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Roots of Resistance
Date: 1/1/2002Call Number: CD 008Format: CDProducers: Freedom archivesCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Audio Files from Roots of Resistance CD
Mumia Abu Jamal message to Celebrate the Children of Resistance
Date: 4/29/2000Call Number: CD 043Format: CDProducers: Claude MarksCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Mumia Abu Jamal’s statement to “Celebrate the Children of Resistance” Berkeley Community Theater, April 29, 2000.
Mumia Abu Jamal message to Celebrate the Children of Resistance
Date: 4/29/2000Call Number: CD 044Format: CDProducers: Claude MarksCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Mumia Abu Jamal’s statement to “Celebrate the Children of Resistance” Berkeley Community Theater, April 29, 2000.
Howard Zinn: Resistance and the Role of Artists
Date: 2/6/2004Call Number: CD 305Format: CDProducers: Alternative RadioProgram: ZINH32Collection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Artists have always been on the cutting edge of society. They are the innovators as well as the seers. Go back to Aeschylus, the great 5th century BC Greek playwright who wrote "The Persians." This classic drama was a warning to the Greeks to not be consumed by the same arrogance that was undoing of the Persians. Power thinks it's infallible and eternal. Artists puncture holes in these illusions. Today, writers, musicians, poets, filmmakers, and actors like Michael Franti, Alice Walker, Danny Glover, Radiohead, Michael Moore, Susan Sarandon, Bonnie Raitt and many others challenge the political orthodoxy. For daring to speak out they incur the wrath and scorn of the super patriots that dominate the airwaves.
Manifesto of the Panther 21
Date: 3/1/1970Call Number: CD 408Format: CDProducers: Committee to Defend Panther 21, Radio Free PeopleProgram: Seize the Time Series IICollection: Panther 21
An open letter to Judge John Murtaugh by Michael Cetewayo Tabor in response to Murtaugh’s request of the Panther 21 to obey his rules and keep complete silence during their trail in his courtroom. This manifesto response, spoken in the courtroom, gives a history of America since colonialism until present day 1970 through the African-American experience. Topics mentioned are: colonialism, slavery, the constitution, Amendments 13,14,15, the Reconstruction Era, Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board, public segregation, COINTELPRO. Key people mentioned: NYC District Attorney Frank Hogan, Judge Charles Marks, Black Panthers Joan Mury and Lee Barry. Manifesto ends with each Panther 21 stating their name.
Paul Cook, Ruchell Magee, And Justice In America
Date: 6/4/1971Call Number: CD 440Format: CDProducers: Carolyn CravenCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Paul Cook is interviewed by Carolyn Craven. Cook is a former cellmate of Ruchell Magee, who is at the time of the interview on trial with Angela Davis in connection with the escape attempt and shootout at the Marin Civic Center in August, 1970. Cook discusses his relationship with Ruchell Magee and his role as a member of his Defense Committee. He begins the interview by describing his being approached by police agents wanting him to testify against Ruchell Magee under threat on June 3, 1971. Topics addressed include the difficulty of organizing Magee’s defense, and the frustration working within the legal system. The growth of the California Prison Industry is analyzed, as are the conditions of prison life and their impact on prisoners’ families . He discusses George and Jonathan Jackson, Larry West and Ruchell Magee.
2:10 …While they were considering bail for Angela I was there 'cause I didn't want them to forget about Ruchell.
42:50 & 49:10 Jonathan and George Jackson
Malcolm X: Words from the Frontlines - Exerpts From the Great Speeches
"We Want Complete Separation" (13:33)
"You Got What's Know as 'White's Disease'" (12:20)
"Keep That White Man's Claws off Our Women" (5:25)
"There's No Such Thing as a Non-Violent Revolution" (4:26)
"I'm a Field Negro" (8:37)
"... Stop Singin' and Start Swingin" (7:42)
"... By Any Means Necessary" (14:03)
"You Can't Hate the Roots of a Tree and Not Hate the Tree" (5:55)
[Untitled] (:40)
American Freedom - Human Rights v. USA Patriot Act
Date: 1/1/2006Call Number: CD 493Format: CDProducers: Human Rights Research FundCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Founded in 2000 by two activist attorneys, Kathleen Cleaver and Natsu Saito, the Human Rights Research Fund (HRRF) works to document and raise awareness of the ways governmental agencies within the United States have engaged in violating human rights when faced with opposition to economic injustice, racial discrimination, and military policies, and also works to assist folks imprisoned or punished for such opposition. This two disc contains the contributions of an HRRF sponsored forum to highlight human rights violations allowed by legal measures taken in support of the "war on terrorism." Participants include Cleaver, Saito, Van Jones, former political prisoner Susan Rosenberg, George Katsiaficas, and activist attorneys and law professors. Vital,and engaging.
The Attica Rebellion
Date: 9/10/2006Call Number: CD 516Format: CDProducers: National Radio ProjectProgram: Making ContactCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
September 9-13th, 2006 marks the 35th anniversary of the Attica Rebellion, a massive prison rebellion, massacre and cover-up in New York. The story of Attica is one of the most brutal and heroic chapters in United States history. After a five-day occupation, 45 people were killed, 150 were shot and hundreds were tortured. As one slogan from 1971 read, "Attica is all of us."
Currently, with more than 2 million people imprisoned in the U.S., the story of Attica needs to be told, and the origins of the current anti-prison movement discussed. On this edition, we present a documentary produced by the Freedom Archives.
Featuring:
Frank 'Big Black' Smith, Attica Brother and prison activist; L.D. Barkley, Attica Brother killed during the re-taking of the prison; Elizabeth Fink, attorney for the Attica Brothers; Michael Deutsch, attorney for the Attica Brothers; Historical recordings in Attica prison of guards and prisoners during the rebellion and the bloody retaking of the prison.
No to Torture - 1
Date: 12/8/2005Call Number: CD 531Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Former Panthers speak at a TransAfrica press conference about current grand jury repression against former Black activists.
