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  For Beauty Passed Away… A Continuation

  Chicago

  WMAQ-TV’s Carol Marin presents the second installment of a documentary series on the life and challenges of the facially disfigured.

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  Carol Marin Reports: Cicero Legal Bills, Rural Heroin, Rape, PTSD

  Carol Marin, Chicago

  Four NBC 5 News special reports presented by Carol Marin on the legal bills of Cicero, IL, the heroin problem in rural IL, The Voices and Faces Project, and American soldiers with PTSD.

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  [Howard Zinn raw #5: How A People’s History of the United States changes the teaching of history]

  Howard Zinn

  Students at Sonoma State University discuss their admiration for Howard Zinn and what his approach to history has to offer for teachers looking to better engage students. SSU students canvass and rally in support of the student strike. Two SSU students discuss Howard Zinn on their drive to San Francisco to pick him up from his hotel.

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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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  Salt of the Earth vs Chambers

  Chicago, Kartemquin Films, Outside Agitators, Roots of Video

  This video documents a post-screening discussion with Virginia Jencks about the 1954 film “Salt of the Earth.” Jencks was a labor leader who played herself in the film. It portrays a real-life strike that occurred at Empire Zinc Mine in New Mexico and most of the roles in the film were played by the real life miners and union organizers. The film was directed by Herbert Biberman, who was blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), and it was not shown for many years after its completion.

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  The Legacy of Chernobyl

  Blog, Chicago, Chicago Slices

  “I can see war. I cannot see radiation. I look around one day and I am dead.” —Dick Gregory, 1979 Illinois is a state of nuclear renown. The first ever atomic chain reaction took place at the University of Chicago in 1942. In 1960 the nation’s first full-scale, privately financed nuclear power plant, Dresden Generating Station, opened in northern Illinois. Today, Illinois continues to be the number one nuclear power producer in the U.S. and a nexus of the debate around […]

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  [Chicago Crossings: Bridges and Boundaries, reel 1; John Pitman Weber]

  Black, Chicago, Communities, Kartemquin Films

  In this 1994 trip to artist John Pitman Weber’s studio, a group of filmmakers from Kartemquin Films talk with Weber about his work, his life, and Jewish involvement in the Civil Rights movement.

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  [Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn]

  Chicago, Outside Agitators

  Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn reflect on their radical activism as members of the Weathermen, a militant anti-war movement active throughout the 1970s, and talk about their current efforts for reform in Chicago.