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![Real Dragon](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 10/24/1971Call Number: RD 008Producers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Begins with spoken word recalling Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet, who wrote from his cell during his 10-year imprisonment.
News coverage of the State murder of George Jackson at San Quentin Prison; Continued and expanding victories for Indochine region, especially Laos; Mexican armed guerilla movements; Eritrean movement against Ethiopia;
North Vietnam victim of the heaviest bombing raid waged against them since 1965; Right wing CIA-supported coup in Bolivia;
Reading of "Concerning Hopes" by a Palestinian poet; China is opposing the Indian government; Pakistani genocide in Bangladesh; Divisions in the Black Panther Party
![Nothing is More Precious Than (8/16/75)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: CD 579Program: NIMPTCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
![Nothing is More Precious Than (8/16/75)](images/thumbnails//5518.jpg)
Date: 8/16/1975Call Number: NI 077Producers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanProgram: NIMPTCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Program begins with report on Joan Little's acquittal, featuring actuality of Little describing her case and its relevance to the movements of women, prisoners, and oppressed people everywhere. Reports on San Quentin 6 trial; police violence in Riverside, CA; Eldridge Cleaver's latest break with radical politics; and antiracist struggles in Boston. There is a lengthy report on the American Indian Movement occupation of the Department of the Interior in Portland to draw attention to the ongoing violence at Pine Ridge, with a recording from inside the building occupation, followed by additional reports of repression against AIM. Program ends with international news from Reports from Vietnam, Korea, Angola, and the effect of African liberation movements on Portugal society and politics (with actuality of Philip Agee comparing Portugal to Chile).
![San Quentin 6 and George Jackson](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: CD 580Collection: San Quentin Six
Update on civil suit filed against California prison system by the San Quentin 6. Program features background on the 6 as well as George Jackson. Actuality of Jackson, Fania Jordan, Johnny Larry Spain, James “Doc” Holiday, Luis “Bato” Talamantez, Hugo Pinell, Michael Burgener, Fleeta Drumgo, and David Johnson. Ends with Johnny Cash song denouncing San Quentin. [PM 001]
BBC Report, Iron Box: The Prison Life and Death of George Jackson, on Jackson after assassination, good Jackson actuality, Fay Stender, early blues music, Inez Williams, Doris Maxwell (Clutchette's mother), Elsa Knight Thompson on prison, Frazel Sheldon, public defender Sonoma County, Robert Charles Jordan 1966 suit for cruel and unusual punishment. [PM 023]
![George Jackson - 41 year commemoration](images/thumbnails//30464.jpg)
August 21st marks the 41st anniversary of the execution of George Lester Jackson. The Chicago- born Jackson would have celebrated his 71st birthday on September 23rd.
Jackson was a prisoner who became an author, a member of the Black Panther Party, and co-founder of the Black Guerrilla Family prison organization. He achieved global fame as one of the Soledad Brothers before being executed by prison guards in San Quentin Prison.
Based on an edited portion of Prisons on Fire by the Freedom Archives (2001) with video editing by Oriana Bolden.
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