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Independent Collections

These collections were produced by independent journalists. Many of these recordings make up the bulk of the original collection of the Freedom Archives.

Subcollections

Documents

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.
Real Dragon Real Dragon
Date: 8/15/1971Call Number: RD 003Producers: Lincoln BergmanProgram: Real Dragon (Midnight Flash)Collection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Lincoln Bergman reads "Midnight Flash" with focus on the civil war in Northern Ireland in 1971. News reports on other events of the world in August of 1971 include Uruguay's attempt to remove their president, the United States basketball team's loss to the Cuban national team, South Africa's continued protests against apartheid by proposing a bill to turn the U.S. companies in South Africa over to Black Africans, the United States continued to stall an NLF Peace Proposal in VietNam, the six year anniversary of the 1965 Watts Riot. Reading of a poem written by Charlie Cobb formerly of SNCC. Bergman also reports the crumbling of the Saigon government, and rebellion by war veterans at an Air Force base that was trying to appeal for benefits from the U.S. government. Other coverage of 6 Pitt River Indians forced off their land by Pacific Gas & Electric, and Chicano march at Folsom Prison in protest of prison conditions.
Nothing Is More Precious Than Nothing Is More Precious Than
Date: 8/9/1975Call Number: NI 076Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude Marks, with Mark Schwartz, Kathy Streem, Tarabu BetseraiProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Major focus of program. with much actuality and music, is the 5th anniversary of the Marin County Courthouse rebellion (8/7/1970). Other stories on San Quentin 6, Joanne Little trials, Northern Ireland.
Audition tape for Colin D. Edwards featuring interviews with: Meurig Parry, R.L. Clutterbuck, Miss Bernadette Dorris Audition tape for Colin D. Edwards featuring interviews with: Meurig Parry, R.L. Clutterbuck, Miss Bernadette Dorris
Call Number: CE 489Volume Number: N/AFormat: CassetteCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Interviews on British presence in Northern Ireland, as well as opinion pieces on the Lebanese Civil War. Interviews contain information on British soldiers against the war, Urban Guerilla warfare in Northern Ireland, and the experiences of an Irish Catholic citizen in Belfast. Opinion pieces discuss the role of Christians in the Lebanese civil war and in Palestine.