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Interviews with Herman Bell

Date: 9/16/1974Call Number: PM 162Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: KPFACollection: Herman Bell

Compilation of interview clips with Herman Bell. Among the topics discussed are Bell’s bank robbery conviction in San Francisco, the history of black rebellions in America, and methods of encouraging people to organize and participate in revolutionary change. There are frequent references to the Black Liberation Army, Black Liberation Army, SLA, Symbionese Liberation Army, and the Weather Underground. Prison conditions and police harassment are also brought up.

Interview with Herman Bell

Date: 6/21/1974Call Number: CD 538Format: CDProducers: Claude MarksProgram: KPFACollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes

Black Panther Herman Bell talks openly about the criminal charges filed against him in New York and San Francisco. The discussion also ranges from examples of police corruption and the relationship between the police and the black community, to the need for “people’s” media outlets to compete with the ruling class monopoly on information dissemination. Later in the tape Bell talks of the possibility of bringing the case of Human Rights abuses in the U.S. to the attention of the United Nations. And he ends with his analysis of what the differences are between a “real” revolutionary and a superficial one.

Interviews with Herman Bell

Date: 9/16/1974Call Number: CD 542Format: CDProducers: KPFACollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes

Interview done by Claude Marks with Black Liberation Army member Herman Bell. Bell discusses the need for organizing within the black community and the means of strengthening itself through resistance and struggle. The SLA and Black Liberation Army are discussed extensively. 6/13/1974 Compilation of interview clips with Herman Bell. Among the topics discussed are Bell’s bank robbery conviction in San Francisco, the history of black rebellions in America, and methods of encouraging people to organize and participate in revolutionary change. There are frequent references to the Black Liberation Army (BLA), Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), and the Weather Underground. Prison conditions and police harassment are also discussed. 9/16/1974 & 9/25/1974

Arm the Spirit

Publisher: Haight - Ashbury Arts WorkshopYear: 1980Volume Number: No. 6 February-AprilFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Newspapers

Articles include: Black Liberation Movement Re-emerging, Assata is Free, Puerto Rican POW Murdered, Free Geronimo and All Political Prisoners Expose COINTELPRO, Statement of Support for the Iranian People, Peltier Convicted, On Incarcerated Mothers, Fleeta Drumgo Murdered, Open Letter from Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, Pontiac Update, Chol Soo Lee Must be Free, Letter from Angola, LA., Handsoff Iran!, Support the Napanoch Brothers!, Dialectical Criticism of Slave Prisoner Mentality

Arm the Spirit

Publisher: Haight - Ashbury Arts WorkshopYear: 1981Volume Number: No. 10 December-JanuaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Newspapers

Articles include: Message from Assata Shakur, Mockery of Justice in Pontiac Death Penalty, Free Leonard Peltier, Smash the Death Penalty, Women Prisoners Protest Harassment, Work Stoppage at Marion, Black prisoners call for unity, Geronimo Pratt.

Moncada Library Newsletter

Author: Moncada LibraryPublisher: May 19th Communist OrganizationDate: 7/1981Volume Number: JulyFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Moncada Library

Newsletter with articles about establishing a New Afrikan Freedom Fighters Day on July 18th, police aggression and SCAN activites, Assata Shakur, SWAPO, Puerto Rican POWs, book review for "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa", Young People's Program's mural project, and an editorial from The New Afrikan.

Letter in support of Afrikan Freedom Fighters Day

Author: The Moncada LibraryPublisher: May 19th Communist OrganizationDate: 6/26/1981Volume Number: 26-JunFormat: CorrespondenceCollection: Moncada Library

Letter calling on supportors to mobilize for the New Afrikan Freedom Fighters Day and in particular Assata Shakur.