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Real Dragon Real Dragon
Date: 2/3/1973Call Number: RD 029Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Tet: The Lunar New Year passes, spring festival. 100,000 plus patriots locked up as prisoners of Thieu in South Vietnam, 10,000 protest war in China, and thousands in Cuba. 25,000 people and a military parade commemorate the assassinated African revolutionary leader, Amilcar Cabral in Conakry Guinea. President Sekou Toure, Amiri Baraka and outlawed Portuguese Communist Party leader Perdo Suarez speak. Military resistance and bombings in Portugal support the people’s struggle in Guinea Bissau, Angola, and Mozambique and against Portuguese colonialism. Several major strikes by Black workers in South Africa. Bloody Sunday commemoration in San Francisco calls for unity among Catholics and Protestants to oppose 21,000 British occupation troops. Two students killed by police at University of Mexico, student strikes closes schools over the U.S. Continued genocide against indigenous people in Brazil. Waimiri Atroari attack National Indian Foundation that aims to “pacify and help Indians adapt to civilization” Puerto Rico House of Representatives passes a resolution asking Nixon to pardon and release the Puerto Rican 5. Continued arrest of Native Americans involved in Bureau of Indian Affairs occupation, convictions reversed for two accused of stealing copper wire from the Alcatraz occupation, more protests of racist hiring practices of California. More on the trial verdicts of Kitty Hawk and sailor resistance. 3,000 men discharged from Navy (many blacks and poor whites) because they “lack intelligence.” Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark spoke negatively of the U.S. position as a paramilitary police state. Senator Stennis the menace shot and wounded in D.C. Earl Whittaker, a sympathetic Black Tombs Rebellion Prison guard acquitted of trumped up charges. Jury chosen for Rap Browns participation in the 1960 Woolworth lunch counter sit-in that motivated waves of Black student protests and started the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. Includes excerpts from Brown’s opening statements. Parole denied to Robert Wells imprisoned for 44 yrs for defending himself against racist prison guard. Venceremos: Laura Taulbee and Milton Taulbee jailed for refusing to testify to Grand Jury. Guns and property seized from December FBI seizure of Mountain View home returned Governor Reagan and Lt. Governor Ed Reinecke make misogynist comments about birth control.
Jose Revueltas at KPFA/RDLR Jose Revueltas at KPFA/RDLR
Date: 6/10/1972Call Number: RP 022 R2Format: Reel 2Producers: Raul Torres, Emiliano EcheverriaCollection: Reflecciones de la Raza by Comunicacion Aztlan
Raul Torres interviews Mexican Poet Jose Revueltas about the political situation in Mexico
Mexico Independence Mexico Independence
Date: 9/16/1972Call Number: RP 035Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Emiliano Echeverria, Nina Serrano, Rodrigo ReyesCollection: Reflecciones de la Raza by Comunicacion Aztlan
Mexican Independence Program
Rodrigo interviews members of PREPA Rodrigo interviews members of PREPA
Date: 11/29/1972Call Number: RP 047Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Rodrigo Reyes, Emiliano EcheverriaProgram: UnidosCollection: Reflecciones de la Raza by Comunicacion Aztlan
Rodrigo Reyes interviews members of PREPA a student organization Mexico
Women in Cuernavaca Women in Cuernavaca
Date: 12/2/1972Call Number: RP 048Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Bernice Ramirez, Emiliano Echeverria, Raul TorresCollection: Reflecciones de la Raza by Comunicacion Aztlan
Bernice Ramirez interviewed “Eileen” (pseudonym) about issues pertaining to women in Mexico and the difficulties they face
Cecilia Rodriquez on EZLN Cecilia Rodriquez on EZLN
Date: 2/14/1995Call Number: SS 012Format: CassetteProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Zapatista solidarity event put on by the Peralta Latino Association and the Raza Student Union at Laney College. Cecilia Rodriquez, the US spokesperson for the Zapatistas, talks about repression against the Zapatistas after the 94 uprising, democracy in Mexico and NAFTA, globalization, peso devaluation.
Interviews with Guillermo Glenn and Arnoldo Garcia Interviews with Guillermo Glenn and Arnoldo Garcia
Date: 2/14/1995Call Number: SS 136Format: CassetteProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interviews with Guillermo Glenn and Arnoldo Garcia on the indigenous people's movement and resistance in Chiapas, Mexico.
Prop 187 Prop 187
Date: 2/10/1995Call Number: SS 028Format: CassetteProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
KPFA show about Prop 187 and the impacts on the Latinos in California.
Cinqo de Mayo Play Cinqo de Mayo Play
Date: 5/3/1972Call Number: RP 067Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Rodrigo Reyes, Emiliano Echeverria, Rodolfo UsigliCollection: Reflecciones de la Raza by Comunicacion Aztlan
Dramatization of events surrounding the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. Directed and produced by Rodrigo Reyes Co-produced and engineered by: Emiliano Echeverria Written by Rodrigo Reyes and Rodolfo Usigli
La Musica y la Literatura de la Raza La Musica y la Literatura de la Raza
Date: 6/9/1973Call Number: RP 072Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Emiliano EcheverriaCollection: Reflecciones de la Raza by Comunicacion Aztlan
Today we feature Music and Poetry from Mexico, Aztlan, Salsa, Cuba, and Puerto Rico