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![Joan Baez at the funeral of Juan de la Cruz](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Producers: Frances EmleyCollection: Latin@
Activist folksinger Joan Baez sings at the funeral of Juan de la Cruz, a farm worker active in the United Farm-worker\'s Union who was killed on a picket line by a strikebreaker\'s bullet.
![On the History of Lesbianism](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Producers: Barbara Lubinski, Heber DreherCollection: Gender and Sexuality
Poet Judy Grahn recited one of her best known poems "On the History of Lesbianism".
![Leonard Peltier - What Warriors Do](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Collection: Leonard Peltier
Political Prisoner Leonard Peltier discusses the responsibility of a warrior.
![Lolita Lebron](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Collection: Puerto Rico
Lolita Lebron on Puerto Rican independence speaks in San Francisco, date unknown. Subjects include abortion, forced sterlization of Puerto Rican women, and genocide. Draws from her own experience as a political prisoner and discusses their feelings of abandonment, isolation and obscurity. Makes parallels between Vietnam's victory over the US (in which the American people were complicit) and Puerto Rico's own liberation.
![Martin Luther King Jr. "Something is happening in our world"](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Collection: Martin Luther King Jr.
Excerpt from "I've been to the Mountaintop" speech. This speech was given April 3, 1968, at Mason Temple, Church of God in Christ Headquarters, in Memphis, Tennessee shortly before Rev. King was assassinated.
![Meridel Le Sueur "Let the Bird of the Earth Fly"](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Collection: Gender and Sexuality
Meridel Le Sueur, with Matthew Siegel on flute, recites part of her poem - "Let the Bird of Earth Fly". Meridel was a lifelong revolutionary, writer, and feminist visionary of French, Irish, and Lakota ancestry, and a Minnesota-based supporter of AIM and all liberation struggles.
![Paul Robeson Speaks at Marine Cooks & Stewards Union](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Collection: Paul Robeson recordings
Sample of Paul Robeson, the great African-American Singer and activist, in a rare recording, takes from a speech to a union gathering in San Francisco.
![Voices from Radio Habana Cuba](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Producers: Radio RebeldeCollection: Cuba
Sample from actual broadcast of Radio Rebelde, the clandestine station of the Cuban Revolution. The announcer introduces Fidel Castro, who calls for a general strike to defeat the Batista tyranny.
![Ruchell Magee](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Producers: Mark SchwartzCollection: Ruchell Magee
Ruchell Magee, sole survivor of the Marin Couthouse rebellion. he based his defense on the right to rebel, from the court decision on the Amistad slave ship, since made famous by the Spielberg film. Ruchell Magee remains in prison. This excerpt is from many prison related reports by Mark Schwartz.
![Pres. Allende UN Speech Sample](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Collection: Chile
Chilean President Salvador Allende speaks to the United Nations, denouncing the effects of colonialism.