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The Fire Inside
Publisher: California Coalition for Women PrisonersYear: 2012Volume Number: No. 46 Spring-SummerFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prisons - Women
Newsletter of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners
The Fire Inside
Publisher: California Coalition for Women PrisonersYear: 2012Volume Number: No. 47 Fall-WinterFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prisons - Women
Newsletter of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners
Turmoil - Venezuela's political violence, economic sabotage and oil
Date: 1/1/2012Call Number: V 665Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Explores the centrality of how oil has affected both the political situation and foreign relations between the US and Venezuela. Also how the progressive changes are met with opposition from the wealthy elites and US government.
Ann Braden: Southern Patriot
Date: 1/1/2012Call Number: V 663Format: DVDProducers: Appalshop Films - Anne Lewis, Mimi PickeringCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A first person documentary about the extraordinary life of this American civil rights leader. Braden was hailed by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his 1963 Letter from Birmingham Jail as a white southerner whose rejection of her segregationist upbringing was “eloquent and prophetic. Ostracized as a “red” in the 1950s, she fought for an inclusive movement community and mentored three generations of social justice advocates. Braden’s story explores not only the dangers of racism and political repression but also the power of a woman’s life spent in commitment to social justice.
United Farm Workers (UFW) - Boycott S.F. Supervisors
This recording deals with a number of issues regarding the boycott against California table grapes. Adam Ortega, the spokesperson for the grape workers and farmers, speaks on a number of topics pertaining to the boycott. The reliability and vision of the United Farm Workers’ Union and public reaction to the boycott is discussed as well as the medical effects of pesticides, especially on children, the prevalence of pesticide use and poisoning in California. There are also brief segments of music on this tape.
Prison Focus
Publisher: California Prison FocusYear: 2012Volume Number: No. 38 SpringFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Focus
Cover Story- The New Boss Looks a Lot Like the Old Boss: An Analysis of the CDCRs proposed modification of the validation and shu placement process
Buried Voices
Date: 7/1/2012Call Number: CD 863Format: DVDProducers: Michelle SteinbergCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Buried Voices details the struggle of the Ohlone and Miwok peoples, indigenous to the California Bay Area, to protect from desecration one of their most sacred places, now known as Brushy Peak in Livermore, CA. The film recounts how the East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) blatantly ignores the concerns of local Native communities, instead plowing ahead with the development of a public recreation area atop the site of multiple tribes' origin stories. The construction uproots and damages artifacts and ancestral remains, transforming a place of most profound significance to the region’s longest continuous inhabitants into a multi-use hiking/biking trail.
Weaving together interviews with Native individuals and a top official within the park district, this documentary presents the story of Brushy Peak as a lens to explore the importance of indigenous voices guiding land stewardship. The film’s release coincides with a growing campaign to hold EBRPD accountable for their lack of consultation with local Native communities, an issue that many park districts and public agencies continue to grapple with. Buried Voices prompts engagement with an oft-overlooked aspect of the legacy of five hundred plus years of colonization.
Freeing Silvia Baraldini
Date: 1/1/2012Call Number: V 680Format: DVDProducers: Thin Edge FilmsCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Silvia Baraldini moved to the U.S. in the 1960’s at the height of the Civil Rights Movement and came of age in a country burning in its own promise.Moved by African American’s fight for human rights and incensed by the show of pretense in American democracy, Silvia began a life of political activism.
In 1983, under the RICO law, Silvia was given a 40-year prison sentence for helping to free former Black Panther, Assata Shakur from prison.She was additionally charged with criminal contempt of court for refusing to answer questions to a Grand Jury investigating the Puerto Rican Independence Movement and given another three years.Freeing Silvia Baraldini presents Silvia’s side of the story, the side that was not supposed to be told.
Free Herman Bell
Film of Herman's family, especially the grandchildren, discuss why Herman Bell should be freed. Includes Actor Danny Glover, footage of Herman and narrated by Anita Johnson.
Herman Bell film - audio narration
Narration recording for Free Herman Bell video with Anita Johnson.
