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  Minneapolis Operation Rescue

  Bill Stamets, Chicago

  Footage of a pro-life event featuring Randall Terry. Terry talks about the impending “moral anarchy” of the nation and his opinions on the importance of God.

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  Boris Ross #2

  Chicago, Roots of Video

  Shot for Communications for Change’s “Documenting Social History: Chicago’s Elderly Speak” oral history series. This is the second part of an interview with Boris Ross, a Russian immigrant to Chicago who was heavily involved in the labor movement.

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  Uptown special projects scrapbook

  Chicago, Politics, Roots of Video

  This is a series of short video segments shot primarily in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago in 1974. They mostly concern problems faced by the residents of Uptown, including issues with the FLAT grant, the practice of redlining, and the lack of projects and programs which would make the community safer for the public.

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  Scrapbook: Bank Issue

  Chicago, Politics, Roots of Video

  This video shows the efforts of the Organization of the Northeast (O.N.E.) to push local financial institutions into investing more of their money in the Uptown and Edgewater neighborhoods of Chicago. It contains a series of segments from 1974, including a session with Gov. Dan Walker, a meeting with the Uptown National Bank, and three newsreels which show the backlash against some local banks, as well as the O.N.E.’s success in negotiating a pact with four of the banks in these neighborhoods.

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  [Gulf Coast Pulpwood Association meeting]

  Chicago, Kartemquin Films, Roots of Video

  A meeting of Gulf Coast Pulpwood Association in Chicago, trying to solicit help for suffering woodcutters in Mississippi.

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  Social and Political Intervention Scrapbook

  Chicago, Outside Agitators, Roots of Video

  Several examples of “social and political intervention” work done by Communications for Change that was aided by the use of video. Most actions concern the fight for adequate housing in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago.

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  [Labor History Workshop: Fred Thompson #2]

  Chicago, Kartemquin Films, Politics

  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.

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  International Videoletters: Santa Cruz

  Kartemquin Films, Outside Agitators, Politics, Roots of Video

  This tape presents some of the Santa Cruz political / feminist groups speaking at New American Movement Symposium.