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Historical Evolution of the Black Power Movement - Kwame Toure
Historical Evolution of the Black Power Movement - Kwame Toure
Speech by Julio Rosado about Puerto Rican Independence Movement
Former political prisoner and grand jury resistor Julio Rosado speaks on the status issue in Puerto Rico and calls for the decolonization and self-determination of the island. Set against the changing agenda of the government of the United States towards Puerto Rico, Rosado stresses the need for a plebiscite as opposed to a referendum and explains the difference between the two processes. The incentive for the US's proposal of a referendum, he argues, is to make Puerto Rico into a market for the assembly and distribution of American goods.
Rosado traces the history of US/ Puerto Rico relations from the late nineteenth century to the present and discusses the different positions of the three main electoral parties in the island: The New Progressive Party (pro-statehood), The Independence Party, and the Popular Democratic Party. The Independence Movement of which Rosado has been part for several years asks for the removal of all the instrumentations of power (such as the armed forces and the federal courts of the United States) that have served to exercise colonial control in Puerto Rico.
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.
Puerto Rican Plebiscite
Date: 8/28/1989Call Number: LA 055Format: Cass A & BProducers: Gloria AlonzoProgram: public talkCollection: Puerto Rico
Jose Lopez gives public talk on the Plebiscite and Puerto Rican status as a Free Associated State. Welcome by Gloria Alonzo. Lisa Roth talks about Huey P. Newton’s funeral and his legacy. Lopez talks about Pedro Albizu Campus’ legal trial and it’s legacy. He talks about the plebicscite as a form of consulting the people you conquer. Talks about Puerto Rican Prisoners of War and Political Prisoners. question & answer.
Puerto Rican Plebscite Seminar -Tape 1 of 3
Date: 6/30/1989Call Number: LA 060Format: Cass A & BProgram: recorded conferenceCollection: Puerto Rico
Tape 1 of 3. In Spanish. Off-mic reording of a day-long seminar at the University of Puerto Rico on the Puerto Rican Plebiscite and Independence. Carlos Gallisa starts in the middle of a sentence, talks for 15 min. Jose Lopez talks for 15 minutes. 15 Minutes blank. Juan Mari Bras starts in middle of a sentence, talks for 20 minutes. Carlos Quisos talks for 20 min, then cuts off to blank for 5min.
Puerto Rican Plebscite Seminar -Tape 2 of 3
Date: 6/30/1989Call Number: LA 061Format: Cass A & BProgram: recorded conferenceCollection: Puerto Rico
Tape 2 of 3. In Spanish. Off-mic reording of a day-long seminar at the University of Puerto Rico on the Puerto Rican Plebiscite and Independence. Carlos Quisos continues to talk. Then a number of other men speak. One woman speaks on side B -- Milsa Medina.
Conversation with Emil De Guzman (EH)
Date: 5/2/1989Call Number: IH 021Format: Cass A & BCollection: The International Hotel struggle and the Filipino community
Estella Habal and Emil de Guzman discuss politics and social dynamics of activism around the I-Hotel. [D]e Guzman explains how he first got involved through a sociology community fieldwork class (SF State '69). In order to assist the struggle, his class would go to work at the I-Hotel every day of the semester. Bringing the Asian American community together, it fostering a deep sense of political identity. With few Filipino Americans involved in the struggle, de Guzman makes a connection to class background. Unlike the Chinese, Filipinos didn't have as much community resources to fund community events. There were also generational gaps within the Filipino community between first, second, and third "waves". Emil explains the working relationship between the young students and elder manongs. In result, the media falsely assumed that the young activists were manipulating the old. Finally he and Estella explore various political aspects that divided the movement and the support alliances that were formed from it.
Jeanette Lazan Interview [part 1] (EH)
Date: 5/2/1989Call Number: IH 022Format: Cass A & BCollection: The International Hotel struggle and the Filipino community
Estella Habal interviews Jeanette Lazam on her background, development as an activist, and involvement with the I-Hotel. Once living in Manhattan, she experienced living in a predominantly Black and Puerto Rican neighborhood. Growing up as a product of the civil rights movement, she developed her social consciousness as a person of color and gained a antiracist framework. It wasn't until she moved to California she began to identify proudly as Filipino. She learned in college that there was more to being Asian than just food and dance. They discussed the generation gap of political awareness. While the third generation was more working class, greater economic hardships surpassed the second. Consequently, the third generation tended to have a greater class-consciousness, which tended to aspire towards assimilation and economic mobility. In result of the I-hotel's history and struggle, generations were brought together, even though there were language barriers. As Jeanette worked with the UFA, she provided social services and companionship to the tenants.
Bad News Bearers Part 1
Date: 2/5/1989Call Number: KP 244Format: Cass A & BProgram: Bad News BearersCollection: General materials
In part 1 or 2, five journalists present their views on politics and the media during the Reagan years and first month of GHW Bush's presidency. Topics and comments include the emanate end of the Cold War, the conflict in Nicaragua, the manipulation of the media by the Reagan administration through PR rather than policy, the end of the Red Scare tactic in journalism and politics, and the "sameness" of both the news reported and those reporting it.
