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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.
Real Dragon
Date: 7/7/1973Call Number: RD 050Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanProgram: Real Dragon Collection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Cambodia, Uruguay, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, national news
Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 6/8/1974Call Number: NI 031Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Nancy Barrett, CamomileProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Worldwide roundup, much international news, especially on Ireland, Mozambique and Indochina. Then prison and political trial news, and edited inserts of tape from the Symbionese Liberation Army, and stories on Attica trials, Ruchell Magee case, Reyes Tijerina, and Pitt River Indians.
Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 6/15/1974Call Number: NI 032Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Nancy Barrett, CamomileProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Program opens with reading of communique from Weather Underground on bombing of Gulf Oil in Pittsburgh, PA, with extensive history of Portuguese colonialism and national liberation movements.
Other Africa news follows. Then story of acquittal of policeman in shooting of Clifford Glover in NYC, then stories on Chile and protests against ship coming to San Francisco, and then a birthday tribute to Che Guevara.
Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 6/29/1974Call Number: NI 034Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Nancy Barrett, Mark Schwartz, CamomileProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Major stories on Africa, especially Mozambique (FRELIMO), Latin America, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, AIM and Native American-Treaty council conference, Gay Pride, Attica, and California prisons.