Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
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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
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
Behind the Burning Cross, Racism USA
Date: 1/1/1991Call Number: V 130Format: VHSProducers: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee, George LippmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This brief history of the most notorious hate groups in the U.S. not only provides some interesting background on the Ku Klux Klan and its origins as a tool for rolling back the African-Americans' gains of the reconstruction period but also portrays its widespread activities today and its links with Nazi and nativist skinheads. Examines the violence being used by these hate groups in the 1990's to further racism, anti-semitism, gay-bashing, nativism and pushing back the womens movement. Footage of interviews with David Duke and Tom Metzger reveals their efforts to repackage hate within the bosom of so-called "All American Values." Examines the phenomenon of "white" rock'n roll and the right-wing media establishment to mobilize whites against blacks, gays, foreigners and Jews. Quickly examines the relationships between the FBI and the Klan. Also shows that many skinheads condemn the fascist skinhead movement.
The Ohio 7 On Trial
Call Number: V 133Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
The Ohio 7 On Trial is a series of interviews from prison with the political prisoners accused of membership in the United Freedom Front (UFF). The UFF was an armed clandestine guerilla organization active in the late 1970s and early 1980s against US imperialism and intervention in Central America, and South African apartheid. It includes interviews with Ray Luc Levasseur, Pat Gros-Levasseur, Barbara Curzi-Laaman, Jaan Lehman, Carol Manning, Thomas Manning, ans Richard Williams.
Poor quality dub.
Afro-Punk
Call Number: V 232Format: DVDProducers: James SpoonerCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Explores race identity within the punk scene. More than your everyday, Behind the Music or typical "black history month" documentary this film tackles the hard questions, such as issues of loneliness, exile, inter-racial dating and black power. We follow the lives of four people who have dedicated themselves to the punk rock lifestyle. They find themselves in conflicting situations, living the dual life of a person of color in a mostly white community.
The style of the documentary inter-cuts interviews from scores of black punk rockers from all over the nation with scenes from our four protagonists' lives. They come from different regions, generations, genders, and sexual preferences but their stories are amazingly similar.
Afro-Punk features performances by Bad Brains, Tamar Kali, Cipher, and Ten Grand. It also contains exclusive interviews by members of Fishbone, 247- spyz, Dead Kennedys, Candiria, Orange 9mm and TV on the Radio to name a few.
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Date: 1/1/2006Call Number: V 233Format: DVDProducers: Spike LeeCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
As the world watched in horror, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on August 29, 2005. Like many who watched the unfolding drama on television news, director Spike Lee was shocked not only by the scale of the disaster, but by the slow, inept and disorganized response of the emergency and recovery effort. Lee was moved to document this modern American tragedy, a morality play witnessed by people all around the world. The result is WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE: A REQUIEM IN FOUR ACTS. The film is structured in four acts, each dealing with a different aspect of the events that preceded and followed Katrina's catastrophic passage through New Orleans.
Soul of Justice: Thelton Henderson's American Journey
Date: 1/1/2005Call Number: V 235Format: DVDProducers: Abbey GinzbergCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A timely and unforgettable story about one person’s commitment to integrity and human rights and his profound influence on the American judicial system. Riveting and thought-provoking film transports viewers through the inspiring life and work of one of the first African-American federal judges in the United States and chronicles the impact of his decisions on the lives of millions
As the first black attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the Kennedy Justice Department in the 1960’s, Henderson, fresh out of law school, confronted the intricate challenges of being a black man in authority within the largely all-white world of the American legal system. With rare and powerful archival footage SOUL OF JUSTICE offers viewers an intimate window into the world of the young lawyer as he grapples with tough choices, including the decision to loan a car to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a crucial act which which ultimately cost him his job.
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.
16 Takes on Korean Society: The Korean Wave You Din't Know
Date: 1/1/2006Call Number: V 289Format: DVDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
16 Takes has a Chinese subtitle, The Korean Wave You Didn’t Know. True, the stories, images, and music in this collaborative film by 16 directors have nothing in common with the Korean TV dramas, the romantic landscape so often featured and promoted for tourism, and the sound of K-pop in what we know as Korean Wave. The subtitle obviously is meant to introduce some complexity into the one-dimensional impression of Korean culture in mainstream Taiwanese society.
The 16 short videos tell different stories of ordinary, disenfranchised citizens struggling just to exercise their right to influence decisions that fundamentally change their ways of life–to name a few, the relocation of US military base in Pyeongtaek, the Korea-US Free Trade agreement, the building of video horse race track in Kangwon, the revision of Private School Act to protect nepotistic system.
The relocation and expansion of the US military base in Pyeongtaek, Saemangeum tidal flat embankment, Dr. Hwang's stem cell research, video horse race track, casinos in a dead mining town, workers struggling against labor casualization, conscientious objectors of mandatory military service, revision of the Private School Act, people's resistance to the APEC Summit and WTO Ministerial, the struggle of women peasants, the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement, the US military's strategic flexibility... The Republic of Korea is going mad!
The Other America
Date: 4/14/1967Call Number: V 309Format: DVDProducers: Allan WillisCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
"Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 'White Backlash' speech, THE OTHER AMERICA, is a classic. It reveals King, the intellectual, coolly analyzing the racist basis of the neo-conservative philosophies, that would influence government policies on the right and left, and the bought media opinion of the 1980's. He foresees the rise of Reaganism and the mainstreaming of the Klan, neo-Nazism, and Yuppie solipsism.
It is a chilling troubled speech made with the background of urban riots, pleas for Black Power, and the Vietnam War. Allen Willis's production of this speech, given at Stanford University in 1967, is masterful, and riveting.
Future Historians will regard this as one of the key speeches in the career of the greatest American statesman of the twentieth century." - Ishmael Reed - 1989
