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Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 6/14/1975Call Number: NI 072Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude Marks, Nancy Barrett, Mark ScwartzProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Most of program devoted to the assassination in San Francisco of United Prisoners Union leader Popeye Jackson and a supporter Sally Voye, with a memorial rally and exchange of commentary from clandestine organizations. Includes report on wounding of Ruseell Means, conviction of Rusell Little and Joe Remiro, and San Quentin 6 case.
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage
Call Number: C 10 132Collection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, daughter of a landless farmer and half-Indian mother. Her paternal grandfather, a white settler, farmer, and veterinarian, had been a labor activist and Socialist in Oklahoma with the Industrial Workers of the World in the first two decades of the twentieth century. The stories of her grandfather inspired her to lifelong social justice activism.
From 1967 to 1972, she was a full time activist living in various parts of the United States, traveling to Europe, Mexico, and Cuba.
In 1974, she became active in the American Indian Movement (AIM) and the International Indian Treaty Council, beginning a lifelong commitment to international human rights.