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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.
![Women Prisoners Dublin (2 of 2)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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.
![Real Dragon](images/thumbnails//1918.jpg)
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](images/thumbnails//1951.jpg)
Date: 8/25/1973Call Number: RD 060 R1Format: Reel 1Producers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude MarksProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
This is the LAST Real Dragon program and has an explanation of the change to the next iteration of the program--Nothing Is More Precious Than...
![Women in Prison](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Intervew of Women in Prison, Dublin, CA 1995. Political prisoners Dylcia Pagan, Linda Evans, Ida Robinson, and Marilyn Buck are asked to speak about themselves and why they are in prison.
The women also discuss the GATT (General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs), NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), the lack of wages and benefits for the poor and oppressed, and the wrongs of the IMF (International Monetary Fund). Ida Robinson speaks about families of ethnic minorities, and Marilyn Buck speaks about how political prisoners aren’t violent, they are just casualties during the conflict. The women discuss the state of the poor white woman, how is marginalized because no one is fighting for her and she has no representation.
![Liberation struggles in Zimbabwe](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: AFR 078Format: Cass A & BProgram: Zimbabwe Medical: Fundraiser for Struggles in ZimbabweCollection: Zimbabwe
Several speeches aimed at supporting liberation struggles in Zimbabwe. The event begins with several women urging people to aid various liberation movements. The next speaker, the National Coordinator for the National Committee Against Grand Jury Repression, speaks about organizing in the Bay Area and San Francisco for the independence of Puerto Rico. He talks about solidarity between Zimbabwe and Puerto Rico, and their liberation struggles. The next speaker, a man from Zimbabwe, speaks about the need for medical supplies in his country, especially for the Zimbabwean refugees. He also speaks about ZANU’s (Zimbabwe African National Union) tactics of armed struggle, and he talks about the Zimbabwe Development Fund. He explains how it is only hurting the country because it is under foreign control. He asks people not to invest in Rhodesia or South Africa because of the white imperialist control in those countries. Lastly, he urges people to aid the medical drive for Zimbabwe. Paul Smith of the International Indian Treaty Council speaks about international solidarity, and Tiri Kangai speaks for the Zimbabwe Medical Drive Coalition. Barbara Miyangi of the Zimbabwe Medical Drive Coalition speaks about international solidarity with Zimbabwe, health care needs in Zimbabwe, and she also discusses how most diseases in Africa came from the white colonialists.
![Third World Woman Poet - Avotcja Jiltonibro](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 7/1/1972Call Number: CAA 002Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Yolanda de FreitasCollection: Arts, literature and poetry – a program series produced by Comunicacion Aztlan
The poetry of the Third World Poet Avotcja Jiltonibro who is originally from Harlem, New York. Her poems include Light My Fire, Hallelujah All, Soulful Sisters, Moonlight in Memphis, Soulful to Uncle Tom & Family, Granmama Funk, Land of the Living Dead, A Little More for Malcolm X, Once Maybe Yesterday, Blind Man, and We the People of Harlem.
![A Poetry Reading for Malcolm X](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
A poetry reading in honor of Malcolm X . Poets include:Pedro Pietri, David Henderson, and Ken Forman. Some live music background. Probably recorded in the early 1970’s. Pietri poems include: “The Rise and Fall of the Avon Lady”, “The Sun Speaks About the Rain”, “All deliveries Must be Made Through the Back Entrance.”, and ”The Last Game of the World Series”
![Nothing is More Precious Than](images/thumbnails//5295.jpg)
Date: 9/7/1974Call Number: NI 038Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude Marks, Nancy Barrett, with Mark Schwartz, Nancy Kurshan, and Mark LeneelProgram: Nothing is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
First program after KPFA strike. Opens with Ho Chi Minh speaking in English, roundup of news from Vietnam, Inez Garcia case with actuality of her speaking, prison movement with George Jackson actuality, Latin America, Puerto Rico, and Africa, with actuality of Amilcar Cabral.
![Nothing Is More Precious Than](images/thumbnails//5367.jpg)
Date: 10/25/1975Call Number: NI 085Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude Marks, Mark Schwartz, CamomileProgram: Nothing Is More Precious ThanCollection: “Nothing is More Precious Than…” a news magazine including music and poetry
Opens with wide swathe of international news, starting with Franco close to death in Spain, then Africa, Asia, Latin America, Puerto Rico. Then stories on San Quentin 6, prison song by Camomile, South Dakota American Indian Movement and New York City demonstration against closing of senior centers.