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  Reverend Billy’s Peace Revival

  Outside Agitators

  Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping stage a lengthy peace revival filled with song, dance, and sermons raging against American consumerism.

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  Image Union, episode 0628: Nicaragua

  Communities, Global Village, Image Union, Latinx

  A documentary about the U.S. citizens who are living in Nicaragua and are opposed to the Reagan administration policy towards Nicaragua, including the possibility of a U.S. invasion.

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  [The 90’s raw: Biosphere 2]

  American Way

  Raw tape for the award-winning series The 90’s. For the first part of the tape, Dee Dee Halleck takes a road trip to Biosphere 2 in Tucson, AZ with Joel Kovel, psychoanalyst and radical writer, and their daughter, Molly Kovel. Once there, they interview people touring the facility. Following Kovel’s commentary, there is unrelated footage of a Martin Luther King, Jr. Day parade.

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  Image Union, episode 223: Bronx Baptism

  Image Union, Roots of Video, Video Makers Choice

  Image Union episode featuring “Bronx Baptism” by Dee Dee Halleck. Color film. Shot at a Puerto Rican Pentecostal Church in the Bronx during a mass baptism. Opens with title cards explaining the way the Pentecostal faith provides an inroads for Puerto Rican immigrants to find community in New York City. This video has Spanish audio with English subtitles.

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  The Defense of Lolita Lebron: An Interview With Conrad Lynn

  Communities, Latinx, NHPRC, Outside Agitators

  Lolita Lebron was arrested in 1954 for carrying out an attack on the U.S. House of Representatives with fellow Puerto Rican Nationalists Andres Cordero, Rafael Cancel Miranda, and Irving Flores. Lebron was a strong symbol in the Puerto Rican Nationalist movement for being a female who insisted on taking full blame for orchestrating the action, rather than getting a lighter sentence as a mere participant. Most of the tape is made up of an interview with Lebron’s attorney Conrad Lynn, who goes into depth about the trial, his defense of Lebron, the Puerto Rican Nationalist movement, and Lebron’s personal life.

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  Gulf Crisis TV Project, part 4

  Global Perspectives on War and Peace, Outside Agitators, Politics

  Part of the Global Perspectives on War and Peace Collection. This tape focuses on conscientious objectors to the Gulf War, many of which are or used to be soldiers.