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  Bill Gandall #1

  CLIR, Outside Agitators, Roots of Video

  DeeDee Halleck interviews peace activist and Spanish Civil War veteran William “Wild Bill” Gandall.

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  [Videofreex book release party]

  Guerrilla TV, Roots of Video

  Members of the Videofreex convene in Woodstock, NY to celebrate the release of Parry Teasdale’s book “Videofreex: America’s First Pirate TV Station & The Catskills Collective That Turned It On.”

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  [Unknown performance]

  Chicago, Kartemquin Films, Outside Agitators, Roots of Video

  Fragments from what appears to be some sort of staged performance. The footage is sparse and cuts in and out, sometimes with loud feedback noises.

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  A Gary Tape

  Chicago, Kartemquin Films, Outside Agitators, Roots of Video

  An organizing workshop led by activist Staughton Lynd at Indiana University Northwest on 9-16-71 to discuss organizing around tax policy and investigating grocery pricing in Illinois and Indiana. A month earlier, President Richard Nixon had issued an executive order freezing wages for 90 days. In response, supermarkets were pressured to suspend price increases, although this group felt they were not adhering to this promise.

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  The Mother #1

  Chicago, Kartemquin Films, Performance, Roots of Video

  Footage from a performance of an English-language version of the Bertolt Brecht play “The Mother.” This performance appears to be at a smaller theatre, with very minimal set and prop design—many of the setting details are conveyed by the chorus saying the scene’s expository text out loud in unison. This tape contains the first four of the play’s fourteen scenes.

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  ONE Retrospective

  Chicago, Communications for Change, Guerrilla TV, Roots of Video

  An overview of the work and accomplishments of Organization of the Northeast, which advocates for social justice issues in Chicago, primarily in the Uptown neighborhood.

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  [Organizing owner operator truckers in Northwest Indiana]

  Chicago, Guerrilla TV, Kartemquin Films, Kartemquin Films, Roots of Video

  Part of a collection of labor tapes shot by Kartemquin Films in Northwest Indiana. In this tape, a rank-and-file Teamsters member talks to a group about organizing owner operator truckers into a union.

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  Labor History Workshop: Fred Thompson

  Chicago, Kartemquin Films, Kartemquin Films, Roots of Video

  An organizing workshop led by activist Staughton Lynd at Indiana University Northwest. This tape features Fred Thompson, labor organizer and IWW leader, addressing a group of (mostly) United Steel Workers union members about the future of unions and how to create positive change.