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![Samouri Marksman on African and Caribbean People](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/16/1985Call Number: AFR 012Format: Cass A & BProgram: African Activists in AmericaCollection: Africa- General Resources
Michael Warren, chairman of African Activists in America, speaks about Maurice Bishop, and introduces Samouri Marksman. Marksman speaks about struggles of African people around the world; how Europeans control Latin American economies, cultures, and societies, and the struggle for Latin American independence; the struggle to alter the slave relationship with Europeans in the Caribbean and Africa; criticizes the IMF (International Monetary Fund) ; and American politics in South Africa and the struggle against Apartheid.
![Revolutionary Dissident](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Interview with Enrique, a Cuban professor and translator of Portuguese and French. Enrique talks about his support for the revolution in spite of his seemingly contradictory interests in religion, British radio, and books of ill repute. Interview includes discussions about race in Cuba, Enrique's time in the military and agronomy school, which resulted in a six-month jailing.
![Interview with Cuban double agent, "Annie" who infiltrated CIA](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Interview of "Annie" about her espionage activities in the United States and the information that she learned about from the CIA. Information about the Cuban economy, and possible counterrevolutionary attacks on the island - biological warfare in the form of dengue fever. Annie discusses her role as a mother, spy, Cuban patriot, and wife. Interview is followed by radio commentary about the life and death of Tamara "Tania" Bunke.
![Fidel Castro on the Embassy Scandal of 1990](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 7/26/1990Call Number: CV 150Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
A speech given by Fidel Castro during the Embassy Scandal of 1990 in which a total of about 50 cubans sought political asylum in foreign embassies in Havana, Cuba. By the 26 of July 1990, the date of the speech, groups of cubans had, some forcefully and others non-violently, entered the Czech, Italian, Swiss and Spanish embassies seeking for asylum. In this speech Fidel explains the crisis and denounces the actions of these foreign nations, going as far as to end political cooperation with Spain. Important themes are Human Rights, anti-imperialism and political asylum.
![Immigrant Rights, A Civil Right Issue For the 1990's - Part 5](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 10/28/1990Call Number: CV 266Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Discussion of the HIV tests imposed on immigrants from Mexico and Central America at border detention centers. Forum on refugee communities from Guatemala and Haiti. Also discussion of the Cuban-Haitian Adjustment Act and the Motley Bill which impacts on refugees from Guatemala. Raids on day laborers are criticized.
![Oye Latino!](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: CV 282Format: Cass A & BProducers: MNF 88.5 FMCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Wrangler Jeans upsets many Puerto Ricans when they refer to the island as Indians and Creoles. The Broadway show the Cape Man focused on the life of Salvador Argon, a 16 year old Puerto Rican youth who became the youngest person sentenced death. The show had a musical score that included Ruben Blades and Marc Anthony. The history of the musicians Arsenio Rodriguez, and Javier Solis. The visit of Pope John Paul to Cuba, and the Pope’s denunciation of the US embargo on the nation. Dr. Kenya Jimenez of UC Berkley, discusses the book The Buried Mirror by Carlos Fuentes, and details the life of Juana Ibanez de la Cruz. The music of Cuban musician Ernesto Lecuona.
![Lincoln Bergman reports from Havana, Cuba](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Three programs.
Side A
1. Interviews with the 7th contingent of the Venceremos Brigade, who are visiting Cuba in a solidarity trip.
2. Report about Prime Minister Pham Van Dong’s visit to Cuba. Includes translated excerpts from speeches by Van Dong and Fidel Castro.
Side B
3. Report about the history of the Peronist movement in Argentina in the 1960s.
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