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![Women Prisoners Dublin (1 of 2)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 12/26/1995Call Number: PM 133Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: KPFAProgram: Freedom is a Constant Struggle (Freedom Is A Constant Struggle)Collection: Prisons - Women
Interview with Marilyn Buck, Dylcia Pagan, Ida Robinson, and Linda Evans, by Kiilu Nyasha, at the National Federal Prison of Dublin, California. Discussion about life in prison, being a political prisoner, being a mother in prison, current prison conditions, racism, white supremacy, anti-imperialism, and U. S. foreign and economic policy. Worker’s rights are discussed and how they affect prisoners who work for multi international corporations. Puerto Rico and its struggle to gain independence is discussed by Dylcia Pagan at length. The loss of the extended family for support of prisoners and their children is also spoken about at length.
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Date: 12/26/1995Call Number: PM 134Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: KPFAProgram: Freedom is a Constant Struggle (Freedom Is A Constant Struggle)Collection: Prisons - Women
Interview with Marilyn Buck, Dylcia Pagan, Ida Robinson, and Linda Evans, by Kiilu Nyasha, at the National Federal Prison of Dublin, California. Discussion about life in prison, being a political prisoner, being a mother in prison, current prison conditions, racism, white supremacy, anti-imperialism, and U. S. foreign and economic policy. Worker’s rights are discussed and how they affect prisoners who work for multi international corporations. Puerto Rico and its struggle to gain independence is discussed by Dylcia Pagan at length. The loss of the extended family for support of prisoners and their children is also spoken about at length.
![Puerto Rico: Oscar Collazo (1 of 3)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Oscar Collazo's reaction to release of Andres Figueroa Cordero. Discusses his own political principles and those of the Nationalist Party and why he refuses parole. Discusses Blair House Action, 1950. Describes own education, Puerto Rico, move to New York, what brought him to Nationalist Party, racial dynamics in Harlem, (lack of) support for Nationalists from US progressive/leftist parties. Describes his case briefly, interaction with other Puerto Rican political prisoners, prison life, and a prison strike.
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Discusses Nationalist Party’s position on Korean War and Vietnam. Discusses Congress Act, those sent to prison, and his own trial. Discusses goals of Nationalist Party as Independence & Socialism. Discusses Socialism, Communism, Anarchism’s place within the independence movement. Discusses question of tactics and use of violent struggle within the independence struggle -- a question, he says, which had divided/destroyed the Party before he arrived in NYC in 1940. Mentions Party’s interaction with Congressman Mark Antonio. Describes briefly Don Pedro Albizu Campus’ & Benardo Diaz’ last years before their deaths. Describes his own life in prison. Mentions that the Civil Rights Movement had an impact on him and mentions the fallacies of the Freedom of Information Act.
![Puerto Rican Politcal Prisoners and Prisoners of War](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/10/1992Call Number: LA 050Format: Cass A & BProducers: Noelle Hanrahan (in assoc. with Gloria Alonzo), Jane Segal, J. Mullins, Bo (Rita D.) BrownProgram: You Can’t Jail the Spirit: Political Prisoners in the USCollection: Puerto Rico
Part of a thirteen part series (You Can’t Jail the Spirit). Interviews with PR PPs/POWs over prison phones and Puerto Rican Independentista activists and academics. Intro by Gloria Alonzo, Interviews by Avotcha. Recorded voices of Felix Mata, then Umberto Pagan (recorded at 1989 Grito de Lares Event in San Francisco). Interviews with Rafael Cancel Miranda, Dylcia Pagan (POW talking from prison), Jose Lopez (re: MLN today), Adolfo Matos (POW talking from Lompock Penintentiary). Music. Interview with Margarita Mengal (professor, talking on Ofensive ‘92). (duplicated on LA 070)
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Date: 1/10/1992Call Number: LA 067AFormat: Cass AProducers: Noel Hanrahan (in assoc. with Gloria Alonzo), Jane Segal, J. Mullins, Bo (Rita D.) BrownProgram: You Can’t Jail the Spirit #9: Political Prisoners in the USCollection: Puerto Rico
(Incomplete Duplicate of LA 050). Part of a thirteen part series (You Can’t Jail the Spirit). Interviews with PR PPs/POWs over prison phones and Puerto Rican Independentista activists and academics. (Missing LA050’s Intro by Gloria Alonzo, interviews with Felix Mata, Umberto Pagan (recorded at 1989 Grito de Lares Event in San Francisco), and Rafael Cancel Miranda). Does include interviews by Avotja with Dylcia Pagan (POW talking from prison), Jose Lopez (re: MLN today), Adolfo Matos (POW talking from Lompock Penintentiary). Music. Interview with Margarita Mengal (professor, talking on Ofensive ‘92).
![Puerto Rican Politcal Prisoners and Prisoners of War](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/10/1992Call Number: LA 070Format: Cass A & BProducers: Noel Hanrahan (in assoc. with Gloria Alonzo), Jane Segal, J. Mullins, Bo (Rita D.) BrownProgram: You Can’t Jail the Spirit: Political Prisoners in the USCollection: Puerto Rico
(Duplicate of LA 050.) Part of a thirteen part series (You Can’t Jail the Spirit). Interviews with PR PPs/POWs over prison phones and Puerto Rican Independentista activists and academics. Intro by Gloria Alonzo, Interviews by Avotcha. Recorded voices of Felix Mata, then Umberto Pagan (recorded at 1989 Grito de Lares Event in San Francisco). Interviews with Rafael Cancel Miranda, Dylcia Pagan (POW talking from prison), Jose Lopez (re: MLN today), Adolfo Matos (POW talking from Lompock Penintentiary). Music. Interview with Margarita Mengal (professor, talking on Ofensive ‘92).
