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![Jalil Muntaqim interview (2 of 4)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: V 079Format: VHSProducers: John O’ReillyCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Continues about the tampering and destruction of evidence in his case. Once you’re convicted the burden is to prove yourself innocent. Discusses cases of Dhoruba and Geronimo, who spent almost 50 years together in prison after proving that the state had set them up. Calls the US a plutocracy, where the rich rule and control the government, operating under a hypocritical veneer of democracy. Hegemonic powers of the media, describes it as the wizard in the background. We need to break the illusion that the system works for the benefit of the people. All he sees in prison are black and brown faces because of the unequal distribution of wealth and poverty being an impetus towards “crime”, and institutional racism has created a mechanism for people of color to go to prison. Talks about bodies becoming commodities, his prison number is like his bar code, economics analysis of PIC. Discusses tax breaks for rural counties who can include prisoners in their population even though majority of prisoners come from NYC. Control units/SHU - for rebellious prisoners and mentally ill inmates who can’t be controlled among rest of general population. Discusses his own most recent experience in the “box”, where the state fabricated evidence that he was organizing a statewide prison strike. Talks about SHU, feed you through a slot in cell, 1 hour of recreation time, everything even food is a privilege, no phone use, visitation once a week but through glass. Talks about the extended effects of isolation and sensory deprivation, claustrophobia, loneliness, anxiety and panic disorders. There is no rehab/education/employment/therapeutic/skill s offered to prisoners, thus they leave embittered and destructive. Talks about manifest destiny and how it was turned into a country. Ideas are power if you know how to take control. Starts to talk about returning to San Quentin adjustment center post-sentencing, housed with San Quentin six. Talking about freeing political prisoners with Ruchell Magee, who just received a letter from Yuri Kochiyama about starting a movement around amnesty.
![Can’t Jail the Revolution](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: V 010Format: VHSProducers: Third World Newsreel 1991Collection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Documentary on U.S. political prisoners and prisoners of war
![Attica](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1973Call Number: V 033Format: VHSProducers: Cinda FirestoneCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Archival footage, photographs and interviews from Attica prison and the Attica prison rebellion.
![Ghosts of Attica (Finecut)](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Date: 1/1/2001Call Number: V 034Format: VHSProducers: David Van Taylor, Brad Lichtenstein, Lumier ProductionsCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
GHOSTS OF ATTICA offers the definitive account of America's most violent prison rebellion, its suppression, and the days of torture that ensued. Using exclusive, newly uncovered video of the assault, interviews with eyewitnesses who've never spoken before on-camera, and footage of inmates and hostages throughout their battles against the state, this film unravels one of America's deepest cover-ups, and shows how the legendary prison riot transformed the lives of its survivors. This stirring documentary features extensive interviews with Attica survivors, including former inmate Frank "Big Black" Smith, Mike Smith, who was a guard who was taken hostage and subsequently wounded by police fire, and Elizabeth Fink, the attorney who headed the inmates' decades-long legal battles against New York State. Other interviews include those with New York Times columnist Tom Wicker, Congressman Herman Badillo, Assemblyman Arthur Eve, and civil rights lawyer William Kunstler.
![Ghosts of Attica](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/2001Call Number: V 035Format: VHSProducers: David Van Taylor, Brad Lichtenstein, Lumier ProductionsCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Only last year, inmates wrested an historic $12-million settlement from the state, and that bittersweet victory spurred a new round of agitation by guards and their survivors.
This stirring documentary features extensive interviews with Attica survivors, including former inmate Frank "Big Black" Smith.
Also interviewed is Mike Smith, who was a guard who was taken hostage and subsequently wounded by police fire.
Elizabeth Fink, the attorney who headed the inmates' decades-long legal battles against New York State, is also interviewed. Other interviews include those with New York Times columnist Tom Wicker, Congressman Herman Badillo, Assemblyman Arthur Eve, and civil rights lawyer William Kunstler.
GHOSTS OF ATTICA offers the definitive account of America's most violent prison rebellion, its suppression, and the days of torture that ensued. Using exclusive, newly uncovered video of the assault, interviews with eyewitnesses who've never spoken before on-camera, and footage of inmates and hostages throughout their battles against the state, this film unravels one of America's deepest cover-ups, and shows how the legendary prison riot transformed the lives of its survivors.
![Resistance Conspiracy](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1990Call Number: V 053Format: VHSProducers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Alan Berkman, Tim Blunk, Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Susan Rosenberg and Laura Whitehorn are long-time activists in support of peoples’ liberation movements here and around the world.
Come visit behind prison walls to speak with six people who the U.S. government has labeled “terrorists”.
They discuss their lives, the politics of the armed actions they are accused of, the conditions they and other political prisoners face, and their vision for the times ahead.
![Artwork from the International Political Prisoners’ Art show](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: V 063Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Slides of Artwork from the International Political Prisoners’ Art show to Save Mumia Abu Jamal Art & writings against the Death Penalty
![Nuh Washington: Statement to Tribute](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 3/21/2000Call Number: V 022Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Last Statement of Sheik Albert Nuh Washington made to a Tribute held in his honor just weeks before his passing in Oakland, California. He thanks people for their efforts to get him out on compassionate release. New York State refused his dying wishes.
![Nuh Washington: Last Interview Part 1](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 3/21/2000Call Number: V 023Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Last recorded interview with Sheik Albert Nuh Washington made just weeks before his passing. He thanks people for their efforts to get him out on compassionate release. New York State refused his dying wishes. He also speaks extensively about his own history and reflects on his life, from prison to his history as a muslim, a Black Panther and member of the Black Liberation Army
![Nuh Washington: Last Interview Part 2](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 3/21/2000Call Number: V 024Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Last recorded interview with Sheik Albert Nuh Washington made just weeks before his passing. He thanks people for their efforts to get him out on compassionate release. New York State refused his dying wishes. He also speaks extensively about his own history and reflects on his life, from prison to his history as a muslim, a Black Panther and member of the Black Liberation Army