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Real Dragon
Date: 2/3/1973Call Number: RD 029Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Tet: The Lunar New Year passes, spring festival.
100,000 plus patriots locked up as prisoners of Thieu in South Vietnam,
10,000 protest war in China, and thousands in Cuba.
25,000 people and a military parade commemorate the assassinated African
revolutionary leader, Amilcar Cabral in Conakry Guinea. President Sekou
Toure, Amiri Baraka and outlawed Portuguese Communist Party leader Perdo
Suarez speak.
Military resistance and bombings in Portugal support the people’s struggle
in Guinea Bissau, Angola, and Mozambique and against Portuguese
colonialism.
Several major strikes by Black workers in South Africa.
Bloody Sunday commemoration in San Francisco calls for unity among
Catholics and Protestants to oppose 21,000 British occupation troops.
Two students killed by police at University of Mexico, student strikes
closes schools over the U.S.
Continued genocide against indigenous people in Brazil. Waimiri Atroari
attack National Indian Foundation that aims to “pacify and help Indians
adapt to civilization”
Puerto Rico House of Representatives passes a resolution asking Nixon to
pardon and release the Puerto Rican 5.
Continued arrest of Native Americans involved in Bureau of Indian Affairs
occupation, convictions reversed for two accused of stealing copper wire
from the Alcatraz occupation, more protests of racist hiring practices of
California.
More on the trial verdicts of Kitty Hawk and sailor resistance. 3,000 men
discharged from Navy (many blacks and poor whites) because they “lack
intelligence.”
Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark spoke negatively of the U.S.
position as a paramilitary police state.
Senator Stennis the menace shot and wounded in D.C.
Earl Whittaker, a sympathetic Black Tombs Rebellion Prison guard acquitted
of trumped up charges.
Jury chosen for Rap Browns participation in the 1960 Woolworth lunch
counter sit-in that motivated waves of Black student protests and started
the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. Includes excerpts from
Brown’s opening statements.
Parole denied to Robert Wells imprisoned for 44 yrs for defending himself
against racist prison guard.
Venceremos: Laura Taulbee and Milton Taulbee jailed for refusing to
testify to Grand Jury. Guns and property seized from December FBI seizure
of Mountain View home returned
Governor Reagan and Lt. Governor Ed Reinecke make misogynist comments
about birth control.
Mexico Independence
Date: 9/16/1972Call Number: RP 035Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Emiliano Echeverria, Nina Serrano, Rodrigo ReyesCollection: Reflecciones de la Raza by Comunicacion Aztlan
Mexican Independence Program
Rodrigo interviews members of PREPA
Date: 11/29/1972Call Number: RP 047Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Rodrigo Reyes, Emiliano EcheverriaProgram: UnidosCollection: Reflecciones de la Raza by Comunicacion Aztlan
Rodrigo Reyes interviews members of PREPA a student organization Mexico
Women in Cuernavaca
Date: 12/2/1972Call Number: RP 048Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Bernice Ramirez, Emiliano Echeverria, Raul TorresCollection: Reflecciones de la Raza by Comunicacion Aztlan
Bernice Ramirez interviewed “Eileen” (pseudonym) about issues pertaining to women in Mexico and the difficulties they face
Cinqo de Mayo Play
Date: 5/3/1972Call Number: RP 067Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Rodrigo Reyes, Emiliano Echeverria, Rodolfo UsigliCollection: Reflecciones de la Raza by Comunicacion Aztlan
Dramatization of events surrounding the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862.
Directed and produced by Rodrigo Reyes
Co-produced and engineered by: Emiliano Echeverria
Written by Rodrigo Reyes and Rodolfo Usigli
La Musica y la Literatura de la Raza
Date: 6/9/1973Call Number: RP 072Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Emiliano EcheverriaCollection: Reflecciones de la Raza by Comunicacion Aztlan
Today we feature Music and Poetry from Mexico, Aztlan, Salsa, Cuba, and Puerto Rico
Lincoln Bergman Interview with Mexican F.R.A.P. members
Lincoln Bergman interviews two FRAP (Fuerzas Revolucionarias Armadas del Pueblo) members, Francisco Pizarro and Pablo Martinez, on the details of their organization and the bank robberies and hostages held in exchange for political prisoners in 1972. The interviewees discuss the student movement as well.
Comunicacion Aztlan reports from Mexico
Date: 6/28/1974Call Number: CAP 092Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Comunicacion AztlanCollection: Political issues of the time – a program series produced by Comunicacion Aztlan
El Manifesto del Arbol de la Noche Triste
Spanish by phone from Mexico City, also on CD 357
News reports from Mexico
Date: 6/28/1974Call Number: CAP 094Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Comunicacion AztlanCollection: Political issues of the time – a program series produced by Comunicacion Aztlan
Lucio Cabañas statement, United Fruit, Chile, Venezuela, Argentina
By phone from Mexico City, also on CD 357
News reports from Mexico, Festival
Date: 6/28/1974Call Number: CAP 097Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Comunicacion AztlanCollection: Political issues of the time – a program series produced by Comunicacion Aztlan
Lucio Cabañas, Chile, Guatemala
Also on CD 358