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Black August Black August
Date: 8/1/1993Call Number: KN 004Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Kiilu NyashaProgram: Black August 93Collection: Programs produced by Kiilu Nyasha
George Jackson, Mumia Abu Jamal (from CD) and Black August Commentary read by ?, Shiba Haven, Georgia Jackson, John Cluchette, Fleeta Drumgo, Hugo Pinell, Luis Talamantez on Hugo Pinell, Kiilu Nyasha
Inserts Inserts
Call Number: PM 024Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln Bergman, Mark SchwartzProgram: InsertsCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Mark Schartz report on San Quentin /Talamantez, maybe actuality. Vietnam woman/American Medical Association (AMA) demonstration, Asia Information info are other non-prison related inserts
Interview with Oscar Acosta Interview with Oscar Acosta
Call Number: PM 032Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: San Quentin Six
Interview by Mark Schwartz outside courtroom with Oscar Acosta, attorney for Luis Talamantez, on security measures, the shackling of the defendants. a circus, a shambles, not even a semblance of justice, etc. “this is the beginning of the falling apart of this system...” Also CD 275
Reflecciones interview:  The families of the San Quentin Six Reflecciones interview: The families of the San Quentin Six
Date: 10/24/1972Call Number: RP 040Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Raul Torres, Emiliano EcheverriaCollection: Reflecciones de la Raza by Comunicacion Aztlan
Communication Aztlan interviews members of the families of some of the San Quentin Six. With music and poetry.
Prisons & Pintos plus America Latina Prisons & Pintos plus America Latina
Date: 8/18/1973Call Number: RP 079Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Bernice Ramirez, Lillian del Sol, Nina Serrano, Andres Alegria, Isabel Alegria, Rodrigo Reyes, Eric Schilling, Chata Gutierrez, Jose Maria LopezCollection: Reflecciones de la Raza by Comunicacion Aztlan
Cumbias from Colombia, Central America, and Mexico, then to Chile. Following is an update on the farmworkers struggle, and then an interview with Reies Lopez Tijerina, who was leader of the courthouse raid in New Mexico in 1967. Then comes the section program devoted to the struggle in the prisons. Poetry by Luis Talamantez, and Ruben Ruybal. Concludes with music by Suni Paz of Argentina.
Chile and the San Quentin 6 Chile and the San Quentin 6
Date: 11/3/1973Call Number: RP 090Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Andres Alegria, Bernice Ramirez, Lillian del Sol, Nina Serrano, Elsa Javkin, Isabel Alegria, Rodrigo Reyes, Eric Schilling, Chata Gutierrez, Jose Maria LopezCollection: Reflecciones de la Raza by Comunicacion Aztlan
Interviews and poetry by and about the San Quentin 6 and poetry from Chile. News at middle of program. Poetry by Luis Talamantez of the San Quentin 6 and Fernanda Navarro from Chile
Luis Talamantez on prison conditions Luis Talamantez on prison conditions
Call Number: PM 178Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: San Quentin Six
Luis Talamantez discusses the conditions and state of his prison cell and the prisoners’ practice of putting their heads in the cell’s toilet water to keep from breathing tear gas.
Rodrigo Reyes reads the poetry of Luis Talamantez Rodrigo Reyes reads the poetry of Luis Talamantez
Date: 10/25/1972Call Number: CAA 108Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Comunicacion AztlanCollection: Arts, literature and poetry – a program series produced by Comunicacion Aztlan
Two poems of Luis Talamantez of the San Quentin Six - “Un Lamento” and “Al Pueblo-For Juan Corona.” Same as CD 384
Nothing Is More Precious Than Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 7/13/1974Call Number: NI 035Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Nancy Barrett, Mark Schwartz, Camomile, Andreas Alegria, Nina SerranoProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Long many actuality report on San Quentin 6, then American Indian Movement and Black Liberation Army-related news, Vietnam/anti-war, and Chile.
Year-End show 1972 Year-End show 1972
Date: 12/31/1972Call Number: RD 063Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real Dragon Collection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Year-end synopses of select 1972 global political affairs. Including but not limited to commentary on: Indo-Chinese Victories (examples of demonstrations around the world, liberation of territories, destruction of puppet army, U.S. northwest train stoppages and sailors refusing to go to war) Japan (Tanaka takes Sato's place in power, movement against U.S. war in Indochina grows, Okinawa struggle-U.S. cedes island back to Japan yet keeps military bases) Philippines (New People's Army grows, Muslim resistance, Marcos imposes marital law) South Korea (Park Chung Hee imposes martial law, his opponents executed) Portugese colonial governments push fascism, use napalm and other tactics in Angola Mozambique, Guinea Bissau Ireland (Bloody Sunday occurs, where British troops murder demonstrators in Northern Ireland, detention of IRA suspects without trial, MacStiofain imprisoned, U.S. Irish supporters attacked by U.S. grand juries) Brazil (U.S. imperial forces use Brazilian cliques to squash liberation struggles, genocide against Indigenous peoples, Comandante Marcia killed) UN Special Committee on Colonialism (from which U.S. resigned months before) classifies Puerto Rico as a colony U.S. (U.S Indigenous Peoples takeover U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Washington D.C., mass refusals to accept U.S. government checks for land by PIH River Indians, Angela Davis acquitted of charges brought against in her in relation to Aug 7 Marin County Courthouse uprising, Prop 22 defeated- a victory for Farm Workers, restoration of the U.S. death penalty, court upholds Organized Crime Control Act used against radicals, surveillance techniques employed in high schools and on streets of poor communities of color, Hoover dies and Patrick Grey steps in to "streamline and modernize FBI", Nixon strikes deals in Moscow (then Soviet Union) including Arms Limitation, grain and oil deals, push for global capitalism-Pepsi first U.S drink to be make and marketed in S.U., Nixon re-elected) inserts of: Billy Smith, Ramsey Clark, Thai Binh, MacStoifain, Salvador Allende, Angela Davis, Ruchell Magee (EXCELLENT!!), luis Talamantez