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  [Howard Zinn raw #3: Changes, both in ideas and in society]

  Howard Zinn

  Howard Zinn joins students from the Audubon Expedition Institute for a conversation about environmental justice, the Civil Rights movement and how to create social change.

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  [Howard Zinn raw #2: initial readings of A People’s History of the United States]

  Howard Zinn

  History teacher Joan Davis leads a discussion with her class at York High School in Elmhurst, IL on Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States.” They discuss their reactions to the book, his purpose behind writing it, and how it has affected their perpsective on American history.

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  [Howard Zinn raw #1: Discussion of U.S. politics and foreign policy]

  Howard Zinn

  Howard Zinn conducts a Q&A session with high school students in Manhattan, Kansas. He speaks on wars throughout history, the prospects of socialism, the US military machine, the state of contemporary left politics, and the importance of critically examining history and the present.

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  [People for Community Recovery rally #2]

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

  A rally by the People for Community Recovery, an environmental activist group based out of Altgeld Gardens on the South-East Side of Chicago, in the August of 1991.

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  [People for Community Recovery rally #1]

  Black, Chicago, Communities, Judy Hoffman, Videomakers

  A rally by the People for Community Recovery, an environmental activist organization based in the Altgeld Gardens community, in August of 1991. Notable speakers are Hazel Johnson, the founder of PCR, Father Michael Pfleger, activist Walter “Slim” Coleman, and former Mayor of Chicago Eugene Sawyer.

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  Anna, Helan – Bevs – Sax Remy John Fleck

  American Way, THE 90's

  This video has several segments the first being a musical performance in what looks like a coffee shop. The second is a reading of a journal that was kept between the days of January 20 and 24 of 1991 by an Israeli-American living in Israel at the time of Saddam Hussein’s bombing of Israel in the Gulf War. The last two parts are of a bar in LA that is being threatened to be torn down and a friend of Binder, the filmmaker, chatting with her in his home and then performing for her there.

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  Documenting Social History: Chicago’s Elderly Speak–Eastland Tragedy

  Chicago, Roots of Video

  This video includes two oral history interviews with people related to the Eastland tragedy which occurred July 24, 1915: one a survivor and one the daughter of a survivor. The passenger ship sunk in the Chicago River, killing 844 people, making it the most deadly event in Chicago history. This video was recorded in June of 1976 as part of a class at Chicago City Colleges.

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  The Trouble With Peggy

  Chicago, Performance

  A live performance of Donna Blue Lachman’s one-woman show, “The Problem with Peggy: Pieces of Guggenheim” performed at the Blue Rider Theatre.