…a proclamation from Mayor Richard M. Daley declaring that the following day after the event will officially be Mike Royko Day in Chicago. He then introduces Studs Terkel, who is the M.C. for the night. 02:07 Terkel takes the podium and breaks the ice with a few jokes. He then begins to talk about Royko’s importance in the print world. “And I was thinking, school marms, old time school marms teach us about the three Rs: reading, writi… Continue reading →
00:00 Exterior of the Billy Goat Tavern in Chicago. Title screen appears. 00:08 Royko and his fellow teammates talk softball over beers and burgers. 00:20 Cut to a closeup of Royko, who begins to talk about his lifelong love affair with 16-inch softball. “Guys who are obsessive softball players, they want a game. Every minute they want to play.” Royko continues, “Every day after work he will play because he loves it, he loves i… Continue reading →
0:00 Color bars. 0:15 Slate reads: “In Your Interest, Busick #18. Mike Gray 1/20/99.” 0:27 In Your Interest opening sequence. 0:58 Filmmaker Mike Gray opens by saying he can’t recommend his book highly enough. “This is a book you can take to the front lines of the trenches of the War on Drugs, hurl it at the enemy and it will explode in his face.” 1:12 Narrator introduces author Mike Gray. 2:05 Gray speaks about how… Continue reading →
Black, Chicago, Chicago Politics, Communities, Global Perspectives on War and Peace, Outside Agitators, Viewers Choice
…that “in some communities, the Jew is a symbol of exploitation. In some communities, the Italian is, the Polish cat is, the Japanese is, and in some communities, black cats is a symbol. So the people are oppressed, this happen to be the cat, we want off him. That’s all I can say.” 44:54 A woman attacks the Young Patriots, who respond by asking how much she pays for rent and whether she has roaches. She continues to yell about t… Continue reading →
Chicago, Guerrilla TV, Image Union, NHPRC, Roots of Video, Skip Blumberg, Studs Terkel
…programs with worker LaVerne Reese. From It’s a Living. By Skip Blumberg and Jane Aaron. 20:56 Uno Mas by Mike Torro, Iris Bruno and Jose Claudio. A fictional account of the struggles a Puerto Rican man faces after arriving in America for the first time. 28:20 Excerpts from Stock Yards: End of an Era. Interviews with F.M. Flynn, Maryellen Roth, George Yirell and others about the old days as European immigrants in the livestock yards. 34:39… Continue reading →
…lso makes videos of interviews and locations that he and Leonard can watch together. 34:01 Cut to the office of Mike Sandy, a bail bondsman in West Palm Beach, FL. Leonard is visiting his office to get information on the bail bond business. James McGrady, a bail enforcement agent, talks about how he tracks down criminals who skip bail. Sandy and McGrady show off the guns they use. 36:30 “It’s like preparing a big banquet of data,̶… Continue reading →
Chicago, Communities, Native American, Roots of Video
0:01 Title screen. 0:11 Mike Chosa gives a short summary of a previous lecture, where he discussed the injustices faced by American Indians in modern times. He starts to discuss the future of American Indians, with a focus on the subject of tribal sovereignty. His definition of tribal sovereignty is a “reservation area as a base of operations, completely sealed off from outside influences,” but which is as universally recognized as t… Continue reading →
Chicago, Communities, Native American, Roots of Video
00:00 Black. 00:08 Title screen and opening credits. 00:19 Mike Chosa leads a lecture where he discusses the policy of relocation which began in 1950, whereby the Bureau of Indian Affairs began moving entire families into city areas with minimal training and support. In Chicago, the Native American community began concentrating on an area of Clark St. in Uptown because landlords in other parts of the city discriminated against them. The Bureau a… Continue reading →