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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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  Public Service / Crime, Terror, and the Media

  Chicago Politics, CLIR, Communications for Change, Guerrilla Television, Latinx, Outside Agitators, Politics, Studs Terkel

  Two videos about community activism in Chicago. The first discusses protests and other actions supported by the Organization of the Northeast (O.N.E.) for housing rights. The second discusses crime against senior citizens and the portrayal of crime in the media.

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  [Indian Point, April 1979]

  CLIR, Guerrilla Television

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  Image Union, episode 0729

  Chicago, Image Union

  “Reclaiming America” is a short documentary about the American Agriculture Movement’s 1985 protest in front of the Chicago Board of Trade. The protesters, family farmers, target futures trading and the speculative shorting tactics used in the financial system. 49 protesters were arrested over two days. Footage focuses on speeches from Wayne Cryts, president of the American Agricultural Movement.

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  [The 90’s Election Specials raw: DNC 2]

  Politics, Skip Blumberg, THE 90's

  Raw footage shot for The 90’s election specials. This tape features footage inside and outside Madison Square Garden before the Democratic National Convention begins, including a speech by Mayor David Dinkins and several protests and performances.

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  Aspects of Demise: The Whole Earth Demise Party

  CLIR, Guerrilla Television, NHPRC, Outside Agitators, Sex, Drugs, & Rock 'N Roll

  This video documents the Whole Earth Catalog Demise Party held at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Creator Stewart Brand organized the event to debate the best use of the twenty thousand dollars profit held by Whole Earth. Various individuals lobby for serious and satirical causes, including Paul Krassner. Followed by a segment with Brand on the Dick Cavett Show.

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  [the 90’s raw: White House Park]

  American Way, Outside Agitators, THE 90's

  Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. Videomaker Eddie Becker travels to White House Park to document a debate between a group of protesters and other people who were merely passing by the demonstration. One passerby and former Biddeford, Maine mayoral candidate, Rory Holland, addresses the group. (Holland was later charged with murder in the gunning down of two Biddeford residents in June of 2009.)