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Interview H. Bruce Franklin
Call Number: SS 145BFormat: Cass BProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interview with Bruce Franklin on his book, "War Stars: The Superweapon in the American Imagination."
Military Myths
Call Number: V 083Format: VHSProducers: ROOTS (War Resisters League)Collection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Youth-produced informational video on alternatives to military service, “real stories” of former service-people, and the existence of racism, sexism, and homophobia in the military.
Focus on the Americas
“Republicrats” with Blase Bonpane, Ph.D.
Call Number: JG/ 080BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Bonpane discusses many topics of the day (recorded October 1990). 1. Sen. Pete Wilson refuses to see him and representatives of Salvadorian community regarding House Resolution #5114 and the Casden-Graham provision. 2. Brian Wilson, who lost his legs trying to stop a munitions shipment to El Salvador, informs of a peace delegation underway to Iraq. 3. Bonpane reads open letter from Mennonites to the people of Iraq. 4. Responds to Democratic National Committee Chair Ron Brown's statement regarding Democratic support for war in Iraq. 5. Informs of 10-day Human Rights delegation to Mexico. 6. Informs of Reverend Father Ernesto Cardenal Martínez's upcoming visit to Los Angeles. 7. Bonpane reads a letter from Jeffrey Patterson who refused to serve in the military action in Iraq.
Interview with Colleta Youngers on Colombia
Colleta Youngers of the Associate Washington Office on Latin America, a nonprofit organization following issues of US Foreign Policy and human rights speaks of the political struggle and structure of the Colombian drug trade. She speaks of the main components there of: the guerillas, the traffickers and the military organizations and death squads. She addresses as well the misperceptions in the United States of who really controls the drug trade in Colombia.
Walter Turner on Somalia
Call Number: JG/ 085AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
1993 Interview on current U.S. actions in Somalia with Walter Turner, Producer of Africa Press Review on KPFA, History Professor at UC Berkeley, President of Global Exchange. Turner illuminates the role of U.S. intervention in Somalia over the past several decades. He notes the Cold War implications of U.S. African policy, a "football," particularly noting the switch of U.S. alliance from Somalia to Ethiopia during the war between those nations in the late 1970's. He also describes the ethnic make-up of Somalia and how the colonial legacy of ethnic division fosters current power struggles. He raises doubts about the "humanitarian" nature of U.S. intervention in Somalia because it appears by all counts to be a military intervention. He sees U.S. policies as the root cause of the crisis, both in the provision of weapons and cruel international development policies. He calls for U.N. negotiations on Somalia.
Haitian Crisis, May 1994
Call Number: JG/ 086AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Report on Haiti, May 1994. Brief background on the overthrow of Haitian President Aristide in 1991, the repression of pro-democracy activists by the ruling military junta, and U.S. policy of restricting refugees from Haiti. Context of prospective U.S. intervention in Haiti. Reading of a 'The New York Times' that articulates U.S. options on Haiti: militarily intervene, let refugees in, or do nothing. Reading from May 4 'This Week in Haiti,' a U.S. publication of the Haitian paper, 'Haiti Progress.' Article describes Haitian popular movement's opposition to U.S. intervention and racial dynamics of refugee situation and prospective intervention. Also, it discuses Haitian-U.S. diplomatic relations and Clinton's extension of an economic embargoes to Haiti. Reading from January/February 'NACLA Report on the Americas' that describes negative impact of US AID to Haiti and U.S. sweatshop industries there. Description of Trans Africa efforts in Washington to pressure Clinton to reverse racist refugee policies.
Focus on the Americas with Blase Bonpane, Ph.D. Interview with Michael Job on recent trip to Iraq.
Call Number: JG/ 081BFormat: Cass BProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Michael Job who served as the Chair of the Veteran's Peace Action Teams and is a Vietnam combat veteran discusses reason behind military action in Iraq. Job and Bonpane discuss the conflicting and confusing multitude of reasons for war with Iraq given by President George Bush (Sr.). They discuss the contradictions and hypocrisy in Bush's arguments, call for more critical thinking by citizens and military personnel. Discuss the similarities between a draft and indentured servitude (slavery), the class issues involved in the war, and the exploitation of the poor by military recruiters. They put the military buildup in the Middle East in perspective by linking it to Regan's Iran Contra affair and attacks on Nicaragua. Call for equality in treatment of countries - foreign military response to US invasion of Panama and Israeli invasion of Syria. They reject double standards and liken Bush's action to starting a global conflict.
School of the Assassins Tape 1of 2
School of the Americas, WHINSEC
Discussion on the School of the Americas (SOA), now named the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC). Father Roy Bourgeois from School of the Americas Watch speaks about the institute, Jennifer Harberry speaks of her husband’s years of torture and murder by an SOA graduate and her hunger strike in Guatemala, Professor Noam Chomsky speaks in length of the school as well. This is tape one of two.
Bill Crossman on Puerto Rican Prisoners of War
Call Number: JG/ 098AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Bill Crossman speaks about Puerto Rican Prisoners of War in the US, a petition for their amnesty to the Justice Dept. under President Clinton. Puerto Rican support for these prisoners.
The 16 prisoners’ sentences, convictions, and conditions are discussed.
Crossman also gives historical background about US occupation of Puerto Rico, and military strategy and plans to control the southern hemisphere.
US Out of El Salvador: News Montage
Call Number: V 172Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This tape contains a collection of corporate news footage of a demonstration against the US war on El Salvador and its support for death squads and El Salvador's terrorist regime in the late 1980s. Demonstrators battle police as they try to blockade the entrance of the Federal Building in San Francisco.
