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  [Save Our Cumberland Mountains Rally, Nashville 1]

  CLIR, Guerrilla Television

  An anti-strip mining rally in Nashville organized by SOCM, Save Our Cumberland Mountains, on April 8, 1975.

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  [Save Our Cumberland Mountains Rally, Nashville 2]

  CLIR, Guerrilla Television, Outside Agitators, Politics

  An anti-strip mining rally in Nashville organized by SOCM, Save Our Cumberland Mountains. The group attempts to meet with Governor Ray Blanton but is only granted a meeting with his aide, James Allen.

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  World Symposium on Humanity 1979 Considers Nuclear Energy

  CLIR, Dean and Dudley Evenson, Guerrilla Television, Outside Agitators, Politics

  Footage from the 1979 World Symposium on Humanity in which speakers, including Ralph Nader, discuss the dangers of nuclear power. The discussions center around the disaster at Three Mile Island, a recent occurrence.

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  [Rubin’s Party 2]

  CLIR, Guerrilla Television

  Conversations and performances at a party organized to raise money for George McGovern’s 1972 presidential campaign.

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  A 1992 conversation with Joe Biden

  Blog

  As Joe Biden is set to be inaugurated on January 20th, Media Burn is highlighting a 1992 interview with the former Senator.

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  Marquette Park I

  Black, Chicago, Chicago Politics, Tom Palazzolo

  A film by Tom Palazzolo and Mark Rance documenting neo-Nazi activity in the Marquette Park neighborhood of Chicago on August 21, 1976. The day marked one of many conflicts between black civil rights marchers and white supremacist neighborhood groups who were mobilizing to prevent black residents from moving into the neighborhood.

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  [Aristide speaks to Carver Community Club]

  Black, Communities, Politics

  Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born 15 July 1953) is a Haitian former priest and politician who became Haiti’s first democratically elected president in 1991. 00:00 President Jean-Bertrand Aristide visits Carver Middle School. He walks in to applause and they introduce him by telling his story.  03:06 The members of the Carver Community Club perform for Aristide and the audience.  08:16 Two youth members of the club – the President and Vice President – present Jean-Bertrand Aristide to the audience.  09:00 President Jean-Bertrand […]

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  March for Disarmament, tape 1

  Global Perspectives on War and Peace

  Part of the Global Perspectives on War and Peace Collection. Large rally to support disarmament in Central Park. June 12th, 1982.