Lot
gift
Identifier:
2020.006
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Description
Donation of materials from Center for Constitutional Rights.
Types of materials:
Prints and Posters, Pamphlets and Zines, Books, Flyers, Pins and buttons, A few decks of trading cards of the "Torture Team" ("Collect and prosecute them all!!!") from 2009.
What material?
Some of it is random and from the CCR archives, some extras not related to CCR collection. All titles appear to be from the U.S. (This is what I had time to look through, about a third of the donated materials.) 3 issues of Lilith: The Jewish Women's Magazine (1981, 1985–87); an issue of Southern Exposure on the KKK (1980); 7 issues of Schmate: A Journal of Progressive Jewish Thought (from 1982, 1984–1987); volume 3, number 2 issue of AGADA (Autumn 1985); 10 buttons (5 different kinds with duplicates of each); 3 copies of the "Torture Team" deck of cards (2009); an issue of The Book Peddler, Newsletter of the National Yiddish Book Center (1986) focusing on education; 4 dockets from the Center of Constitutional Rights (1988–99, 1990, 1995, 1998); "Disorientation Handbook: Creating Your Own Progressive Legal Education" pamphlet from 2005 by the National Lawyers Guild; 2 copies of CCR published pamphlet "If an Agent Knocks" in English, 2 in Spanish, and 3 in Arabic; 2 copies of CCR pamphlet "American Justice on Trial: Who loses in the case of military tribunals?," 2 copies of "Against War with Iraq: An Anti-War Primer," and 2 of "The Silencing of Political Dissent: How the USA Patriot Act undermines the constitution"; 2 copies of /Hell No: Your Right to Dissent in Twenty-First-Century America/ (2011) by Michael Ratner and Margaret Ratner Kunstler; 2 copies of /Politics on Trial: Five Famous Trials of the 20th Century/ (2003) by William Kunstler; 2 copies of /Guantánamo: What the World Should Know/ (2004) by Michael Ratner and Ellen Ray; a folder containing materials related to Crossing Over ("A Strategy Session and 30 year Commemoration of the UC Berkeley Third World Strike") , a program addendum, a flyer for a benefit show for Crossing Over, and a map of UC Berkley (spring 1999); folder also included an issue of Rethinking Schools: An Urban Education Journal (spring 1999).