![Puerto Rican Women Prisoners of War](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: V 199Format: UmaticProducers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
PART 1 of 6
In these extensive interviews, journalist Lisa Rudman interviews Puerto Rican Independence fighters and prisoners of war, Dylcia Pagan, Carmen Valentin, Ida Luz Rodriguez, and Haydee Beltran Torres. Incarcerated and interviewed at FCI Pleasanton, these women speak on a variety of issues spanning from their childhood to their political development, from their aboveground activism to their lives in clandestinity, and to their lives as revolutionary women locked up as political prisoners.
Each of these women speak on how the colonial status of Puerto Rico and the oppression of Puerto Rican people by the US government both on the island and in the United States has had a strong effect of them throughout their lives. From colonialist oppression and the additional oppression of sexism, Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres, set their own experience in the broader context of the oppression of people of color in the United States and on national liberation struggle throughout the world against imperialism.
Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres trace their political development starting with the long history of Puerto Rican independence struggle and speak on the influence of the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Freedom Movement, the Student Movement, and the rise of the Young Lords and Black Panther Party. They also note the great influence of the struggle of the Vietnamese, Latin American, and African people against imperialism. All four of these women seek to demystify the role of armed struggle in the fight for national liberation. They each address the State's effort to paint them as terrorists and stress the importance of an understanding that they not extremists but mothers and women of conscious.
The interviewees note that whether one is speaking of liberation for women or Third World People or both, that it is important to understand that real and change cannot come about but by revolutionary struggle and an abolition of the capitalist system.
Finally, Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres all describe the conditions of their incarceration, illustrating the particular conditions inflicted upon political prisoners and prisoners of war. They describe the sensory deprivation and psychological torture techniques employed by the State via its prison system and relate the debilitating effects of this treatment on the health of prisoners.
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Call Number: V 200Format: UmaticProducers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
PART 2 of 6
In these extensive interviews, journalist Lisa Rudman interviews Puerto Rican Independence fighters and prisoners of war, Dylcia Pagan, Carmen Valentin, Ida Luz Rodriguez, and Haydee Beltran Torres. Incarcerated and interviewed at FCI Pleasanton, these women speak on a variety of issues spanning from their childhood to their political development, from their aboveground activism to their lives in clandestinity, and to their lives as revolutionary women locked up as political prisoners.
Each of these women speak on how the colonial status of Puerto Rico and the oppression of Puerto Rican people by the US government both on the island and in the United States has had a strong effect of them throughout their lives. From colonialist oppression and the additional oppression of sexism, Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres, set their own experience in the broader context of the oppression of people of color in the United States and on national liberation struggle throughout the world against imperialism.
Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres trace their political development starting with the long history of Puerto Rican independence struggle and speak on the influence of the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Freedom Movement, the Student Movement, and the rise of the Young Lords and Black Panther Party. They also note the great influence of the struggle of the Vietnamese, Latin American, and African people against imperialism. All four of these women seek to demystify the role of armed struggle in the fight for national liberation. They each address the State's effort to paint them as terrorists and stress the importance of an understanding that they not extremists but mothers and women of conscious.
The interviewees note that whether one is speaking of liberation for women or Third World People or both, that it is important to understand that real and change cannot come about but by revolutionary struggle and an abolition of the capitalist system.
Finally, Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres all describe the conditions of their incarceration, illustrating the particular conditions inflicted upon political prisoners and prisoners of war. They describe the sensory deprivation and psychological torture techniques employed by the State via its prison system and relate the debilitating effects of this treatment on the health of prisoners.
![Puerto Rican Women Prisoners of War](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: V 201Format: UmaticProducers: Lisa RudmanCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
PART 3 of 6
In these extensive interviews, journalist Lisa Rudman interviews Puerto Rican Independence fighters and prisoners of war, Dylcia Pagan, Carmen Valentin, Ida Luz Rodriguez, and Haydee Beltran Torres. Incarcerated and interviewed at FCI Pleasanton, these women speak on a variety of issues spanning from their childhood to their political development, from their aboveground activism to their lives in clandestinity, and to their lives as revolutionary women locked up as political prisoners.
Each of these women speak on how the colonial status of Puerto Rico and the oppression of Puerto Rican people by the US government both on the island and in the United States has had a strong effect of them throughout their lives. From colonialist oppression and the additional oppression of sexism, Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres, set their own experience in the broader context of the oppression of people of color in the United States and on national liberation struggle throughout the world against imperialism.
Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres trace their political development starting with the long history of Puerto Rican independence struggle and speak on the influence of the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Freedom Movement, the Student Movement, and the rise of the Young Lords and Black Panther Party. They also note the great influence of the struggle of the Vietnamese, Latin American, and African people against imperialism. All four of these women seek to demystify the role of armed struggle in the fight for national liberation. They each address the State's effort to paint them as terrorists and stress the importance of an understanding that they not extremists but mothers and women of conscious.
The interviewees note that whether one is speaking of liberation for women or Third World People or both, that it is important to understand that real and change cannot come about but by revolutionary struggle and an abolition of the capitalist system.
Finally, Pagan, Valentin, Rodriguez, and Torres all describe the conditions of their incarceration, illustrating the particular conditions inflicted upon political prisoners and prisoners of war. They describe the sensory deprivation and psychological torture techniques employed by the State via its prison system and relate the debilitating effects of this treatment on the health of prisoners.