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[West Town Neighborhood Health Center: Protest against service cuts]

Chicago, CLIR, CTVN, Guerrilla Television, Latinx

Community members protest the service cuts to the West Town Neighborhood Health Center in Chicago.
Keep County Open

Black, Chicago, Chicago Politics, CLIR, CTVN, Guerrilla Television, Latinx, Outside Agitators, Politics

A documentary about the efforts of staff and of community activists to keep Cook County Hospital from being shut down. Cook County Hospital workers rally on October 13, 1979 at Daley Plaza in downtown Chicago.
From One Place to Another: Emma Goldman Clinic Stories

Politics

From LeAnn Erickson: “From One Place to Another: Emma Goldman Clinic Stories (c.1996) is an 80 minute film portrait of The Emma Goldman Clinic for Women, located in Iowa City, IA. This clinic formed as a Marxist collective in 1973, right after the Roe v Wade decision. This film speaks to the radical feminist politics happening during the 1970s and into the Reagan 80s.”
Women’s Self-Help

CLIR, Guerrilla Television

A presentation by Debra Law about women’s “self-help” healthcare: learning to conduct self-examinations and facilitating discussion amongst women about cervical and vaginal health.
[Air Pollution: Bridge & Tunnel Workers 2]

CLIR, Guerrilla Television

Raw footage from Air Pollution, a video by Peoples Video Theater / Survival Arts Media, that explores the effects of smog and other pollution on the health of people and the local wildlife. In this tape, scientists administer pulmonary tests to bridge and tunnel workers as part of a longterm study to determine the effects of air pollution on their health.
Everybody In, Nobody Out (Excerpts)

Beyondmedia Education, Chicago, Judy Hoffman

Excerpts from “Everybody In, Nobody Out,” a short film produced in 2003 by Health & Medicine Policy Research Group on the occasion of Quentin Young’s 80th birthday.
To learn more about Health & Medicine’s current work, visit: www.hmprg.org
Revisiting the Scene: Quentin Young’s Chicago

Chicago Politics, Judy Hoffman, Outside Agitators, Politics

Quentin Young, a notable Chicago physician and activist, visits various Chicago sites important to his personal history of political activism, providing the context for each site as he does so. Throughout the course of the video, Young visits Valois Restaurant in Hyde Park, the site of the 1937 Memorial Day massacre, Bughouse Square, 1515 S Hamlin, the John Alexander Logan Monument, Federal Plaza, Cook County Hospital, Michael Reese Medical Center, and Daley Plaza.
[Group Treatment]

CLIR, Communications for Change, Guerrilla Television

A group counseling session in which five women discuss the difficulties that they have had in their relationships with each other, followed by conversations with attendees at a gathering about policy towards senior citizens.