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You can always type what you’re looking for into the search bar. Certain searches may generate hundreds of results, so sometimes it will help to use quotation marks to help narrow down your results. For instance, searching for the phrase Black Liberation will generate all of our holdings that contain the words Black and Liberation, while searching for “Black Liberation” (in quotation marks) will only generate our records that have those two words next to each other.
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Razavi The Revolutionary Razavi The Revolutionary
Date: 1/1/1968Call Number: CE 384Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Collin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Colin Edwards interviews Jahangit “Haj” Razavi, who is charged with being connected to activists conspiring to plant bombs in the Bay Area. Haj worked with grassroots street movements in Berkeley that challenged the power structure within the US, and was arrested for assaulting a police officer and possession of drugs. He was violently assaulted by the police. He was re-arrested and charged with being a fugitive while traveling. Before trial newspapers falsely connected him to a bomb plot . Haj asserts that his arrest is part of a government strategy to criminalize activists as “extremists,” particularly the Black Panther Party. In Berkeley Haj formed the Tricontinental Student Committee with other foreign students in order to encourage student activism among foreign students in this country and to give full support and assistance to liberation struggles in the third world and to the National Liberation Front of Vietnam. He also helped form the Iranian Student Association.
The Gulf Solidarity The Gulf Solidarity
Publisher: Support Committee for the Liberation Movement in the GulfYear: 1974Volume Number: Vol. 2-3 FebruaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Revolutionary Movements and History
Contents include: The Nixon Doctrine in Action- The $hah Invades Oman; Iran- From a Protective Shield for Imperialism to a Cat's Paw; Who Sold Our Country to the Invaders?; What the Reactionaries did in the War!; The Iranian Role in the American Peace; more
An Introduction to the Contemporary History of Iran An Introduction to the Contemporary History of Iran
Author: B. JazaniPublisher: The Iran CommitteeFormat: MonographCollection: Revolutionary Movements and History
Contents include: Contemporary Social & Economic Changes in iran- A brief analysis up to 1921; the Two Decades Following the 1921 Coup; September 1941-August 1953; August 1953 to the Mass Repression of June 1963; a brief analysis of Lnad Reform in Iran; What factors made it possible for the contradiction to be resolved peacefully; the Effect of Carrying out the Reform in Stages; the Transformation of the Feudalists into Comprador Bourgeoisie; the Position and the Role of the Various Strata, Currents & Elements in the Process of Land Reform; the Socio-Economic Effects of the Reforms
On the Necessity of Armed Struggle and Refutation of the Theory of "Survival" On the Necessity of Armed Struggle and Refutation of the Theory of "Survival"
Authors: Amir Parviz Pouyan, Organization of Iranian People's Fedayee GuerrillasPublisher: Support Committee for the Iranian People's StruggleYear: 1977Format: MonographCollection: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Prepares the fundamental basis for the formation of a struggling Fedayee vanguard.
Arm the Spirit 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 Arm the Spirit
Publisher: Haight - Ashbury Arts WorkshopYear: 1980Volume Number: No. 7 May-JuneFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Newspapers
Cover Story: 17 Pontiac Brothers Face Death Penalty