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  [Full Circle promo]

  Asian American, Black, Communities, Latinx, Native American, Outside Agitators

  A taping of a dinner at Chicago’s Hull House, in which many prominent feminists and female activists come together to honor the memory and achievements of Jane Addams, the prominent social activist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient. Guests include: Magdalena Abakanowicz, Cheryl Carolus, Hyun-Kyung Chung, Johnnetta Cole, Mirna Cunningham, Nawal El Saadawi, Susan Faludi, Susan Grode, Anita Hill, Dolores Huerta, Devaki Jain, Wilma Mankiller, Gloria Steinem, & Addie Wyatt.

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  [The 90’s raw: ACT-UP rally in San Francisco]

  Communities, LGBTQIA, Outside Agitators

  Raw footage for the award-winning series The 90’s. At a unity rally for ACT UP (AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power), an AIDS activist group, during the 6th Annual International AIDS Conference.

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  Watch It!, episode 103-3

  American Way

  A “video scrapbook” featuring camcorder footage from people around the world.

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  [Chicago Slices raw: Women’s Action Coalition]

  Chicago, Chicago Slices, Outside Agitators, Skip Blumberg

  Raw footage for “Chicago Slices,” a television series about life in Chicagoland. This video focuses on the Women’s Action Coalition (WAC), an organization focused around women’s issues. Videomaker Skip Blumberg tapes a WAC gathering at Carpenter and Huron in the West Loop where participants with homemade instruments play in a drum circle, and also interviews many of them about their beliefs and their cause.

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  The Speaker’s Millennium Lecture with Studs Terkel

  NHPRC, Studs Terkel

  Studs Terkel is the guest at the Speaker’s Millennium Lecture 2001, held at the Pennsylvania House of Representatives House Chamber in Harrisburg, PA. Terkel gives a lecture on the importance of remembering history and answers questions from the audience about a variety of subjects.

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  I Was A Zero In City 2000

  Chicago, LGBTQIA, Tom Palazzolo

  The story of Tom Palazzolo’s efforts to get his photographs included in the City 2000 exhibition, a show featuring images of Chicago from throughout that year. Palazzolo shoots events during the year 2000, such as Taste of Chicago, Maxwell Street, an AIDS bicycle ride, and other public festivals. Througout the tape we see his new photographs and some of his older ones.

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  [The 90’s Election Specials raw: Bush dinner]

  1992 Election, Chicago, Politics, Skip Blumberg, THE 90's

  Raw footage for The 90’s election specials. Outside and inside a fundraising dinner for President George H.W. Bush at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago. There are several protest groups outside of the Hyatt, including The Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, and the Illinois Coalition to End Homelessness, contrasting with the fancy, $1000 per plate dinner inside.

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  [The 90s Election Specials raw: RNC and NARAL]

  1992 Election, Politics, Sex, Drugs, & Rock 'N Roll

  Raw footage from The 90’s Election Specials. This tape features footage from the 1992 Republican National Convention; a NARAL Rally; an interview with Treach, from the band Naughty By Nature, who was reporting for MTV; and an interview with a Ghanian journalist.