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The Motherload with Ricardo Romero and Lolita Lebron
Date: 5/6/1978Call Number: PM 142Format: CassetteProducers: Joan Townsend, Judy Gerber, Lori SimsProgram: The MotherloadCollection: Puerto Rico
A music-filled interview with Ricardo Romero and Puerto Rican Nationalist Lolita Lebron. A commemoration to to Nationalist prisoners and an account of the isolation of prison and the torturous living conditions therein.
Who’s Who in Asia America: The I-Hotel Tenants (EH)
Date: 8/13/1978Call Number: IH 005Format: CassetteProducers: KFRCProgram: Who’s Who in Asia AmericaCollection: The International Hotel struggle and the Filipino community
Edited radio retrospective of the 1977 International Hotel Eviction in San Francisco. Three former tenants, Fred De la Cruz, Mary Lai, and Mr. Yip reflect on their eviction night experiences and speak of their continuing affordable housing struggle, now in its 10th year. Ends with a male, accompanied by music, reading a poem about the I-Hotel Eviction.
Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) Press Statement & Conference
Leslie Mullin and Judith Bissell, as part of the LA Five arrested for conspiracy to bomb the offices of Senator John Briggs, give a telephone interview from prison. They describe D.A. Jorgenson's strategy of "railroading" the trial date leaving them little time to prepare a defense. They talk of the government's fear of the exposure of FBI misconduct and COINTELPRO during the trial, and the inadequacy of prison law research facilities for women prisoners as compared to those in the men's system.
PFOC press conference calling attention to the LA Five case and point to the similarities of illegal government tactics used against other anti-imperialist groups.
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