Freedom is a Constant Struggle
The Freedom Is A Constant Struggle collection comprises weekly radio programs summarizing international, national, and local struggles on many fronts, interspersed with poetry and music. The program was produced from February 1976 to August 1995. Producers during the early years of the collection were Barbara Lubinski, Heber Dreher, Emiliano Echeverria,and Lincoln Bergman, later joined by Nina Serrano and Kiilu Nyasha. Among emphases in this collection are South African, Central American, and Native American struggles; the prison movement and political prisoners; coverage of actions and events such as the fight for the International Hotel (I-Hotel) and Wounded Knee; gay and lesbian liberation; the fight against poverty; and police repression. Additional highlights include features on cultural work such as latino/a and revolutionary poetry, a special series on Paul Robeson, Langston Hughes (Hughes and Blues) and Pete Seeger. There were also subtitles used for ongoing series, such as a talk show on the first Saturday of the month presented by Heber Dreher entitled “Frank Talk,” and a music program “In the Midst of Struggle,” produced by Emiliano Echeverria on the last Saturday of the month.
Documents
Archives of Freedom - 1
Date: 3/15/1986Call Number: FI 069Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Emiliano Echeverria, Claude MarksProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
This was a rebroadcast of a show that took place in September 1971, features a report on the death of Richard Oakes, Native American leader at Alcatraz.
Limericks and Songs of War, Peace, and the Middle East
Date: 9/29/1990Call Number: FI 019Format: Cass A & BProducers: Lincoln BergmanProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Poems and music such as "Blues for Palestine" "What's Going On?" and "Fragile." Speks against US involvement in the Middle East and the blind faith and ignorance of Americans as to the real issues surrounding it. Features performer, Owen Davis, "conga drums for social change" in an autobiographical call for massive social change at home and abroad.
The Pete Seeger Show - 1
Date: 1/10/1987Call Number: FI 200Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Emiliano EcheverriaProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Initial program in a series on Pete Seeger, mostly his songs from many eras, with commentary, both cultural and political.
The Pete Seeger Show - 6
Date: 5/9/1987Call Number: FI 204Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Emiliano EcheverriaProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Opens with excellent spoken commentary by Seeger on Central America and Latin America. Program is dedicated to the memory of Ben Linder, US solidarity activist murdered in Nicaragua.
Meridel LeSueur Birthday
Date: 3/1990Call Number: FI 314Format: Cass AProducers: Lincoln BergmanProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Tribute to Meridel LeSueur, people's/women's/children's writer from Minnesota. Includes brief radio interview from Minnesota about her children's books, then a report on her big 90th birthday celebration in February 1990, and songs by Holly Near, Ronnie Gilbert (There Was Music In My Mother's House) and Barbara Tilsen. The latter is a powerful anti-war poem by Irene Paull a close friend of Meridel's, set to music by Barbara Tilsen. Then a song sung by Wilbur Broms, The Minstrel Boy..
Fourth of July Special 1992
Date: 7/4/1992Call Number: FI 299Format: CassetteProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Barbara Lubinski, Emiliano Echeverria, Nina Serrano, Kiilu NyashaProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Poetic summary of US history of oppression and resistance, including Ossie Davis's performing Frederick Douglass' oration (What To an American Slave is your 4th of July?) Sojourner Truth's Ain't I A Woman, and Nina Serrano's poem on McCarthyism and Lolita Lebron. Program features many of the voices of program's producers. Heber Dreher talk show at end.
December 29, 1979 Program Script
Script for the December 29, 1979 program of Freedom is a Constant Struggle. A reflection on the events, movements, and figures from the last decade.