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Mrs. De la Cruz Oral History (1) [Part 1] (EH)
Date: 3/8/1993Call Number: IH 019Format: Cass A & BCollection: The International Hotel struggle and the Filipino community
Informal oral history interview of Mrs. de la Cruz conducted by Estella Habal. During the interview, Mrs. de la Cruz recalls her family history and her experience living in the I-Hotel. Part 1 of the interview contains Mrs. de la Cruz recollecting her family history, which includes their experience during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in World War II. Mrs. de la Cruz also recalls how she became involved with the I-Hotel and the relations amongst the tenants and the volunteers or activists of the I-Hotel. One highlight of the interview is her recollection of the fire that broke out at the I-Hotel.
Luis Talamantez: Pelican Bay State Prison
Date: 11/18/1993Call Number: CV 016Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Chuy Varela interviews Luis Talamantez, a prison rights activist working against prison injustices. Throughout the interview Talamantez describes the torture and violence inflicted upon Black and Latino Pelican Bay prisoners. He highlights the lack of prisoners' rights and the brutality of prison guards. By participating in the Pelican Bay Information Project Talamantez hopes to put an end to these atrocities.
Rigoberta Menchu: Indigenous Struggle for Peace in Guatemala (part 1 of 2)
A program to honor Rigoberta Menchu and raise funds for the Menchu Foundation that helps the indigenous people in Guatemala and other parts of Latin America. Includes speeches and performances by various indigenious activists. Bilingual.
Press Conference on Human Rights - Rigoberta Menchu
Date: 11/19/1993Call Number: CV 029Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
In a press conference on November 19, 1993 Rigoberta Menchu, a human rights activist, speaks about creating a better future for indigenous peoples. While some indigenous groups have begun to regain their rights, others still have not. Menchu explains the struggles which confront indigenous peoples and ways to improve their conditions. Lastly, Menchu encourages civil society and citizens of the world to play a greater role in this struggle.
Prisoner Rights Union "Storming the Bastille"
Date: 7/15/1993Call Number: CV 039Format: Cass A & BProducers: KPFACollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Recording of the Prisoners Rights Union conference held at Fort Mason in San Francisco. Speakers include: Morrie Camhi, author/photographer of "Prison Experience"; Luis Talamantez, poet and founder of the Pelican Bay Prison Project; and Patrick Hooty Croy, a death row inmate.
Saul Landau Lecture
At La Pena Cultural Center about Bill Clinton's foreign policy.
AFL-CIO Convention
Speeches and interviews recorded at an AFL-CIO convention in San Francisco, California on October 6, 1993. Interviews in Spanish with Yolanda Navarro from Watsonville, CA, and Linda Chavez-Thompson from San Antonio, TX about NAFTA, plant closures, need for more democratic and stronger unions, labor violence in Mexican maquiladoras. Intermittent speeches in English about NAFTA, followed by speech and interview with Janet Reno discussing education, labor and community relations, child care, and immigration.
Voices On and Of Prisons in the U.S.
Date: 1/1/1993Call Number: PM 341Format: Cass A & BProducers: Undercurrents Radio, WMUACollection: Political Prisoner Periodicals
This tape is a series of interviews with [scholarly] activists and former prisoners discussing prisons in the United States. Dr Steve Whitman, from the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown and a top epidemiologist in Chicago, gives an interview titled "Overview on Race, Imprisonment and Control Unit Prisons," which provides a statistical and factual background for the following speakers. Ward Churchill discusses the American Indian Movement and its relationship with the U.S. government, specifically in the late 1960s involving Pine Ridge. Safiya Bukhari-Alston, former member of the Harlem Chapter of the Black Party, discusses political prisoners in the United States and the reasons for black people organized against an oppressive system/country. Akil Al-Jundi, former Attica prisoner, relates the events and conditions leading up to the 1971 Attica Prison riots. He emphasizes the racialized nature of relationships, job opportunities and authority that continued the oppression of black people within the prison system.
Police Accountability
Date: 4/16/1993Call Number: PM 343Format: Cass A & BProducers: KPFAProgram: BrainstormCollection: Political Prisoner Periodicals
Features Babara Attard, then senior investigator with San Francisco's Office of Citizen Complaints (OCC), Suzanne Pegas, co-founder of Berkeley's Copwatch, and Carmen Johnson, political activist and board member of the MLK Housing Cooperative in San Francisco. They discuss the question of "How to police the police", the source of racist police policies, and where accountability resides in the police structure. Jerome Skolnick, affiliate of UC Berkeley School of Law and author of "Above the Law: Police and the Excessive Use of Force" also joins the discussion. He discusses "siege mentality" of the police, the code of silence in police departments, and the need for cops to relate to their communities.
The Warrior For Gringostroika
Date: 11/5/1993Call Number: CV 065Format: Cass A & BProducers: Radio BilingueProgram: Noticiero LatinoCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Review and overview of the performance art work of Guillermo Gomez-Peña and the music of Jaime Lopez. Both segments are primarily in Spanish.
