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![Focus on the Americas with Blase Bonpane, Ph.D. “It’s time to stop US aid to Israel”](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 7/17/1991Call Number: JG/ 083BFormat: Cass BProgram: Focus on the AmericasCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Bonpane calls for need to coerce Israel to change its policy. We as US citizens must call upon our government to stop giving aid of $3.5 billion USD per year. Prominent Israeli Jews (military and nonmilitary) have also called for a stop of US aid in order to change Israeli policy. Discusses George Bush, Sr.'s crime bill that calls for secret trials, secret charges and secret evidence for non-US citizens labeled terrorists. Terrorists are defined as those giving financial assistance and support to international resistance movements including FMLN, PLO, and ANC. Material supporters would receive 10 years in prison (both US and non-US citizens). It allows youth records to be treated as adult and expands the death penalty to include Native Americans living in Indian Territories. It also permits the use of illegally seized evidence.
![Immigrant and Refugee Women's Conference](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
A conference on immigrant and refugee women's issues.
![Stetson Kennedy Interview on anti-racism](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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.
![Activist Interviews](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 3/1/1991Call Number: V 512Format: Hi-8Producers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Interviews with Jim Denison on Gay Leftist politics, Gloria Alonzo and Fidel Pena creating an AIDS awareness center at the Puerto Rican Cultural Center, and Eric Larsen explaining why he decided to take a militant stance by deserting from the army.
![Human Rights Review](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Human Rights CommissionYear: 1991Format: ReportCollection: South Africa: Human Rights Reports
![Political Imprisonment in South Africa](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Human Rights Commission and IDAF Publications LTD.Date: 4/1991Volume Number: AprilFormat: ReportCollection: South Africa: Human Rights Reports
Special Report 10
![Violence Against Women: An Obstacle to Development](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Center for Women's Global LeadershipYear: 1991Format: ExcerptCollection: Violence Against Women
![Women's rights As Human Rights: Toward a re-Vision of Human Rights](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Center for Women's Global LeadershipYear: 1991Format: ExcerptCollection: Violence Against Women
![The Case of Silvia Baraldini](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Date: 4/16/1991Call Number: PM 267Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Sally O'BrianProgram: Where We LiveCollection: Silvia Baraldini
Silvia Baraldini describes her harsh treatment and that of other U.S. political prisoners. Her attorney, Elizabeth Fink, comments on the lack of evidence presented at trial and the extreme sentencing and punishment of Baraldini at the Lexington Federal Prison. Italian member of Parliament Emma Bonino, and Italian journalist Patricia Lambroso comment on Italian parliamentary and public support for Baraldini.