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Prison Focus
Publisher: California Prison FocusYear: 2006Volume Number: No. 25 Spring-SummerFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Focus
Cover Story- If I Could Tell the Children
American Freedom - Human Rights v. USA Patriot Act
Date: 1/1/2006Call Number: CD 493Format: CDProducers: Human Rights Research FundCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Founded in 2000 by two activist attorneys, Kathleen Cleaver and Natsu Saito, the Human Rights Research Fund (HRRF) works to document and raise awareness of the ways governmental agencies within the United States have engaged in violating human rights when faced with opposition to economic injustice, racial discrimination, and military policies, and also works to assist folks imprisoned or punished for such opposition. This two disc contains the contributions of an HRRF sponsored forum to highlight human rights violations allowed by legal measures taken in support of the "war on terrorism." Participants include Cleaver, Saito, Van Jones, former political prisoner Susan Rosenberg, George Katsiaficas, and activist attorneys and law professors. Vital,and engaging.
Hijacked
Date: 1/1/2006Call Number: V 221Format: DVDProducers: Ilan ZivProgram: American Experience - PBSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
On September 6, 1970, members of the militant Palestinian group, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (P.F.L.P.), hijacked four commercial airplanes. They commandeered a fifth aircraft three days later. Wanting to attract attention to the Palestinian cause and secure the release of several of their comrades, the P.F.L.P. spectacularly blew up four of the planes.
Today the commanders who planned and carried out the attack resist comparison to the terrorists who masterminded the events of September 11, 2001: members of the P.F.L.P. were not religious extremists, but secular Marxist Leninists. And of the almost 600 passengers taken hostage, none were killed.
Great documentary footage & historical interviews though the predicatable politics of PBS overall.
The Attica Rebellion
Date: 9/10/2006Call Number: CD 516Format: CDProducers: National Radio ProjectProgram: Making ContactCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
September 9-13th, 2006 marks the 35th anniversary of the Attica Rebellion, a massive prison rebellion, massacre and cover-up in New York. The story of Attica is one of the most brutal and heroic chapters in United States history. After a five-day occupation, 45 people were killed, 150 were shot and hundreds were tortured. As one slogan from 1971 read, "Attica is all of us."
Currently, with more than 2 million people imprisoned in the U.S., the story of Attica needs to be told, and the origins of the current anti-prison movement discussed. On this edition, we present a documentary produced by the Freedom Archives.
Featuring:
Frank 'Big Black' Smith, Attica Brother and prison activist; L.D. Barkley, Attica Brother killed during the re-taking of the prison; Elizabeth Fink, attorney for the Attica Brothers; Michael Deutsch, attorney for the Attica Brothers; Historical recordings in Attica prison of guards and prisoners during the rebellion and the bloody retaking of the prison.
Finding Common Ground In New Orleans
Date: 1/1/2006Call Number: V 256Format: DVDProducers: Walidah ImarishaCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Addresses the social injustice that took place during and after the Hurricane Katrina disaster through the lens of poet and activist Walidah Imarisha. Through compelling and often heart wrenching interviews with residents, survivors, activists, volunteers and officials, the landscape of a city devastated and trying to rebuild comes to light. Finding Common Ground In New Orleans interrogates the changing realities of the city, the way that the physical space and realities of New Orleans and the surrounding bayou are forever altered because of both the natural disaster and the government’s criminal negligence. This film includes exclusive footage shot in the makeshift bus station jail known as “Camp Amtrak” and interviews with officials at the jail about the city’s criminal justice system, or lack thereof. The short documentary is able, through the lens of personal accounts that speak to broader issues and concerns, to capture the pain, the loss and the hope of New Orleans.
Photos for Legacy of Torture
Date: 2/26/2006Call Number: LT 037Format: CDProducers: Scott BraleyCollection: Materials shot and gathered for the making of “Legacy of Torture”
Photos by Scott Braley for the Legacy of Torture
Interview with Dennis Cunningham
Date: 2/24/2006Call Number: JB 118Format: DV CamProducers: Bernandine MellisCollection: Materials shot and collected in the making of The Forest for the Trees
Mellis interviews her father, Dennis Cunningham. He describes what it feels like to win the case, complexity of his relief, ominousness of victory based on current political setting, disappointment by lack of media/public response to verdict, how he felt having his daughter filming, feelings on his life work, his work with Black Panthers and Attica, activism vs. consciousness, his activism as a vocation and how he chose law.
Interview with Dennis Cunningham (II)
Date: 2/24/2006Call Number: JB 119Format: DV CamProducers: Bernandine MellisCollection: Materials shot and collected in the making of The Forest for the Trees
Dennis Cunningham interview continued. Describes his disgust with Bush administration, the necessity to continue despite hopelessness (spirituality), how he got involved in case, explains FBI's claims, Geronimo Pratt's and Fred Hampton's case, and COINTELPRO documents.
The New State Repression
With new introduction by Kristian Williams. Originally published in 1985. Topic of focus is political repression which exists in three forms- police brutality, vigilantism, and secret police. Table of Contents: Introduction, The Strategy of Permanent Repression, Frank Kitson in Theory and Practice, Louis Giuffrida: Ronald Reagan's Kitson, Robin Evelegh's Alternative Strategy, Conclusion, References.
Prison Focus
Publisher: California Prison FocusYear: 2006Volume Number: No. 26 FallFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Focus
Cover Story- Prison Slavery
