Cullen, David
Summary: Offers an account of the extraordinary teenage survivors of Parkland who became activists and pushed back against the NRA and Congressional leaders, inspiring millions of Americans to join their grassroots #neveragain movement.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.7 CULCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 371.7 CULMayer, Jane.
Summary: An investigation into the growing radical right reveals a network of wealthy people with extreme Libertarian views, led by the Koch brothers, that has been systematically influencing and controlling academic institutions, the courts, and the United States government.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 320.52 MAYSummary: A five-part docu-series following a veteran group of former GOP operatives and strategists known publicly as the Lincoln Project. The fastest-growing super PAC in America takes on the task of "saving democracy" and defeating their own party's sitting president, Donald Trump. While working to accomplish their stated goal of "defeating Trumpism," the group is shaken by internal upheaval, a sexual...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LINSummary: The Yes Men again pull off one bold prank after another in an effort to raise political consciousness. Posing as top executives of giant corporations, they lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world's most outrageous pranks. When they engineer an announcement that Dow will clean up the site of the largest industrial accident in history, the Bhopal catastrophe, Dow's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC YESSummary: The documentary explores the intersection between Colin Kaepernick's anthem protests and the reactions they spurred in the United States, revealing unique insights into America's ongoing racial turmoil.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KAPSummary: Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! This archival film captures Ronald Reagan's memorable 1987 speech at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate. After speeches by Eberhard Diepgen, Lord Mayor of Berlin, and Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, the president's speech covers topics including the removal of the Berlin Wall, East/West relations, and arms...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Williams, Omkari L.
Summary: "In Micro Activism, former political consultant turned activism coach Omkari Williams shares her expertise to help each of us, no matter our temperament, find our most satisfying and effective activist role. Williams encourages starting small, working collaboratively, and beginning locally. Advice on self-care practices, burn-out prevention, and profiles of activists engaged in a range of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Publishing 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Using a rich supply of archival photographs and film footage as well as first-hand accounts from pastors, activists, and community members, this program gives long-overdue attention to the pivotal role of African-American churches in the Civil Rights movement. Interviews feature former NAACP executive director Dr. Benjamin Hooks; diplomat, political luminary, and civil rights veteran Andrew...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Summary: This video investigates how America's history has been shaped by countless struggles nationwide, molded by clashes in city streets, coal fields, and courtrooms, as well as on the battlefields. This program tells the stories of some of these regional conflicts and the lessons they hold for the country as a whole, including The Whiskey Rebellion, The Dred Scott decision, The Battle of Poison...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1994
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Summary: In the early '70s, the radically enraged, bomb-planting fringe group call Weathermen had the distinction of being as alienated from the anti-war counterculture as the counterculture movement was from the rest of America. The group planned to blow up an empty building, but on March 6, 1970, an explosive accidentally went off in the New York Greenwich Village area, killing three of its own...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2004
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WEAJobin-Leeds, Greg
Summary: "Same-sex marriage, #BlackLivesMatter, the Dream Act, the People's Climate March, End the New Jim Crow, Occupy Wall Street--these are just a few of the initiatives that have taken flight in the past decade, the most fertile and productive era of activism and reform this country has seen since the 1960s. Now, in a visually rich and deeply inspiring book, movement leaders and activists distill...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 JOBSummary: He has survived U.S. hostility, an invasion, several CIA assassination attempts and an economic embargo. His face, with its trademark beard, has become an iconic image worldwide, yet the man himself remains an enigma to all but a few. Fidel Castro, from the PBS American Experience collection, attempts to answer a singular question—what really happened in Cuba under the rule of Fidel Castro?...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: A year before his 1998 death, Eldridge Cleaver granted what would be his last in-depth interview to critic and scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Cleaver discussed his life as a civil rights activist, former Black Panther, and author. This program includes film from that interview, along with audio from a 1975 Gates/Cleaver interview conducted in Paris. Archival footage and commentary from...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1999
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Summary: It was 1967 in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco—a mecca for a visionary new society: one that rejected war, hatred, conformity, and money. And for a brief period, it was the playing field for a new way of life. This PBS American Experience episode is a striking picture of San Francisco's summer of ’67—from the utopian beginnings, when peace and love prevailed, to the chaos,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: I am glad to be here in this International Year of the Woman on the eve of the bicentennial when government of, by, and for the people that were men is becoming of, by, and for the people that are also women. -Betty Friedan Items in this compilation include, * Eleanor Roosevelt's address to the 1940 Democratic National Convention, given on 7/18/40 * Speeches given at the Women's Centennial...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1995
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Summary: In the early morning hours of December 21, 1968, three astronauts strapped themselves into a tiny capsule perched atop the most powerful rocket ever built. They were about to embark on the most dangerous mission in the history of exploration: a journey to the Moon. If they succeeded, they would realize a dream that had captured people's imaginations since the beginning of time. If they failed,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: With poker-faced impersonation as their weapon, and World Trade Organization officials as their target, the Yes Men pull off one bold prank after another in an effort to raise political consciousness. And when their outrageous stunts are actually swallowed - hook, line and sinker - the Yes Men must up the satrical ante and push the art of public spectacle to hilarious new heights.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC YESSummary: This documentary examines more recent events in the U.S. Navy saga. It begins with a concise recap of the Vietnam War and continues on through the naval threat posed by the Soviet Union, challenges and flare-ups of the Cold War, and the Persian Gulf War’s Desert Shield and Desert Storm operations.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Summary: In October, 1967, in a jungle in Vietnam, a Viet Cong ambush nearly wiped out an American battalion, prompting some in power to question whether the war might be unwinnable. Half a world away, a protest at the University of Wisconsin spiraled out of control. Two Days in October, from the PBS American Experience collection, is based on David Maraniss‘ Pulitzer Prize winning book, They Marched...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005