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Twentieth Anniversary of Moncada
Date: 7/28/1973Call Number: RP 077Format: Cass A & BProducers: Emiliano Echeverria, Nina Serrano, Elias Hruska - CortesProgram: Reflecciones de la Raza, Third World Music and Views Collection: Reflecciones de la Raza by Comunicacion Aztlan
Post-Revolution Cuban music in celebration of the Twentieth Anniversary of the attack on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba, July 26 1953. Includes interludes of Cuban poetry read by by authors and some by producers Nina Serrano and Elias Hruska Cortes Also Fidel giving the conclusion to the Second Declaracion de la Habana delivered 2/4/62.
Avotja poetry performance
Avotja reading poetry - public event on Puerto Rican political prisoners. Off-mic recording. Gloria Alonzo, mc.
Grito de Lares Commemoration Event
This event, commemorating 121 years after El Grito de Lares (the “birth” of the Puerto Rican nation), was organized by Casa Puerto Rico, el Movimiento de Liberacion Puertorriqueno, and the Free Puerto Rico Committee. In mixed Spanish and English. Gloria Alonzo and Eli Jordan are the masters of ceremony. Taped from on and off mic. Continued on LA049.
Break the Silence
Date: 9/28/1989Call Number: FI 018Format: Cass A & BProducers: Lincoln Bergman, KPFAProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Lincoln Bergman interviews Jewish women artists who are trying to make peace in the Middle East - Break the Silence Mural project. About their work and goals for peace, solidarity, and on their experiences. Includes music and Lincoln Bergman reading poems about Huey P. Newton.
Interview with Victor Hernandez Cruz, Miguel Gomez Pinero, Miguel Algarin
Call Number: LA 066Format: Cass A & BProducers: Nina SerranoProgram: tape recorded interviewCollection: Puerto Rico
Nina Serrano interviews . Miguel Pinero talks about his play, Short Eyes -- a “street-poetry play” created and about prison life, shown at Riverside and Lincoln Center in New York. The poetry is a “total experience” for the actors (former prisoners) .
Angolan music and poems/KPFA program on injustices of the US government
Date: 1/3/1976Call Number: AFR 084Format: Cass A & BProducers: KPFAProgram: Nothing Is More Precious Than... ProgramCollection: Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique
Poetry and revolutionary Angolan music.
Wounded Knee Massacre and countless atrocities against Native Americans.
My Life as Myself- Alice Walker
In this intimate meeting, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alice Walker takes you into her private world and summons the powerful spirits and events that have shaped her life. Topics include: fighting oppression through creativity; reconnection to the natural world; the secret of joy; work as prayer; much more. With eight original poems
The Lenny Bruce Originals (Vol. 1)-"The Sick Humor of Lenny Bruce" (F-7003)
A copy of the original recording of "The Sick Humor of Lenny Bruce" LP. Comprised of fourteen skits written by Lenny Bruce on topics covering religion, President Eisenhower and his Chief of Staff Sherman Adams, the Vietnam War, U.S. judicial system, obscenity, the tragedy of United Airline Flight 629, Adolf Hitler, as well as many other comtemporary issues. Also included are two interviews on Dr. Sholem Stein and Oscar Petterstein credited to Henry Jacob and Woodrow Leafer.
Kate Wolf Memorial Show
Date: 12/17/1986Call Number: KP 274Format: Cass A & BProducers: KPFAProgram: Accross the Great DivideCollection: General materials
Robbie Osman hosts a Kate Wolf memorial show with Wavy Gravy, Hugh Shacklet, and Nina Gerber one week after her death (December 10th 1986). Includes unpublished music and poetry.
June Jordan Poetry reading
June Jordan reads her poems about Black women's struggles, love, rape, and male authority. She dedicates one poem to Fannie Lou Hammer. The audience asks her questions about her work.
