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  [Howard Zinn raw #43: B-roll and newsreel footage various places and times]

  Howard Zinn

  Filmmaker Denis Mueller visits monuments and a museum near the site of the Ludlow Massacre. Also includes some newsreel footage.

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  [Howard Zinn raw #21: Zinn and Studs Terkel explore United States’ divisions]

  Black, Communities, Howard Zinn

  A conversation between Studs Terkel and Howard Zinn at an alternative media event Berkeley, California. They speak about activism, racism, and making change in the United States.

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  [Howard Zinn raw #16: Noel Beasley, Jim Jenkins, and Charles King speak]

  Howard Zinn

  Howard Zinn attends an Awards Dinner for the Eugene V. Debs Foundation held at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana.

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  Boris Ross #1

  Chicago, Roots of Video

  Shot for Communications for Change’s “Documenting Social History: Chicago’s Elderly Speak” oral history series. Boris Ross, an immigrant from the Soviet Union, describes his experiences as a union organizer in Chicago during the 1920s.

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  [Labor History Workshop: FASH]

  Chicago, Kartemquin Films, Politics

  An organizing workshop led by activist Staughton Lynd at Indiana University Northwest. This tape features a presentation by representatives from FASH (Fraternal Order of Steel Haulers), an alternative to the Teamsters for independent truck drivers.

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  [Where’s I.W. Abel? raw #6: right to strike steering committee]

  Chicago, Kartemquin Films, Politics

  Raw footage for “Where’s I.W. Abel?” Made by Kartemquin and a rank-and-file steel workers caucus, the film documents the opposition of the rank-and-file to the no-strike agreement between Steelworkers President I.W. Abel and the ten major steel companies, made without a vote by the membership of the union. Featuring Staughton Lynd.

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  [The 90’s raw: Lighthouse – 1199 SEIU demonstration]

  GDDF, NHPRC-2, Politics, Skip Blumberg, THE 90's

  Raw footage shot for the award-winning series The 90’s. This tape features footage of instructors and participants of the organization Lighthouse, which provides services for the blind, followed by footage of a demonstration by workers from 1199 Service Employees International Union.

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  Image Union, episode 0324

  Image Union

  Two part Image Union episode featuring “On Strike” by Kartemquin Films and “Grand Turk: The Grand Canyon of Coral.”