San Francisco Stories
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Boom: The Sound of Eviction
In the early 2000s, San Francisco's dot-com boom brought a disastrous tidal wave of gentrification, which changed the city's landscape forever.More Information -
139X (Newsreel #22)
Berkeley students organized a mass sit-in and a building take-over after the State Regents refused to allow Elridge Cleaver to teach Political Science 139X for credit.More Information -
Berkeley Rebellion (Newsreel #20)
Newsreel's short film shows two days of demonstrations in Berkeley over the issue of "the streets belong to the people" and the decision of the City Council to close off Telegraph Avenue for the 4th of July, 1968. This film features scenes of members of the Young Socialist Alliance, including Peter Camejo, demonstrating their support for the French student movement of May 1968.More Information -
Black Panther a.k.a. Off the Pig (Newsreel #19)
A compelling document of the Black Panther Party leadership in 1967.More Information -
Bobby Seale a.k.a. Interview with Bobby Seale (Newsreel #44)
Bobby Seale, a member of the Black Panthers, talks about his treatment as a political prisoner and his involvement in the Black Liberation and anti-war movements.More Information -
High School Rising (Newsreel #38)
An analysis of how the schools by using the tracking system, exploit and oppress people in terms of class origins and how students can begin to organize.More Information -
Revolution Until Victory a.k.a. We Are the Palestinian People (Newsreel #65)
Filmed in Palestine by Newsreel, REVOLUTION UNTIL VICTORY shows the refugee camps of the Middle East, the rise of the Palestinian Liberation Movement and Israel's relationship to Western imperialism.More Information -
San Francisco State: On Strike a.k.a. San Francisco State Sit In (Newsreel #26)
A documentary of the now famous San Francisco State strike of 1968-69.More Information -
The Haight a.k.a. The Streets Belong to the People (Newsreel #21)
The San Francisco Haight community fights in the streets to defend their culture against brutal police oppression.More Information -
The Woman's Film (Newsreel #55)
Produced collectively by women, this documentary is a valuable historical document of the origins of the modern women's movement in the United States.More Information -
Union a.k.a. Oil Strike a.k.a. Richmond Oil Strike (Newsreel #25)
January '69, oil workers in Northern California struck, and for the first time, students at San Francisco State and University of California were asked to join the union in the struggle.More Information
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