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A Proper Bostonian, Emily Greene Balch |
No Longer Enemies |
Sol y Luna |
The Underground Railroad
| A Proper Bostonian, Emily Greene Balch |
tribute to this international innovator in social work and women's education, and a founder
of the International Women's Peace Movement.
Emily Greene Balch was one of only two American women to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
For her, it crowned thirty years of pioneering for peace.
E.G. Balch finished Bryn Mawr with honors, recipient of its first European Fellowship. She became a
social worker and co-founder of Boston's Dennison House. Emily published pamphlets on public
assistance and juvenile offenders and co-founded the Women's Trade Union League. Between 1913 and
1918, she chaired the Economics and Sociology Departments at Wellesley. Her two major works on American
immigrants were used throughout colleges and universities. When war broke out in Europe in 1914, she
helped organize, with Jane Addams, the International Congress of Women at the Hague (1915), which
proposed continual mediation of the conflict. In 1919, this group became the Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom. She was a pacifist during World War I, and worked with Woodrow Wilson
to form the League of nations. Her book, Occupied Haiti, was instrumental in foreign policy. Emily
published verse of spiritual poetry. She was the first to propose internationalization of Antarctica,
a proposal that came to fruition. Throughout her later years, she continued to work on behalf of the
United Nations.
This video documents the Wellesley College 50th anniversary commemoration of Emily Balch's receipt of
the Nobel Peace Prize. Historians and Wellesley professors, WILPF's National President and local Boston
WILPF members discuss her life and works and read selections from her journals.
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30-minute video
Produced by Ellen Mass
Edited by Robin Lloyd and Donna O'Donovan
Audience Level:
High school/adult
Sale Price:
VHS $15.00
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uring the Vietnam War, US planes and helicopters sprayed over 12
million gallons of the herbicide Agent Orange on forests and croplands in
southern Vietnam. An estimated 300,000 US soldiers, as well as hundreds
of thousands of Vietnamese, were exposed to the dioxin-laced defoliant.
This powerful video chronicles the emotional return to Vietnam of several
US combat veterans, whose health and families' health have been affected
by Agent Orange. Participating in an international conference on
herbicides in Hanoi, doctors and soldiers who were once enemies realize
the similarities of their struggle and emphasize the importance of
reconciliation.
No Longer Enemies was coproduced with Citizen Soldier, a nonprofit
advocacy organization that assists soldiers both in and out of uniform to
confront military policies and activities that threaten their
constitutional and human rights.
"This video is both educational and inspirational. Former enemies work
together to reveal and reduce the effects of Agent Orange on G. I.
Veterans and the Vietnamese people, from defective births to other
calamities." Dave Dellinger, activist/author
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Produced by Robin
Lloyd, Tod Ensign, and
Stuart Sender
Videography by
Stuart Sender; script
and continuity by
Greg Guma
Audience Level:
High school/adult
Institutions:
VHS $69.95
Individual/Low Income Groups:
VHS $29.95
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Sol y Luna:
The Zapotec Legend of the Sun and the Moon |
video record of a performance by the Dragon Dance Theater of
Vermont and the Mexican theater company Comparsa at Monte Alban in Mexico.
This collaboration between American and Mexican theater companies
celebrates the epic legend of the Sun and the Moon using giant masks,
puppets, fireworks, and pre-Columbian music. Performed amid the
pre-Columbian ruins of Monte Alban at Oaxaca, Mexico, this video would be
ideal for course in mexcian history, theater and cross-cultural education.
"This was the first time in centuries that anyone has been allowed to
perform amongst these ancient monuments at night. We shared a sense of
privilege and purpose in creating these performances in Monte Alban."
Susan Bettmann, music director for Dragon Dance Theater
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30-minute video
Audience Level:
High school/adult
Sale Price:
VHS $19.95
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The Underground Railroad:
Vermont and the Fugitive Slave |
ermont's Constitution was the first in the country to abolish
slavery, and many Vermonters assisted runaway slaves throughout the
pre-Civil War period. This video examines the meaning and images of a
mural on Vermont's Underground Railroad created for Vermont Law School in
South Royalton, Vermont. Muralist Sam Kerson describes the mural's eight
panels, which depict plantation life, historical figures active in the
freedom movement, and infamous moments in Vermont's anti-slavery history.
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25-minute video
Videotaped by Robin
Lloyd
Audience Level:
Elementary through adult
Sale Price:
VHS $19.95
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