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International Women's Day Show
Date: 3/3/1977Call Number: FI 045Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara LubinskiProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Focus on Lolita Lebron and the Puerto Rican nationalists, with actuality of a newscast from that time. Women’s Day statement by Emily Harris and reports on Inez Garcia verdict, the funeral of Lolita Lebron's daughter, and struggle at North Carolina Correctional Institute for Women.
Interview with Lolita Lebron - Part 1
Puerto Rican nationalist Lolita Lebron at the federal prison in Alderson, West Virginia. Interviewed by Barbara Lubinski.
Women Prisoners Dublin (1 of 2)
Date: 12/26/1995Call Number: PM 133Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: KPFAProgram: Freedom is a Constant Struggle (Freedom Is A Constant Struggle)Collection: Prisons - Women
Interview with Marilyn Buck, Dylcia Pagan, Ida Robinson, and Linda Evans, by Kiilu Nyasha, at the National Federal Prison of Dublin, California. Discussion about life in prison, being a political prisoner, being a mother in prison, current prison conditions, racism, white supremacy, anti-imperialism, and U. S. foreign and economic policy. Worker’s rights are discussed and how they affect prisoners who work for multi international corporations. Puerto Rico and its struggle to gain independence is discussed by Dylcia Pagan at length. The loss of the extended family for support of prisoners and their children is also spoken about at length.
Women Prisoners Dublin (2 of 2)
Date: 12/26/1995Call Number: PM 134Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: KPFAProgram: Freedom is a Constant Struggle (Freedom Is A Constant Struggle)Collection: Prisons - Women
Interview with Marilyn Buck, Dylcia Pagan, Ida Robinson, and Linda Evans, by Kiilu Nyasha, at the National Federal Prison of Dublin, California. Discussion about life in prison, being a political prisoner, being a mother in prison, current prison conditions, racism, white supremacy, anti-imperialism, and U. S. foreign and economic policy. Worker’s rights are discussed and how they affect prisoners who work for multi international corporations. Puerto Rico and its struggle to gain independence is discussed by Dylcia Pagan at length. The loss of the extended family for support of prisoners and their children is also spoken about at length.
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: 2/10/1973Call Number: RD 030Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln BergmanProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Roundup of news, much international, Native American, prisons, repression
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
Puerto Rico and Bicentennial
Date: 4/7/1976Call Number: FI 004Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Heber Dreher, Barbara LubinskiProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Alfredo Lopez of Puerto Rican Socialist Party on U.S. economic attacks and racist attacks on poor and people of color, especially in context of coming Bicentennial celebration, political and military defeats by national liberation struggles, call for national unity of progressive movements.
Puerto Rico and more on the Prison Struggle
Date: 8/25/1973Call Number: RP 080Format: 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
The first fifty minutes are devoted to a mix of poetry by Pancho Cruz read by Pedro Pietri with Salsa and political music of Puerto Rico.
Following is the Reflecciones News and the segment focusing on opinions of ex-prisoners about conditions in the prisons. After some announcements a brief section about the Farmworkers concludes the program
Viva Boricua
Date: 9/1/1973Call Number: RP 081Format: 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
Program is about Puerto Rico, the Independence Movimiento, emphasizing the the Puerto Rican Prisoners held since the early 1950’s. With Salsa, Musica Boricua, and poetry. Jose Bonet and friends are guests.