protest in Union Square chanting "Stop the silence no more violence women fight back!" Rallying support for FSLN and lesbian safe space.
International Womens Day 1988 at Pleasanton Prison calling for the release of women political prisoners and all prisoners.
Raw footage of arrests outside Armed Forces Recruitment Center in San Francisco. Protesting US intervention in Central America and the Phillipines.
International Women's Day 1991 "Wall of Women Against War." Raw footage of women protesting US support of Israel and war in Iraq and Kuwait.
International Women's Day 1992-"500 years of Resistance." March down Columbus Ave. in San Francisco to protest "Christopher Columbus Day."
![The Panama Deception](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 7/30/1992Call Number: V 662Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This documentary details the case that the 1989 invasion of Panama by the US was motivated not by the need to protect American soldiers, restore democracy or even capture President Manuel Noriega. The film instead posits that the purpose of the conflict was to force Panama to renegotiate the Torrijos–Carter Treaties concerning the Panama Canal and test weapons and strategies for the upcoming Gulf War.
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