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  In Plain English

  American Way, Asian American, Black, Communities, Julia Lesage, Latinx, LGBTQIA, Native American

  University of Oregon’s students of color discuss what race means in terms of their experiences on and off campus. The video is a procession of talking heads, positioning the students as points of authority while also encouraging the viewer to consider their own expectations and ideas of race.

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  [Joan Jett Blakk at C.I.S.P.E.S. Benefit]

  American Way, Bill Stamets, Black, Chicago, Communities, Latinx, Politics

  Raw footage by Bill Stamets of Joan Jett Blakk, Queer Nation’s candidate for president in 1992, at a benefit for C.I.S.P.E.S. (Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador).

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  [1995 Chicago Mayoral Election, tape 2]

  Bill Stamets, Black, Chicago, Chicago Politics, Communities, Latinx, Politics

  Assorted footage of the 1995 Chicago mayoral campaign, including a candidate’s panel at the Chicago Urban League, a Marge Laurino campaign event, a press conference in Pilsen, and Mayor Richard M. Daley’s eulogy at Bishop Ford’s funeral.

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  [Jane Byrne offends Puerto Ricans in campaign]

  Chicago, Chicago Politics, Communities, Latinx, Politics

  Jane Byrne’s 1987 mayoral campaign hits a snag when she includes Puerto Ricans among various “aliens” such as Cambodians, Laotians, etc.

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  [HSA Strike 1975 raw #2]

  Black, Chicago, Communities, Judy Hoffman, Latinx, Outside Agitators

  Raw footage for HSA Strike 1975. The strike began on October 27th, 1975, and lasted for 18 days—the longest and largest doctors’ strike in the US. The strike was organized by the Housestaff Association (HSA), a union of residents and interns. They were protesting against the working conditions and poor facilities at Cook County Hospital, Chicago’s only public hospital which mostly served the city’s poor and uninsured.

  This tape features footage of the strike, including interviews with passersby and various people attending the protests, notably Jesse Jackson.

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  [1987 Chicago Democratic Mayoral Primary]

  Chicago Politics, Communities, Harold Washington, Latinx

  Segments on lawsuits against Jane Byrne and her Chicagofest, and the ongoing mayoral primary election between Byrne and Harold Washington in 1987.

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  [Mexican Art Gallery – Green Card lottery winner]

  Arts & Culture, Judith Binder, Latinx

  This video shows a Mexican art gallery in Los Angeles which exhibits the works of a family of artists who live in Mexico City. Several generations of the Linares family continue the tradition of Pedro Linares, who created alebrijes, with are brightly colored Mexican folk art sculptures of fantastical creatures. Later in the video is a separate segment featuring a brief interview with an immigrant who was a winner of the green card lottery, who speaks mostly about her time in this country as an immigrant.

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  [Dusty Rose Natural Hot Spring Ranch – Operation Desert Shield protest]

  Global Perspectives on War and Peace, Judith Binder, Latinx, Outside Agitators, Politics

  About half of this is a home video of filmmaker Judith Binder visiting a hot spring area in the US Southwest in the interest of buying property there. The other half of this video is footage of an anti-war protest that happens near Los Angeles in the ’90s to get US troops out of Iraq (Operation Desert Shield).