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![Puerto Rico: Oscar Collazo (1 of 3)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Oscar Collazo's reaction to release of Andres Figueroa Cordero. Discusses his own political principles and those of the Nationalist Party and why he refuses parole. Discusses Blair House Action, 1950. Describes own education, Puerto Rico, move to New York, what brought him to Nationalist Party, racial dynamics in Harlem, (lack of) support for Nationalists from US progressive/leftist parties. Describes his case briefly, interaction with other Puerto Rican political prisoners, prison life, and a prison strike.
![Avotja poetry performance](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Avotja reading poetry - public event on Puerto Rican political prisoners. Off-mic recording. Gloria Alonzo, mc.
![Safiya Bukhari Interview with Albert Nuh Washington](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 2/24/2000Call Number: PM 168Format: Cass A & BProducers: Sally O’Brien, Safiya BukhariProgram: Where We LiveCollection: Political Prisoners- General Info
Interview for WBAI program ‘Where we Live’ - Safiya Bukhari with Albert Nuh Washington, shortly before his death in prison.
![Raphael Cancel Miranda speaking at Hunter College December 8, 1990](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Raphael Cancel Miranda speaking at Hunter College December 8, 1990
![Activism inside and outside of prison](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 2/7/1992Call Number: PM 183Format: Cass A & BProducers: The Prison Radio ProjectProgram: You can’t jail the spiritCollection: Political Prisoner Periodicals
Last part of a 13 series program on prisons in the United States. The series explores the lives and experiences of political prisoners, POWs, and incarcerated activists. Prisons today, it argues, are the government’s response to societal problems such as unemployment, poverty, homelessness, and immigration.
In this tape in particular Jude Tilman talks to different activists: Thelma Clark, Judy Greenspan, Muhjah Shakir, and Michael Snedecker.
![Ruben Scott Interview](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
In this interview Scott discusses the circumstances of his arrest. Sep. 3rd, Scott was detained and beaten, charged with two counts of assault. Originally Scott was stopped for indecent exposure but never charged. Scott was charged with assault after defending himself from an unidentified officer whom had cocked his gun in Scotts face. Bail was set at $5000 and he was out on bond the next day. 8/25 Scoot was detained after being tailed since 7/3. Scott was arrested again, where he and a couple others were repeatedly beaten and questioned about a bank robbery as well as the where about of others.
![Grito de Lares Commemoration Event](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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.
![Puerto Rican Politcal Prisoners and Prisoners of War](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/10/1992Call Number: LA 050Format: Cass A & BProducers: Noelle Hanrahan (in assoc. with Gloria Alonzo), Jane Segal, J. Mullins, Bo (Rita D.) BrownProgram: You Can’t Jail the Spirit: Political Prisoners in the USCollection: Puerto Rico
Part of a thirteen part series (You Can’t Jail the Spirit). Interviews with PR PPs/POWs over prison phones and Puerto Rican Independentista activists and academics. Intro by Gloria Alonzo, Interviews by Avotcha. Recorded voices of Felix Mata, then Umberto Pagan (recorded at 1989 Grito de Lares Event in San Francisco). Interviews with Rafael Cancel Miranda, Dylcia Pagan (POW talking from prison), Jose Lopez (re: MLN today), Adolfo Matos (POW talking from Lompock Penintentiary). Music. Interview with Margarita Mengal (professor, talking on Ofensive ‘92). (duplicated on LA 070)
![Interview with Herman Bell](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Interview with Herman Bell by Claude Marks about the Black Liberation Movement, his refections on political realities for Black communities and the politics of liberation and resistance; his capture in New Orleans; the torture of Black Liberation Army members by the police; BLA members murdered by police in New York; and his vision for the future.
![Interview with Herman Bell](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Interviews with Herman Bell by Claude Marks. The first conducted on September 16, 1974, the day of his conviction of a San Francisco bank robbery and the second September 25, 1974. “just came from the courtroom..if I had had my hopes up high for justice or fair play, I would have been disappointed. No great surprise. The whole charade. I was very relaxed and prepared for it. My position and always will be...look for nothing from these people...”
Herman Bell speaks to the issue of prison and how he will continue to struggle ‘I dare to struggle and I dare to win.”
Herman Bell talks about his conviction on three felony charges stemming from a Bank of America robbery in San Francisco. The New York Five case is discussed. Discusses means of struggle - sword/pen, reflects on history and future goals.