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  [HSA Strike Dub 2]

  CLIR, Guerrilla Television

  Raw footage for HSA Strike 1975. The strike began on October 27th, 1975, and lasted for 18 days—the longest and largest doctors’ strike in the US. The strike was organized by the Housestaff Association (HSA), a union of residents and interns. They were protesting against the working conditions and poor facilities at Cook County Hospital, Chicago’s only public hospital which mostly served the city’s poor and uninsured. In this tape, workers meet to discuss the strike and the future of Cook County Hospital. Also includes footage on the street during the strike.

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  [Nancy Cain: Excerpts from Camnet]

  Blog, Communities, Home movie, Latinx, Nancy Cain, Videomakers

  Excerpts from CamNet, showing BTS of CamNet, protests against the Visa lottery, and a University hunger strike for a Latino study program.

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  Halsted Street, USA

  Black, Chicago, Communities, Latinx

  Along the length of Chicago’s Halsted Street one can view a dozen nationalities and a thousand lifestyles. This riveting, kaleidoscopic “road movie” traces this unique thoroughfare nearly 400 miles, from its origin in the cornfields of southern Illinois up to Chicago’s far south side, then through several neighborhoods to its terminus in the heart of Lakeview. Narrated by Studs Terkel, Halsted Street, U.S.A. is a thought-provoking crash-course in American cultural geography.

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  Nuclear Newsreel

  American Way, International, Outside Agitators, Politics, War and Peace

  An independently produced international news report featuring coverage of popular protest and civil disobedience in response to the nuclear arms race.

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  MAD RIVER: Hard Times in Humboldt County

  American Way, Politics

  MAD RIVER paints a picture of the conflict between North Californian lumber corporations and Redwoods National Park through the perspective of Humboldt County’s lumber workers, who have little to no say in how the conflict plays out but are perhaps most affected by its outcome.

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  [HSA Strike raw #6]

  CLIR, Guerrilla Television

  Interviews with participants in a strike at the Cook Country Hospital, demanding a better contract as well as adequate equipment and facilities.

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  What Trees Do They Plant?

  Chicago, Chicago Politics, Communities, On the Media, Outside Agitators, Politics, War and Peace

  “What Trees Do They Plant” is a film produced by the City of Chicago as a response to criticism of the way the Chicago Police Department treated protesters during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Its claim is that the Yippies conducted a deliberate campaign to disrupt the city and harm the police.

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  [Athens Colin Powell Protests 2004 #1]

  Guerrilla Television, Judy Hoffman, Outside Agitators, Politics, War and Peace

  Footage from a 2004 protest in Athens. Protesters gather in opposition to Colin Powell, the United States Secretary of State under the Bush regime, who had planned to attend the Athens Olympics, and the United States’ foreign policy in the Middle East.