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Critical Resistance: United Nation Investigates U.S. Prison for Women Critical Resistance: United Nation Investigates U.S. Prison for Women
Date: 9/26/1998Call Number: SS 027AFormat: Cass AProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
The UN investigation on women in U.S. prisons.
Critical Resistance Conference: Conversations with Women in SF Jail Critical Resistance Conference: Conversations with Women in SF Jail
Date: 9/27/1998Call Number: SS 027BFormat: Cass BProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Conversations with women in San Francisco jail with conference onvideo shown during Critical Resistance Conference.
David Gilbert Interview David Gilbert Interview
Date: 7/31/1998Call Number: V 036Format: VHSProducers: Sam GreenCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
David Gilbert interviewed at Great Meadows Prison in New York about his political history and development as an anti racist, anti sexist, anti imperialist person. Includes commentary on the development of SDS (Student for a Democratic Society), the Black Power Movement, the Black Panther Party (BPP), Black Liberation Army (BLA), COINTELPRO and many other issues from the 60s forward. VHS copy of DV camera originals, Part 1
David Gilbert Interview David Gilbert Interview
Date: 7/31/1998Call Number: V 037Format: VHSProducers: Sam GreenCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
David Gilbert interviewed at Great Meadows Prison in New York about his political history and development as an anti racist, anti sexist, anti imperialist person. Includes commentary on the development of SDS (Student for a Democratic Society), the Black Power Movement, the Black Panther Party (BPP), Black Liberation Army (BLA), COINTELPRO and many other issues from the 60s forward. VHS copy of DV camera originals, Part 2
Mumia Abu Jamal: All things censored Mumia Abu Jamal: All things censored
Date: 1/1/1998Call Number: CD 319Format: CDProducers: Alternative Tentacles - Prison RadioCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Mumia’s commentaries. Also featured on this CD are the voices Howard Zinn, Alice Walker, Dorothy Allison, Helen Prejean, Cornel West, Ron Hampton, Robbie Meeropol, Honorable Bruce Wright, Joycelyn Elders, William Kunstler, Manny Marable, Judi Bari. 1. "Dorothy Allison" (0:31) 2. "Dedication" (0:57) 3. "From Death Row" (0:37) 4. "War On The Poor" (3:27) 5. "Cornel West" (0:42) 6. "Media Is The Mirage" (3:28) 7. "Ronald Hampton" (0:31) 8. "True African American History" (3:35) 9. "Sister Helen Prejean" (0:37) 10. "When Ineffective Means Effective" (3:15) 11. "Howard Zinn" (0:30) 12. "Death: The Pors Perogative?" (2:49) 13. "Dr. Joycelyn Elders" (0:19) 14. "A Rap Thing" (4:08) 15. "Alice Walker" (0:26) 16. "Mother Loss" (2:46) 17. "William Kunstler Introduction" (2:33) 18. "Acting Llike Life's A Ballgame Read by William Kunstler" (4:18) 19. "Ramona Africa" (0:45) 20. "May 13 Remembered, PartII" (3:55) 21. "Juan Gonzalez" (0:45) 22. "Seeds Of Wisdom" (3:10) 23. "Martin Sheen" (0:26) 24. "NAFTA: A Pact Made In Hell" (3:19) 25. "Robert Meeropol" (1:23) 26. "De Profundis" (3:31) 27. "Justice Bruce Wright" (0:39) 28. "No Law, No rights" (3:22) 29. "Assata Shakur" (1:38) 30. "Sweet Roxanne" (3:15) 31. "Manning Marable" (0:44) 32. "Blackmun Bows Out Of Death Game" (3:47) 33. "Judi Bari" (0:37) 34. "t's Not Nice To Fool With Mother Nature" (2:44) 35. "John Edgar Wideman" (0:44) 36. "South Africa" (3:14)
PIC and Perceptions of Crime PIC and Perceptions of Crime
Date: 4/27/1998Call Number: PM 299Format: Cass A & BProducers: Prison Activist Resource CenterProgram: On The OutsideCollection: Political Prisoner Periodicals
Features excerpts of Ida Robinson and Angela Davis speaking at UCSC concerning the Prison-Industrial Complex and the role of the media in creating perceptions of crime.
Compassionate Release Compassionate Release
Date: 1/1/1998Call Number: PM 300Format: Cass A & BProducers: Prison Activist Resource CenterProgram: On The OutsideCollection: Prisons - Women
The case of Patricia Contreras, a Native American HIV/AIDS patient, seeking compassionate release from prison. Medical neglect in prisons is also discussed.
Fresh Air Fresh Air
Date: 12/1/1998Call Number: PM 313Format: Cass A & BProducers: National Public RadioProgram: Fresh AirCollection: Political Prisoner Periodicals
Eric Schlosser speaks about the Prison Industrial Complex in America and Vivian Stern speaks about prison systems in other parts of the world.
Mothers in Prison, Children in Crisis Mothers in Prison, Children in Crisis
Date: 5/26/1998Call Number: PM 324Format: Cass A & BProducers: Prison Activist Resource CenterProgram: On the OutsideCollection: Prisons - Women
Rally for women in prison in San Francisco's U.N. Plaza including: medical neglect of women in prison,discriminatory drug laws, Human Rights Watch's study that found that sexual exploitation and abuse of women by guards is an institutionalized and largely ignored practice, news of Mumia Abu Jamal, and women's rights coalitions about the need for more recovery centers and other treatment facilities.
Interview with Corcoran Prisoners Interview with Corcoran Prisoners
Date: 1/1/1998Call Number: PM 337Format: Cass A & BCollection: Political Prisoner Periodicals
People imprisoned at Corcoran prison in California.