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  • [Protest of Chicago Public Schools: Title One/Angeline Caruso]

    [Protest of Chicago Public Schools: Title One/Angeline Caruso]

    A protest in downtown Chicago against the drastic cuts to the Chicago Public Schools’ budgets. Protesters demand funds for poor students and Latinx students, and demand an audience with Chicago Public Schools Superintendent Angeline Caruso.

  • Desire

    Desire

    Independent videomaker, Julie Gustafson, invites a diverse group of teenage girls from New Orleans to make autobiographical videos exploring their developing sexuality and identity. An unprecedented long-term collaboration, DESIRE weaves together the girls’ video work, the stories of their changing lives, as well as the family, social and economic contexts in which their desires and choices are shaped.

    The film begins in a primarily African-American housing project named ‘Desire’ and follows the lives of teenagers across diverse racial, political, class, and cultural backgrounds. Cassandra, Kimeca, Tracy, Peggy, and Tiffinie collaborate to tell their own stories of struggle and wrestling with questions of sexual identity, body image, family, future plans, and the pressures of finding one’s way in the world. As the film unfolds over the next five years, DESIRE honors each of the young women’s challenges and achievements, making clear that their ‘choices’ are linked not just to hopes and dreams, but to actual educational and economic opportunity– too often tinged with the racial disadvantage. In one remarkable scene, Kimeca, turns the camera on Gustafson, prompting her to share her own story of teenage pregnancy and the difficult decisions she made about abortion.

    As John Anderson from Variety said: “Top-flight editing and a pace that never falters help “Desire” movingly tell the stories of its five subjects.” Justin Lane Briggs of The New School concurs: “The films the girls make themselves are shockingly honest and revealing…The result is a poignant and moving work, which stirs up a massive cloud of thoughts and issues without ever settling on one side of them… Cassandra and Tiffanie will haunt your dreams.

  • [Substitute Teachers Meeting 1973, part 2]

    [Substitute Teachers Meeting 1973, part 2]

    This tapes relates to Tape 15282. A group of female substitute teachers in the middle of a meeting, talking about teacher’s issues.

  • [Substitute Teachers Meeting 1973]

    [Substitute Teachers Meeting 1973]

    Camera original footage of a group of female teachers in the middle of a meeting, talking about teacher’s issues. Relates to tape 15286.

  • A Couple Minutes With Willie Little

    A Couple Minutes With Willie Little

    A brief conversation with teacher Willie Little about Chicago public schools, followed by a 2-minute humorous travelogue of Hollywood.

 
 
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