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Nothing Is More Precious Than Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 9/28/1974Call Number: NI 040 R2Format: Reel 2Producers: Claude Marks, Nancy Barrett with Mark Schwartz, othersProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Rebroadcast of a portion of 9/28/1974 program on The Week of Concern, demanding no more aid to the Thieu regime in Vietnam and enforcement of the Paris peace agreement.
Remember Attica: Reconstruction, Reflection, Reaction Remember Attica: Reconstruction, Reflection, Reaction
Date: 11/5/1971Call Number: CD 860Format: CDProducers: Bruce Soloway, Paul FisherProgram: WBAICollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Part V of the “Remember Attica” series. Responses of clergy, attorneys, doctors, congressmen and the prisoner’s relatives in the weeks following the rebellion. Lawyers were admitted on 9/17/71. A week later the National Lawyers Guild gave a press conference outside the prison. They concluded that Rockefeller, and prison officials (Oswald, Mancusi and Vincent) provoked the attack by giving wrongful information to guards and troopers. On 9/17/71 BUILD, black community activists in Buffalo, went to Meyer Memorial Hospital where seriously wounded prisoners had been taken. BUILD’s executive director, Bill Gater demands that the administrative director of the hospital let him see the prisoners or give him information on their conditions. A list of prisoners and their medical conditions is read. The next day clergy and relatives are let in to see patients. Reverend Richard Ford, president of BUILD speaks about the conditions of the prisoners. Committees were formed to investigate the events at Attica. A group of New York clergymen and a congressional delegation group speak on Attica. Finally on 9/29 relatives are let into the prison to speak with prisoners. Interviews are conducted with families exiting prison.
Attica: Then and Now Attica: Then and Now
Publisher: Attica Committee to Free DacajeweiahYear: 1978Format: MonographCollection: Attica
Monograph focusing on the Attica Prison Rebellion, its causes, the aftermath and the campaign to free Dacajeweiah. Contents include: Introduction; Prisons: Who Goes and Why?; The Movement Grows; The Uprising; The Prosecution; Who is Dacajeweiah; What is Being Done; Epilogue.
We Are Attica: Interviews with Prisoners from Attica We Are Attica: Interviews with Prisoners from Attica
Publisher: Attica Defense CommitteeFormat: MonographCollection: Attica
Attica Rebellion: 30 years later Attica Rebellion: 30 years later
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Freedom Archives Productions
30 Years After the Attica Rebellion: A 29-minute radio documentary about the origins of the modern anti-prison movement BC Master for portion of Prisons on Fire CD September, 2001 marks the 30th anniversary of the Attica Rebellion in New York. This massive prison takeover by hundreds of inmates and the callous repression and murders by the state of New York are part of a unique moment in US history. Who were the Attica Brothers? Why did they seize control of the prison? What makes Attica important to the anti-prison movement today? Featuring historical materials from the Freedom Archives. Voices include: Frank 'Big Black' Smith, Attica Brother and prison activist L.D. Barkley, Attica Brother killed during the re-taking of the prison Elizabeth Fink, attorney for the Attica Brothers Michael Deutsch, attorney for the Attica Brothers Historical recordings in Attica prison during the rebellion and the bloody retaking of the prison Knowing what happened in the early 1970s prison movement is essential for youth, communities of color and progressives to effectively confront today's unprecedented prison growth. We bring you this history through the voices of the people who were there - taking young people back to a time filled with lessons for today and tomorrow.
Dragon Dragon
Publisher: Bay Area Research CollectiveYear: 1975Volume Number: No. 1 AugustFormat: PeriodicalCollection: The Dragon
Table of Contents: BARC's Statement on Dragon, NWLF Chronology, NWLF Communique: GM Bombing, Fuck-the-World-for-Profits: GM Leaflet, NWLF Communique: PG&E Skyline Blvd, NWLF Communique: PG&E San Jose, Second PG&E San Jose Communique, Critique by Orphans of Amerika, NWLF Response, NWLF Communiqe: CDC Bombing, NWLF Communique: PG&E Berkeley, NWLF Letter to the Barb, Response by BARC & Orphans, Red Guerrilla Family Chronology, RGF Letter to the Alternative Media
Dragon Dragon
Publisher: Bay Area Research CollectiveYear: 1976Volume Number: No. 8 AprilFormat: PeriodicalCollection: The Dragon
Table of Contents: Open Letter To the Movement: BARC, George Jackson Brigade, A Comrade on the Weather Underground, New World Liberation Front, Red Guerrilla Family, Black Liberation Army, Political Fugitives Statement, Graham and Allen Sentenced to Death, California Institute for Women