[The 90’s raw: pro-choice demonstration]
Holland tunnel, Pro-choice, Civil disobedience #2. Skip Blumberg interviews demonstrators, police officers, and media at a pro-choice demonstration in Chicago.
Holland tunnel, Pro-choice, Civil disobedience #2. Skip Blumberg interviews demonstrators, police officers, and media at a pro-choice demonstration in Chicago.
Raw footage of Jane Byrne’s Easter Celebration at Cabrini Green in 1981. This tape begins with a continuation of footage of Byrne at the carnival and riding on a carousel. After she leaves, a protest begins, and demonstrators are quickly arrested. Activist Marion Stamps and reporter Lu Palmer are interviewed.
Shots of a Chicago City Council meeting. Seen on the tape are Ed Burke, Dick Mell, William Beavers, Dorothy Tillman, and Mayor Richard M. Daley. Also, Mayor Daley calls the Mayor of Phoenix for a bet on who will win the NBA Championship games: Chicago Bulls or Phoenix Suns.
Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. Eddie Tape #80. Outside the United States Post Office in Merrifield, Virginia, 1991 after the first immigration visa lottery. Nearly 19 million applications were submitted by mail for the 40,000 open slots. The lottery was an attempt to give a boost to several under-represented countries, including Ireland. There are multiple interviews on this tape, which is continued from 10935.
Eddie Tape #110. Democratic convention. Becker at the 1992 Democratic National Convention, various interviews.
PRAIRIE MOON BOOK STORE: Skip Blumberg interviews partner DAWN BOYD about the Prairie Moon Bookstore in Arlington Heights. It offers a women friendly environment in the northwest suburbs. The store is owned by an investment group of 21 professional women, providing women with information on women’s topics.
THE BAFFLER, twenty-something, intellectual, post-modern, theoretical magazine: Matt Palm interviews THOMAS FRANK and DAVID MULCAHEY, editors and creators.
This is unedited raw footage of Dr. Bill Ayers: PhD in Education, ’60s radical, professor at University of Illinois in Chicago, being interviewed with students in the Golden Apple Scholarship Program to better train future teachers straight out of high school.