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Interview with Anthony Andoh Interview with Anthony Andoh
Date: 9/26/1987Call Number: SS 056AFormat: Cass AProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interview with Anthony Andoh on his book "Science of Romance of Selected Herbs Used in Medicine and Religious Ceremony."
Interview with Lady J Interview with Lady J
Call Number: SS 097AFormat: Cass AProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interview with Lady J about Cuba and drugs.
Speech by Jose Ponce, 1st Secretary of the Cuban Interest Section Speech by Jose Ponce, 1st Secretary of the Cuban Interest Section
Date: 10/21/1994Call Number: JG/ 089AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Jose Ponce, 1st Secretary of the Cuban Interest Section in the U.S. (the only formal forum of Cuba/U.S. diplomatic contact) speaks at Emory University, GA, October 5, 1994. Ponce summarizes the history of Cuba following the Spanish-American War. He glorifies the achievements of the Cuban communist system: full literacy, power, free education, universal healthcare, antiracism efforts, advances for women, Cuban aide to needy foreign countries. He decries U.S. attempts to sabotage Cuba, specifically the trade embargo which has cost $40 billion dollars, restrictions on remittances, travel bans, and assassination attempts. He argues that the embargo and subsequent loss of infrastructure gave Cuba with no other choice but to ally itself with COMECON and copy the Soviet model. He explains how the 1989 USSR collapse and subsequent loss of 85% of its national trade greatly diminished the Cuban standard of living. He discounts the Cuban pro-democracy protests because he argues Cuba is already a democracy with a rich grassroots political life and elected parliament, just not a multiparty system. He discusses how Cuba is currently debating the first tax in its post-revolutionary history to help revive the declining economic infrastructure.
Frente inserts/Elsa Knight Thompson interview Frente inserts/Elsa Knight Thompson interview
Date: 2/8/1972Call Number: KP 240AFormat: Cass AProducers: Lincoln BergmanCollection: General materials
Four inserts used by Lincoln Bergman in presentation to Front of Cultural Workers conference in San Francisco. Includes two recordings of Radio Rebelde, one of Radio Havana, and one of Voice of Vietnam. Two songs of Paul Robeson.
The Voice of Vietnam The Voice of Vietnam
Date: 1/8/1976Call Number: KP 278AFormat: Cass AProgram: Voice of VietnamCollection: Vietnam
The Voice of Vietnam exposes the corrupt and violent impact of American involvement in the Vietnam War. Vietnamization, a form of neocolonialism, and Nixon's disregard for the Paris Agreement aggravated US-Vietnamese relations. As the Vietnamese people struggled to reunify their homeland after the war, Cuba emerged as an ally in this struggle.
Nothing Is More Precious Than - Moncada Memorial Nothing Is More Precious Than - Moncada Memorial
Date: 7/26/1974Call Number: NI 104AFormat: Cass AProducers: Claude Marks, Lincoln Bergman, Nancy Barrett, Gayle MarkowProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Moncada memorial 1974 program.
Cuba: Andres Gomez Cuba: Andres Gomez
Date: 6/11/1993Call Number: CV 083AFormat: Cass ACollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Chuy Varela interviews Andres Gomez. coordinator for the Antonio Maceo Brigade, the leftist progressive Cuban organization out of Miami. Topics include the contemporary state of US-Cuban relations, right wing Cuban Americans, and the Cuban economy's troubles.
Dr. Carlos Tablada Interview Dr. Carlos Tablada Interview
Date: 4/21/1990Call Number: CV 103AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Chuy Varela interviews Dr. Carlos Tablada, the Cuban economist and author, about the state of Cuba following the breakdown of the Soviet Union. Tablada responds to charges and assumptions common in North America about the freedom and success of the Cuban revolution. Tablada highlights the economic growth in techonological, industrial and health sectors as successes of the revolution and dismisses Cuban-American propaganda from Miami. Interview in Spanish only, Side B is music section of the show.
Interview with Miguel Angel Garcia Interview with Miguel Angel Garcia
Date: 6/14/1995Call Number: CV 146AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
About the popularity and history of Afro-Cuban music. Interview in Spanish.
Mexican Orphanage / Orestes Vilato Mexican Orphanage / Orestes Vilato
Date: 9/7/1993Call Number: CV 202AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Workers from an orphanage in Mexico talk about their work and the children. An interview with timbales player Orestes Vilato about his history. Examples of his music are intersperced.