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I Won't Drown on that Levee and You Ain't Gonna Break My Back
Date: 1/1/2006Call Number: CD 512Format: DVDProducers: Ashley HuntCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
30 minute video documents the evacuation of Orleans Parish Prison, the building of the "Greyhound Jail" inside the New Orleans' Greyhound Station, and the criminalization of survivors of Hurricane Katrina, placing overwhelming stress on families and loved ones and hindering their 'right to return.' It uses footage from our October Human Rights delegation on the status of prisoners, interviews with family members, news clips and archival film.
Welcome to New Orleans
Date: 1/1/2006Call Number: CD 549Format: DVDProducers: Rasmus HolmCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
The city of New Orleans is a ghost town after the Hurricane Katrina. While most people left the city in fear, racism and poverty is there to stay. In a city full of racists and vigilantes, we meet the 58-year-old former Black Panther Malik Rahim. All his life he has been struggling to make a difference, and been trying to pass on a better society to his children and grandchildren. In the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina, the need is greater than ever, and Malik uses the attention this brings, to begin the building of a long-term grassroots organization. The film starts in the days after the hurricane, and takes us on a journey to poor Afro-American neighborhoods where the mainstream media never goes. We meet despair, hate and a little hope despite all. But most of all it tells us the story about one man who wants to make a better world, and about his extraordinary fight for peace and justice.
July '64
Date: 1/1/2006Call Number: V 270Format: DVDProducers: Calvin EisonCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
JULY ’64 tells the story of a historic three-day race riot that erupted in two African American neighborhoods in the northern, mid-sized city of Rochester, New York. On the night of July 24, 1964, frustration and resentment brought on by institutional racism, overcrowding, lack of job opportunity and police dog attacks exploded in racial violence that brought Rochester to its knees. Combines historic archival footage, news reports and interviews with witnesses and participants to dig deeply into the causes and effects of the historic disturbance.
In the 1950s, millions of African Americans from the Deep South packed their belongings and headed north in search of a better life. The city of Rochester, New York, with a progressive social justice history and a reputation for manufacturing jobs, drew people like a magnet. Between 1950 and 1960, Rochester’s black population swelled by 300 percent. The city—dubbed “Smugtown USA” by a local journalist—groaned under the weight of unprecedented growth. City fathers ignored newcomers’ housing and education needs. The only openings for blacks at companies like Kodak and Bauch and Lomb, were “behind a broom.”
On the night of July 24, 1964, what community leader and minister Franklin Florence calls the African American community’s “quiet rage” exploded into violence. What began as a routine arrest at a street dance in a predominantly black neighborhood in downtown Rochester ended with the National Guard being called to a northern city for the first time during the era of the Civil Rights Movement. The uprising, which later came to be known as the Rochester Riot, sparked a series of summertime riots in small and mid-sized northern cities. As in many of those cities, the three days of unrest and civil disobedience in Rochester provoked actions and sentiments that reverberate to this day.
Sir! No Sir!
Date: 1/1/2006Call Number: V 271Format: DVDProducers: David ZeigerCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
In the 1960's an anti-war movement emerged that altered the course of history. This movement didn't take place on college campuses, but in barracks and on aircraft carriers. It flourished in army stockades, navy brigs and in the dingy towns that surround military bases. It penetrated elite military colleges like West Point. And it spread throughout the battlefields of Vietnam. It was a movement no one expected, least of all those in it. Hundreds went to prison and thousands into exile. And by 1971 it had, in the words of one colonel, infested the entire armed services. Yet today few people know about the GI movement against the war in Vietnam.
The Vietnam War has been the subject of hundreds of films, both fiction and non-fiction, but this story-the story of the rebellion of thousands of American soldiers against the war-has never been told in film. This is certainly not for lack of evidence. By the Pentagon's own figures, 503,926 "incidents of desertion" occurred between 1966 and 1971; officers were being "fragged"(killed with fragmentation grenades by their own troops) at an alarming rate; and by 1971 entire units were refusing to go into battle in unprecedented numbers. In the course of a few short years, over 200 underground newspapers were published by soldiers around the world; local and national antiwar GI organizations were joined by thousands; thousands more demonstrated against the war at every major base in the world in 1970 and 1971, including in Vietnam itself; stockades and federal prisons were filling up with soldiers jailed for their opposition to the war and the military.
Yet today, with hundreds of thousands of American GIs once again occupying countries on the other side of the world, these history-changing events have been erased from America's public memory.
What We Want, What We Believe: The Black Panther Party Library
Date: 1/1/2006Call Number: V 284Format: DVDProducers: Roz Payne, Newsreel FilmsCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
For the first time on DVD, AK Press is proud to present three acclaimed Newsreel Films on the Black Panther Party: Off the Pig; Mayday; and Repression.
Formed in 1967, the Newsreel film collective was dedicated to chronicling and analyzing current events. In their time, they produced more than three dozen films throughout the US and abroad. By working directly with the Black Panthers, Newsreel was able to explore realities often ignored by traditional media outlets, while producing documents that the Panthers and other activists could use in organizing their own communities. The results speak for themselves and stand as true testimonials to the spirit of community self-defense and political savvy the Panthers are celebrated—and were targeted—for.
Accompanying the Newsreel films is a massive quantity of rare and exclusive materials culled from Roz Payne's extensive collection of FBI documents, correspondence, and interviews with Black Panthers and their supporters. It's all here, the government-sponsored repression, the trials, exile, triumph, and reunion.
What We Want, What We Believe is not a straight-forward documentary—the additional materials are like Roz Payne's home movies—but more like a tapestry woven from fragments of cloth. As a whole, these fragments present a rich and provocative history, straight from the mouths of Panthers, their supporters, and even the agents charged with neutralizing them.
These materials—over 12 hours—are crucial to our continuing understanding of the Black Panther Party and their legacy. Any student of American History, Black Studies, Political Science & Law, Film Studies, or Civil Rights struggles will find a wealth of valuable information in the Library.
This 12-hour DVD features three films on the Black Panther Party and additional footage on their history and legacy.
Special bonus features: Documents from the Roz Payne Archives chronicling the movement and repression against it.
Disc One:
Three Newsreel Films, Interviews with Field Marshall Donald Cox, Footage from 35th Anniversary Reunion
Disc Two:
Interviews with Former FBI Agents discussing COINTELPRO tactics, Footage from the Wheelock Academic Conference on the BPP
Disc Three:
Interviews with various movement lawyers discussing Panther cases
Disc Four:
Interviews with Newsreel members, DVD-Rom extras from the Roz Payne Archives
Welcome to New Orleans
Date: 1/1/2006Call Number: CD 613Format: DVDProducers: Rasmus HolmCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
A film about violence, racism and hope.
The first year after the hurricane Katrina. Malik Rahim, a 58 year old Black Panther, became a local hero in the days after the flooding and is now running a big grassroots organization.
Food Justice - a Growing Movement
Date: 1/1/2006Call Number: CD 624Format: DVDProducers: Martina Brimmer, Zora TuckerCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Issues of urban food security ae discussed in relationship to systemic oppression, environmental racism, health issues and the failure of our conventional food system. Focuses upon several of many Bay Area grassroots projects that are part of the food justice movement.
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