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  Jobs for Latinos / Think Twice Part I

  Chicago, CLIR, CTVN, Guerrilla Television

  Jobs for Latinos: a short documentary about a demonstration at City Hall demanding that the city hire more Latinx employees. Think Twice: the first part of a 3-part video about teen pregnancy in West Town.

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  [Latino Day at University of Illinois at Chicago Circle campus / Arson in the Near-Northwest]

  Chicago, CLIR, CTVN, Guerrilla Television

  Footage from the Latino Day celebration on August 9, 1978 at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle campus, including a percussion performance. Followed by footage (likely from 1976) about an epidemic of fires in the near-Northwest neighborhoods of Chicago, with interviews conducted in Spanish with local residents and a local news report. Some audio distortions and synchronization problems throughout.

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  Tal Como Somos (Just As We Are)

  Communities, Latinx, LGBTQIA

  This documentary follows LGBTQ+ Latinx people, predominantly gay men, providing a look into their lives and experiences of being both Latinx and LGBTQ. The people the documentary focuses on talk about their struggles and joys, including HIV, homophobia, transphobia, marriage, family, and love.

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  [CPS School Closings Protest 2]

  Kartemquin Films

  Camera original footage shot for the documentary ’63 Boycott from Kartemquin Films. ’63 Boycott is a thirty-minute documentary and web project highlighting the stories of participants in the 1963 Chicago Public School (CPS) Boycott (also known as Freedom Day). One of the largest Civil Rights demonstrations in the city’s history, on October 22, 1963, a coalition of civil rights groups, local activists, and 250,000 students staged a mass boycott and demonstration against the Chicago Board of Education to protest racial segregation and inadequate resources for Black students. On August 28, 2013, nearly 50 years after the 1963 Freedom Day, activists from several Chicago community groups called for a one-day boycott of Chicago Public Schools. Their action came in response to the Chicago Board of Education’s decision to close 49 elementary schools and a high school program. Activists held a demonstration in front of the Chicago School Board’s downtown office, followed by a march to City Hall. Citing discriminatory practices and unequal distribution of resources to neighborhoods of predominately working class African-American and Latino residents, demonstrators called for a publicly elected school board.

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  It’s a Living: The Unemployment Line

  Anda Korsts, Chicago, CLIR, Communities, Latinx

  Part of the “It’s a Living” series created by Videopolis based on Studs Terkel’s book Working, which focuses on workers in Chicago. This tape is the record of a single hour at the state unemployment compensation office in Logan Square on the city’s northwest side. People in the line talk about what it’s like to be out of work as they deal with bureaucratic entanglements of their cases. As the program progresses, a family finally receives the check they needed to survive–after eight attempts.

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  [Rally for Andres Cordero upon his release from prison]

  Chicago, CLIR, Communities, Guerrilla Television, Latinx, NHPRC, Outside Agitators, Peoples Video Theater/Survival Arts Media

  This tape features footage of a Puerto Rican Nationalist community meeting in Chicago celebrating the release of Andres Cordero, a Puerto Rican Nationalist who had gone to prison for taking part in an attack on the U.S. House of Representatives in 1954.

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  [Maria Cueto – Andres Jimenez]

  Chicago, Communities, Latinx, NHPRC, Outside Agitators

  This tape features footage of an interview with Maria Cueto, who had recently been released after being imprisoned for ten months for refusing to give information about FALN bombings to a grand jury. The second segment on the tape features a Puerto Rican Nationalist event, and ends with a musical performance by Andres Jimenez.

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  [FALN church rally for four released Puerto Rican Nationalists]

  Chicago, Communities, Latinx, NHPRC, Outside Agitators

  This tape features footage of a National Liberation Armed Forces (FALN) support gathering in September 1979 in Chicago. It took place right after Puerto Rican Nationalists Oscar Collazo, Irving Flores, Rafael Cancel Miranda, and Lolita Lebron were released from jail upon President Jimmy Carter’s commutation of their sentences. Collazo was incarcerated for the attempted assassination of President Harry Truman. Flores, Miranda, and Lebron had been in jail for a 1954 attack on the U.S. House of Representatives. This tape features a church service and meeting honoring the four nationalists. Folksinger and activist Marta Rodriguez also performs.