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El Salvador In Focus
Date: 10/5/1989Call Number: LA 103Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: Radio El FarbeCollection: El Salvador
Salvadorian defense minister rejects Talia accord. No Negotiations between the Christiani Government and the FLMN. National UNTS union of workers demands negotiations based on human rights violations.
The Night Before New Years 1989
Date: 12/31/1989Call Number: KP 249AFormat: Cass AProducers: Lincoln BergmanCollection: General materials
To the meter of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas", the poem briefly comments on the main socio-political events and ills of 1989, highlighting the fall of the Berlin wall and communism. The poem concludes that the persistent conflicts and hallow "victories" over them can only be fixed through tolerance and understanding each other
Interview with Jim Gonzalez
Date: 10/24/1989Call Number: CV 040AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaProgram: KPFACollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Interview with Jim Gonzalez on issues concerning the Latino community such as the grape boycott, INS raids, immigration rights, affordable housing in San Francisco, sponsorship for Latino community events and police brutality, specifically the beating of Dolores Huerta.
Kwame Ture - Northwestern University
Speaking about the civil rights (human rights) movement and the Black Liberation struggle.
Anti-Nazi Demonstrations
Date: 4/24/1989Call Number: V 438Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Populist Party planned to meet at the public library in Hayward in honor of Hitler's 100th birthday. Anti-racist organizations organized a protest - NAACP, the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee, and the Coalition to Stop Nazis and Skinheads. The 'celebration' is canceled.
Campanile Action
Date: 5/17/1989Call Number: V 495Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Bay Area Pledge of Resistance drops banner at Campanile Tower on UC Berkeley's campus. Interviewees seek to draw attention to the UC System's stake in the US intervention in El Salvador, exposing that the ROTC at UC Berkeley helps train the Death Squads in El Salvador.
Coit Tower Action
Date: 5/15/1989Call Number: V 496Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Bay Area Pledge of Resistance occupies Coit Tower and unfurls banner in order to draw attention to the election of the ARENA party in El Salvador, the party which organized the death squads that killed thousands of El Salvadorians. Members of Pledge are carrying out this action to do the work the mass media doesn't in their coverage of El Salvador.
Anti-Nazi Protest – John Brown Anti-Klan Committee
Date: 4/2/1989Call Number: V 511Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
An anti-Nazi and anti-Skinhead march through Napa to protest the growth of both Northern Californian groups. Other groups include ACT UP/SF, Rainbow Coalition, Women Against Racism, Rock Against Racism, Napans Against Prejudice, Women Against Imperialism, and CISPES. A heavy police presence leads the demonstrators to call for the police to point their weapons at the Nazi and Skinhead supporters and not at the anti-nazi protesters.
A forum held by the JBAKC a month after the Napa protest recounts the history of the United Racist Front and the stake the government has in protecting and nourishing fascist groups like the KKK. Discusses the new movement of anti-nazi and anti-racist skinhead groups like Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice and Skinheads for Racial Unity. Speakers call for the development of a coalition of Anti-racist groups on the left.
Forty-Eight Hours: Women Doing Time
Date: 1/1/1989Call Number: V 574Format: VHSProgram: CBS NewsCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Discusses the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women, including the newborn baby policy and battered women's program. Shows a glimpse of the prisoners' everyday life. Interviews various prisoners and connects many of their crimes to drugs and domestic violence. Interview with infamous inmate Jean Harris, who murdered a well-known diet doctor/cardiologist.
The Link
Publisher: Americans for Middle East UnderstandingYear: 1989Volume Number: Vol. 22-5 DecemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Americans for Middle East Understanding
Cover Story: From the Diary of An American in Occupied Palestine
