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Chicago Conspiracy Trial
Date: 12/13/1973Call Number: KP 073Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Andy TruskierCollection: Chicago Conspiracy Trial
Documentary about the Chicago eight conspiracy trial, includes amazing actual courtroom recordings including the exchange between prosecutors, Judge Hoffman and Black Panther Bobby Seale - resulting in Hoffman having Seale bound and gagged, Bobby Seale tring to speak while bound and gagged, the outrage expressed by Attorney William Kunstler in Court at Bobby Seale's treatment and the refusal of the court to allow Ralph Abernathy to testify. Other interviews include Attorney Leonard Weinglass and defendant Tom Hayden.
Geronimo interview
Former Black Panther and Political Prisoner Geronimo Pratt discusses his innocence, abuses endured during his 17 years in prison, time as a member of the Black liberation movement in the 60s, his service in Vietnam, his family, the changing character of young inmates, the government's use of psychological warfare, the many years he spent in solitary confinement in various prisons, and why he considers himself a political prisoner.
Nictche Tanifa on Sundiata Acoli
Call Number: JG/ 060AFormat: Cass AProducers: Judy GerberProgram: Community ForumCollection: Sundiata Acoli
Judy Gerber interviews Nictche Tanifa of the Acoli Freedom Campain. Tanifa describes Sundiata Acoli’s involvement with the New York Black Panther party, his movement from community organizer to underground fighter, the shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike and his subsequent arrest and imprisonment. Tanifa also discusses the harsh sentences used against political activists and the treatment of political prisoner and prisoners of war on the inside.
Female Political Prisoners - series of interviews
Call Number: JG/ 070Format: CassetteProducers: Judy Gerber, Lisa RudmanProgram: KPFACollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
This is a collection of different interviews and recordings of female political prisoners from around the world. Lisa Rudman collages them together to show the injustice towards political prisoners and to highlight some of the many tactics used by the US government and prison system to get information out of political prisoners.
Rudman defines political prisoners and interviews Laura Whitehorn and Linda Evans and speaks about their cases and the circumstances leading to their imprisonment.
The other political prisoners interviewed on the tape are: Dora Garcia, active in the national liberation struggles in the US colony of Puerto Rico; Mercedes Algado, a refugee active in the FSLM and FDR in El Salvador; Elizabeth Sebego, active in the Pan African Congress; Assata Shakur, active with the Black Panthers and now a refugee in Cuba; a Filipina imprisoned for her work with the church.
Assata Shakur: clips from her 1980 address to the people after her escape from prison
This program is an edited version of her address to the people after she escaped. She begins the recording by stating that she loves everyone and encourages everyone to continue to struggle for our liberation. Assata talks about how Black people are constantly under attack by the poor school system, infiltration of drugs, welfare system, police state, etc. She talks about the necessity for a Black Nation and how Black women must play a key role in the struggle for liberation. She says that they are the most closely related to the struggle because of their position in White American society. Assata talks about the direction of the US government and how it is continually becoming more racist and fascist; how the government sees Black peoples as expendable and just "a thorn in their side."
Assata Shakur: clips from her 1980 address to the people after her escape from prison
Same as PM 227. This program is an edited version of her address to the people after she escaped. She begins the recording by stating that she loves everyone and encourages everyone to continue to struggle for our liberation. Assata talks about how Black people are constantly under attack by the poor school system, infiltration of drugs, welfare system, police state, etc. She talks about the necessity for a Black Nation and how Black women must play a key role in the struggle for liberation. She says that they are the most closely related to the struggle because of their position in White American society. Assata talks about the direction of the US government and how it is continually becoming more racist and fascist; how the government sees Black peoples as expendable and just "a thorn in their side."
Assata Shakur: clips from her 1980 address to the people after her escape from prison
Same as PM227
This program is an edited version of her address to the people after she escaped. She begins the recording by stating that she loves everyone and encourages everyone to continue to struggle for our liberation. Assata talks about how Black people are constantly under attack by the poor school system, infiltration of drugs, welfare system, police state, etc. She talks about the necessity for a Black Nation and how Black women must play a key role in the struggle for liberation. She says that they are the most closely related to the struggle because of their position in White American society. Assata talks about the direction of the US government and how it is continually becoming more racist and fascist; how the government sees Black peoples as expendable and just "a thorn in their side." .
Kiilu Nyasha reads “In Memory of Kawasi Balagoon.” Sara Menefee reads “Moon Bereft”
Date: 4/24/2004Call Number: WP 020Format: CDCollection: Materials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies"
Former Black Panter Kiilu Nyasha reads “In Memory of Kawasi Balagoon.”
Homeless advocate and poet, Sara Menefee reads “Moon Bereft” by Marilyn Buck.
Kiilu Nyasha speaks of visiting and writing Marilyn Buck.
Chicago Conspiracy Trial
Date: 12/13/1973Call Number: CD 553Format: CDProducers: Claude Marks, Andy TruskierCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Documentary about the Chicago eight conspiracy trial, includes amazing actual courtroom recordings including the exchange between prosecutors, Judge Hoffman and Black Panther Bobby Seale - resulting in Hoffman having Seale bound and gagged, Bobby Seale tring to speak while bound and gagged, the outrage expressed by Attorney William Kunstler in Court at Bobby Seale's treatment and the refusal of the court to allow Ralph Abernathy to testify. Other interviews include Attorney Leonard Weinglass and defendant Tom Hayden.
Geronimo interview
Former Black Panther and Political Prisoner Geronimo Pratt discusses his innocence, abuses endured during his 17 years in prison, time as a member of the Black liberation movement in the 60s, his service in Vietnam, his family, the changing character of young inmates, the government's use of psychological warfare, the many years he spent in solitary confinement in various prisons, and why he considers himself a political prisoner.
