The Real Dragon
Date: 8/5/1972Call Number: CD 887Format: CDProducers: Lincoln BergmanProgram: The Real DragonCollection: Vietnam
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, then Vietnam news, including two limericks about Jane Fonda with actuality of Jane Fonda, in her interview with Asia Information Group, discusses the committee of solidarity. More Vietnam news, on successful offensives against US military, speech by War Secretary Laird disrupted, bomb at Air Force Academy officer’s club with communiqué signed by “the Americong.” Pentagon Papers trial delayed, South Vietnamese student political prisoners/tiger cages—student statement on mistreatment, beating, and torture of student activists, Union of Vietnamese sponsors a Vietnamese Cultural Night with film “The Victory of Dien Bien Phu,” Nguyen Thai Binh poem by LB—“my name it is Thai Binh and Thai Binh means peace,” —“my only bomb is my human heart...” with last verse sung…..Marin County courthouse, “the courthouse slave rebellion,” George Jackson actuality about Jonathan Jackson and the events of August 7, 1971, poem to Jonathan Jackson by Lincoln Bergman, detailed report on Ruchell Magee trial, denied the right to defend himself, H. Rap Brown, Presidential campaign news, Weather Underground bombing, Leslie Bacon case/wiretaps; quotes from Marilyn Monroe from a Ms. Magazine article, Palestine news, demonstrators in Japan against Vietnam war. Hiroshima, Nagasaki----children of the future—the Venceremitos (400 children from 28 countries) in Cuba.
Track 2: RD 066: Real Dragon (Oneness) (has Janice Mirikitani poems). Producers: Roland Young, Glen Howell Program: Real Dragon/Oneness. Part of the program Oneness on which The Real Dragon appeared. Begins with alphabet song sung by Tracy Young, followed by an interview with "Julie," a koto player and the koto accompanies poems by Janice Mirikitani, one on a shooting of a farmworker - "The Price of Peaches," then her well-known poem on Vietnam combined with Japanese concentration camps called “Attack the Water." (juxtaposition of 1947/1972). Closes with her poem to Nguyen Thai Binh, the Vietnamese martyr killed during attempted antiwar hijacking (he had two lemons wrapped in tin foil), "In Memory of Nguyen Thai Binh."
Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 8/30/1975Call Number: CD 893Format: CDProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude Marks, with Mark Schwartz, Molly FrankelProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: Vietnam
Program celebrates Vietnamese independence, with music, poetry, interviews. Includes Ho Chi Minh speaking in English, a poem by Janice Mirikitani, a speech by Dow of the Union of Vietnamese, and comments by Donna Futterman, a recent visitor to Vietnam at the time. Also report on trial of the San Quentin 6.